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- Application
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As the following courses provide graduate credit upon successful completion and are designed for K-12 teachers that are provisionally licensed in Virginia, an application is needed before being accepted. In addition to an application, you must submit the following documents to cbetranscripts@radford.edu:
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* An official transcript from the registrar of the college or university where you earned your bachelor's degree. If your institution provides electronic official transcripts, you may request that the Registrar send the document to cbetranscripts@radford.edu.
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* A copy of your Virginia Provisional License; and
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* A copy of your Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) letter or letter from your school division that outlines your specific provisional licensure requirements.
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Once your official transcript and supporting documentation have been received and confirmed, you will receive a welcome email with instructions on how to purchase the needed course(s).
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To proceed, please click ADD TO CART below.
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- EDUC 562 - Classroom and Behavior Management
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Fee: $1,113.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Professional Dev. Contact Hours: 0
Classroom and behavior management in teaching is vital for creating an effective learning environment. It involves using research-based techniques to build classroom communities, offer positive behavior support, and implement individual interventions. These approaches aim to enhance emotional well-being, instill proper conduct, and foster skills in line with educational standards. Additionally, it's essential to adopt culturally responsive methods that consider cultural influences on behavior and learning. Effective classroom management includes redirection of behavior, social skill development, and crisis management. Teachers must tailor strategies to students' developmental needs, ensuring a safe and engaging environment for optimal learning.
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- EDUC 603 - Evaluation of Student Learning
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Fee: $1,113.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Professional Dev. Contact Hours: 0
This course is designed to help you improve your professional education practice through the application of effective assessment and evaluation principles and procedures. In addition to course exams, you will analyze a variety of common assessment samples to determine their strengths and areas of improvement.
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- EDUC 615 - Curriculum and Instructional Procedures
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Fee: $1,113.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Professional Dev. Contact Hours: 0
It is imperative for all students to have access to high quality teaching and learning opportunities aligned to the content standards. Universal Design for Learning will serve as the overarching framework for instructional design in this course. UDL requires the teacher to consider her individual students and their needs prior to beginning the design process. Candidates will learn to set goals for their instruction based on the principles of learning and the learners’ prior knowledge, culture, interests, and learning needs. The lesson components will be aligned to state standard. Instructional strategies and discipline-specific methods will be selected to align with student needs and content. Assessments will be used to gage student knowledge and skills and will align with the objectives and instructional methodologies. The importance of the role of families in the educational process will be explored as well as means for connecting families and schools in the education of students.
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- EDEF 607: Foundations of Education
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Fee: $1,113.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Professional Dev. Contact Hours: 0
This course is designed to provide teachers with an understanding of the historical, philosophical, and sociological foundations underlying the role, development, and organization of public education in the United States. Learners will examine selected key issues and debates in education (e.g. purposes/philosophies of education at present and over time; legal status and rights of teachers and students; culture and organization of schools; interactions between assessment, instruction, and student progress performance; school finance; various educational reform efforts). The course promotes students' ability to interpret and critique the impact of legal, political, economic, and societal factors on schooling and teaching, with an emphasis on how these issues involve or impact them in their careers as educators.
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- EDRD 630 - Teaching Reading in the Content Areas
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Fee: $1,113.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Professional Dev. Contact Hours: 0
This course is designed primarily for middle and high school teachers who teach in the content areas like biology, art and music, business education, geography, and algebra. This course addresses how evidence-based, developmentally appropriate literacy instruction and assessment enhances students’ content learning.
Our primary goal is to help teachers support students’ access to and use of literacy to engage and explore within each discipline. More practically, you’ll learn how you, as the teacher, embed reading, writing, speaking, viewing, and listening opportunities to meet the literacy needs and strengths of all learners in your classroom, even those who are reading below grade level.
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