Not all spelling and vocabulary enrichment programs are synonymous with teaching young writers to spell and to use words effectively.
This non-credit workshop helps you to discover hands-on, practical, and effective strategies for teaching spelling and vocabulary in your own language arts classroom. This course provides you with instruction, which ensures the acquisition and retention of words by teaching in the context of reading and writing.
This workshop will:
This non-credit workshop will provide teacher candidates with the opportunity to increase their own understanding of fractions through hands-on experience and activities that you can use in your future school classroom.
The acronym "E.C.O." in Project E.C.O. Learning stands for "Ecological literacy, sense of Community and Obligation to life on earth".
Knowing how we can contribute to the Earth’s future health and the life that it contains is the first imperative of the 21st Century. This non-credit, introductory workshop will help you to understand how the natural world works and how we can live responsibly in it.
This non-credit workshop teaches you about Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences and helps you to explore your own intelligences. Through this workshop, you will see that some traditional tests and assignments do not adequately measure a student’s ability as well as some of the implications that this has on teaching and preparing lesson plans.
This non-credit workshop will explore the qualities of children who are three (3), four (4) and five (5) years old. These qualities will help to show you what activities these age groups will enjoy and how to choose age and developmentally appropriate activities. These activities will take into account the importance of play and stages of play.
This non-credit workshop will provide you with exciting and practical activities that you can use in all areas of the curriculum such as Mathematics, Social Studies, and Language. This workshop’s activities are highly motivational, and are appropriate for students of all abilities in the Primary, Junior, and Intermediate levels.
By attending this workshop, you can add the following skills to your teaching repertoire:
This non-credit workshop will provide teacher candidates with practical strategies, games, and activities that develop oral proficiency in the Core French classroom. All of the strategies are theoretically sound and work to improve student second language development in all language domains. During this course, you will discuss and practice language strategies involving literature, music, dance, games, and activities.
Teacher candidates who plan to teach junior/intermediate Core French would benefit most from this workshop. It will include:
This practical workshop helps teacher candidates to improve their classroom teaching performance. The instructor uses a systematic approach to critically reflect on and inquire into the various components of the practicum. This non-credit workshop addresses the following aspects of a practicum:
This practical workshop helps teacher candidates to improve their classroom teaching performance.The instructor uses a systematic approach to critically reflect on and inquire into the various components of the practicum. The workshop addresses the following aspects of a practicum:
By effectively integrating Pages and Garage Band into your teaching, you can improve student reading, writing, and oral language. This non-credit workshop will provide you with the following opportunities:
