Book Study
Educ 510 Sex Ed for the 21st Century
Lisa Cunningham 1 semester credit
Daily June 23-July 3 9:00 – 11:00
Location – TBA This course is especially appropriate for teachers in middle grades and high school.
Henry Kissinger once said that “nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.” In the dawn of the 21st Century, many would think that gender-specific issues would be less prominent in education; but the transition from adolescence to adulthood is plagued with confusions regarding the meaning of being a man or a woman. This course will explore the social pressures and norms associated with sexual identify, the emergence into adulthood, and the impact of gender on academic performance.
Do gender biases still exist? Should gender specificity be considered in course planning? Are boys checking out and becoming less certain about the demands of manhood? Why do so many girls struggle to emerge from middle school unscathed by societal expectations and family tensions? You’ll investigate answers to these and related questions.
Utilizing two important books-- Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia and Leonard Sax’s Boys Adrift—you’ll explore the changing face of what it means to be male or female, and the changing levels of motivation and achievement orientation for each gender. You’ll leave the course with an understanding of how to escort our young men and women through their adolescence in school, so as to facilitate their arrival into adulthood with strength and integrity intact.
Early Childhood Educators
Educ 520 Oral Language and Vocabulary Development in Young Children
Deborah Mickey 2 semester credits
Daily July 21-July 31 1:00 – 3:00
Location – TBA Appropriate for Early Childhood educators, birth through primary.
Oral language development provides the foundation for literacy development as children grow. You will review the development of oral language, focusing on vocabulary. Special emphasis will be given to vocabulary development for children living in poverty.
You’ll take away from this course valuable new approaches to improving oral language development in your classroom or other professional setting.
Appropriate for All Grade Levels
Educ 520 Action Research
Dr. Jeannine Fox 1 semester credit
Daily July 28-August 1 9:00 - 11:30
Location – TBA This course is appropriate for teachers of all grade levels and disciplines.
The most successful teachers are the ones who can translate their concerns for continual improvement into “action research” that identifies and investigates opportunities for improvement right in their own classrooms. Learn how to use practical research methods in your own work, and develop a plan to start a research project during the coming year. You’ll also explore funding sources and grant-writing skills that will make your projects possible.
Many area teachers are already creating rewarding action research projects in their classrooms as a result of their participation in last summer’s edition of this course. This summer it’s your turn to learn!
Educ 520 Purposeful Coaching
Dr. Kathryn Calabrese and Mr. Brian Yontz 1 semester credit
Monday and Tuesday June 16 & 17 8:00 – 2:00
Location – TBA This course is appropriate for teachers of all grade levels and disciplines.
A two-day graduate course focused on maximizing your effectiveness when working with preservice and novice teachers. Promising mentoring practices will be explored, case studies will be examined and participatory exercises will be used to gain skills and knowledge that will help all teachers impact student learning.
Educ 520 Teacher Leaders: Skills, Practices, and Commitments for the 21st Century
Dr. Gregory McFann 2 semester credits
Daily July 7-18 8:00 – 11:00
Location TBA This course is appropriate for all teachers who are or hope to be involved in teacher leadership positions at school or in the community.
This course will serve as an exploratory investigation into the understanding of leadership, and how models and various theories of leadership can assist teachers to be effective agents of change. Teachers will explore their own leadership styles and experiment with the application of a variety of other leadership tools. You’ll learn the critical importance of pragmatic, capacity-building skills and practices.
Topics for the course will include strong planning skills, communication, moral and ethical considerations, connections between beliefs and behavior, leadership as an art, the “push for professionalism”, and applying the course concepts to your own leadership style.
Educ 520 Shouting Shaming, Scolding: How’s That Workin’ For You? Techniques For Dealing With Difficult Students
Debra Mallonee 2 semester credits
Daily June 24-26, July 1-3 12:00 – 4:00
Location TBA This course is appropriate for teachers of all grade levels and disciplines.
In addition, the course will introduce you to successful ways to create a classroom “community of learners”, by involving students in defining classroom procedures, rules, and consequences based on values and principles compatible with learning.
Educ 530 Integrating the Arts Into EVERY Classroom
Susan Broidy 2 semester credits
Daily June 9-20 9:00 - 11:30
Location TBA This course is appropriate for teachers at all grade levels and in all disciplines.
Many education writers argue that the arts are among the best vehicles for giving meaning to many studies. The arts can help students to make sense of and see the importance of their technical learning in mathematics, sciences, social studies, literature, and more.
True “integration” of learning with the arts stresses the knowledge, skills, and ways of seeing both of the arts and of the other disciplines students are studying. The result for students is more coherent understanding of what they are studying.
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 typical arts approach, but underused elsewhere. You’ll explore current research on integrating with the arts, and you’ll take away new materials and methodologies.
Popular Course Returns
Educ 530 New Directions in Children’s Literature
Betty Darst 2 semester credits
Daily June 16-20. Day One 9:00 – 3:00 Rest of the session will be 9:00 – 1:00
Location TBA
This is the updated edition of the course you’ve been waiting for since it was last offered in Spring of 2006! Betty Darst is the area’s acknowledged expert on the best in children’s literature and best practices in employing that literature. Here’s a chance for you to become familiar with the children’s books that bring to life the key questions with which you want your students to engage.
Required for Degree Seeking Students
Educ 550 Professional and Ethical Issues in Education
Dr. Lowell Monke 4 semester credits
Daily June 23 - July 11 9:00 a. m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location - TBA
Designed to improve practice in P-12 classrooms, this course explores philosophical and pragmatic issues affecting teacher leadership. By the end of the course, participants will have the opportunity to analyze case histories, examine the philosophy and history of teacher professionalization efforts, conduct a research review, and formulate initial professional development plans. A major outcome of the course is personal assessment and planning of professional development goals. As the introductory course in the Master of Arts in Education program, this course must be taken prior to any of the other required core courses (560, 570, 580).