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The Graduate Certificate for Global Teaching prepares students with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to teach in International Baccalaureate World schools in Nevada and around the world.
Accreditation
For information regarding accreditation at UNLV, please head over to Academic Program Accreditations.
Learning Outcomes
- Articulate a description of the IB k-12 curriculum framework and he it relates to the Learner Profile.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Primary Years, Middle Years, Diploma, or Career Related Curriculum.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the inter-relationships among the Primary Years, Middle Years, Diploma, or Career Related Curriculum.
- Produce interdisciplinary inquiry teaching units and lesson plans that support the learner profile.
- Demonstrate reflective practice and describe its relation to improving student outcomes.
- Demonstrate an understanding of collaborative planning, curriculum design and assessment.
- Demonstrate an understanding of constructivist learning.
- Demonstrate an understanding differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all students.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how classroom-based assessment strategies are designed and implemented to support the achievement of all students.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how assessment data is utilized to improve instruction.
- Produce task-specific assessment rubrics related to inquiry instruction.
- Demonstrate an understanding that the development of assessment strategies, tasks and rubrics acknowledge the learning needs of students with different levels of competency, types of ability, learning styles and learning difficulty.
- Write a Review of the Literature.
- Write a Professional Paper.
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Contacts
Graduate Coordinator
Michael McCreery, Ph.D.
Department of Teaching and Learning
The central mission of the Department of Teaching and Learning is to perform educational research and prepare educators at all levels. We ensure that our professional education programs are based on essential knowledge, established and current research findings, and sound professional practice.
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College of Education
The College of Education creates an intellectual environment that promotes quality instruction, significant research, and professional service. With four unique departments, graduates receive the necessary tools and experiences to make an impact on local, national, and global scales.