Adolescence Education - Dowling College

Adolescence Education from Dowling College is a Campus Master Junior High Intermediate Middle School Education and Teaching degree that prepares you for a Education career. Dowling College recognizes the need for subject specialists who are not only competent in their areas of certification, but who also have acquired skills in classroom management and can employ successful instructional strategies and teaching skills. Both public school teachers and school districts have expressed a need for a Master's program that addresses the following: 1. The effective teaching of classes with diverse populations that include students with a wide range of abilities: gifted and talented students, English as a second language students, and students with handicapping conditions. 2. The ability to teach students how to read content area materials for comprehension and conceptual understanding. 3. The ability to construct questions that require students to think and reason at higher cognitive and creative levels, and the ability to design classroom tests that measure complex achievement. 4. The application of learning theory to the principles of classroom management, selection of instructional methods, and utilization of teaching techniques. 5. The ability to design curricula and to adopt trends and innovations in curriculum development. Dowling College has responded to that need and developed two distinct Graduate Adolescence Education Programs. The first prepares future practitioners (students seeking certification) to confront the challenges of teaching in a positive way; the second significantly enhances the performance of practicing professionals (certified teachers) while . Students in both programs will be expected to acquire mastery of core competencies which will be demonstrated through a variety of assignments: written reports, oral discourse, term papers, field work special projects, and summative examinations. Conceptualization of Professional Roles and Responsibilities The Dowling College graduate adolescence education degree prepares both certified teachers and teacher candidates to assume the following roles and responsibilities: 1. become an instructional decision maker who can utilize knowledge of learning theory, motivation, and human needs in planning, guiding, assessing, remediating, and evaluating learning. 2. become an effective manager of the learning environment, who, in developing and utilizing appropriate management techniques, can apply a wide repertoire of eclectic practices deriving from principles of behavioristic, cognitive, humanistic, and existential psychology. 3. become a reflective teacher who systematically monitors experience and engages in critical reflective practice and qualitative inquiry in examining, analyzing, and thinking about learning/teaching events. View more details on Dowling College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Junior High Intermediate Middle School Education and Teaching courses.