Curriculum & Classroom Management Courses

ED 5710 W Creating Positive Sport Experiences: Coaching Lessons for Educators

Course Modality: Online

Instructor: Dr. Dorothy Collins

Dates: September 5, 2023 - December 8, 2023

Registration Closes: November 20, 2023

Number of Credit Hours: 3

Cost: $515

This course is designed for educators who are or wish to become coaches. The course will focus on creating environments that are inclusive and positive within the context of competitive activities. While much of this course will look at traditional sport environments, course content is relevant to anyone who wishes to coach students in a competitive program (academic decathlon, forensics, chess, marching band, etc.). This course will discuss strategies to help coaches develop and implement a studentcentered coaching philosophy to encourage positive social and emotional benefits to be maximized for participants, with the aim of creating positive learning environments.

ED 5757 W Conferring with Students to Meet Individual Needs

Course Modality: Online

Instructor: Brittany Cribari

Dates: September 5, 2023 - December 8, 2023

Registration Closes: November 20, 2023

Number of Credit Hours: 1

Cost: $230

Individual Student Conferences are a way to get to know your students' academic level and personal style You can complete individual conferences in any academic area. Through this course, you will reflect and practice individual conferences through watching videos and looking at student work online. Leave this course ready to enter the new school year, prepared and ready to meet with students individually to help get to know their learning needs and personal interests. Grade Levels: Elementary.

ED 5758 W Creating and Managing Problem Based Learning (PBL)

Course Modality: Online

Instructor: Brittany Cribari

Dates: September 5, 2023 - December 8, 2023

Registration Closes: November 20, 2023

Number of Credit Hours: 1

Cost: $230

Reflection is a major skill needed for the 21st-century learner. Students need this skill to help grow as learners and leaders. This course will take you through creating a data binder and the step by step process on how to complete student-led conferences. What better way to learn how a student feels they are doing than by asking them? Students will reflect on their learning and lead their parent-teacher conferences, while you act as the facilitator. This course takes you through the preparation and reflection process that takes place prior to the conferences to ensure students are prepared. Grade Levels: Elementary.

Curriculum And Classroom Management Courses

ED 6009 W Book Study: Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making

Course Modality: Online, Synchronous

Instructor: Michelle Sardella

Dates: September 20, September 27, October 3, 2023

Times: 5:00-6:30 (Virtual Synchronous Meeting)

Registration Closes: September 15, 2023

Number of Credit Hours: 1

Cost: $230

The book club will meet to read and discuss Jay McTighe’s book Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making. Requirements will include reading the book and supplementary materials, keeping an annotated reading log, discussing specific questions, and writing a reflection about how the reading and discussions have influenced your teaching practice. You will need to purchase a copy of the book for the course. We will meet remotely on the following dates: 9/20, 9/27, and 10/3 to discuss readings and thoughts about the book and how it applies to the classroom. Other resources may be introduced for reading and discussion and will be provided. The course can be taken for a letter grade or pass/fail.

ED 6010 W Shazam! Converting Curriculum Across age and Grade Levels

Course Modality: Blended

Instructor: Dr. John Tedesco

Dates & Times: Asynchronous content to open: TBD

Registration Closes: November 20, 2023

Location: Lake Erie College, Austin Hall

Number of Credit Hours: 3

Cost: $515

This course is designed to facilitate adapting curriculum to suit student needs within your classroom. The course will utilize the Wizards of Wright curriculum provided by The Wright Brothers Institute as a starting point for our curriculum adaptation exercises. Teachers of all grade levels are invited to join as the goal of the course is to be able to take single curricular activities and adapt them to meet standards across a wide range of grade levels. Teachers who complete this course will be able to register for an “in-class” day where they can implement one of the activities from this course with the LEC instructor free of charge. In addition, teachers completing this course will have first right to join an LEC STEM Summer Camp in the summer of 2024 to receive free PD credits.

ED 6011 W Book Study: Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

Course Modality: Online, Synchronous

Instructor: Michelle Sardella

Dates: October 11, 18, & 25, 2023

Times: 5:00-6:30 (Virtual Synchronous Meeting)

Registration Closes: October 4, 2023

Number of Credit Hours: 1

Cost: $230

The book club will meet in person once a week for three weeks in October to read and discuss Daniel T. Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom. We will also read various other texts as a part of our asynchronous work. Requirements will include reading the book and supplemental materials, keeping an annotated reading log, discussing specific questions, and writing a reflection about how the reading and discussions have influenced your teaching practice. You will need to purchase a copy of the book for the course. We will meet remotely from 5:00 - 6:30 each Wednesday to discuss readings and thoughts about the book.