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The Education Core applies to undergraduate and MAT courses. A course listing along with syllabi and assessments is available at www2.winthrop.edu/rex/rex/core_courses.html. In addition, content resources for candidates, teachers, and faculty are available through online modules. These modules are short videos, strategies, overviews, etc. of content learned in each course and can be used to build or refresh knowledge in a "just in time" fashion (www2.winthrop.edu/rex/rex/core_module.html).
Visit the Master of Arts in Teaching information page if you currently have an undergraduate degree and want to explore a graduate teacher certification program!
Each Core course is assigned a leader or course "chair." This person meets with other chairs on a regular basis to ensure a developmental sequence to the Core as well as discuss programmatic topics such as scheduling, assessment, and curriculum. Course Chairs communicate with the section instructors of their respective courses to ensure delivery/assessment is consistent.
The Education Core is designed as a set of developmentally sequenced courses. Through deliberate field and content integration, candidates have an opportunity to work with and understand individual learner needs then move into small group and whole class instruction. It is important to note that the Education Core focuses on knowledge and skill acquisition for transfer and application in the K-12 school setting; therefore, content is not presented singularly, but throughout the sequence of courses. This does not mean concepts and ideas are repeated, creating unnecessary redundancy; instead, they are deliberately integrated at multiple points to support candidate development of (1) fluency, (2) maintenance, and finally (3) generalization.
Each Core course has a key assessment to evaluate candidate mastery of outcomes that is submitted in the LiveText system. For courses with a field component, two key assessments are utilized (one for "content" and one for "field"). Candidates must pass both assessments in order to successfully complete the course. These two statements are common to all Core courses:
Although all sections of a Core course share the same key assessment(s) and general materials, instructors may have additional readings and/or assessments.