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NEW: ENHANCING CRITICAL READING SKILLS FOR TEACHERS ( 14 days, 45 hours)
Reading and Thinking Beyond Words :
This online 30 hour (2 credit) course provides teachers with tools for teaching critical reading more effectively to their students by focusing on two scholarly articles written about the cultural history of the 1960s. Thus this course combines PDE (Pennsylvania Department of Education) academic standards in two areas--- language arts and historical comprehension , interpretation and research.
The course goal is to offer teachers an opportunity to achieve a more sophisticated understanding of text and its structure within a specific historical and cultural context by addressing two key aspects involved in the process of reading comprehension:
**One aspect refers to the rhetorical and linguistic organization of the texts.
**A second aspect focuses on understanding the cultural references within the texts and their relevance to each writer’s message.
This is achieved by integrating lexical, grammatical and rhetorical components with extensive notes on the various social and cultural issues mentioned in the texts. Furthermore, the questions at the end of each section challenge the reader’s cognitive, writing and organizational skills.
NEW: INFORMATION LITERACY FOR TEACHERS ( 7 days :15 hours)
Course Description
This course, specially designed for teachers, helps them understand why information literacy is so important in the Information Age and will refer to standards for Information Literacy set by the American Library Association. Teachers will be able to help their students identify, access, organize and evaluate information. Concepts such as propaganda as well as student issues such as plagiarism are clearly explained, the latter using a propietary , colorful multi-media module made available exclusively through the Instructor's association with a major state university.
NEW : CRITICAL THINKING: WHAT EVERY TEACHER NEEDS TO KNOW! ( 7 days, 15 hrs)
Critical thinking does not necessarily mean you should negatively criticize everthing you read----but it does mean that you should approach all knowledge with an open and skeptical mind. Criticism, using universal academic standards, may well be warranted---or it may not. This course will help you to develop your own critical thinking skills and put you in the "driver's seat" when dealing with your own students.
Workshop Title: SUPERWRITING FOR THE NEW SATS. (7 days/15 hours)
Workshop Description:
Essay writing has never been more important for high school students.Not only do the new SAT and ACT college entrance tests mandate written material but most colleges now require a personal essay as a core component of their admissions process---and when students get to college they will be required to write term papers frequently. This workshop helps educators acquire the basic skills necessary to help their students develop strong writing skills.
Faculty Profile:
Christa Richie, M A. Christa Richie loves to write and has acquired an extensive background in teaching remedial writing to college students. She also gained considerable insight into the needs of secondary and elementary educators in the course of writing professional development grant proposals for a New Jersey community college.
Title: AMAZING BOOKS : GET TEEN STUDENTS TO READ MORE ( 15 hours/7 days).
Workshop Description:
Adolescents can be bored, rebellious, angry--even violent. Yet they can also be hopeful and optimistic. This reading workshop focuses on four bestselling books which express these emotions in the first person. We guarantee they are books your teen students will identify with : The Diary of Anne Frank, Catcher in the Rye, Riding in Cars with Boys and Less Than Zero. This workshop will also provide you with tools and techniques to enhance the reading experience for your students.
Faculty Profile:
Dr. Kim Shienbaum ( Ph.D, New York University) joins forces with Colleen Payne, a graduate student in English, to develop this unique workshop experience
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