ED 7001 - Human Growth and Development

Credits: 3

Description This course focuses on the development of learners from birth through adolescence, their phases of learning, their intellectual, social, and emotional growth, character development, individual differences, interests, attention, and motivation. Candidates will understand how these aspects of human growth and development relate and influence the teaching/learning process. In this course, candidates will also have the opportunity to conduct a series of systematic observations on children and students of various age groups and in different settings as part of an advanced field component experience. The field experience in this course will include a sequential-cohort research study that will culminate in the analysis of findings and a formal poster presentation.