ON-line Course
Intriguing Internet Instruction Educ 510.01
Dr. Sally Brannan, Instructor 2 semester credits
Tuesdays 4:30 – 6:30 January 29 – April 29
Room 110 Blair Hall for first session
The Internet doesn't have to be a place of mystery any longer. The “electronic library” can feel
overwhelmingly complex, but this on-line course will remove the mystery and help you turn the complexity into a rich resource. Here you'll get help in skillfully using the Internet to engage and motivate students. You'll learn ways to support and extend your curriculum through the use of virtual fieldtrips, website development, Internet inquiry, and much more.
Course assignments and activities will flow from your own content area and grade level expectations. Teachers in every area and grade level should find in this course a basket of practical ideas for using today's technology to enhance instruction.
Prepare for the New Requirements
Teaching Personal and Family Finance Educ 520.03
Dr. Jeff Ankrom 2 semester credits
Saturdays 9:00 – 11:30 March 8 – May 3
Location TBA
Open to all teachers, especially appropriate for secondary educators.
A new state law requires high schools to teach their students about personal finance and economic issues. Organizations such as the Ohio Council on Economic Education actively promote the idea that students should be financially literate. OCEE states that “economic education helps children learn to make decisions about their personal and shared resources, to understand work and careers, and to develop the habit of analytical thinking.”
This course will prepare you to assist students in understanding these basic concepts.
Topics include: Basic principles of budgeting, banking and savings accounts; life, property and auto insurance; credit cards, loans, mortgages; estate planning, retirement and investment planning.
A Look at Value Added Assessment Educ 520.04
Dr. Stacia Smith and Brian Yontz 2 semester credits
Thursday 5 – 8 pm Feb 7 & 28 Mar 13 Saturday 8am – Noon Feb9 Mar 1 & 15
208 Blair Hall
This course is a MUST for all educators as Ohio moves to add “value added” assessments to school evaluations.
This course is designed to give you a clear idea of the issues and measures involved in this new assessment process. The course will examine the theory behind value-added and growth measures, the relation to achievement measures, implications for planning and instruction using the assessment, and how value-added will be reported to Ohio as part of school/district accountability. The implications of value-added for teacher preparation will also be covered.
Early Childhood Educators
Oral Language &Vocabulary Development in Young Children Educ 520.05
Deborah Mickey 2 semester credits
Tuesdays 4:00 – 7:00 March 18 – May 6
Appropriate for Early Childhood Educators
Oral language development provides the foundation for literacy development as children grow. You will review the development of oral language, focusing on vocabulary acquisition in children from birth through primary school. Special emphasis will be given to the effects on this development for children living in poverty. You will research and test strategies for improving vocabulary acquisition of children in your classroom as part of your course work.
Book Study
Success vs Socioeconomics Educ 520.06
Lisa Cunningham 1 semester credit
Thursdays 4 – 5:30 at North High School Jan 17 – Feb. 28
Appropriate for all grade levels
Students in this course will be reading “Bridges Out of Poverty” by Ruby Payne. You will explore the social class ties that bind us to our beliefs and prioritization schemes. This is the first of a proposed three part study focusing on socioeconomics, gender and technological issues in education, this course will use the literary works of Ruby Payne and others to explore the topics of pride, prejudices, and prioritization in the American class system. A must for teachers challenged with helping students from diverse yet sometimes limited backgrounds to succeed at not only state academic standard levels, but to succeed at viewing life on a larger scale than the neighborhood.
Timely Topic
Teaching About Religion Within the “Wall” Educ 530.01
Dr. James Uphoff 2 semester credits
Saturday 8:30 – 11:30 Jan 12 & 19 Feb 2,9,16 & 23 Mar 1 & 8
Confused about what’s possible with regard to teaching about religion within the “wall of separation” between church and state? Dr. Uphoff, one of Ohio’s most respected teachers and administrators, will help you to explore the many ways that curriculum can be enhanced through teaching about religion; and the boundaries that help to guarantee both freedom of religious practice and freedom from coercion and marginalization by means of religion.
All Grade Levels & Disciplines
Integrating the Arts into Every Classroom Educ 530.02
Susan Broidy 2 semester credits
Wednesdays 4:30 - 7:00 January 30 - March 26
112 Blair Hall Wittenberg Campus
Many educational thinkers argue that the arts are among the best vehicles
for giving meaning to most areas of study. The arts can help students to
make sense of and see the importance of their technical learning in
mathematics, social studies, literature, and more. True “integration” of
learning with the arts stresses the knowledge, skills, and ways of seeing of
both the arts and the other disciplines being taught and studied. The result
for students is more coherent understanding.
In this course, you will be involved in hands-on studio activities and
develop lesson plans and projects that integrate art content standards with
those in other areas of curriculum. You'll learn new assessment strategies
that feature teacher/student critique of work-a common arts approach, but
under-used elsewhere. You'll explore current research on integrating with
the arts, and you'll take away new materials and methodologies.
Degree Student Core Courses
Educ 570 Approaches to Working with Diverse Communities
Dr. Monke 4 semester credits
Thursdays 6 - 9 pm. January 7 - April 28
Educ 580 Methodological Approaches to Teacher Research and
Inquiry
Dr. Brannan 4 semester credits
Mondays 5pm - 8pm Jan 7 - Apr 28 112 Blair Hall