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What
Being a Teacher is All About! |
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Instructor:
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Lowell
E. Hedges, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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This
session will give you an excellent overview of what it means
to be a teacher and what your general responsibilities will
be! It will cover the teaching function, lesson planning, teaching
tools, and how to assess student learning. In addition, it explores
how you will manage relationships with students, colleagues,
administrators, and the community. This is an excellent introduction
to the teaching profession! Specific courses on topics covered
in this session can be explored in further detail with other
sessions that review the topic in more detail. |
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Audience:
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Professional
teachers |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture
with activity |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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4
hours |
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Resource:
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Includes
the book What Being a Teacher Is All About (Hedges 2000) |
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Mentoring
the 1st Year Teacher/ How to Prepare for Praxis III |
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Instructor:
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Lowell
E. Hedges, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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According
to Ohio's Teacher Education and Licensure Standards, all Ohio
schools will be responsible for starting a program to mentor
new teachers. This course will be designed to meet the needs
of the school district by providing assistance on establishing
a Mentoring team while using the PATHWISE Induction Program
- Praxis III version materials. |
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Audience:
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Administrators,
teachers assigned as mentors to new teachers |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture
and small group |
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Resource:
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Supervising
and Mentoring the Professional Teachers: An Affirming Approach
by Lowell Hedges could be evaluated as a text with this program |
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Developing
a Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP) |
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Instructor:
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Deborah
Bingham Catri, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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This
course is designed based on outcomes of individual school's
Report from the State on the 14 Standards of performance. Customized
solutions will be developed with key stakeholders to address
the concerns of the report. A plan for improvement will be established. |
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Audience:
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Administrators
and key stakeholders |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Planning
sessions |
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Revisiting
Curriculum Development |
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Instructor:
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Lowell
E. Hedges, Ph.D. or Deborah Bingham Catri, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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This
course will help teachers address the five decisions that must
be made before one can teach any lesson: who to teach, what
to teach, when to teach, how long to teach, and how to teach.
The first four questions serve as the basic content of the Course
of Study for a program. Deciding how to teach provides the content
for the program's Instructional Guide. With the constant changes
experienced in the workplace today, teachers should continually
review course scope and sequence, update with effective instructional
materials, and develop appropriate student performance objectives
for their lessons. |
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Audience:
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Teachers |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture
and small group activity |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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4
hours |
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Revisiting
Teaching Strategies and Methods |
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Instructor:
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Deborah
Bingham Catri, Ph.D., Dot Keil |
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Description:
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Teachers
may not be aware of the new techniques and delivery methods
available to enhance the instruction in their classrooms. Likewise
the idea of integration across curriculum is encouraged. Teachers
will reflect on their current teaching strategies and develop
improved ways they can deliver the content! |
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Audience:
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Teachers |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture with individual activities |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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4
hours |
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Revisiting
Classroom and Lab Management (Safety) |
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Instructor:
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Deborah
Bingham Catri, Ph.D., Susan Nell, Chris Zirkle |
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Description:
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Enforcing
school policies, developing a student handbook with procedures
for homework, testing, make-up work, and enforcing safety procedures
are all part of a teachers job. This session will give you a
structure for both developing and monitoring the physical environment
of your classroom! Lab management skills will be the focus of
how you can improve the safety of your teaching environment
as well as the students. |
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Audience:
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Teachers |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture and small group discussion |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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3
hours |
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Revisiting
Your Marketing Plan and Polishing Your Community Relations Skills |
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Instructor:
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Deborah
Bingham Catri, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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Developing
relationships with the community and your administrators can
be a challenge! This session will focus on how to organize an
advisory committee, host presentations on and off-site, and
market your students! You will leave with the start of a plan
of action to communicate and showcase how you and your students
contribute to the future workforce! |
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Audience:
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Teachers,
administrators |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture with presentations |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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3
hours |
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How
to Prepare for Praxis II: Principles of Learning and Teaching |
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Instructor:
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Lowell
Hedges, Ph.D. and/or Maria Moore, Susan Nell |
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Description:
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This
course is focused on test-taking preparation techniques and
actual practice testing using the ETS Praxis II: PLT assessment
materials. This test is required by all professional teachers
to obtain certification. |
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Audience:
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Teachers |
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Prerequisites:
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Enrolled
in education course of study |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture with practice test |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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3-4
hours |
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Using
Effective Discipline |
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Instructor:
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Lowell
E. Hedges, Ph.D. or Deborah Bingham Catri, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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Administering
student behavior rewards and consequences can be challenging
in the classroom. In addition, monitoring student's individual
and group interactions and providing constructive feedback is
the most effective way to improve student performance. Tips
on how to set rules to govern behavior and provide corrective
action will be discussed. |
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Audience:
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Teachers |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture with small group instruction |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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3
hours |
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How
to Deal with Difficult People |
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Instructor:
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Lowell
E. Hedges, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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Tips
will be provided for recognizing the various types of difficult
(if not impossible) people in our private and professional lives.
Participants will be provided with techniques on how to cope
with difficult people more effectively. Discussion on how to
predict, and prepare for their behavior; how to show them alternative
behavior; and how to bring out the best in ourselves as we deal
with the difficult performer who may be leaving us feeling angry
and helpless. |
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Audience:
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Teachers
(all grade levels), support staff, administrators, students |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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2
hour minimum, 4 hours (small group work), 5 hours (case studies
and role plays) |
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Working
with the Low-Motivated Student |
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Instructor:
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Lowell
E. Hedges, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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Examines
various reasons why some students are "turned off"
about school. Provides a look at principles and practices in
helping students overcome poor motivation toward learning. Provides
techniques for developing motivational plans for selected students
plus teaching strategies that help to meet the needs of the
low-motivated student. |
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Audience:
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Teachers
(all grade levels) |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture with activity |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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2
hours |
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How
to Match Teaching Styles to Learning Styles |
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Instructor:
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Maria
Hruby Moore, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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Learning
how to assess a student's learning style and your teaching style
is the professional to understanding how you as a teacher can
improve your instructional performance. You will learn the about
the major learning and teaching styles, assess your own style,
and be provided resources to help you evaluate your students.
Strategies for matching and teaching and learning styles will
be explored. |
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Audience:
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Teachers,
students, administrators |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture with activity and assessments |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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3
hours |
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Assessing
Student Learning: Start where Your Students Are! |
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Instructor:
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Deborah
Bingham Catri, Ph.D. or Lowell Hedges, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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Knowing
where your students are starting from is the first measurement
a teacher has to make! Teachers are being held accountable for
educational outcomes and need to understand how the can develop
effective assessment of student learning to match their instructional
objectives. Determining assessment criteria, how to measure
it, grading students, and analyzing student performance will
all be discussed. Participants will leave with a plan for assessment
procedures to be used in the classroom and samples to assess
for cognitive, psychomotor and affective domain tasks. |
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Audience:
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Teachers,
administrators |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture using Assessing Learning by Lowell E. Hedges
and Valija Axelrod |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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4
hours |
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Dealing
with Stress and Burnout |
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Instructor:
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Maria
Hruby Moore, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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Recognizing
stress and burnout in both yourself and your students it is
an important skill for teachers today. Identifying ways to manage
it in today's world can lead you and your students to healthy
outcomes. A variety of techniques and available resources will
be explored. |
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Audience:
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Teachers,
students, administrators |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture with activities |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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2
hours |
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Selecting
Textbooks and Instructional Materials for Teaching |
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Instructor:
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Maria
Hruby Moore, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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Addresses
problems and concerns of teachers in selection and use of instructional
materials in lesson planning and teaching. Reviews principles
and concepts to use in the selection and use of instructional
materials such as textbooks, reference books and magazines,
videotapes and movies. Includes how to deal with various reading
levels of students. Also includes relating instructional materials
to the curriculum guide. |
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Audience:
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Teachers,
administrators |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture with activity |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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2
hours (minimum)-4 hours |
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Connecting
Critical Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Occupational and
Academic Competencies in Our Teaching |
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Instructor:
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Lowell
E. Hedges, Ph.D. |
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Description:
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Effective
teaching involves more than presenting facts for students to
memorize. Effective teaching also involves critical thinking,
problem solving, and decision making. This course develops the
problem-solving approach to lesson planning and teaching using
six different techniques: Key Steps, Forked Road, Possibilities-Factors,
Situation-to-be-Improved, Effect-Cause, and the Four-Question
Interest Approach. Teachers will prepare lessons that connect
occupational and related academic competencies, instructional
materials needed, and an interest approach, using the appropriate
problem-solving technique as a frame-work on which to build
the lesson plan. Tips will be provided for presenting a lesson,
as well as evaluation ideas for each plan. |
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Audience:
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Teachers
(all grade levels; most useful to secondary), administrators |
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Delivery
Mode:
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Lecture with small group activity |
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Suggested
Course Length:
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2
hours (minimum)-3 hours (includes activity) |
