Saint Michael's College

GED 509 Integrative Curriculum (3cr.)
Instructor: Amy Demarest
Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Saint Edmund's Hall 307
This course is designed to offer a theoretical and historical overview of the concept of integrative curriculum, as well as many practical applications. We will consider integrated curriculum theory as expressed by interdisciplinary, thematic, place based, student directed and standards based curriculum. Students will have the opportunity to explore multiple intelligences, differentiated learning styles, brain based learning and the integration of artistic, ethical and spiritual approaches to curriculum.

GED 516 The Decision to Teach (3cr.)
Instructor: Claudine Bedell/ Amy Saks Pavese
Monday, 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Section A:  Saint Edmund's Hall 307
Section B: Saint Edmund's Hall 309
This course reviews the role of teacher in contemporary education and includes at least 20 hours of focused observation. Students examine the practical and philosophical influences on teachers’ decision making processes in reaction to curriculum, motivation, educational history, classroom culture, instructional strategy, and Vermont’s Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities. The emphasis is on critical and creative reflection of readings, observations, and in-class discussions and activities. Students gain the experience of planning and teaching lessons during the course. Students emerge from the course with a personal philosophy of education. Required writing assessment for candidacy is included in this course.

GED 520 Child and Adolescent Development (3cr.)
Instructor: Diane Guarino-Bjerke
Wednesday, 5:30pm-8:00pm
Jeanmarie Hall 380
This course provides an analysis of early, middle, and late adolescence through an exploration of developmental, contemporary, and historical issues that influence adolescent development. Topics focus on the physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and moral aspects of development.

GED 522 Literacy in Elementary Schools (3cr.)
Instructor: Lisa Italiano
Tuesday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Jeanmarie Hall 290
Methods related to literacy acquisition and instruction are presented with a focus on the close relationship between reading and writing. Information about how to select and use children’s literature as a vehicle for teaching these literacy skills at the elementary level is a also emphasized. Connection to the Vermont’s Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities will be made.

GED 530 Literacy in the Middle and Secondary Schools (3cr.)
Instructor: Becky Wigglesworth
Thursday, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Saint Edmund's Hall 309
In this course students examine applications of literacy development through theory, resource analysis, problem solving, and curriculum planning. Students explore and design approaches for the concurrent instruction of reading, writing, and literacy skills within their content areas. Vermont’s Standards and Grade Expectations are reviewed and integrated throughout the course, and students create ways to address the standards in middle and secondary classrooms and curricula.

GED 558 Introduction to Educational Research (3cr.)
Instructor: Anne Judson
Tuesday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Jeanmarie Hall 281
This course introduces students to the broad range of educational research, develops critical skills needed for analyzing research studies, and provides intensive assignments directed toward writing a research proposal. Among the skills students develop are the abilities to: access and synthesize information from multiple sources; choreograph a research project; and write a literature review. Writing assessment required for graduation included in course.

GED 562  Thesis Research (3cr.)
By arrangement
The Thesis is an in-depth research study that contributes to the existing body of knowledge in the field of education.  The student works with an advisor planning, researching and writing the Thesis.  This is a two semester course with a grade of XT given at the end of the first semester.  Students meet with their academic advisors to discuss topics and projects before registering.
Prerequisite: GED 558 Introduction to Educational Research and permission from advisor.

GED 567 Legal and Financial Management of Schools (3cr.)Day Change
Instructor: Brian O'Regan
Tuesday, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Saint Edmund's Hall 332
The Legal and Financial Management of Schools will provide participants with knowledge and skills needed for successful leadership. Participants will explore selected legal and financial functions from a systemic perspective. Specific topics will include: policy analysis, legal authority, human resources management; planning, budgeting, risk management; and, financial support. Participants will exit the course with a deep understanding of the relationships of sound management to effective leadership.  This course replaces GED 563: School Law and GED 564: School Finance.

GED 572 School Leadership (3 cr.)
Instructor: Peter Evans
Tuesday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Saint Edmund's Hall 307
Students examine the relationship of the leader, and the led, in the context of several dynamic forces at play within the school organization. Students reflect upon values and draw upon experiences as they explore theories and practice the behaviors of effective leadership. Students will become familiar with the process of change as it impacts school organizations. Topics include: human resource management, instructional leadership, school culture, creating a vision, facilitating change, effective communication, and ethical decision making. Relevant for any educator in, or aspiring to, a leadership position.

GED 579 Researching Electronically & Publishing Web Content (3cr.)
Instructor: Steve Burks
Tuesday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Jeanmarei Hall 142
This course equips students to be online researchers and publishers of information for the Web.  Students will acquire the Information Literacy skills to determine the extent of information needed, access the information through different formats, critically evaluate information and its sources, design search strategies for specific subject areas, and understand information publishing within current copyright standards. Web publishing will cover basic design, usability, and development of web pages for targeted audiences.  Cross-listed with GSA 579

GED 584 Technology Planning for Vermont’s K-12 Schools (3cr.)
Instructor:  Paul Irish
Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Jeanmarie Hall 142
Integrating technology effectively in schools requires planning. This course reviews and analyzes models of educational technology systems in K-12 schools. Topics include applications, infrastructure design, tech support systems, professional development systems, policy, state and federal law, budgeting, and other issues such as gender equity, and technical support personnel who are concerned with planning and advancing the systemic use of educational technology in their district.

GED 597 Integrating Technology into the Curriculum (3cr.)Cancelled
Instructor: Katri O'Neill
Monday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Bergeron Center 105
This hands-on course provides an introduction to integrating technology in the classroom.  Workshops, presentations, discussions, and hands-on experience will provide the framework within which students consider philosophical issues regarding technology’s role in education while using hardware and software. Using an individualized approach to learning, students are responsible for setting personal technology goals.

GED 613 Mathematics in a K-8 Classroom (3 cr.)
Instructor: Tim Whiteford
Tuesday, 5:00pm-7:30pm
Saint Edmund's Hall 309
This course helps current and future classroom teachers develop a deep and flexible understanding of elementary and middle school mathematics. Students will actively solve problems and visualize mathematical concepts. Lessons are designed to stretch students’ thinking to create a vision for the learning trajectory (scope and sequence) of K-8th grade mathematics. Through careful examination of and practice with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards, students will develop the necessary skills to teach math in a standard-based system.

GED 616 Understanding and Creating Meaningful K-12 Assessments (3cr.) Room Change
Instructor:  Amy Demarest
Monday, 5:00pm-8:00pm
Jeanmarie 334
First Class: September 8th.
Currently, teachers are asked to implement many kinds of classroom assessments and often feel that the many procedures, formats and expectations are required without sufficient time to process the implications for themselves and their students. This course will give practicing teachers the opportunity to make sense of what assessment does and can  mean for how well students learn. Engaging in collegial dialogue, inquiry and reflective practice participants will practice designing learning opportunities using a variety of assessment procedures They will leave the course with a personal understanding of how they can create meaningful assessment tasks and tools for feedback that support student learning.

GED 632 Assessment of Students within General and Special Education  (3cr.)
Instructor: Rich Reid
Tuesday, 5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Saint Edmund's Hall 321
Participants will become familiar with assessment procedures associated with establishing the existence of the IDEA eligible disabilities. In addition, an emphasis will be placed on the assessment of student progress and functioning relative to the general education curriculum.  Participants will examine assessment practices and tools that respond to the requirements of IDEA, NCLB, and State Special Education Regulations and will need access to students in order to complete course requirements.

GED 640 Language and Learning (3cr.)
Instructor: Jessie Graham
Thursday, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Jeanmarie Hall 290
This course considers how difficulties in language acquisition and usage affect a student’s ability to succeed in the classroom. Problems with vocabulary, sentences, and discourse are viewed from a framework that examines the structure of language, the ability to process verbal (oral and written) instruction, and the abilities necessary to use language for communication and for learning. Students learn a wide variety of language learning techniques for individual, small group, and whole class instruction.

GED 641 Teaching in an Inclusive Classroom K-12 (3cr.)
Instructor: Beth Peterson
Tuesday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Jeanmarie Hall 380
This course provides an in-depth study of sound instructional practices and materials to use with unsuccessful learners, based on an analysis of the learners’ strengths and weaknesses. Methods used to teach reading, spelling, study and writing skills are covered. The emphasis is on working with students in elementary school.  This course includes a practicum.

GED 649 Arts: The Creative Process (3cr.)
Instructor: Jonathan Silverman
Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Sloane Art Center 126
Through projects, inspiration from literature, performances, and exhibits, participants awaken their imagination, reflect on making art, discover new venues of expression, and affirm creativity as an integral part of human development. Using different art forms such as drawing, writing, drama, movement, music, storytelling, and poetry, participants actively investigate the creative process. A supportive and reflective community encourages those who identify as artists and those who do not.  Texts include a performance at the Flynn Center.

GED 661 Designing Programs for Children with Disabilities (4cr.)
Instructor: Karen Donovan and Mary Beth Doyle
Saturday, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (once per month)
Saint Edmund's Hall 307
In this practicum, graduate students work in local schools as a team member to provide services to students in special education. Students design, implement, and evaluate instructional programs for students with disabilities. They are involved in all aspects of the special education process. (This is a school-based practicum for students in the Special Education Program.) Limited to students completing the Special Education Program. Permission of instructors required.

GED 663 Classroom Assessment Design and Practice (1 cr.)
Instructor: Claudine Bedell
Thursday (9/18, 10/2, 10/16. 10/30, 11/13) 4:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Saint Edmund's Hall 321
This class focuses on understanding the classroom assessment context; understanding assessment methods; classroom applications; and communicating about student achievement. Students will explore multiple assessment tasks and tools, including criterion-referenced and norm-referenced. Through an authentic assessment approach, students will work to critique, create and utilize assessments that directly examine student performance on worthy intellectual tasks.
Contact Claudine Bell at cbedell@smcvt.edu about assignment due on the first day of class (Sept. 18th).

GED 673A Special Topics: Investigating Line & Texture Through Charcoal & Clay (3 cr.)
Instructor: Kathleen Redman
Saturdays (9/6/, 9/20, 10/18, 11/15, 12/6) 9:00am-4:30pm
Instructor’s Studio – 82 Main Street, Milton, Vermont
Transform 2D to 3D through drawing to functional form and back again.  With differentiated instruction and standards-based curriculum in mind, this Saturday course provides drawing instruction in nature, landscape, and still life and translates them to contemporary sculptural and functional expressions in clay.  Integrating surface design (sgraffito, wax resist, mold and sprig making, etc.) with extrusions, hand-building, and box constructions, students will explore and develop ware that reflects personal growth and articulation. Materials Fee: $85.00.

GED 673B The Art of Bookmaking for Educators (3 cr.)
Instructor: Ann Joppe-Mercure
Thursday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Sloane Art Center 126
Educators from all disciplines and grade levels are invited to explore traditional and nontraditional book structures and their application to curriculum. Partcipants will create unique book projects that demonstrate learning in their chosen content area, produce a working portfolio of handmade papers and book models, and develop lessons that integrate bookmaking as a teaching resource. Class discussion and readings will connect bookmaking to the Vermont Content Standards and assessment strategies.  No previous bookmaking experience required. A materials fee of $40.00 is due at registration.

GED 676 Elementary, Middle and Secondary Curriculum & Teaching (3cr.)
Instructor: Heather Baron
Monday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Jeanmarie Hal 168
This teacher licensure course is designed for elementary, middle and secondary teachers to explore varying approaches to curriculum planning and design, with a particular emphasis on the role of the Vermont Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities. In addition, multiple teaching methodologies will be presented, analyzed and practiced. Students will develop an integrated standards based unit that corresponds to their licensure areas.

GED 686  Independent Research 1 – 6 credits
GED 687 Directed Readings 1 - 6 credits
By arrangement
These two courses allow matriculated students to study special topics in depth.  The student and instructor submit a proposed course description and an “Independent Study Learning Contract” to the Academic Advisor using guidelines provided by Graduate Programs in Education.   After approval by the academic advisor, the course proposal must also be approved by the Director of Graduate Programs in Education. Registration must be completed by the third week of the semester.

GED 688 Practicum   (3-6 credits)
Practicum experiences allow students to apply theory in a setting related to their area of study.

GED 688A Practicum: Elementary Education (K-6)
GED 688B Practicum: Middle (5-8) and Secondary (7-12) Education
GED 688C Practicum: Administrative/Principal

GED 688D Practicum: Reading Specialist:  The requirements embedded in GED688D Reading Specialist Practicum allow for the student to demonstrate the Standards for the Reading/English Language Arts Specialist Endorsement under the supervision of a college supervisor. Briefly, the Practicum requires that the student develop goals for him/herself pertinent to the teaching of reading and language arts, develop three in-depth case studies based on children or adolescents with whom he/she works, and address the Knowledge and Performance Standards in a successful way. The practicum may take place in the graduate student's own classroom, provided that sufficient time can be given to the extra demands of the demonstration of the Standards found in Code 5440-76. It is estimated that at least 150 hours be spent planning, teaching, and writing. Students are eligible for the practicum after successfully completing 18 credits in literacy (15 credits if matriculated before 7/2007) with a "B" or better and with their advisor’s approval. Students must notify the Coordinator of the M.Ed. Reading Program, Kristin Gehsmann, of their intention to take this practicum by October 15 for the spring practicum and by February 15 for the fall semester.

GED 688G Practicum: Arts in Education
GED 688H Practicum: Information Technology
GED 688J  Practicum: ESL

GED 689 Student Teaching Seminar (3cr.)
Instructor: Claudine Bedell, James Nagle, Laima Ruoff
Thursday, 4:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Saint Edmund's Hall 309
Taken concurrently with the student teaching practicum (GED 688 A, B, G, H and J), this course focuses on methods and standards, teacher strategies, classroom culture, management techniques, instructional strategies, collaboration, problem solving, philosophical questions, assessment, and communication skills.  Students complete their required portfolio for licensure during this course. The seminar is designed yo provide support for student teachers in the field. Enrollment by special arrangement only.

GED 693 Art, History, and Social Sciences for the K-6 Classroom: Inquiry and Imagination (3cr.)
Instructor: Jonathan Silverman
Thursday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Jeanmarie Hall 281
Through critical investigation and creative problem solving participants make connections between historic events, social issues, visual culture, geography, and artistic expressions. Using a variety of texts including literature, art, and primary sources, we will examine the characteristics of Art, History, and Social Studies as described in state and national standards. By developing a community that honors multiple perspectives and intelligences, we will develop and exchange ideas for curriculum and assessment in the K-6 classroom.  Texts include a performance at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts.

GED 699 Capstone Seminar in Graduate Education (3cr.)
Instructor: Anne Judson
Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Jeanmarie Hall 281
This course is designed to support students as they complete the M.Ed. program. Students first research a topic in their field of interest and then complete a paper and presentation demonstrating in-depth understanding of their topic. Research skills, critique and reflection, and expressive presentations are included in the course. The first class meets on Friday, August 1st, 9:00am-11:30am in JEM 142.  Prerequisite: GED 558 Introduction to Educational Research, a research proposal, and approved methodology from instructor.

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For more information about Graduate Programs in Education, contact:
Dr. Anne Judson
E-mail: ajudson@smcvt.edu

or

Karen Abbott, Program Assistant
E-mail: kabbott@smcvt.edu
Phone: 802.654.2649

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GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN EDUCATION OFFER COURSES OF GRADUATE STUDY LEADING TO:

• Initial Teacher Licensure
• Endorsements for Licensed Teachers
• Master of Education (M.Ed.)
• Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (C.A.G.S.)

In planning an M.Ed. or C.A.G.S. program, students may choose one of the concentrations listed below: 

• Arts
• Curriculum
• Information Technology
• Reading
• School Leadership
• Special Education

Graduate Programs in Education has Vermont Department of Education approved programs to obtain initial licensure in:

• Elementary (K-6)
• Middle (5-9)
• Secondary (7-12)
• Art (PreK-6, 7-12, PreK-12)
• Theatre Arts (PreK-6, 7-12, PreK-12)
• Educational Technology Specialist (K-12)
• English as a Second Language (PreK-6, 7-12, PreK-12)
• Special Educator (K-8, Grade 7-Age 21, K-Age 21) 

...and additional endorsements in many areas. Programs are designed so that a student can complete an M.Ed. degree and a license endorsement concurrently. Details on all programs above can be found at the Graduate Education Home Page.