• Exhibit the ability to research, write, and edit magazine and newspaper articles on education topics;
• Demonstrate the ability to generate marketable topics on education to magazines and newspaper;
• Demonstrate the ability to apply a range of research methods for developing marketable nonfiction magazine and newspaper topics;
• Demonstrate the ability to target education ideas to specific newspaper and magazine audiences;
• Demonstrate the ability to apply different writing styles and techniques to the development of education topics for magazines and newspapers;
• Demonstrate the ability to revise and to edit completed magazine and newspaper articles in education.

Course Description
This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the practical and theoretical applications of educational research methodology. Beginning with an examination of the role of research in education, the course will guide the student through the process of reviewing and analyzing information and data from a variety of sources, comparing and contrasting the different types of research designs, understanding the role of descriptive and inferential statistics, and the development of a research project. Basic introduction to the principles of layout including grid systems and their use. Introduction to methods used to turn a design into a finished printed piece including basic understanding of printing and beginning past-up and mechanicals.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Discuss several research methodologies and how they may be applied to education research. Note the uses and limitations of each method.
• Indicate the ethical issues inherent in conducting educational research.
• List and analyze the steps of an action research project.
• Discuss the role of a literature review in educational research.
• Demonstrate the use of technological tools to gather and analyze data.
• Compare and contrast the merits of qualitative versus quantitative research studies.
• Explain how educational research should be critiqued and applied to educational contexts.

• Articulate the value of teaching social sciences in the early childhood and primary school setting: cultural studies, environmental studies, and health education.
• Discuss developmental instructional models designed to foster an understanding of the social sciences in the early childhood and primary setting. Include Bloom's Taxonomy in the discussion.
• Summarize the characteristics of a high quality science program in the early childhood setting.
• Indicate and describe an inquiry model for the teaching of scientific principles and investigation. Include both an exploratory and guided discovery learning model.
• Discuss assessment principles for both the social sciences and sciences in the early childhood and primary setting.
• You may section the paper into early childhood and primary contexts if this structure is helpful.

• Discuss the concept of a national safety culture for driving and what would be entailed.
• Indicate the key elements of successful drivers regarding: speed, maneuvering and execution, requirements of the road, and driver expertise.
• Identify the behavioral elements necessary for effective driving.
• Discuss the driving safety issues of the future.

• Discuss developmentally appropriate methods and strategies that support early childhood learning in the areas of physical, socio-emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development and language acquisition.
• Explain the need to value and support the cultural and linguistic contexts of families involved in early childhood education programs.
• Assess the role of the educator in establishing and maintaining a positive collaborative relationship with families.
• Summarize information regarding current legal issues and legislation relating to programs for young children.
• Discuss developmentally appropriate curriculum in the content areas.
• Explain how to create and maintain a physically and psychologically safe and healthy learning environment.
• Evaluate appropriate professional literature, organizations, resources, and experiences that inform and improve professional practice.
• Describe the wide-range of community and state resources that are currently available to families participating in early childhood programs.

• Demonstrate writing and reporting for beats such as business, science, education, and arts and entertainment
• Compare and contrast journalistic skills and techniques used when covering beats such as business, science, education, and arts and entertainment
• Analyze how innovations in technology have impacted journalistic techniques and legal and ethical principles

• Identify the need for therapeutic intervention of sleep-disordered breathing and other co-morbid respiratory disorders.
• Initiate and manage therapeutic interventions (e.g., PAP therapy, servo-ventilation, bi-level therapy, supplemental oxygen therapy).
• Identify and manage patient safety issues.
• Identify and manage medical emergencies (e.g., cardiac arrhythmias, seizure disorders, psychiatric crises).
• Identify and manage environmental emergencies.
• Provide patient education (e.g., addressing treatment compliance issues with PAP therapy, addressing sleep hygiene issues, educating patient and family members about treatments for other sleep disorders).

• Describe receiving, storage and inventory functions for food safety.
• Identify the various types of equipment and physical operational cleaning and maintenance functions.
• Apply interdepartmental communication activities for a high sanitation rating.
• Describe the federal and state regulations, departments, agencies and sanitation rating systems.

• Discuss how the early childhood educator selects good and age-appropriate children's literature for the classroom.
• Briefly considers the various genres and the defining elements of each.
• Talk about the role of children's literature in promoting emergent literacy in early childhood education.
• Indicate the role of parents/caregivers in terms of incorporating children's literature in the home environment.
• Consider the role of multi-cultural literature in the classroom.
• Discuss how literature has a cathartic element in the life of a child.
• Briefly state how storytelling enhances the experience of literature in the classroom.

• Identify the impact that gender stereotypes and barriers have on women's lives.
• Explain how gender stereotypes and barriers intersect with other social systems such as age, class, disability, ethnicity, race, religion, and sexual orientation.
• Analyze and evaluate whether the goals of methods of particular social actions are consistent with an empowerment model of social change.