Independent Study Courses
POWERFUL TEACHING
| Course: 659F | Credits: 3 |
This course will provide teachers at all levels practical, simple, yet vital strategies to refresh and restore a positive classroom atmosphere. By utilizing basic tools and devices teachers will empower students to build character, set goals and achieve success with proactive and engaging lessons.
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- Strengthen your teaching with ideas, strategies and tools to support your classroom in the areas of proactive classroom management and community building.
- Create a learning climate and physical environment that builds character, self-esteem and community in all your students.
- Develop techniques to provide students with a sense of purpose and direction in their lives, which increases the likelihood of success in school.
- Learn tools that help build connectedness and feelings of belonging in your classroom.
- Recapture and rediscover rewarding ways to increase your joy of teaching.
- Bring out the best in your students and in yourself.
THE RIGHT FIT: Strategies for Differentiated Instruction
| Course: 659G | Credits: 3 |
This course will effectively teach educators how to strategically plan lessons to meet the needs of their increasingly diverse students. Not only does this course provide strategies to implement effective differentiated learning lessons, but provides step-by-step instructions on how to engage students at all levels of academic mastery.
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- Develop tools and strategies, grounded in brain-based research, to assess students learning styles in order to meet their needs.
- Discover ways to build a learning community by developing a nurturing and safe environment for all students.
- Learn to examine student data and adjust lessons and curriculum to scaffold student learning and success.
- Create differentiated content, assessments, tasks and strategies that meet the needs of a diverse classroom.
- Craft effective and relevant pre-assessment tools that synthesize prior knowledge, learning styles and student needs.
- Have an extensive repertoire of different strategies and tools to adapt any lesson and educate all students.