Featured Courses

We are committed to lifelong learning, and we know you are, too. The IU School of Education in Indianapolis offers a variety of courses to help you achieve your professional learning goals. Whether you are exploring an area of interest, seeking license renewal, or wanting to challenge yourself in your career, we invite you to explore our featured course offerings below. Featured courses are open to anyone interested in pursuing graduate credit.

Featured courses are open to anyone interested in pursuing graduate credit and can be applied towards a graduate degree program.

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Educational Leadership Courses

EDUC-A500: Introduction to Educational Leadership, Fall & Summer, Hybrid

This course entails an introduction to the history, philosophy, and social aspects of educational leadership. It reviews relevant theories of administration; the historical role of administration in schools; and the political, social, economic, and philosophical frameworks that have informed administration.

EDUC-A510: School Community Relations, Spring & Summer

This course investigates characteristics of the community school, including the multicultural quality of the community. It also explores adapting the educational program to community needs, using community resources in instruction, and planning school-community relations programs.

EDUC-A608: Legal Perspectives on Education, Fall & Summer, Hybrid

This course entails an overview of the legal framework affecting the organization and administration of public schools, including church-state issues, pupil rights, staff-student relationships, conditions of employment, teacher organizations, tort liability, school finance, and desegregation.

Elementary/Secondary Education Courses

EDUC-T531: Organizational Change in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Schools, Fall, Spring & Summer

Factors which impede and facilitate change in education at the community, district, school, and classroom levels are constantly evolving. This course approaches organizational development and reform from a legal perspective. Students will investigate administrative strategies, evaluation techniques and staff development models as they relate to schools’ ability to define and fulfill their purpose in a democratic society.

EDUC-T550: Cultural/Community Forces in Schools, Summer

This course will explore the power and potential of learning within community settings such as libraries, churches, community centers, museums, etc. Students will compare and contrast different viewpoints on learning traditions, conceptions of community, and models of learning from historic, cultural, and social perspectives. In addition students will explore methods and strategies for assessing learning in non-formal and informal learning settings.

Special Education Courses

EDUC-K505: Introduction to Special Education, Fall, Spring, & Summer, Online

This course provides foundational information about special education law, policies, and practices at the federal and state levels. Class members will learn about the array of current research based exemplary special education practices, including inclusive education, as well as current issues and challenges. This course will appeal to a broad array of educators who interface with special education and youth with disabilities.

EDUC-K548: Families, School, and Society, Fall

The course focuses on the family as a system and discusses the impact of disabilities on the daily lives of family members. Historical, legal and ethical perspectives on family involvement and empowerment are explored. Approaches for providing services to families with members who are developmentally disabled, chronically ill, at risk or who have other types of impairments also are presented.

EDUC-K553: Classroom Management and Behavior Support, Fall & Spring, Face-to-Face

The purpose of this course is to learn effective practices for designing safe and supportive classroom communities that benefit all learners. Class members will also learn an array of schoolwide and classroom positive behavior intervention and support (PBIS) strategies that promote prosocial student behavior and prevent push out, suspension, and expulsion. Current issues and challenges will be discussed and examples of how schools are addressing such issues will be shared.

EDUC-K565: Collaboration and Service Delivery, Summer

Reviews methods of implementing service delivery systems; consulting with professionals and parents; designing in-service training programs; and developing referral systems, curricular and personnel resources, and evaluation techniques used in special education programs.

English as a New Language Courses

EDUC-L524: Language Education Issues in Bilingual and Multicultural Education, Fall & Summer, Face-to-Face

A survey of language education issues related to the linguistic abilities and educational needs of students requiring bilingual or bidialectal instruction. Topics discussed include language acquisition, language pedagogy, program models, cultural influences, teacher training, and research directions.

EDUC-L540 ESL/EFL Instruction and Assessment Approaches, Summer

The course provides an overview of various approaches to instruction and assessment that incorporate the current thinking in the field. Includes discussion of content-based models of language instruction and standardized, alternative, and authentic forms of assessment.

EDUC-T524: Diverse Perspectives on Families, Summer, Hybrid

This introductory graduate course focuses on working with all children (P-12) and their families in formal and informal environments. Graduate students will construct understanding of children and their families in the larger educational continuum while identifying and analyzing critical issues. Topics include historical perspectives and trends; policies and legislation at local to international levels; developing and sustaining relationships, partnerships, and alliances; and innovative strategies, skills, and dispositions for supporting, nurturing, and involving different types of families.

Technology Courses

EDUC-W520: PLANNING FOR TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE, Summer, Online

This course addresses topics pertinent to planning for and sustaining technology infrastructures such as strategic planning, budgeting, vendors and contracts, grant writing, Acceptable Use Policy, classroom technology, wireless access, Student Information Systems (SIS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), and Total Cost of Ownership. Students will assess the technology needs of a specific learning environment and write a proposal to upgrade the technology support for teachers and learners.

EDUC-W531: Technology for Teaching and Learning, Summer, Online

A survey of technology used for teaching and learning which explores technologies in learning environments. Students will critically examine topics such as 21st century learning, new literacies, digital divides, digital citizens, technology in classrooms, web-based tools, mobile technologies, game-based learning, and technology innovations. Students will evaluate educational technology tools and engage in social networking and collaborative learning.

EDUC-W550: Current Technology Trends, Fall

This course investigates innovations, emerging technologies, and technology's role in education reform. Students will collaborate to search out, evaluate, and synthesize research studies and verifiable information about promising educational technologies. They will present their findings in a webinar for other professionals.