At its heart, the fundamental goals of COE CORE I and II coursework are to ensure that every student taking coursework within our college understands the mission, vision, and shared commitments of the COE and has a strong shared knowledge base regarding the fundamental and developing theories and structures that make the discipline of education distinct from and connected to other disciplines. Core I and II must provide all students with the essential prerequisite knowledge, skills and dispositional habits on which the next level of personal and professional learning will be layered. With full awareness that there are essential prerequisite knowledge, skills, and dispositional habits that must be shared, the contexts in which our candidates will practices these may be very different. We attempt to honor this by providing both integrated coursework aimed at candidates seeking roles in the P-12 classroom context and stand alone coursework aimed at candidates seeking roles in extended learning contexts. Objectives, assessments and outcomes are aligned in order to provide the space and flexibility for candidates to change their minds about the contexts while also allowing the experiences within the coursework to be better suited to the contexts in which candidates currently imagine themselves.
COE CORE I introduces potential educators to the mission, the vision, and the ethos of the Butler University College of Education and explores the complexities, the challenges, and the joys of being a professional educator in a variety of educational contexts. It introduces the core identities, commitments, and cross cutting themes of the College across all degree pathways at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
While CORE I introduces concepts, the COE CORE II is aimed at deepening the intentional exploration of our college’s vision and shared commitments. It lays the bedrock, foundational knowledge base regarding developmental learning theories related to how, when and where people learn. It develops foundational and prerequisite knowledge and skills essential to identifying and working alongside atypical learners. And, it lays a foundational framework for understanding societal factors--political, legal, economic, and cultural, both historical and current--impact on how, when, and where people gain access to educational resources.
The buttons above will take you to the Curriculum Map for Core I and II which outlines the individual course objectives, common assignments, and assessments aligned to the INTASC standards. You can also click on the button that will take you to the Core I folder or Core II folder that contains all LTT-approved syllabi, assignment descriptions and rubrics required in ED 112, ED 245, and ED 199 for Core I or ED 241, ED 242, ED 244, or ED 299 for Core II. If you are teaching in CORE I or II, you will also participate in the Learning and Teaching Team, which provides additional support.