Student Personality Types in the Classroom
EGED717
With the current trends in societal change, educators must better relate to every student in order to help increase achievement and success within the school building walls. Incorporating type into the classroom can be easy and fun; students will be more engaged and enjoy learning. This course will also discuss how to better communicate with all personality types including students, parents, and even co-workers. Using type theory in the classroom can help any educator create an environment of success for both students and themselves.
Middle School Math Success
EMAT702
It’s your job to get your middle school students ready for high school math, but their minds are on anything but math! This online course will help you motivate your students by involving them in their own learning and by helping them understand how math relates to the real world. You’ll find out how to design engaging, hands-on lessons and assessments connected to the NCTM standards. This online course offers resources and pinpoints strategies that are proven to produce middle school student math success.
Instructional Discipline
EGED720
This course is designed to help understand discipline as an instructional piece of both the classroom and school setting. In this course, discipline is explored as a skill deficit; therefore, students need to be taught corrective discipline strategies in order to be successful in your classroom. Most teachers leave the profession within the first five years due to a lack of management skills or a general inability to handle the students in their classrooms.
NCTM Standards-Based
EMAT703
Learn how to implement the NCTM’s Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics with innovative and exciting practices. You will explore new ways to teach mathematical concepts through handson activities, the reflective power of writing to support mathematical understanding, and classroom strategies that foster hands-on exploration, problem solving and research. Videos show real teachers successfully using the techniques that participants will discover in the online course. A broadband Internet connection (DSL, ISDN or cable modem) is required to view the videos.
The Web World of Math
EMAT701
Teaching in this era of fast-paced, mediated children’s entertainment puts a burden on teachers to hold a student’s attention, especially those in mathematics. This course will guide you through a mix of Internet math resources for basic math, algebra, calculus, trig, and fractals. Also, you’ll learn to use the Internet to heighten interest, demonstrate concepts and just “drill and practice” using a medium familiar and exciting to them.
K-5 Reading and Writing the Workshop Way
EGED714
This course provides you with the tools to assess students’ learning, gather information for assessments and progress reports, keep records on students’ literacy strengths and needs, and conduct reading and writing workshops for emergent and fluent readers and writers. You will demonstrate how to create rigorous and successful reading and writing lessons and a classroom environment that boosts your students’ literacy. Videos show real teachers successfully using the techniques that you will discover in this course.
Exploring Mathematics With TI-Nspire Technology
EMAT704
A TI-Nspire 3-Day Hands-On Institute Must be attended in order to enroll in this course. Please see details below.
Basketball John Wooden's Way
ESPE712
If you had the chance to study in great detail the game of basketball under the greatest coach of all time, John Wooden, would you take it? That is what this course is all about. Coach Wooden takes you through the UCLA offense in his careful fashion, through a detailed book and a DVD with Swen Nater, covering all aspects of basketball – both physical and mental. He also teaches you his philosophy of what is success and how to cope with the ups and downs of the game.
Is Food Killing Our Kids?
EHEA704
Childhood obesity is epidemic in this country with estimates as high as 1 in 3 children being overweight. This course examines the situation, offers solutions, specifically what schools can do to help, and what has happened to cause this situation. A DVD by A&E offers case solutions and is suitable for class viewing.
Help for Stressed Teachers
EGED701
Teaching is stressful. So, how does the earnest teacher survive? This course describes the different types of stress, how they affect you, and approaches to alleviating them, with particular attention to the types of stress unique to teachers. Also included is an excellent text to conduct a self-examination and to develop solutions for your own unique stressful situations.
