Human Development and Learning

  EDF3111

Prof. Joseph D. McNair

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Course Syllabus

This course is designed to maximize your interaction with educational technology.  You will be assigned articles to read for each class.  This frees up class time for enhanced student-teacher interactions. You are expected to :

  • "react" or "reflect" on each article or set of articles assigned.  A reflection paper is a short piece of expository writing consisting of twenty five lines (1 inch side margins) or approximately three hundred and fifty (350) words in a Microsoft Word document format. Please use Times New Roman or Arial fonts. Each reflection should have  the student's photograph attached. 

  • take all of your tests and quizzes on-line.  

  • submit all artifacts and assignments on timeas stipulated in the learning management system and as required.

As such you will be required to do or observe the following:

  1. Submit your reflection papers by uploading them into WEBCT (Webct4a.mdc.edu). Check your papers first for plagiarism by submitting them to Turnitin.com. Then submit them to WEBCT.

  2. Write your reflections in your own words. Plagiarized reflection papers will be returned with a zero (O) grade.  

  3. Reflection papers are due by the date specified in WEBCT. Reflection papers will be determined late according to the date they were received. You should keep a copy and a back-up copy of each reflection and assignment on a jump drive or CD. 

  4. Maintain a digital portfolio of all of your work in LIVETEXT. This will be checked and graded regularly. You must update your changes and resubmit after each change (addition or correction) you make in the portfolio.   The portfolio constitutes your final exam and must be complete. All quizzes, reflections and assignments must be in the portfolio. Any missing quiz, reflection or assignment or artifact, etc., renders the portfolio incomplete and will result in a failing grade for the portfolio. 

  5. Submit a digital portfolio of all of your work at the end of term in LIVETEXT. 

  6. On the first day of class you will be registered into the WEBCT learning management system so that you can take your quizzes, and in LIVETEXT so that you can maintain your portfolio. You must have purchased LIVETEXT by the end of the week one.

  7. You will take all of your quizzes online.

  8. You will take all of your quizzes online. You have ten to fourteen days normally (unless extended by the professor) to take an on-line quiz in WEBCT. All quzzes must be taken during the time the quiz is open. If you miss a quiz, you will fail the class.

  9. You will download a copy of each of your completed quizzes (the best performance) and save the quiz in your LIVETEXT Portfolio.

  10. Your LIVETEXT portfolio will contain minimally 30 reflection papers, a designated number of required   class assignments, Florida Educator Accomplished Practices (FEAPs) Artifacts and up to seven (7) quizzes. 

  11. You must attend 85% of scheduled classes to receive an "A" in the class.  You must attend 75% of scheduled classes (34 MWF classes, 24TR classes, and 13 single night or day classes) to confirm and validate any earned grade e.g. if you have earned a "B" through your work, you will get a "B" if you have attended class 75% of the time.  Attendance will influence borderline performances. In a Tuesday and Thursday class, you must be present for twenty-four (24) classes.  In a Monday, Wednesday, Friday class, you must be present for thirty-six (34) classes.  In a class meeting once a week, you must be present thirteen (13) classes. If you miss 3 classes in a night class, your grade will be lowered one grade.

  12. You must be in class before fifteen (15) minutes past the start time has elapsed. You will not be admitted after fifteen (15) minutes unless you have received prior permission by the professor. 

  13. Perform a minimum of fifteen (15) hours of community outreach activities as required

Week One and Two
  • Register for WEBCT 
  • Presentation of Website
  • Introductions and ice breakers

The purpose of this two week period's set of readings and activities is to introduce the pre-service teacher to the concepts:

  • Paradigms and Paradigm change
  • Educational Philosophy
  • Educational Standards
  • Educational Competencies
  • Educational objectives
  • A review of Bloom's Taxonomy and Question Skills

The pre-service teacher will learn how to create a behaviorist and a constructivist lesson plan. The teacher will also receive an explanation of rubrics and performance criteria and due dates for required  FEAPs artifacts:

Assignments: 

  • Reflection #1: What is a paradigm?  

  • Reflection #2 Have you had a paradigm shift? 

  • Reflection #3  Write a draft of your statement of Education Philosophy

  • Reflection#4 What is the difference between educational standards and educational competencies?  

Quiz#1

 Readings

What is a paradigm?

Week Three and Four
  • Review

The purpose of this two week period's set of readings and activities is to introduce the pre-service teacher to three paradigms of teaching and learning. The pre-service teacher will focus this week on :

  • The Behavioral Paradigm
  • The Cognitive Paradigm
  • Important Behaviorist (Objectivist/Instructivist) Theorists
  • Important Cognitivist (Constructivist/Cognitive-Field Interactionist) Theorists

Assignments: 

  • Reflection #5  What have you learned about Behaviorism/Objectivism/Instructivism?

  • Reflection #6  Create a table of the Behaviorist Theorists  and summarize in table form their most important ideas.

  • Reflection #7   What have you learned about Cognitivism/Cognitive-Field Interactionism/Constructivism

  • Reflection #8   Create a table of the Cognitivist/Constructivist theorists and summarize in table form their most important ideas.

Quiz#2

 Readings

Three Teaching Learning/Learning Paradigms

Week Five and Six
  • Review

The purpose of this two week period's set of readings and activities is to continue our discussions of the three paradigms of teaching/learning.

Assignments: 

  • Reflection #9  What have you learned about Humanist Education?

  • Reflection #10  Create a table of the Humanist/Transpersonal theorists  and summarize in table form their most important ideas.    

  • Reflection #11  What have you learned about Transpersonal Education

  • Reflection #12  Reflect on your Brain Hemispheric Dominance Scores.  What have you learned?

  • Create and submit a behaviorist Lesson Plan

  Quiz#3

Readings

Three Teaching and Learning Paradigms (Cont'd)
Week Seven and Eight

The purpose of this two week period's set of readings and activities is to extend the pre-service teacher's exposure to the theories of Human Growth and Development  

Assignments: 

  • Reflection #13  What have you learned about intellectual  and  social theories of development?

  • Reflection #14  Create a table of the Intellectual Development theorists  and summarize in table form their most important ideas.  

  • Reflection #15  Create a table of the Social Development theorists  and summarize in table form their most important ideas. 

  • Reflection #16 Reflect on your Conceptual Tempo (impulsivity) and Mindstyles scores.  What have you learned?  

  Quiz#4

Readings

Human Development and Learning 

 

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