Fall 2011 Offerings
The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program at Coe College is designed to help licensed teachers explore innovative strategies for teaching and learning. Developed jointly by teachers, administrators, and teacher educators, courses are taught at times convenient for teachers-summer, evenings, and late afternoons. To complete the master's degree, a common pattern is for teachers to take courses part-time for three summers and two school years.
For more information, contact Dr. Christy Wolfe, Director of Graduate Studies, Teacher Education, Coe College, cwolfe@coe.edu, or Ms. Betsy Kigin, Administrative Assistant, MAT Graduates Studies, bkigin@coe.edu; 319-399-8575.
Fall 2011 course offerings:
GMA 625 Diverse Learners
Three semester hours. Wednesdays, August 31-December 7; 6:00-9:00 p.m.
This course will examine the demands on and opportunities for educators teaching an increasingly diverse student population.
GMA 905-01 America in the 60's (Seminar)
One or two semester hours. Instructor: Derek Buckaloo. Tuesdays, Sept 6, 13, 20, 27, Oct 4; 6:00-8:30 p.m.
No decade in recent American life looms larger than the 1960s. The images easily come to mind, of sex, drugs and rock and roll; of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King; of Vietnam and the protests against it; of civil rights and women's liberation. In this course, we'll touch on all of these movements and events and people, while also striving to come to some understanding of why “the Sixties" happens the way that it does and what its significance was, and continues to be, in American culture and life.
GMA 905-02 Linguistically Diverse Students in Iowa’s Schools (Seminar)
One or two semester hours. Instructor: Laurel Zmolek-Smith and Lisa Klein. Tuesdays, Oct 11, 25, Nov 1, 8, 15; 6:00-8:30 p.m.
We will trace the history of English Language Learners in our schools, analyze demographic trends and focus on how our past, as well as projections for the future, are shaping school policies relating to ELLs. We will review the development of laws relating to the rights of ELL students and the responsibilities of the schools. We will examine how ELL students operate within the school structure and how other student services (Special Education, Talented and Gifted, Speech and Language, Reading and Math support) relate to the ELL program. We will discuss successful strategies and methods for utilizing the wealth of resources and addressing the unique challenges that ELL students bring to the general education classroom at all levels, AK-12.
