IGS - Institute for Graduate Studies

IGS Course Descriptions

Kids In Crisis I CTED 509: Course Description:This three (3) hour continuing education graduate course is designed to take a look at the increasing deviant student behavior within our classrooms and schools. It will look at boys and girls in crisis stemming from anxiety, eating disorders, student gangs, broken families and violence, and further, provide options of how to provide a positive responsive school environment in such times of individual and group crises. As a result, the outcome of taking the course will be the mastery of skills intended to decrease violence, bullying and disorders which lead to student eating disorders, isolation and taunting. Strategies and activities shared will increase empathy and foster a nurturing environment to develop a better knowledge of right from wannabees as well as hearing the cries from boys. Participants become aware of how to spot cliques, decrease gossiping and how to defuse violent situations, as well as how best to identify potential crises in individual students they increasingly confront. Lots of ideas, materials, strategies and activities will be modeled, shared and evaluated.
Brian Based Teaching and Learning CTED 511: Course Description:This three (3) semester hour continuing education graduate course will focus on the latest research on the Brain and its implications for instruction in your classroom, K-12. The intent of the course is to educate classroom teachers in appropriate learning strategies based on this research and its implications. Basic concepts related to Brain-based learning will be explored in detail. The outcome of taking this course will be that student achievement gains will be realized based on the implementation of these new and revised practices. Ideas, materials, strategies and activities will be presented for immediate classroom use along with assessment tools to measure their effectiveness.
Moral Intelligence II: Character Education With a New Twist CTED 513: Course Description:This continuing education on-line graduate course is designed to give teachers, guidance counselors and administrators the skills necessary to incorporate, cultivate and develop morality education within any given curriculum in a public school setting. The course focus includes how to specifically impart the seven essential virtues, why they are needed and how they are taught as well as an understanding of the crucial role teachers play in strengthening the conscience and guiding behavior. Ideas will be generated in order to create a moral classroom environment, which will have applications for building strong ethical foundations in today's youth. The course includes methodologies as well as practical strategies for supporting moral intelligence, including the incorporation of a service-learning component in the classroom.
Reaching Out with 9 Teacher Habits to Insure Higher Achievement CTED 515: Course Description:This continuing education graduate course is designed to take a new look at classroom teachers behavior with the intent of helping participants stretch students to higher achievement levels. As a result, this over overarching outcome of taking the course will be the intended mastery of 9 Teaching Habits?. Specific materials, ideas, strategies and activities needed to support the "Habits" will be presented.
Classroom Discipline with Love and Logic CTED 516: Course Description:Teachers leave this course with practical techniques that can be used immediately. Classroom DISCIPLINE WITH LOVE AND LOGIC offers teachers one of the most accepted discipline programs available. The techniques you will learn can change your class by: teaching students to own and solve their problems, responsibility reducing power struggles, dealing with the resistant learners, and maintain control without battles. A course with practical techniques that can be used immediately, Classroom DISCIPLINE WITH LOVE AND LOGIC is a must.
WIN II (Sequel to Catch Our Falling Stars 21): Winning with All Students CTED 517: Course Description:This course has been carefully designed to provide the background, principles, theory and research related to a competitive school and classroom environment to the end that participants will not only learn the stated objectives for the course, but be well prepared to implement the program strategies related thereto. Cooperative learning models of Johnson, Pino and Slavin will be compared, analyzed and evaluated in terms of the spirit of healthy student competition. The best features of each will be identified, and students will develop their own model in their Plan of Action and sample Mini Unit design. A bundle of ideas, materials, activities and strategies will be presented from which participants can fashion their own program.
The "Write" Way to Get the Grants CTED 520: Course Description:This course is designed to provide the information needed to write complete grant proposals successfully. Participants will learn to create a mission statement, problem statement, an appropriate title, and the other necessary requirements of a grant proposal. Participants will also learn the terminology, and will identify formats that are appropriate and most effective for corporate, foundation and government grant proposals and which address the specific project of each participant. Topics include: formatting, effective language, methods of research, identifying resources, collecting information, terminology, and personal interviews and how to get them. A hands-on method will allow the participants to achieve the intended course outcome to leave the class with a written grant proposal. The instructors will teach the difference between corporate, foundation and government grants and how to find the funding sources that are most appropriate for the specific project. Participants will be actively involved in the discussion of topics and will discover how to tailor the proposal for each funding source using various formats and appropriate language. Participants will receive Grant Proposal Manual plus many additional handouts including examples of foundation, corporate and government grants. Each participant will develop and write a proposal for their own individual idea and project. Class information will be targeted to educators and education projects, although material is appropriate for all who wish to write a grant proposal.
Artists' Depictions of Peace and War CTED 530: Course Description:This three (3) semester hour continuing education graduate course is intended to introduce classroom teachers to artists' depictions of peace and war from the American Revolution to the Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq. This will give participants the information necessary for developing a curriculum covering the history in our times of peace and war for their students. Our nation's art forms in times of peace and war will be discussed using lecture, slides, power point and DVD clips. Teaching methods include: lecture, cooperative learning activities, as well as ongoing reflection. Lot of ideas, materials, strategies and activities will be shared and evaluated.
Children’s Literature Studies: Expanded "Readers, Workshop" CTED 536: Course Description: This course provides teachers with an opportunity to expand the materials they are familiar with in their classroom collections for the purpose of teaching a "Reader's Workshop." Teachers will broaden their knowledge of literature genres and titles to accompany each that are appropriate for the age level they are currently teaching. Teachers will be reading self-selected literature driven by their classroom needs, as well as compiling a list of their most important classroom needs. A survey of teachers will be conducted to ascertain what books they believe are especially important to read at a particular grade level, as well as for a given content area like Art, English and Physical Education. Lists from classmates will be complied to determine what experts believe fit into these categories and as a comprehensive resource for later use. Participants will also review a wide selection of favorite authors as well as read a limited selection in order to recommend others become familiar with the books on their list. The final product will be an extensive list of literature and recommended authors that can be used by all teachers as a resource of best literature for students. Lots of materials, activities, strategies and ideas wil
Pop Art: 1960's America CTED 547: Course Description:This three (3) semester credit continuing education graduate course has been designed to introduce the teachers to the art of 1960's America. Pop Art embraced the common and everyday popular images of America. A painting of a Campbell's soup can or Coca Cola bottle became a piece of fine art to be displayed in an art museum as well as in an advertisement. Who are these artists? Why did they create this art movement? This course will explore the history of the Pop Art Movement.
Sculpture: In the Community and Classroom CTED 540: Course Description: This three-hour continuing education graduate course will convey new light on one of the oldest forms of art known to man. Students taking this course will become familiar with a variety of sculptural forms from world famous to local artists identified through field trips within our community. Teachers will gain a new appreciation of sculpture, becoming familiar with its many genre forms, modes of construction and "hands on are" creative art processes. This course will incorporate the academic subjects of math, science, social studies and language arts thus enhancing teacher's abilities to connect sculpture to t heir classroom curriculum. Lots of ideas, materials, strategies and activities will be presented, shared and evaluate. Bring walking shoes, a smock and if possible a digital camera. Materials fee approx. $50.00. Transportation fee based on those participating.; For more course details, please click here (PDF file).
"You've Got Male/Helping Boys Succeed In School" CTED 541: Course Description:This class will provide strategies and methodologies for setting up school environments to teach boys successfully. You will review the latest research about the male brain, as well as study new techniques for helping boys’ minds grow and learn. The focus of the class is on providing practical help for teachers in adapting the classroom environment to fit the male learning style. Currently, more boys than girls in the classroom chronically under-perform, receive a disproportionate number of lower grades, are vastly overrepresented in special education, and score more poorly on state tests. They particularly score the lowest in reading, writing, and language arts. Students in this class will address the reasons for the aforementioned, as well as ways to reverse this trend in schools by discovering strategies to keep them actively engaged in classroom activities, finding techniques for increasing their commitment to school success, and developing tools for helping them deal with the unique social and emotional problems they face in school. Lots of fun activities, strategies and simple changes that you can make to help create a classroom, or school, a place where boys will succeed and want to be!
On the Move: Active Student Learning CTED 548: Course Description:This graduate course is intended to show classroom teachers how to empower students to become more responsible for their own learning. This course will help participants learn the skills necessary for developing and empowering their students as teachers and measuring their growth as a result. A close review of the research by Goodlad, Glaser, Bloom and others will be made to support the methods advocated. A unique blending of the Johnson, Pino and Slavin model(s) of interactive student led learning will be studied. A large bundle of ideas, materials, strategies and activities will be given to participants. The expected outcome is a student managed and instructed classroom.
PowerPoint for Professionals Level 2: How PowerPoint Cam Make You a Better K-12 Educator CTED 550: Course Description:This three credit hour course will provide an advanced and updated in-depth study of PowerPoint. This course will feature how to: Make presentations interactive by using Action Buttons; design custom shows; create and edit charts; use color schemes and slide designs; customize menu and toolbars; package presentations for CD's; merge slide shows; present to your class; involve students and relate PowerPoint use to the participant's curriculum. Teachers will use these expanded skills to teach their students how to make better use of PowerPoint in their students' presentations. Course methodology will include: lectures, demonstration, on-line research, sharing, reflection and lots of hand-on practice. Ideas, examples, strategies and activities will be presented, shared and evaluated.
Bam! Kick Up Your Teaching A Notch – Super Teaching CTED 551: Course Description:This course will help you put the "BAM-BAM" into your teaching. By practicing the strategies covered in this class, teachers can raise their teaching and student learning to another level. This course is filled with over 1,000 practical teaching strategies that will not just help you survive as a teacher, but thrive as a "super" teacher. Current research-based theories and concepts of excellent instructional techniques will be reviewed as well as related broad based learning strategies. The intended result will be a teacher who is more knowledgeable and understanding of the qualities of a "super teacher" and be better prepared with ideas, materials, and activities to achieve this end.
Author’s Studies: Survey of Literature for Classroom Teacher CTED 553: Course Description:This online class is designed to provide teachers with access to the latest and best literature for K-12 teachers. Teachers will conduct surveys and collect lists of books in order to provide the K-12 teacher with lists of books for the classroom. Surveys of teachers and students will be conducted to ascertain what books they believe are especially important to read at a particular grade level as well as for a given content area like art, English and physical education. Ready made lists from a variety of sources will be compiled to determine what experts believe fit into these categories. Participants will also review a wide selection of authors as well as read a limited selection in order to become familiar with the books on the lists. The final product will be an extensive list of literature and recommended authors that can be used by all teachers to reinforce the theory that everyone is a reading teacher.
Improving Instruction: Using Multiple Intelligence and Brain Research CTED 564: Course Description:This three-hour continuing education graduate course provides participants an opportunity to study Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and related recent brain research. Participants then may apply that body of knowledge to improving their instructional practices. As many as 95% of the students we label as "at risk" are body-kinesthetic learners. They can learn anything we want them to know if we teach to their strengths and intelligences. Learn how to improve your teaching based on recent brain research findings and how to adapt your teaching to the students' multiple intelligence. The intended outcome of the course is for participants to be able to identify the best learning style for all students and then be able to translate these findings into the most effective teaching strategies for each learner. Plenty of ideas, materials, activities and strategies will be presented and processed.
A Comprehensive Focus on Children’s Literature and Reading Strategies CTED 566: Course Description:In this course, discover what high school- age students believe teachers should do to engage learners and improve schools. Students with diverse cultural and academic backgrounds provide honest, useful suggestions and observations that will give teachers insight on ways to reach students and have more successful learners in the classroom. The topics discussed include: developing relationships between teachers and students, classroom behavior, student motivation, group work, homework and ELL learners. Using this practical information, teachers will evaluate and modify their own practices through guided reflection activities and thought-provoking questions. In addition, examples will help teachers design a system to engage their own students in productive, honest dialogue about school and success. This is an individualized study course. The instructor will be available as a resource.
Bringing About Change: Attitudes that Build Bridges to the Future CTED 579: Course Description:This continuing education graduate course focuses on the critical dynamics and components in the ongoing change process. Needed educational reforms are reviewed. Current types of innovative practices will be covered. The course zeros in on modifying change in both educator and student behavior and provides a variety of ways to bring about change. Particular emphasis will be given to changing the attitudes of those involved. By the end of the course the intended outcome for participants will be an attitude open to trying out new and innovative ideas and concepts as well as being ready and able to implement instructional strategies related thereto. Fresh ideas, materials, strategies and activities will be presented.
Multi Cultural Classroom Activities CTED 631: Course Description:This is a fast paced, hands-on learning experience where students will become aware of and appreciate the differences and similarities of the multi cultural students that are entering their classrooms. During the class, students will learn how to set up a working kitchen lab in their classroom, use food as a springboard to generate excitement for learning about the world around them, and use many undiscovered community resources. Classes are limited to thirty students per session and there will be a $75 fee for materials, banquet and field trip.
From Here to There: Motivational Teaching Strategies that Work CTED 633: Course Description:This three-credit continuing education graduate course provides classroom teachers with a variety of motivational activities specifically addressing each of Gardner's eight established multiple intelligences in several academic areas. The course material offers a hands-on method for developing a collection of strategies which require easy to obtain materials and which teachers can use in their classrooms to keep students actively engaged and motivated. The intended focus is to enable teachers to involve their students in academic learning through diverse learning experiences. The outcome is to provide longer-lasting learning by allowing students to experience concepts in a variety of ways. This learning can more easily carry over into new academic areas and processes. The course is based on active participation and discussion and is presented using a multi-media approach.
Women Artists: Renaissance to the 20th Century CTED 649: Course Description:This course has been designed to introduce teachers to women artists from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Related concepts, theories, and principles will be presented in multi-media lectures, followed by class discussion and small group interaction to the end that participants will have working knowledge and understanding of the course content as well as how to use the information in a professional setting. Lots of ideas, materials, activities, and strategies will be shared, analyzed, and evaluated.
Classroom Teaching Based on Love and Logic CTED 661: Course Description:Love and Logic® was developed from the work of Jim Fay and Foster Cline and has the orientation that classroom management, discipline, and academic achievement is greatly influenced by the degree of positive relationship between adults and students. This course will specifically examine characteristics of dealing with behavior problems, internalizing control, and avoiding power struggles that negatively impact both student performance and teaching efficiency. The principles of Love and Logic will be applied to such aspects of education as grading, differentiation of instruction, and special education. This course is designed to provide opportunities for participants to become knowledgeable and skilled with the concepts of Love and Logic®, developed by Jim Fay and Foster Cline***. Because this course is intended to focus on a specific paradigm, all instruction will focus on ***applications to both specific and generalized classroom applications, analysis of human volitional behavior, and ***using key principles of Love and Logic® to develop the participant's ability to evaluate the appropriateness of instructional and behavioral interventions.
TechWorld I: Electronic Classroom Projects CTED 682: Course Description:Learn how to effectively design and create a wide variety electronic learning activities such as corkboard, easily posting homework assignments, schedule, changes calendars and due dates. Develop helpful links to websites, photos and attachments. Communication will be improved for both students and parents via email and inotes and much, much more. This Online Internet course is designed for the novice Internet user wishing to use the Internet to better communicate with students and parents.
Round Pegs Square Holes: Making Them Fit CTED 731: Course Description:Do time restraints not allow you to physically attend those graduate classes you need to in order to re-new your license or move up the salary schedule? Round Pegs-Square Holes is designed to give teachers the skills necessary to modify curriculum materials and activities for the special needs student in the regular classroom, while experiencing the comfort of staying at home! If you can send and receive e-mail the instructor will walk you through this class, no need for complicated computer skills. This course will provide you with the information and resources necessary to make accommodations and adaptations for special populations. It is designed to provide new information for the regular classroom teacher as well as for the special educator in need of fresh, innovative techniques for working with their special populations in inclusive settings. You will be guided in how to do easy instructional planning in order to meet I.E.P. goals, develop practical strategies to accommodate wider variance among learners at differing levels of functioning, and learn how to diversify learning outcomes.
Fun in the Classroom Equals Higher Students Performance CTED 742: Course Description:This continuing education graduate course has been designed as a practical experience that provides the classroom teacher with a variety of ways to create a fun and enjoyable classroom filled with humor. Participants will actively participate in numerous activities that: (1) bring humor to the classroom; (2) help students to get to know one another and how they can create their own humor; (3) encourage lateral thinking; (4) encourage student cooperation; (5) build classroom trust; and (6) how to best use humor in specific content areas to boost student achievement. The course will examine current literature on how a fun and enjoyable classroom can result, using humor at the core. An abundance of ideas, materials, strategies and activities in a course booklet will be covered.
Against the Odds: African-American Art CTED 773: Course Description:This course has been designed to introduce teachers to African-American artists: 1619-2006 to the end that the participants will know, understand, and be able to act upon the stated learning objectives. A lot of ideas, materials, activities and strategies will be shared, analyzed, and evaluated. Who are these artists? What is their story? Why have they been ignored? Comparative research activities will yield many answers to these and other pertinent questions. This course will explore the history of African-American artists and the story that their paintings tell.
Improving Learning Through a Caring School Approach CTED 778: Course Description:Schools need to be caring communities where students can learn to their full potential and talent. Today's students have experienced directly, or through media, many potentially traumatizing events. The needs of students must be considered in their academic programs. This course has been designed to help education learn ways to help today's students achieve to their fullest potential. We will look at closing achievement gaps, using choice to engage learners, and service learning to provide meaning and motivation. We will also learn ways to turn stress, post traumatic, secondary or everyday, into positive action. Course methodology will include a review of relevant research, lecture, presentations by current experts in the field, group interaction, and personal reflection.
Fresh Ideas for Classroom Time Management and Organizational Fitness: Making it Happen CTED 793: Course Description:This on-site three credit course incorporates teaching, corporate experience and research from 1989 to the present in the areas of Time and Project Management. This hands-on course gives teachers techniques and strategies on saving time! It focuses on identifying simple solutions for classroom time wasters. It begins by tracking your time. And, with such factual data, you perform an analysis that demonstrates how to address those classroom and personal goals by building in time to do what's most important. A cornucopia of organizational pick-me ups will be messaged and then customized for your classroom. You will be able to create a more effective and efficient day. You will experience a way to plan any classroom project in the same time it takes you to drink your morning cup of coffee. Together, we will experience fresh ideas for your classroom management!
Attitudes that Make the Difference: A Curriculum Continuum for Fostering Youth Success CTED 801: Course Description:This course will give you practical ideas for overcoming risks and building strengths into your classroom and teaching methodology. By practicing the strategies covered in this class, teachers can recognize and foster growth of students' protective factors and developmental assets so their students can successfully adapt in the face of adversity while developing social and academic competence. Current research-based theories and concepts of excellent positive youth development and resiliency techniques will be reviewed as well as related broad based learning strategies related to this concept. The intended result will be a teacher who is more knowledgeable and understanding of the qualities of positive youth development and better prepared with ideas, materials, strategies that will lead to happier, healthier and more successful youth.
Cultural Crisis in the Classroom CTED 835: Course Description:This continuing education graduate course, addresses the current issue of how to best address the plethora of needs of minorities within the educational setting. In order to better educate, it is necessary to eradicate the prejudice and stereotypes that breed ineffective education. This class will guide the student in navigating cultural differences in the classroom, whether they are racial, religious, or socio-economic. The student will subsequently begin to think differently and as a result teach differently. In addition, students will study how to best make use of the unique language (linguistic diversity) and cultures that children bring from their home environments, incorporating these differences into the curriculum. The global community is an increasingly diverse society and the classroom is a microcosm of that community. This class will assist the student in recommitting to teaching to those diverse needs in a transformed, but nevertheless progressive, manner. Lots of ideas, materials, strategies and activities will be shared, analyzed and evaluated to the end that participants will be well prepared to implement their own Plan of Action in their professional setting.
The History of Wisconsin CTED 849: Course Description:This course is intended to provide broad based knowledge of teaching state history as dictated by the Wisconsin state standards. Cultural, ethnic, economic, environmental, scientific, industrial, political and historical perspectives will be discussed in order to strengthen student knowledge and understanding of Wisconsin heritage. This course will aid in student understanding of the role Wisconsin plays nationally and globally, while examining the importance of Wisconsin state history as part of the K-12 curriculum. The projected outcome is to provide classroom teachers with the knowledge, understanding and methodologies needed to help students learn more about Wisconsin History as it relates to a variety of disciplines. Many new ideas, materials, strategies and activities will be provided.
Functional Fitness for Physical Educators and Coaches CTED 866: Course Description:This continuing education course has been designed to introduce physical education teachers and coaches to functional fitness training. This hands-on approach can be implemented immediately with your students/athletes. Functional fitness training is fun and great way to enhance movement, coordination, muscular strength and endurance. Functional fitness training is an integrated approach to training with 27 hours of face-to-face instruction and 18 hours of instruction being completed at home/internet. This practical workshop will focus on the proper selection and implementation of activities and drills that can be used in small or large group settings. Topics include: nutrition, program design, dynamic warm-up, body weight exercises, speed improvement, core training, acceleration, agility and balance all designed to be easily implemented and increase class participation.
Website for Beginners CTED 867: Course Description:This three credit continuing education course has been designed to teach non-technically wise teachers how to build a website utilizing a web design program. No technical knowledge of programming is required in this self-paced, step-by-step process. The instructor will walk participants through design and set up to the end that participants will be ready to implement his or her own site live on the internet. Learn how to effectively use and implement a wide variety of electronic learning tools and activities for your classroom such as: online digital photos, video, educational blogs, chat rooms and message boards, web quests and pod casts. This online course is designed for the novice internet user wishing to create a web page. Sample, easy to use lesson plans and templates will be provided and utilized. Lots of ideas, materials, strategies and activities will be shared, analyzed, and evaluated.
Personal Fitness for Teachers CTED 883: Course Description:Teachers who are at the "top of their game" through a healthier lifestyle are more engaged in their classroom. Students who are active and physically fit are also engaged in their own learning and score well on standardized testing. Utilizing the latest fitness/wellness and nutrition tools available, participants can expect a hands-on approach that both you and your students can implement immediately. Part 2 Will utilize the home/Internet where participants will perform individual fitness/wellness activities related to their personal goals. Topics include: Nutrition, Cardiovascular, Weight Management, and Resistance Training and Stress Management. Classroom ideas, Materials, strategies and activities will be presented and group sharing time will be provided. Teacher/Students can use these simple strategies recommended by this top notch teacher-trainer so why not get started now?
Personal Fitness for Teachers: Body Toning In All Ways CTED 883: Course Description:In order to achieve a healthy life style and operate at the maximum both mentally and physically, one must understand and implement conditioning and nutritional programs that are conductive to the maintenance of a proper level of personal fitness. To assist students in their efforts to reach recommended standards of fitness, this course will provide in-depth consideration of topics such as strength, weight training, conditioning, flexibility, endurance, nutrition and proper heart rate and weight.; During the course, guided practice sessions will be assigned on readings, handout instructions and the sharing of student experiences, ideas and activities.; Upon completion the course, each student will be in possession of a comprehensive nutritional and conditioning plan of action, which if systematically incorporated into their life style, will result in their full fitness potential.
Digital Photography for Beginners CTED 891: Course Description:SAY CHEESE: This three credit continuing education graduate course has been designed to teach beginning photographers how to get the most out of their digital cameras. This Online course is self paced and designed for the novice photographer. Sample and easy to use lesson plans and templates will be provided. Explore camera use and functions, cropping, lighting, and flash. Learn how to download photos to your computer, back up your images, create slide shows, adjust coloration, e-mail and print photos, and have fun while doing it! This class is designed in modules so you can work at your own pace and when it’s convenient for you
Writing Across the Curriculum CTED 896: Course Description: This continuing education graduate course is designed to provide teachers with the basics for introducing the "Six Traits" method of writing to students in the participants' professional setting. Teachers will learn the definitions and characteristics of each of the traits and will be able to incorporate lessons into their classrooms, introducing, through literature, the traits to their students. Teachers will collaborate with their peers in the course to create resource lists of picture books that highlight each of the traits and will conduct a mini unit lesson using at least one book from each list to the end that participants will know and understand how to easily implement same in their professional setting. Upper elementary (3-5), middle, and high school teachers will begin to encourage their students to focus on a particular trait during a writing assignment and will begin to assess the student's writing through these six traits. Lower elementary teachers (K-2) will focus on vocabulary development and understanding of the traits. Lots of ideas, materials, activities and strategies will be shared, analyzed and evaluated.
Photoshop for the Classroom Level II CTED 927: Course Description:This course is designed to introduce this powerful program to teachers. Participants will learn the basics of the software, scanning procedures, digital photography and storage retrieval of images on the Internet. Participants will create projects for use in the classroom and also learn now to involve their students in the use of Photoshop.
The Holocaust CTED 931: Course Description:This three credit continuing education graduate course is intended to provide broad based knowledge and introduce teachers to the tragedy of the attempted, systematic elimination of European Jews during World War II. The examination of the Holocaust is an important event to teach students because it marks a period in history in which the first systematic or planned killing of an entire cultural or racial group of people takes place. The course will also stress the proper methodology that teachers should use in teaching this content. This course will present the Holocaust as history with the use of literature, audio-visual materials, moral dilemmas, and lesson plans with handouts for use in the classroom. The projected outcome is to provide classroom teachers with the knowledge, understanding and methodologies needed to help students learn about the Holocaust. Many new ideas, materials, strategies and activities will be presented, analyzed and evaluated.
The Great American West CTED 933: Course Description:This course is intended to provide broad-based knowledge of the course topic as well as how participants can best transmit this knowledge to students in their classrooms. This course will examine cultural, ethnic, economic, environmental, scientific, industrial, political and historical perspectives in order to strengthen student knowledge and understanding of American history. The course pedagogy will present the Great American West through the use of literature, power point presentations, small group sharing, and audio-visual materials, and will provide teachers with project ideas, lesson plans and a variety of primary and secondary source handouts for future use in the classroom. The projected outcome is to provide classroom teachers with the knowledge, understanding and methodologies needed to help students learn more about American history. Many new ideas, materials, strategies and activities will be provided as part of the course methodology.
Leadership: Educators Working Together CTED 971: Course Description:Effective school leadership results in improved student performance. School leadership thrives when it is shared by administrators, support staff and classroom teachers. Participants in the course will learn how administrators, support staff and classroom teachers can all play a positive role in school leadership. Activities to foster high-level communication and encourage educators to become leaders will be incorporated. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore the qualities of effective leaders.
Wellness XII: A Framework for Providing a Safe and Healthy Learning Environment CTED 972: Course Description:Children and educators perform best in schools where there is a safe and healthy learning environment. There are proven district-wide and school level programs that enhance school safety. Nationwide initiatives encourage educators to pay attention to the health of the whole child. Safety needs both physical and emotional must be addressed. This course will explore the essential components of safe and healthy schools as well as methods to develop and maintain positive school culture and climate. Proven strategies that will be explored include developing a comprehensive school safety and prevention plan; addressing the social and academic developmental needs of students; incorporating peer programs; and, teaching healthy stress management and coping techniques. Course methodology will include a review of relevant research, lecture, presentations by current experts in the field, group interaction, and personal reflection.