Offers professional development in the arts and learning for educators in all disciplines. This workshop gives participants an opportunity to explore a variety of methods and mediums to develop ideas for lesson plans and teaching strategies. Each workshop meets for 15 instructional hours equivalent to 1 credit hour. Each participant will choose two workshops for a total of 30 hours or 2 undergraduate, graduate credits or recertification credits.

 

 

Participants will learn how to implement teen services, create programming ideas and discover many collection development opportunities available. They will study the teenage brain and learn where to find validated information with available sources. The course will include a series of projects, activities and panel discussions and will conclude with a final exam. Participants will learn the components necessary to manage an efficient and effective library. The course will include a series of projects, activities and panel discussions, and will conclude with a final exam.

 

EDFN 4/593 Tp: Exploring Literacy with John Archambault

This workshop will investigate the educational philosophy of children’s author John Archambault. Archambault’s philosophy stresses that developing fluency can be fun, affective, and effective. (1 credit hour)

 

 

This online course builds on the expertise of Brian Pete, whose rich background in professional development includes having worked with adult learners for the past 10 years. His will use rich content and rigorous thinking processes to unpack the Common Core State Standards incorporating the skills of literacy and reading, writing, speaking and listening through narrative and informative text. This course will explicitly teach higher-order thinking skills embedded in rich subject matter content. (1 credit hour)

 

The course takes the principles of athletic coaching, as inspired and presented by Coach Don Meyer, and applies them to business and organizational structures. Leadership, team building, stress management, negotiating, motivating team members, and employer/employee/customer relationships are discussed, illustrated, and demonstrated with the goal of increasing the personal and professional success of attendees. The course will endeavor to shed new light on setting goals, exhibiting leadership, successful event control, fostering a team attitude, and improving relationships.

 

The course takes the principles of teaching and learning of athletic coaching, as inspired and presented by Coach Don Meyer, and applies them to teaching in the classroom. Leadership, team building, stress management, negotiating, motivating team members, and student-parent-teacher relationships are discussed, illustrated, and demonstrated with the goal of increasing the personal and professional success of attendees. The course will endeavor to shed new light for all participating educators on filling roles, setting goals, exhibiting leadership, successful event control, fostering a team attitude and implementing sound, solid and simple teaching techniques.