The Department of Educational Theory & Practice
Teaching Certificate Option
Secondary Majors - Professional Core
NOTE: The Professional Core is listed in the sequential order in which students will take the courses.
| |
Credits |
| Secondary and K-12 |
| ^EDF 100 Education and Democracy |
3 |
| EDF 225 Human Development in Education |
3 |
| EDF 250 Educational Psychology |
3 |
| HHP 201 Core Concepts in Health |
3 |
| SPED 260 Introduction to Teaching Exceptional Learners |
3 |
| EDCI 310 Curriculum and Instruction for Middle School, High School, & K-12 Teachers |
3 |
RD 310 Reading and Writing Across the
Curriculum |
3 |
| Content Area Methods Course |
3-4 |
| EDF 450 Philosophical, Legal & Ethical Issues in Education |
|
EDCI 484 Student Teaching K-12
OR
EDCI 486 Student Teaching Secondary |
9 |
| Total Professional Core credits |
36-37 |
| ^Also satisfies Academic Foundations Requirements, EDF 120 may be substituted for EDF 100, but EDF 120 does not satisfy Academic Foundations Requirements. |
Professional Core Requirements
The Professional Core at Montana State University Billings combines the intellectual foundations of education and the professional knowledge and skills required of all teachers into a coherent sequence of courses. The core provides the basis for understanding the philosophical, historical, cultural, and sociopolitical means by which society attempts cultural transmission and it provides the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills that are essential for effective instruction. It includes the range of human development and learning as they affect instructional planning, conduct and evaluation, curriculum design and implementation, performance skills, management of classrooms and direction of students, professional responsibilities, ethical issues, and similar variables affecting teacher effectiveness. The Professional Core presents students with principles that provide integrity for practice across the diverse paradigms that individuals use to organize their understanding of education's undergirding intellectual foundations and professional knowledge and skills.
At different points in its sequence of courses, the Professional Core engages students in supervised practice applying their developing knowledge and skills. By having faculty who hold diverse disciplinary perspectives teach throughout its sequence, the Professional Core encourages students to develop a professionally responsible understanding of the diversity that defines learners and teachers. The student teaching experience completes the sequence and includes both a final look at classroom skills and a capstone seminar.
The Professional Core presents a balanced approach to epistemology from philosophical, psychological, and sociological perspectives; predicated on the evidential nature of knowledge required for the professional practice of education. While the professional practice of education is also informed by belief, intuition, guessing, opinion, and other means, it is ultimately defensible only to the extent that it has evidential support. The Professional Core engages students in both the processes and products of human knowing as such knowing is central to all aspects of education and structures all students' present and future educational endeavors. The Professional Core involves the (a) creation, (b) facilitation of change, (c) transmission, and (d) application of human knowledge across the diversity of ways in which individuals understand human knowledge.
The courses needed to satisfy the Professional Educational Core requirements for the Broadfield Major in Elementary Education or the Secondary Education major follow:
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