Theory & Practice

 

Brooke completed this course in Summer I 2015 and earned an A for her final grade.

 

Class Outcomes

• Utilizing theory and counseling knowledge to assess the development of my students in order to create lessons that will relate to their needs.

• Demonstrate an ability to:

  • Articulate theories and models that describe the development of college students and the conditions and practices that facilitate holistic development.

  • Generate ways in which various learning theories and models can inform training and teaching practice.

  • Articulate one's own developmental journey and identification of one's own informal theories of student development and learning (also called theories in use) and how they can be informed  by formal theories to enhance work with students.

  • Assess the teaching, learning, and training as well as the incorporation of results into practice.

• Demonstrate an understanding of:

  • How differences of race, ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and religious belief can influence development during the college years.

• Demonstrate identification of:

  • Theory types (e.g. learning, psychosocial and identity development, cognitive-structural, typological, and environmental).

  • The limitations in applying existing theories and models to varying student demographic groups.

  • Learning outcomes for both daily practice as well as teaching and training activities.