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Course Prefix&Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
ED 622	Curriculum, Assessment, and Management I	3 -

Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces)
Curr Assess Mgt I

Catalog Description:
This course will help students to develop assessment, instructional, and management strategies in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of instruction in various classroom settings using the framework of teacher work sampling. The basics of lesson planning, instructional methods, assessment planning, differentiation, and classroom management will be covered.

Course Goal and Objectives:
� Candidates will demonstrate emerging understanding of how to align instructional goals with curricular decisions and assessment methods, in the context of Oregon�s standards-based schools, with the aim of promoting student achievement while adhering to Oregon Core Standards � Candidates will incorporate learning theory and educational philosophy into the analysis of, and implementation of, curricular and assessment decisions, given certain instructional goals, including those which make up the Oregon Diploma � Candidates will analyze classroom behaviors, discipline models, and students� rights and identify appropriate and supportive techniques for classroom management � Candidates will develop an emerging model of, and a plan for, effective management of classroom routines and student behavior that maximizes opportunities for student learning. � Candidates will develop the skills underlying teacher work sample methodology including contextual analysis, selection of content, selection of pedagogical strategies, formative and summative assessment, data analysis, reflective analysis, and alignment across each. � Candidates will observe and analyze field assignment features through the lenses of curriculum, assessment, and management

Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.):
This course is the first in a two-part Curriculum, Assessment, and Management series that will be a part of the Teacher Education Division�s revised MAT program. The use of this two-part series for Curriculum, Assessment, and Management replaces the system in the current MAT program, which devotes separate courses to Curriculum, Assessment, and Management. The shift to two combined courses, when combined with the movement of some course content to other new MAT courses (Content Pedagogy I and II; Professional Seminar I, II, III, and IV), allows us to address issues raised in regards to the current program. Exit surveys of students, along with faculty feedback and discussion, have long indicated a need for greater alignment and coordination of curriculum, assessment, and management content, since these three separate topics operated interdependently in classroom settings. The combination of these three content areas into two courses allows this coordination and alignment to take place. This change also allows movement of some of the generalized content of these courses into into courses more directly focused on students� experience and content areas, i.e. the new Professional Seminar and Content Pedagogy courses. Finally, this change frees up credits for other priorities, such as new courses, and for program credit reduction, this last a priority in order to increase our program�s competitiveness among similar programs in Oregon.

Faculty and facilities needed:
current MAT program faculty and existing MAT program facilities

Brief Course outline:
This course is a general introduction to the work of teaching, focusing on curriculum, assessment, and management in classroom teaching. These three topics are deeply intertwined in teaching practice, and they will be taught in a complimentary fashion, with lessons in each contributing to, and reinforcing, lessons on the others. The curriculum component focuses on the planning, design, and delivery of courses; assessment focuses on the development, administration, and interpretation of assessments; management focuses on the analysis of classroom management methods and issues, and the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems to manage a classroom and to promote student engagement and achievement. Coursework will include readings in the fields of curriculum, instruction, and management, analysis of hypothetical and field-based classroom settings from a variety of perspectives, and development of emerging curriculum, assessment, and management plans, all accompanied by the completion of an introductory version of the WOU Teacher Work Sample, a primary instructional, assessment, and licensure tool in the Division of Teacher Education. This first course in the two part series will focus on introduction to these topics, and to development of emerging understanding of curriculum, assessment, and management in relation to students� own past experiences and current field placements.

Approval Queue C00151

Step	Approver	Decision	Timestamp
1 - Department	-----------------	Approved	November 13 2009

2 - Division	Mark Girod	Approved	November 13 2009

3 - Division Curriculum	Mary Reynolds	Approved	November 13 2009

5 - Graduate Committee	Approved	November 17 2009

6 - Faculty Senate	Katherine Schmidt	Approved	January 13 2010

7 - Dean	Hilda Rosselli	Approved	January 20 2010

8 - Provost	Kent Neely	Approved	January 25 2010

Attached Files:

Graduate Committee - MAT Program Revisions - ED 622 CAM I Syllabus - submitted.doc

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