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Universal Design for Learning

- 3 Graduate Credits -

Course Objectives

From this course, participants will:

1. Examine the key components often overlooked for a complete physical education experience.
2. Assess the impact of various resources: video, instrument, and smart-phone based.
3. Apply effective strategies for providing opportunities to experience the use those resources.
4. Explore a variety of applications that can help students monitor, plan and analyze their nutrition, sleeping, fitness levels.
5. Create a plan for the effective implementation of various resources to provide a holistic experience foreach and every student.

Building Your Google Classroom: Distance Learning Your Students Will Recognize

- 3 Graduate Credits -

Course Objectives

From this course, participants will:

1. Demonstrate growth in content knowledge related to teaching assignment and the application of content knowledge to classroom instruction and assessment.
2. Understand scientifically-based practices in teaching and learning, including strategies in literacy education, instructional technology, differentiation of instruction, and apply them to raise student achievement.
3. Demonstrate multiple means of assessing and evaluating student learning and use them to change teaching and learning.
4. Locate, interpret, synthesize, and apply educational research in best practices in teaching.
5. Understand models for professional change, including teacher collaboration, professional learning communities, strategies for mentoring and coaching to facilitate change, and effective professional development.
6. Demonstrate understanding of reflective practice that results in improved classroom teaching and learning, including teacher reflection, use of technology in self-assessment, collaboration for change, and self-management of change.
7. Demonstrate understanding of system and organizational change in education, including models for school change and current research and trends in school change.
8. Demonstrate responsibility for student learning at high levels.
9. Demonstrate responsibility for school reform and leadership in school change.