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EDCI 532: Instructing students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities Prerequisites: Basic or Preliminary Teaching Credential
Instructor: Bob Van Setten

Required:

Mastropieri, Margo, Scruggs, Thomas; The Inclusive Classroom Strategies for Effective Instruction.
Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.
ISBN: 0-13-139799-0

 

EDCI 533: Instructing Students with Behavior Disorders
Prerequisites: Basic or Preliminary Teaching Credential
Instructor: Tonya Perry

Required:

Characteristics of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders of Children and Youth, 9/E
James M. Kauffman, University of Virginia
Timothy J. Landrum

ISBN-10: 0132275147
ISBN-13: 9780132275149

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2009
Format: Cloth; 544 pp
Published: 03/24/2008

Cases in Emotional and Behavioral Disorders of Children and Youth, 2/E
James M. Kauffman, University of Virginia
Timothy J. Landrum, University of Virginia

ISBN-10: 013500263X
ISBN-13: 9780135002636

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 128 pp
Published: 03/27/2008

 

 

EDCI 561: Special Education in the Regular Class
Prerequisites: Basic or Preliminary Teaching Credential
Instructor: Jennie Furness

Required:
No textbooks required.


Core Courses for Masters Degree

 

EDCI 512: Faith and Learning (3 Units)
Prerequisites: None
Instructor: Tonya Perry

Required:

Pearcey, N. R. (2004). Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its cultural captivity.
Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.
ISBN: 1581344589

Sire, James W. (1990). Discipleship of the Mind: Learning to Love God in the Ways We Think.
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity.
ISBN: 1581347464

ONE book per student from the following list after receiving Instructor's approval -- tperry@lasierra.edu

Coles, Robert, (1989). The Moral Intelligence of Children: How to Raise a Moral Child.
Plume.
ISBN: 0-452279372

Frankl, Viktor E. updated 1998. Man’s Search for Meaning.
Washington Square Pr.
ISBN: 0671023373

Glasser, William, (1998). Choice Theory in the Classroom.
Quill.
ISBN: 0060952873

Hunter, Cornelius G., (2001). Darwin’s God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil.
Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press.
ISBN: 1-58743-053-3

Marsden, George M., (1997). The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship.
New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN 0-19-512290-0

Milton, Richard, (2000). Shattering the Myths of Darwinism.
Park Street Press.
ISBN 0-89-281884-0.

Palmer, Parker J., (1998). The Courage to Teach Exploring The Inner Landscape of A Teacher’s Life.
San Francisco, CA Jossey-Bas.
ISBN: 0787910589

Peck, M. Scott, (1983). People of the Lie.
New York: Touchstone.
ISBN 0-684-84859-7

Strobel, Lee. (1998). The Case for Christ.
Zondervan Publishing Company.
ISBN: 0310209307

Wiesel, Elie, (1990). Night.
New York: Bantam Books.
ISBN: 0-553-27253-5

 

EDCI 514: Curriculum Planning (3 Units)
Prerequisites: None
Instructor: Sandra Green

Required:

Flinders, David J. & Thornton, Stephen J., (2004). The Curriculum Studies Reader.
Routledge: New York, NY.
ISBN: 0-415-94522-4

Fried, Robert L. (2005). The Game of School.
Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA.
ISBN:0-7879-7347-5

Oliver, Anita. (2006). Teaching Strategies: Help for a New Teacher. (This book is purchased from C&I Office Check or money order made out to 'Curriculum & Instruction')

Recommended:

American Psychological Association, 6th Edition. Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.
Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Booth, Wayne C., Williams, Joseph M., and Colomb, Gregory G., (2003). The Craft of Research.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Williams, Joseph M. (1995). Style: Toward Clarity and Grace.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

EDAD 524: Educational Organization and Leadership (3 Units) Prerequisites: None
Instructor: Staff

Required:

Kowalski, T. J. (2003). Contemporary School Administration: An Introduction.
Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
ISBN 0-205-34792-4

 

EDPC 540: Principles of Counseling (3 Units)
Prerequisites: None
Instructor: Dora Clarke-Pine

Required:

American Psychological Association. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (6th Edition).
Washington, D.C.

Cavanagh, M. E., & Levitov, J. E., (2002). The Counseling Experience: A Theoretical and Practical Approach.
Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, Press, Inc..

Richards, P. S., & Bergin, A. E., (1997). A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy.
Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

 

EDRS: 504 Methods and Materials of Research (3 Units)
Prerequisites: None required, good to have most of your coursework completed.
Instructor: Matthew Perry

Required:

Wiersma, W. & Jurs, S. G. (2005). Research Methods in Education, An Introduction. (8th ed.).
Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
ISBN: N/A

 

EDCI 597: M.A. Project (3-6 Units)
Prerequisites: completed all requirements for masters.
Instructor: Curriculum & Instruction Faculty

Required:

No Textbook Required

 
 

 

 

 
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