Basketball: Developing Your Youth Program II
ESPE718
This companion course to ESPE 717, will further you along in the design and development of your youth sports program (feeder system). You will further your knowledge and skill in designing age-level appropriate skills and drills, develop a teacher template and a training session to enhance the effectiveness of coaches, devise an evaluation procedure for coaches, and learn the proper way to organize current facilities.
Basketball: Developing Your Youth Program I
ESPE717
This course is intended for designing and developing your youth basketball program (feeder system) and is a companion course to ESPE 718. You will learn to design age level appropriate skills and drills, develop a practice template, develop an effective coaches training session, develop an evaluation procedure for coaches, and learn the proper way of organizing your current facilities.
Autism: The Hidden Problem
EPSY714
The course is designed to familiarize the teacher with what autism is, different methods of dealing with it in the classroom, capabilities of the autistic student and how to reach that student. One of the DVDs depicts a teacher of autistic students and how, together, they put on a musical. A second takes you into the world of an autistic young woman and how she overcame diagnosis as mentally retarded to a successful college career.
The Utilization of Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom
EPSY713
This course will focus on the eight (8) multiple intelligences and how to apply these intelligences in a classroom setting. The emphasis of this course is to: understand Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences; distinguish the characteristics of each intelligence; gather a list of activities, strategies, and lesson designs for using the theory in the classroom; learn how to design a multiple intelligences lesson; and incorporate the intelligences in your classroom.
The Growing Menace of Girl Bullies
EPSY712
Girl bullies in school is a seldom talked-about subject but one that is becoming more and more common. Such bullying tactics have lead to suicides, school shootings and soaring drop out rates. This course examines the types of female bullying, how they work, cyber-bullying and the use of the web to intimidate, and what we can do about these problems.
Today's Economy: A Return to Depression Economics?
EECO702
This course attempts to demystify economics, the course many of us avoid as long as possible, and often referred to as “the dismal science.” Designed to intrigue you about this interesting economic time in which we are currently living rather than put you to sleep, it contains an authoritative text by Alan Greenspan, regarded by many, but not all, as our greatest chairman of the Federal Reserve, as well as an entertaining text entitled “Naked Economics” and a text by Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman.
Dogs and Man: The Enduring Friendship
ESS711
Examine the long association of man and dog and how it evolved, including several theories. Dogs exhibit the most breeds of any mammal, yet evolved from a single source – the wolf. The course also looks at one man’s attempt to save the stray dogs in his city in a never-ending quest that tells a heartwarming story.
Is It Easy Being Green? Living Green, That Is.
ESS712
Green living is “in”; and if you’re not already trying it, you’ve no doubt heard about it. Getting your students to adopt greener habits may be easier than you think. This course teaches the practicalities and pitfalls of deciding to adopt a greener lifestyle. You learn everything from making your own cleaning materials in order to avoid commercial products to the headaches in deciding to build a completely ecological office in the backyard. The DVD is a helpful guide to going green relatively pain free.
ESL Writing
EGED722
This is a very practical course for the ESL teacher, whether beginner or experienced. It offers practical tips, lesson plans and thorough teaching strategies for developing the writing skills of the ESL student. It includes ready-to-use writing activities, integrated reading and writing lessons, daily writing exercises, and information on the importance of implementing writing into student learning.
Differentiated Instruction
EGED723
Today’s classroom contains a great variety of students with varying degrees of skill, languages and learning styles. The teacher’s dilemma is finding ways to reach each of these students and offer ways to succeed. This introductory course helps provide pathways so that each student may master the grade level content standards.
