CTED 879 - Make and Take: Reaching All Learners - 1 semester credit
Course Description: This fun hands-on course is designed for preschool and
elementary teachers. Teachers will be designing a classroom that will support
readers, writers, and encourage learning of other curricular areas in activity
centers. The activity centers will target various learning styles. Student
achievement in math vocabulary, phonics, literacy skills, social studies
knowledge, and science concepts will improve through the direct instruction
taking place in the activities developed in this course. The various learning
styles of students can be reached through appropriate grouping and placement in
the activity centers. Teachers will leave with laminated, ready to use
materials.
CTED 857 - Make and Take: Making Learning Centers for Math - 1 semester credit
Course Description: This course is designed for elementary teachers, parents,
home-school educators, day care providers, and early childhood instructors.
Through the development of classroom resource games, participants will develop
learning center games for mathematics. The key focus of the course will be on
measurement skills. Allowing students to practice measurement skills
repeatedly in a variety of ways helps to strengthen their knowledge of how
measurement works. This hands-on course allows participants to create age
appropriate activities to be used in learning centers, small group settings, and
one on one teacher to student settings. Teachers will be able to individualize
student instruction through the use of these center activities. All creations
will be laminated so that they are ready to use.
CTED 743 - Teaching Writing Through Picture Books - 1 semester credit
This fun hands-on course is designed for teachers of students from second grade through middle school.
It is time to spur student enthusiasm for reading and writing! Teachers attending the course will use popular picture book titles as models for writing concepts. Participants will be creating picture book samples, receive lesson plans, and experience the lesson procedures through simulated lessons. Classroom teachers will help their students learn valuable skills in organization, tone, idea collection, fluency, and writing conventions. Some literary topics will include onomatopoeia, perspective, point of view, rhyme, retelling popular tales, the writing process, and descriptive writing. Meet Sandra Opheim author of Whose Hat is That? as she shares her love of reading and writing with you.
CTED 934 - Handmade Books I: Creating Wonderful Worlds - 1 semester credit
Using single sheets of paper and the concertina fold, explore the book arts and spirit your students into the wonderful
world of making books. Windows, pop-ups, simple folds, cut-outs, along with simple classroom tools like crayons, markers,
and scissors, will allow your students to create a world based on imagination, or math, or science, and hold it securely
within a book of their own making. Making books uses many multidisciplinary skills; writing, drawing, planning, sequencing,
working within a specific space, using memory, imagination, observation, research and reporting skills, and much more. This
course will provide teachers with ideas to implement a variety of book forms in the classroom. Teachers are encouraged to
come with curriculum topics they would like to introduce or further integrate into their classrooms. Participants will take
home book models and instruction sheets for all book structures taught.
Instructor: Georgia Greeley.
CTED 819 - Handmade Books II: Filling the Empty Page - 1 semester credit
Participants will delve into the text Wondrous Words by Katie Woodray and combine many of her insights and exercises with the making of handmade books. This workshop will study specific ways to teach and enrich classroom writing skills from conception to publication and targets students in grades three through eight. The focus will be on using a combination of handmade books and teaching strategies to increase student literacy. All activities will fit into classrooms using the six traits and/or Lucy Calkins’ writing practices. No prior book making experience is needed. Everyone will take home models and instruction sheets for all book structures taught. Participants will need to bring the following tools: scissors, ruler, craft knife, spoon, eraser, pencil, markers and color crayons and colored pencils. All book materials will be provided.
Instructor: Georgia Greeley.
CTED 852 - Pictures & Poems: Pulling Words From Image - 1 semester credit
This course follows a three-fold strategy; using the five senses to understand and interpret visual form, expanding the students' writing skills by offering new ways of thinking and seeing through the lens of the visual, and creating at least three different handmade book forms to publish student work. The focus in this workshop will be writing at least six simple poetic forms (haiku, lune, acrostic, cinquain, couplet, concrete), using aninterdisciplinary approach to enhance poetry and general writing skills, and to teach specific classroom book publishing formats. All activities will support classrooms using the six traits andLucy Calkins' writing practices. The workshop uses a poetry focus, but the strategies and skills learned will be applicable to almost every writing genre taught in the elementary classroom. This course targets grades three through eight, although strategies taught may be applicable to students outside that range. Instructor: Georgia Greeley.
Correspondence Courses - $319.00
3 semester graduate level continuing ed. credit
These courses are completed in the comfort of your home and at your own pace. Fees include all materials, book, and credit fees.
• CTED 570 - Developing Character Education in Your Classroom
and School
• CTED 617 - Educating Students on Character
• CTED 686 - Teachers Understanding Student Poverty
• CTED 912 - Developing Character Through Positive Teen Habits
• CTED 882 - Writing for Life
Correspondence Courses - $289.00
2 semester graduate level continuing ed. credit
• CTED 878 - Bullies Beware
• CTED 829 - Managing Your Classroom With Heart
CTED 570 - Developing Character Education in Your Classroom and School - 3 semester credits
The course introduces participants to character education topics, the importance of character curriculum,
and ways to implement them in the classroom. Some topics introduced include, but are not limited to, virtues,
tests of good decision-making, school programs for implementation, parent involvement and support ideas, ethical
tests for student actions, manners, and sexual education. The participants will evaluate their current views on
character education and develop outcomes that they would like to achieve by taking this course. In an effort to
have the participant demonstrate an understanding of the concepts introduced, they will be asked to conduct lessons
in the classroom and write lessons that they deem valuable as it pertains to this course. Participants will be able
to use their finished assignments/lesson plans in the classroom.
CTED 617 - Educating Students on Character - 3 semester credits
Course participants will read the text Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter by Hal Urban.
Participants are then asked to evaluate their school's current curriculum and resources in the area of character education.
Some topics in the text include humor in life, choices, attitude, success, fairness, honesty, positive habits, motivation, and
goal setting. Through the evaluation process participants will create age appropriate lesson plans for the topics addressed in the text.
These lessons will be ready to use in the classroom and a great start to a character education program. Participants will be asked to conduct
interviews with colleagues, write reflections journals articles, and respond to activities and their effectiveness with their students.
CTED 686 - Teachers Understanding Student Poverty - 3 semester credits
Course participants will read the text A Framework for Understanding Student Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. This course is
designed for teachers and staff working with children in preschool through high school. Course participants will become aware of poverty definitions,
issues, and appropriate interventions as addressed in the text.
Assignments will include interviews, journal reviews, related lesson plan development, critical thinking, evaluations of community resources, goal setting,
and website evaluation. This course will challenge educators to look seriously at their students, schools, and resources for servicing children of poverty.
CTED 912 - Positive Teen Habits - 3 semester credits
This course will allow participants to gain knowledge of core habits that teens can use to become successfull in life.
Examples of topics include being proactive, perceptions, mission statements, goal setting, and organizational skills.
The book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey is used with this course.
CTED 882 - Writing for Life - 3 semester credits
Course participants will read the text Writing for Real
by Ross Burkhardt, read journals from Eric Search, and complete
related assignments after each chapter. Participants will explore
the use of journals, writing rubrics, poetry, letter writing, character
topics in writing, and assessments. Promoting good writing requires
practice in a variety of forms and this course presents ways to
accomplish this practice. The course discusses ways to make classrooms
safe and friendly in an effort to encourage young writers. The course
text provides terrific lesson samples that are ready to use in the
classroom.
CTED 878 - Bullies Beware - 2 Semester Credits
Course participants will read the text The Bully, the Bullied,
and the Bystander by international speaker and author Barbara
Coloroso. This course will provide the participant with background
information on bullying issues and violence prevention. Although
prevention of violence in schools is difficult to measure, becoming
aware of the mechanics of violent students and those he/she may
affect is worth the effort. This course will help teachers identify
kinds of bullies, ways to heal the bullied, address discipline issues,
and develop awareness of bullying taking place in schools around
our nation.
CTED 829 - Managing Your Classroom With Heart - 2 Semester Credits
This course is designed for teachers of intermediate and middle school students. Course participants will read the text Managing Your Classroom with Heart by Katy Ridnouer. Teachers will examine their current classroom management styles and reflect on new methods suggested by the author. Teachers will be presented with ideas of organization, rule establishment, communication, motivation, and challenges as they relate to adolescent students. Teachers are encouraged to try new techniques to help reduce stress for both the teacher and students.
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