Programs
Gerontology Program | program website
The purposes of the interdisciplinary gerontology programs are to: provide an organized, systematic exploration of aging within society that enables students to develop beginning skills to effectively work directly or indirectly with older populations in a variety of settings; to cultivate a positive attitude toward aging; and to emphasize the dignity and work of each individual. The programs in gerontology are administered by the Department of Health Professions.
Reading Program | program website
The Department of Teacher Education houses the Reading Program. This program offers two outstanding literacy programs. One program provides for the refinement of critical and analytical reading skills that enable college students to enhance the quality of their undergraduate education. RDG 1510, Cognitive Strategies for Analytical Reading, is designed as a college-level reading course that satisfies a General Studies Level I Communications requirement. RDG 3060, Critical Reading/Thinking, provides further practice in the employment of cognitive strategies to discover fallacies, recognize obstacles to critical thinking, and judge the validity of expository writing. This course satisfies a General Studies Level II Arts and Letters requirement.
The second program is a dynamic minor in reading that prepares students for careers in business, industry, government and education as instructional leaders in literacy programs. The minor includes knowledge of the reading process, factors influencing emergent literacy, preparation and presentation of reading lessons, development of instructional materials, identification of reading disability correlates, assessment and interpretation of test results, and a closely supervised remedial reading tutorial experience. Students planning to complete teacher licensure requirements at all levels are encouraged to elect this minor.
Teachers in Residence Program | program website
TiR is a dynamic, rigorous, and growing program that includes professional course work, seminars, observation and in class coaching designed specifically to help someone learn to become a teacher. The education of teachers to whom the public entrusts its children is one of the most serious policy issues of the day. Post baccalaureate teacher licensure routes provide opportunities for people from various educational backgrounds and walks of life to become teachers. They have opened doors to teaching for minority candidates, persons from other careers, the military, and liberal arts colleges.
The MSCD Teacher in Residence program began training teachers on August 7, 2000. The program is a cooperative effort between member metropolitan school districts and Metropolitan State College of Denver. To participate in the TiR a candidate must: have a baccalaureate degree with a major or equivalent in the subject to be taught and obtain a teaching contract with a member district. Upon being hired by a member district as a resident teacher, enroll in the TiR program with Metropolitan State College, submit to a CBI background check, and pass the state required PLACE content area test prior to April 15th of the first year of employment.