Director: Ranita Chatterjee
Education Administration (EA) 100
(818) 677-3300
www.csun.edu/humanities/liberal-studies

Core Program
Student Learning Outcomes

Students will:

1. Demonstrate proficient knowledge in the range of disciplines that relate to K-12 education and advanced level knowledge in their area of specialization.
2. Demonstrate skills and knowledge needed to support all students in a diverse urban school environment.
3. Be able to describe essential features of the California Standards and the Common Core State Standards and discuss their overall and specific goals.
4. Be able to describe, draw connections between and apply basic methods of inquiry used in the Arts, Humanities, Mathematics, Social Sciences and Sciences.
5. Be able to successfully adapt their reading and writing to a range of disciplines, genres, media and purposes.
6. Be able to reflect on and, for ITEP students, apply their knowledge and skills acquired in the major and in their specialization to teaching in the K-12 classroom.
7. Be able to access, evaluate and make use of a range of informational resources (electronic and otherwise).

Specialization
Student Learning Outcomes

Language Arts

1. Be able to (a) describe the general, stated and/or implicit goals of the Content/Common Core Standards for Language Arts in terms of knowledge, concepts and skills; (b) describe the organizational structure of the standards and the terminology used; (c) illustrate how areas of knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills are expected to develop longitudinally.
2. Reflect in depth on their own methods of reading and writing across genres and across various media.
3. Read closely, analyze and interpret texts from a diverse array of genres, purposes, perspective and writers.
4. Recognize and systematically describe observed features of multilingual speech communities, including language contact effects, language planning efforts, linguistic strategies used by multilingual speakers, stigmatized dialects and perceptions of prestige.
5. Demonstrate their understanding of children’s dispositions toward and use of language in conversations, classroom discourse, the reading of texts in different genres, and the writing they do for different purposes. Students will be able to identify children’s varying uses of language, and how, in particular, they use language to encapsulate and communicate knowledge, thoughts, and feelings.

Math

1. Be able to (a) describe the general, stated and/or implicit goals of the Content/Common Core Standards for Mathematics in terms of knowledge, concepts and skills; (b) describe the organizational structure of the standards and the terminology used; (c) illustrate how areas of knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills are expected to develop longitudinally.
2. Reflect in depth on their own path towards mathematical mastery through problem solving.
3. Be able to demonstrate a profound understanding of fundamental mathematics from an advanced perspective by connecting algebraic, geometric and numerical concepts in communicating their mathematical arguments.
4. Demonstrate their ability to solve problems by choosing appropriate mathematical representations and persevere in solving them, by reasoning abstractly and quantitatively, and by constructing and communicating viable arguments
5. Demonstrate their understanding of the mathematical thinking of K-6 children in realistic classrooms situations. They will be able to identify different ways that children learn mathematics and critically evaluate their reasoning.

Social Science

1. Be able to (a) describe the general, stated and/or implicit goals of the Content/Common Core Standards for Social Science in terms of knowledge, concepts and skills; (b) describe the organizational structure of the standards and the terminology used; (c) illustrate how areas of knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills are expected to develop longitudinally.
2. Demonstrate a basic understanding of a variety of social science methodologies and analytical techniques.
3. Demonstrate their ability to provide their future students with a Standards-based, social science education
4. Demonstrate ability to frame questions that can be answered by chorological and historical research.

Science

1. Be able to (a) describe the general, stated and/or implicit goals of the Content/Common Core Standards for Science in terms of knowledge, concepts and skills; (b) describe the organizational structure of the standards and the terminology used; (c) illustrate how areas of knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills are expected to develop longitudinally.
2. Be able to reflect in depth on their own path toward an in depth understanding of scientific methodology and inquiry.
3. Be able to demonstrate an advanced understanding of how scientific investigation and experimentation are applied to scientific questions and problems.
4. Be able to (a) Demonstrate an ability to approach scientific questions and problems through sound experimental design, implementation and analysis of data; (b) demonstrate an ability to objectively analyze scientific studies conducted by others.
5. Demonstrate their understanding of the processes by which children form scientific concepts as applied to learning and teaching science. They will be able to identify different ways of learning scientific concepts and be able to form strategies for working with these ideas to facilitate learning.

Visual and Performing Arts

1. Be able to (a) describe the general, stated and/or implicit goals of the Content/Common Core Standards for Visual and Performing Arts in terms of knowledge, concepts and skills; (b) describe the organizational structure of the standards and the terminology used; (c) illustrate how areas of knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills are expected to develop longitudinally.
2. Reflect in depth on ways of knowing through the four art forms of dance, music, theatre and visual art.
3. Distinguish the process, elements and product of each of the four art forms
4. Determine where the four art forms intersect in relationship to elements, process and product.
5. Apply the California Visual and Performing Arts Standards to learning segments.