Offered by Department of Teacher Education
College of Education
TE Courses
- TE 800 - Educational Research - 3 hours
- This introductory web-based course in educational research focuses on evaluating and interpreting educational research and
applying its findings to educational practice. The course will provide opportunities for students to (a) define and differentiate
between and among basic, applied, and action research and explain how each contributes to practice; (b) conduct and interpret
preliminary, primary, and secondary sources of research in both online and hard copy formats; (c) compare and contrast various
research designs, and (d) analyze qualitative and quantitative research methodology. This will include the use of statistical
techniques and conditions to describe educational phenomena and to determine the validity and reliability of research methods,
case studies, critical-theory, historical, and ethnographical methodology.
- TE 801 - Teachers in Classroom Research - 3 hours
- A survey of the systematic framework of teacher action research with emphasis on qualitative design applied in field-based
inquiry. Through readings, guided experience in research, and fieldwork, students will develop competencies in conducting,
evaluating, and interpreting educational research.
- TE 802 - Techniques of Research - 3 hours
- A survey of the techniques of research with emphasis on educational applications. Students will develop competencies in
conducting, evaluating and interpreting educational research.
- TE 803 - Philosophy of Education - 3 hours
- Survey of the philosophical foundations of western culture and their relation to the development of earlier and contemporary
educational philosophies.
- TE 804 - Curriculum Development in Multicultural Education - 3 hours
- Students learn to evaluate, create, and implement multicultural lesson plans, unit plans, textbooks, curriculum guides,
classroom rules and regulations, and school policies. In addition, students study diverse learning and teaching styles as well
as explore the meaning and the reality of creating an environment that is conducive to and supportive of infused multicultural
education.
- TE 805P - Overview of Assistive Technology - 3 hours
- This course examines the applications of assistive technology for individuals with disabilities as it relates to teaching and
learning. Existing research with students with special needs will be reviewed and new applications of existing and developing
technology will be explored.
- TE 807P - Multiple Intelligences: Theories Into Practice - 3 hours
- This course is focused on practical application of the use of multiple intelligences and "brain compatible" approaches in the
design and development of instructional activities and assessment strategies in the K-12 curriculum.
- TE 808P - Human Relations - 1-3 hours
- This course meets the Nebraska Department of Education Human Relations requirement for certificate renewal. Participants will
develop skills in guiding student learning in an environment of respect for diversity, personal values, and heritage.
- TE 809P - Curriculum Implementation - 3 hours
- This course addresses the curriculum implementation process, theoretical concepts associated with the implementation process,
and related implementation issues, including the contested nature of the curriculum and the relationship between curriculum and
equity issues. This information is used to critique current curriculum implementation efforts in the public school setting and
to develop curriculum for use in the classroom. The course includes a writing component.
- TE 810 - Design and Development of Instruction - 3 hours
- This course focuses on the principles of instructional design and how to apply these principles in instructional development
projects. The course utilizes a systems approach to the instructional design process by focusing on a series of interrelated
procedures and techniques to design, develop, implement, and evaluate instruction for diverse learners. Formative and summative
assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use of resulting data to inform learning and teaching will be
emphasized.
- TE 811 - The Activities Director - 3 hours
- Contemporary trends in consolidating administration of athletics, music, speech, drama, journalism, and other intramural and
extramural activities of the school under a single administrator are the focus of this course.
- TE 812P - Alternative Assessments of Student Performance: Theory Into Practice - 3 hours
- This course provides participants with an opportunity to learn about, create, and apply alternative (authentic) assessment
strategies to the K-12 school setting. Key strategies to be explored include rubrics, portfolios, and the
relationship/connections between alternative assessment and the Nebraska State Curriculum Standards.
- TE 813P - TESA: Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement - 3 hours
- This course is designed to develop specific teacher skills needed to enhance learning expectations. The skills are grouped into
three strands: Response Opportunities, Feedback, and Personal Regard. Grouped into these strands are 15 specific teacher
competencies.
- TE 814P - Developing Capable People - 3 hours
- This class will provide very useful and well researched strategies and concepts which will help educators assist children and
teenagers to perceive themselves as more capable and significant as they improve their self-discipline, self-control, judgment,
and their interpersonal skills. Improved results will be seen in classroom and/or family management, discipline, motivation, and
achievement.
- TE 815P - The Effective Teacher: Enhancing Classroom Instruction - 3 hours
- This course is designed to provide participants with research and experience based information, strategies, techniques and
"hands-on" activities they can use to improve and enrich the quality of their teaching and to increase the probability of
learning and success of their students.
- TE 816A - Practicum: Education - 1-6 hours
- This practicum course requires, depending on the number of credit hours desired, between 40 and 240 clock hours of
participation by the student in an educational setting. The specific experiences to be gained and the setting will be determined
by the supervising professor and the student.
- TE 816B - Practicum: Reading - 3 hours
- Prereq: TE 845 and TE 846 (exceptions with department permission)
Students participate in supervised remedial tutoring of individual children or small groups of children having similar reading
disabilities.
- TE 816C - Practicum: Reading-Primary K-3 - 1 hour
- Prereq: TE 845 and TE 846
This course focuses on the application of the newest innovations in reading and language arts instruction. This involves
supervised remedial tutoring of individual children or small groups of children having similar reading disabilities. The course
also provides opportunities for the student to evaluate and assess the reading problems of primary school children (K-3) and to
select materials for remediation.
- TE 816D - Practicum: Reading-Intermediate 4-6 - 1 hour
- Prereq: TE 845 and TE 846
This course focuses on the application of the newest innovations in reading and language arts instruction. This involves
supervised remedial tutoring of individual children or small groups of children having similar reading disabilities. The course
also provides opportunities for the student to evaluate and assess the reading problems of intermediate school children (4-6)
and to select materials for remediation.
- TE 816E - Practicum: Reading-Middle/Secondary 7-12 - 1 hour
- Prereq: TE 845 and TE 846
This course focuses on the application of the newest innovations in reading and language arts instruction. This involves
supervised remedial tutoring of individual children or small groups of children having similar reading disabilities. The course
also provides opportunities for the student to evaluate and assess the reading problems of middle school/secondary students and
to select materials for remediation.
- TE 817P - Foundations of Effective Instruction - 2-3 hours
- Based on the work of Dr. Madeline Hunter, this course translates instructional theory into action. It will assist teachers as
they expand their competency in teaching to an objective, selecting objectives that are appropriate to individual students,
monitoring learning, and adjusting instruction and teaching for retention and transfer.
- TE 818P - Teacher Development: Developing Independent Learners - 3 hours
- Prereq: TE 817P
This course builds on a basic knowledge of the Instructional Theory into Practice Program to develop additional teaching skills
in teaching for independent learning. The skills developed are appropriate for elementary and secondary teachers.
- TE 819P - Teacher Development: Training in Service Learning - 3 hours
- Students enrolled in this online course will gain an in-depth understanding and appreciation for human service work and its
importance as a teaching strategy by developing a service learning resource manual, designing curriculum instruction that
integrates service learning, and by participating in online discussions about issues and topics related to service learning.
- TE 825 - English Language Learners (ELL): Culture, Civil Rights, and Advocacy - 3 hours
- The purpose of this course is to provide graduate students seeking the English as a Second Language Endorsement the
opportunity to explore the changing demographics underlying the presence of language minority students in the public schools,
the acculturation process, the terminology of second language education, immigration issues for English Language Learners
students (ELLs), and the federal and state laws that impact ELLs and their families. Special attention is given to identifying
the attitudes, skills, and behaviors which the teacher needs to develop a welcoming classroom and school climate in which ELLs
can learn and become a part of the community. This course will hopefully transform graduate students to act as effective
advocates for ELLs in K-12 schools.
- TE 826 - Content Methods & Strategies for Teaching English as a Second Language - 3 hours
- This course has been designed to present content methods and teaching strategies to promote inclusion of English Language
Learners (ELLs) in regular K-12 classrooms. As a result of the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) and the school assessments which
include English Language Learners, mainstream and ESL teachers face increasingly demanding accountability standards. In most
cases, ELLs are tested on content areas after one year in school. In other words, ELLs can no longer be treated as "invisible"
students. The issue of access to knowledge, one of the bedrocks in the renewed teacher education program at UNK, critical for
schools facing these accountability standards. This course will also focus on the twin goals of helping ELLs learn social
(BICS) and academic (CALPS) English while providing content instruction. These are daunting tasks and as any ESL teacher will
tell you, these goals are not always achieved because of the many compromises forced upon students and teachers by an
educational system that has traditionally not had to deal with linguistic diversity.
- TE 845 - Contemporary Theory & Practice in Reading - 3 hours
- This course will provide students with an opportunity to investigate the theoretical background of the reading process and
analyze instructional practices in developmental reading at the elementary school level.
- TE 846 - Diagnosis/Correction of Reading Difficulties - 3 hours
- This course focuses on the development of an understanding of the relationship of the psychological factors and individual
remedial instruction in reading. A comprehensive study is made of selected diagnostic tests and remedial procedures.
- TE 847P - History and Philosophy of the Middle School - 3 hours
- This course addresses the social, political, and economic forces which accompanied the development of middle schools, along
with middle school philosophy and its implications for instructional programs and practices.
- TE 848 - Assessment and Remediation in Elementary School Mathematics - 3 hours
- This class will emphasize diagnosis of basic mathematics computation errors; types of errors will be illustrated, and
suggested corrective procedures will be explored. Error patterns are based on incorrectly-learned mathematical concepts. The
corrective procedures for developing or redeveloping those basic mathematical concepts and development of remediation materials
will be taught.
- TE 849P - Problem Solving in the Elementary and Middle School Classroom - 3 hours
- Topics for curriculum development include activities with hand-held calculators, number theory, geometry, new looks at old
geometry problems, problem solving as a process, probability, statistics, and mathematical systems.
- TE 850 - Elementary School Curriculum - 3 hours
- This class focuses on the principles and trends in elementary curriculum development and a study of the various types of
curricula in the elementary school as related to organization patterns. Procedures for continuous evaluation and improvement of
local elementary curricula are stressed, including administration and supervision factors and relationship to the affected areas
of curriculum.
- TE 851 - Principles of Early Childhood Education - 3 hours
- Acquaints students with the knowledge and skills required to develop, administer and supervise early education, childcare, and
early intervention programs, serving children with and without disabilities, birth to age 8. Students will implement a
strengths-based approach and apply cultural sensitivity to support families from diverse cultural, linguistic, and economic
backgrounds and situations.
- TE 852 - Issues and Trends in Early Childhood Education - 3 hours
- This course is designed to provide graduate students with an understanding of the political and social issues facing the early
childhood field, how these are effecting systemic change, and ways to respond to those changes. Students will also examine a
number of historical and current early initiatives and their effect upon young children and families, and evaluate the strengths
and weaknesses of various models of early childhood programs.
- TE 853A - Improvement of Instruction in Early Childhood Education - 3 hours
- This course is designed to present the most recent research literature and teaching strategies as they relate to the
curriculum content advocated for young children, with and without exceptionalities, including those from low-income families or
who are linguistically or culturally diverse. Students will learn to evaluate curriculum, and to design, adapt, and implement
quality instruction for young children with diverse educational needs.
- TE 853B - Improvement of Instruction in Elementary School Mathematics - 3 hours
- Designed to acquaint the student with the latest trends in content, method, materials, and philosophy of elementary
mathematics.
- TE 853C - Improvement of Instruction in Elementary School Language Arts - 3 hours
- Attention is directed to the newest innovations in language arts instruction and to the selection of materials for diagnostic
and instructional programs. Students will evaluate the various teaching techniques through a comparative study of current
programs in elementary language arts.
- TE 853D - Improvement of Instruction in Elementary School Science - 3 hours
- An examination of current literature and practices is made relative to science content, methods, and materials in elementary
school science.
- TE 853E - Improvement of Instruction in Elementary School Social Studies - 3 hours
- Students completing this course will have an opportunity to examine current literature and programs in elementary social
studies and to reevaluate their teaching of the social studies.
- TE 854 - Reading in the Content Areas - 3 hours
- Students completing this course will have an opportunity to examine the nature of the reading process and the kinds of
particular problems teachers in content areas of middle and secondary school face daily. It will also provide the teacher with
the ability to apply specific strategies in helping those students having difficulty reading the materials necessary for
specific content areas.
- TE 855P - Improving the Reading Program - 3 hours
- The department will provide an inservice course upon the request of a school system for the purpose of assisting local staff
in the evaluation and improvement of the school's reading program. The course is designed to develop an analytical approach to
reading program evaluation and improvement. This course is not applicable to the program for endorsement as a special reading
teacher.
- TE 857 - Early Communication, Language, and Literacy - 3 hours
- Students will gain an understanding of early speech and language development and related emergent language and literacy
skills, and how these may be influenced by cultural, linguistic, or exceptionality factors. Students will learn how to develop,
evaluate, and implement early literacy materials and assessments for children with diverse educational needs ages 0-5 in
program, school, and clinical settings.
- TE 867 - Storytelling in the School Library and Classroom - 3 hours
- This course will focus on storytelling as an oral tradition, as a digital medium, and as a powerful tool for persuasion and
education. Students will design curriculum-based instruction using storytelling strategies for use with students in the library
media or classroom setting.
- TE 868 - Copyright, Fair Use, and Ethics - 3 hours
- This course focuses on the ethical use of copyrighted material and Fair Use Guidelines as they relate to education and
business training.
- TE 869 - Introduction to School Library Program - 3 hours
- This course is an overview of selected school library topics: current trends, genres, issues, and instructional and
motivational strategies in children's and adolescent literature; school library and educational professional ethics including
issues concerning the individual, society, and the profession; and an introduction to information literacy.
- TE 870 - Developing Web-based Portfolios - 3 hours
- This course will focus on planning, revising, and developing web-based working and academic portfolios. Tools such as web
editors and image editing software will be used. Student will create a working portfolio to use during their academic
programs.
- TE 871 - Collection Development and Management - 3 hours
- Prereq: TE 869
Collection Development and Management is designed to provide the student with the basic competencies needed for print and
non-print collection selection, development and evaluation.
- TE 872 - Organization of School Library and Technology Resources - 3 hours
- Prereq: TE 869
Students will learn a variety of techniques for providing access to resources, including exploring the types and functions of
automation systems and basic methods and procedures of cataloging and classification within a school library program.
- TE 873 - Reference Services and Resources - 3 hours
- Prereq: TE 869
This course will focus on the range of reference resources which support the school library media center, including the
evaluation and use of print and electronic reference sources, reference procedures, and the instructional role of reference
resources in the overall school curriculum.
- TE 874 - Production of Instructional Resources - 3 hours
- This course will focus on instructional design principles and will develop competencies in applying them to specific learning
objectives within the overall production process. In addition, students will develop skills in integrating the technology
products into the curriculum.
- TE 875 - Administration of the School Library - 3 hours
- Prereq: TE 869
This course will focus on the administration of the school library program's mission, budgeting, supervision of personnel,
planning, resource needs, communication within the school and public communities, the role of the information specialist in the
instructional process, and the interrelationships of information agencies.
- TE 876 - Integration of Curriculum, Technology and Media Resources - 3 hours
- This course will focus on the practical application of theories of instruction and technology integration; models of teaching;
curriculum design; research paradigms; and, studies and findings related to curriculum integration of technology in teaching
effectiveness for P-16 educators.
- TE 877 - Developing Web-based Educational Environments - 3 hours
- This course is for teachers and instructional technologists who wish to design, implement and evaluate learner-centered
instructional environments. Students will create, implement and evaluate nonlinear, student-centered interactive web-based
projects, based upon their students' assessed learning needs.
- TE 878 - Leadership in Instructional Technology - 3 hours
- This course will provide students with the skills and tools necessary to be an effective, innovative instructional
leader in the field of instructional technology. The constructivist perspective of building community leadership will be
examined. Staff/faculty development, planning, using data-driven decision making, and funding in instructional technology will
be emphasized.
- TE 879 - Seminar in Instructional Technology - 3 hours
- This is a variable content course which focuses on advanced topics in instructional technology. Students will critically
analyze issues and problems in the discipline. Empirically testable research questions related to the topics will be identified.
This course may be repeated, but only six hours may count towards a degree.
- TE 880 - Management of Educational Technology - 3 hours
- This course is an in-depth study of the administration and leadership of technology in P-16 educational settings. Management
of school facilities and resources, modeling and promotion of the effective use of technology for learning, and use of
educational technology research and best practices will be examined.
- TE 881 - Distance Education - 3 hours
- This course will focus on preparing for and delivering online instruction and related teaching strategies.
- TE 882 - Teacher Development Training in Instructional Technology - 3 hours
- This course will produce leaders who are able to provide professional development training in instructional technology for
P-16 educators. Students will work with contemporary instructional technology in a transcurricular setting. Students will learn
how to train classroom teachers to integrate technology into the teachers' disciplines. A variety of learning and teaching
strategies will be examined. The course will emphasize modeling and promotion of the effective use of technology for learning,
designing appropriate integration learning opportunities for staff, adult learning styles and techniques, and formative and
summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use of resulting data to inform learning and teaching.
- TE 883 - Classroom Desktop Publishing - 3 hours
- The focus of this course will be on learning desktop publishing skills and using them to create a variety of projects for use
in a classroom setting. The course will consist of a mixture of theoretical and researched-based concepts and components and
various hands-on activities. Design principles and elements will be included.
- TE 884 - Educational Telecommunications - 3 hours
- This course will focus on the use of electronic on-line resources and other types of telecommunication in education. In
addition to using online resources, ethical, human, legal and social issues when using electronic communications (including
privacy, accessibility, copyright, intellectual property, plagiarism, and information validity) will be examined. Curricular
integration of these concepts will be emphasized.
- TE 885 - Instructional Video Production - 3 hours
- This course will prepare the student to design, create, produce and edit instructional videos. The focus will be on using
currently available classroom equipment for video production, editing, and related concepts.
- TE 886P - Technology Tools for Teachers - 3 hours
- This course will focus on using technologies in an instructional environment with an emphasis on ethical, human, legal and
social issues, methods and skills appropriate to planning and designing learning environments, and instructional management
methodologies using appropriate materials, methods, resources, and curricula for integrating technology.
- TE 887 - Electronic Media Production - 3 hours
- This course will focus on producing effective electronic presentations. Topics will include: computer graphics; the psychology
of color usage; hypertext linkages; screen design and layout; and integrating video, sound, clip art and animation into
presentations.
- TE 888 - Multimedia Production - 3 hours
- This course will have two major foci: the first will be to enhance previously learned multimedia development skills which
will advance the student to a higher level of expertise with those skills; and, to familiarize students with several
professional multimedia authoring systems, thereby making the students highly proficient multimedia developers. Topics which
include screen design, scripting, project time management and computer graphics will be covered. Students will be required to
complete several multimedia projects.
- TE 889 - Multimedia Development - 3 hours
- This course is a continuation of TE 888. Students will plan, design, develop and manage a major
multimedia project using the team concept. Student teams will work on a tangible, marketable product under the direction of a
faculty mentor. Student teams receive a cooperative grade.
- TE 890 - Administration of School Computer Networks - 3 hours
- This course provides local area network (LAN) managers with networking fundamentals, router troubleshooting techniques,
network-management configuration, Macintosh workstation configuration, technology planning, Internet addressing, PPP connections,
cable and Ethernet installations, hardware and software troubleshooting guidelines, vendor-relationship techniques, upcoming
technology trends, file-transfer and expansion procedures, web-page management, and other school-related networking issues.
- TE 891 - Field Experiences in Instructional Technology - 3 hours
- This course will provide field experiences for students pursuing the instructional technology program. Basis of the
experience will be decided upon between the student and the advisor.
- TE 892 - Internship in Instructional Technology - 1-6 hours
- This course is intended to allow students to participate in various "real-life" experiences in IT settings. Projects and
internships will be selected and conducted under the guidance of a supervising professor. Focus areas will range from interning
in technology centers in school districts and businesses to creating innovative classroom and/or hypermedia projects. Students,
with the consent of the professor, can take one, two or three hours. This course may be repeated, but only six hours will be
counted towards the degree.
- TE 893 - Field Experiences in School Library - 3 hours
- Prereq: TE 869 and TE 871* and TE 872* and TE 873* and TE 875*
This course is the capstone experience for students in the MSED-Instructional Technology (School Library) or School Library
Endorsement programs. Students will gain experiences in school library settings. Students must have completed
TE 869, TE 871, TE 872, TE 873 and
TE 875 as prerequisites.
- TE 895 - Seminar in Student Teaching Supervision - 3 hours
- Prereq: the student must be an elementary or secondary school teacher approved by the department
This class is designed to aid present and prospective supervisory teachers. The student will review current literature, become
acquainted with techniques, plans and procedures for supervising student teachers, analyze current practices in supervision, and
develop materials for use with student teachers.
- TE 896 - Thesis - 3-6 hours
- Student investigates a research problem related to education, following APA style of reporting the research. The
student enrolls with the faculty member directing the thesis. Three to 6 credit hours per semester, with a total of 6 hours.
- TE 897 - Seminar in Education - 3 hours
- This course is designed to specifically meet the content and program needs of a specific audience, institution, agency, or
public school setting. The content is designed and developed to meet the in-depth needs of the participants involved in the area
of special education and related fields.
- TE 898 - Independent Study - 1-3 hours
- The focus of this course is an independent investigation into a topic selected by the student and approved by the instructor.
- TE 899P - Special Topics - 1-3 hours
- This course serves identified needs and interests of specific target groups. Content of the course, dates, and time
arrangements are determined by the Department of Teacher Education.
* This course is the immediate prerequisite. Other preparation is required prior to this immediate prerequisite.
