FIRST+GROUP+DRAFT

New Jersey Professional Teaching Standards 2 and 3 receive preliminary coverage at the community college. Standard 2: Human Growth and Development Standard 3: Diverse Learners
 * STANDARDS COVERED**

Examines the aims, practices and contemporary issues of schooling in their historical, sociological, philosophical and futuristic contexts. More specifically, the course is designed to expose candidates to current issues, which expand and challenge their ideas about teaching, learning and school in the past, present and future.
 * TWO RECOMMENDED COURSES**
 * Introduction to Education/Foundations of Education**


 * Educational Psychology (Birth through Adolescence)**
 * F**ocuses on the cognitive, personality, social, creative, and moral development of children; influential theories, concepts, and research findings of educational psychology and the translation of psychological theory into classroom practices are also examined.

The role of psychological concepts in educational practices, focusing on the nature and sources of intellectual development and readiness according to Piagetian, psychometric, and information process perspectives. Beyond these approaches to cognitive development, learning theory, motivation, and the role of emotion in learning will be discussed. This course will also include a section on individual differences in learning; exceptional students and social, ethnic, cultural, and gender differences. The related topics of measurement and evaluation of learning will round out the course.


 * REQUIRED ARTIFACTS**
 * Philosophy of Education Statement (we will expand on this)**