Stress Reduction: For Better Teaching
SCLX913
Stress can limit our productivity and shorten our lives. This course examines effective coping, problems specific to teaching, and methods of self-examination with remedies to help the teacher cope with today’s fast-paced lifestyle.
The Teenage Brain: How it Works
SCIX9013
The actions of teenagers can sometimes test our reason and we wonder what could he or she have been thinking? This course attempts to answer that question. The human brain was once thought to be complete by age three, but science now says it is not fully mature until eighteen years or older. Until then, the pre-frontal cortex, which controls ligic and impulses, among other things, is immature, and the teen is responding emotionally rather than logically.
Bullies
PSYX9015
Bullying is an all-too-common occurrence in schools. Now, it has even invaded cyberspace to spew its venom to the unsuspecting. This course looks at the causes, how to deal with them, and suggestions for both teachers and parents to help alleviate the problem. It also asks the educator to look into his or her own school’s situation and analyze it based on what it might be doing about the problem, right or wrong.
Teacher Safety: Through Body Language Recognition
EDDX9044
It is estimated that over 60% of communication is non-verbal, and often those individuals who commit assaults will telegraph their intentions non-verbally toward their victim before physically engaging them. The goal of the course is to provide life saving skills, knowledge, and abilities that historically only police officers really knew to teachers by interpreting body language; and show you, in detail, how to interpret clues - threatening or not.
Teaching Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum
EDDX901
This course will introduce teachers of all subjects and grade levels to strategies for teaching and improving reading and writing skills in their own content areas and across the curriculum. It will investigate teaching vocabulary skills, spelling and word identification, assessing competencies and weaknesses, writing, study, and associated skills. Most appropriate for grades 4 and up.
Math I
MTHX951
Explore topics ranging from successful teaching techniques and computer math games to student forums with other math enthusiasts and educators. Websites provide skill-building exercises, math contests, math projects, entertaining education, and downloadable posters by Hedley. There are also biographies of historic mathematicians, links, and free software.
Helping Kids Write
EDDX9034
Primarily designed for grades 6-12 yet easily adaptable, this course gives you a little boost in the daunting task of teaching children to write. It utilizes a variety of techniques so that you may choose whichever ones are most congenial with many effective exercises to make the tasks challenging and practical.
Teaching Gifted Students in a Regular Classroom
EDDX9035
Have you ever considered gifted students as a part of the at-risk population? Are you assuming gifted students progress regardless of their learning environment? The discoveries you make within this course will provide confidence for the regular classroom teacher, enhance the survival risk of gifted students, and benefit all students in the regular classroom. This course will give you insight into the characteristics and needs of this population, as well as suggest methods for identifying academically gifted students. You will also learn practical strategies for servicing gifted kids.
Our Obese Children
HELX900
The childhood obesity epidemic is so prevalent in our country that experts say this may be the first time in history that parents will outlive their children. That is a sobering prediction. This course examines the problem, offers suggestions for helping solve it, and tells what will happen if we do nothing. After completing the course assignments, students are also required to analyze this epidemic and relate what they feel we should be doing to end this destructive trend based on what they learned in the course or from other sources.
Special Ed Teachers are Special
EDDX9041
This course delves into the world of the special education teacher and the myriad of problems he or she will encounter and how others have dealt with them. A number of issues are discussed in depth through the eyes of the families of the children afflicted. Included are many helpful tools and resources to aid in the success of a special education teacher..
