Planning your summer and looking to learn more? Explore how to use multicultural children's and young adult literature as a tool for promoting social justice in classrooms, delve into STEM teaching topics and techniques, learn how to be a leader in your community and more this summer in-person or online through School of Education summer courses. Here's a sample below of some of our classes:Â
EDUC 5265: Processes in Writing
Meets A term (Jun. 3 – Jul. 5), TWR 9:00 - 12:15
Examines processes writers use from early ages to maturity by investigating current research related to writing curriculum, instruction, and policy. Includes opportunities for students to engage in inquiry related to writing curriculum and instruction in K-12 classrooms.
EDUC 6804: Designing Student-Centered STEM Instruction
Meets A term (Jun. 3 – Jul. 5), Section 101 is TWR from 12:45 to 4:05. Section 101B is online.
The focus of this course is on approaches to integrating the teaching and learning of the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics – STEM education. By design, the course will permit many opportunities to explore your current perspectives and understandings of STEM teaching and learning, and approaches that could be used in various instructional contexts in K-university education. One of the primary goals is offer you new perspectives and experiences with integrated and discipline specific curricula, and to deepen your understanding of the pros and cons of integrating content domains to offer more authentic and motivating learning experiences.
EDUC 6804: Multicultural Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Meets Jul. 9 – Jul. 22, M-F 8:30 – 12:15
In this course we will be exploring multicultural literature as a tool for promoting social justice and equity in our classrooms. Books will focus on the lives of individuals who have been silenced, made invisible, and misrepresented in popular media and in some schooling environments/systems. Particular focus will be on how we can interact with multicultural text, specifically with our students, in powerful, relevant and meaningful ways from a literary and multicultural literature perspective.
LEAD 1000: Becoming a Leader
Meets B term (Jul. 9 – Aug. 8), 9:15 – 10:45      Â
The foundation course will prepare students to exercise leadership in business, government and community organizations. Introduces leadership skills useful in a variety of settings including community and civic activities. Helps students to improve self awareness, understand multiple theories, recognize moral courage, build analytic and critical thinking skills and adapt leadership practices to different people and contexts
EDUC 5810: Teaching K-12 Mathematics: Number Sense
Meets B term (Jul. 9 – Aug. 8), Online
Provides teachers opportunity to explore fundamental mathematical theories and pedagogical perspectives pertaining to the teaching and learning of number and operation. Engages students in explorations of mathematical content underlying number and operations, while highlighting relevant problem solving, reasoning and proof, and mathematical connections. Explores implications of teachers' mathematical learning on their classroom teaching. Develops practices supporting learner's number sense development.
EDUC 5840: Teaching K-12 Mathematics: Probability & Statistics
Meets Augmester (Aug.5 – Aug. 22), Online
Focuses on teaching probability, data analysis, and statistics in K-12 classrooms. Explores curriculum and assessment strategies in the areas of probability and statistics. Examines research on students' thinking on stochastic tasks and how this research informs teaching practice. Emphasizes deepening of one's conceptual understanding of probability and statistics and their importance in the current information age.