Theory and Practice of University Teaching.

Catalog description

Through readings, class discussions, presentations, and teaching experiences, students will explore the major roles, responsibilities, and activities of graduate mental health program educators. Students will learn about instructional theory and methods relevant preparing mental health professionals. Ethical, legal, multicultural, and accreditation issues associated with training mental health professionals will be examined. Students will develop their personal philosophies of teaching and learning and will begin developing a teaching portfolio. During the application portion of this course, students will demonstrate use of their teaching and learning philosophies, effective course design, varied course delivery methods (including both face-to-face and online delivery techniques), and application of evaluation methods that are appropriate to course objectives. Students also will demonstrate their abilities to assess the needs of students and develop techniques to help students develop into competent mental health professionals.