EDU500 Project Teach: Teacher Effectiveness & Classroom Handling

This course is designed to quickly produce successful classroom management. Students will learn the verbal skills and strategies that produce mastery of positive communication. Students learn how to build classrooms without stress and motivate students, thus increasing teaching time by reducing time needed for discipline. Techniques in critical thinking and problem solving will enable students to be more effective in handling the classroom.
Not open to students who have received credit for EDU505

EDU502 P.R.I.D.E. (Professional Refinement in Developing Effectiveness

P.R.I.D.E. empowers teachers to use advanced teaching skills and strategies. Students will learn how to promote self-esteem through the questioning/thinking process. The impact of nonverbal communication on learning will be studied. Students will also learn how to manage disruptions in the classroom through behavior change, rewards and penalties, and keeping students on task by increasing their involvement by stimulating their thinking and creativity.

EDU503 Teaching Through Learning Channels

This course is a high impact staff development program that empowers teachers to reach the learning style preferences of all students. Learn to rotate kinesthetic, tactual, auditory, and visual verbs and activities. Increase academic success for all students by using teaching activities for all student preferences. Observe and practice five steps that ensure concept development in students. Build memory techniques to expand students’ short- and long-term memory.

EDU504 Brain-Based Ways We Think and Learn

This course opens the doors to brain-compatible teaching by matching verbal structures to thinking processes. Learn how the mind processes information. Learn questions and statements that match the natural processes of the mind. Plan lesson formats that simulate real-life thinking. Use imaging for spelling and word mapping. Learn to use simulations, case studies, and role plays that produce clear and rapid learning.

EDU505 Keys to Motivation

Designed to create a motivating environment for all students, this course provides understanding of students who are unmotivated to learn or participate, fosters the use of student grouping strategies, and applies encouragement and leadership strategies to enhance student motivation. Some of the skills covered are: understanding enhancers and roadblocks to student motivation and involvement, mastering verbal skills for an encouraging environment, developing teacher leadership strategies and group learning to enhance student involvement in classroom decision-making, and creating mind maps to organizes information to maximize learning. Not open to students who have received credit for EDU529.
Not open to students who have received credit for EDU507

EDU513 Teaching Skills of the 21st Century

This course focuses on the skills students need to live life successfully. In a forum where educators can share their visions of how a curriculum should be developed and taught, the course introduces facilitation skills that insure the successful education and enrichment of both student and teacher.

EDU516 Coaching Skills for Successful Teaching

This course is designed to prepare administrative personnel to coach teachers to perform at higher levels of effectiveness. Superintendents, principals, assistant principals, supervisors, and department chairpersons will be synthesizing the research on effective teaching, identifying teacher strengths and areas for growth using observation based on effective teaching research, practicing the verbal and nonverbal skills vital to the coaching process, and practicing the conference and coaching process specifically designed to improve teacher performance.

EDU522 Achieving Student Outcomes through Cooperative Learning

Students working in groups engage in decision making processes similar to real-life situations. Learning is enhanced through the cooperative learning model. Teachers will be training in the techniques for setting up effective cooperative learning models. Classroom management techniques which provide structure while students work in groups will be discussed and modeled.

EDU534 Discovering the Power of Live-Event Learning

This course gives educators a direct experience and a variety of activities that model the power of Live-Event Learning. It mirrors cognitive research on how people learn and retain information. Educators learn to use live events - real-life experiences - as a basis for lesson plans that integrate academic curriculum with important life skills while promoting lifelong learning. The course incorporates substantive research that documents the need to provide meaning and impact leaning in the real-world environment.

EDU531 Meaningful Activities to Generate Interesting Classrooms

This exciting, hands-on course offers you the opportunity to learn about and acquire a multitude of engaging activities that go beyond the textbook and worksheet. Participation in over 60 activities will give you practice in creating, evaluating, and adapting ideas to your own specific curriculum needs - immediately useful in your day-to-day teaching at any grade level.

EDU537 Purposeful Learning Through Multiple Intelligences

Based on the work of Howard Gardner, this course focuses on understanding each of the eight intelligences. Participate in discovery centers to experience each intelligence. Using real-life examples, practice identifying people's dominant intelligence. Learn teaching strategies and classroom activities that enhance the intelligences. Find out how to design lessons incorporating all eight intelligences into the lesson framework. View a school district's program for integrating the intelligences into a schoolwide framework.

EDUE541 Behavioral, Academic, and Social Interventions

This course provides educators with research-based interventions in the behavioral, academic, and social areas of student performance. Through a multi-tiered response to intervention model, educators implement a solution seeking cycle for gathering information, identifying issues, and planning and assessing early and effective interventions for the classroom that promote student resiliency and encourage students to reach for success. It emphasizes creating a learning alliance with students to demystify the learning experience, focus on strenghts-based learning, collaboratively set goals, and monitor the progress of behavioral, academic, and social interventions.

EDU547 Successful Teaching for Acceptance of Responsibility

This course gives teachers the techniques and skills necessary to help students become increasingly self-responsible. Educators learn how to increase their own sense of personal power and in turn empower others. The course incorporates lecturebursts, experiential exercises, readings, and group work to deliver the content.

EDU548 Building Your Technology Education Skills (BYTES)

Learn to use basic computer and related technology to create motivational instructional materials and manage chores in the classroom. Gain skills in word processing, database management and spread sheets, desktop publishing, creation of multimedia projects, and how to conduct research on the Internet. *Requires an additional lab fee.

EDU562 Learning to Read: Beginning Reading Instruction

This course will enable educators to utilize the necessary knowledge and strategies to teach beginning reading utilizing a balanced and integrated approach to the use of technology as a tool in furthering professional growth. This course will lead to increased student learning through its connections to local instructional programs.

EDU563 Merging Educational Goals and Interactive Multimedia Projects (MEGA BYTES)

This course will lead teachers from the entry level of technology use in their classroom to integration of new technologies into class activities and projects, and development of new approaches to teaching and learning that use technology and the natural curiosities of their students. Participants should have completed the BYTES course (EDU548) or should have a strong foundation in Microsoft Power Point programs. * Requires an additional lab fee.
Not open to students who have received credit for EDU554

EDU566 Designing Motivation for All Learners

Design learning experiences and develop effective leadership strategies that promote motivation for all learners. Learn verbal encouragement techniques that motivate by reinforcing student effort and reducing risk. Discover how purposeful work and goal achievements can support all types of learners.

EDU-590 Reading to Learn Comprehensive Strategies

This course provides a number of suggested methods to help teachers who do not have a background in reading comprehension strategies, to help their students better understand content area reading materials. Special attention is given to students who do not speak English as their primary language

EDU595 Classroom Management: Orchestrating a Community of Learners

Learn the skills of effective classroom management to create a positive classroom structure that maximizes student learning. Develop techniques to increase desired student behaviors and decrease undesired behaviors. Create an Action Plan of practical strategies to implement immediately in the classroom. Not open to students that have received credit for EDU538.