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EDUC 624CE

Focus: A Return to Sensible, Authentic Teaching

Mike Schmoker, bold and provocative writer on education, portrays us as crazed with trying to implement every "best practice” ever created and "researched," yet forgetting the essentials to teaching:  sound instruction, curriculum and literacy.  Fox-like, we race after anything shiny, as opposed to a hedgehog, who knows what is paramount and surrounds it until it is done well. Schmoker believes that his exhausted audience can raise student achievement  by simply concentrating on what is important.  Following a crazy decade, his message is welcome---with many shouting, "Here comes the pendulum!"

This is a hybrid course, in which participants divide up their time between the half day morning or afternoon class day and the remaining assignment component to be completed outside class. The hybrid format will allow students to access a wider range of educational materials and gain more relevant knowledge to guide them in their profession.

The following Minnesota Teaching Standards apply to this course:

Standard 2. student learning. A teacher must understand how students learn and develop and must provide learning opportunities that support a student's intellectual, social, and personal development.

Standard 4. instructional strategies. A teacher must understand and use a variety of instructional strategies to encourage student development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.

 Standard 9.  reflection and professional development. A teacher must be a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates the effects of choices and actions on others, including students, parents, and other professionals in the learning community, and who actively seeks out opportunities for professional growth.

 
SCHEDULING
 
Section 5, June 18 - 22
Business, Arts & Recreation Center (BARC)
1010 5th Ave.
Windom, MN
Room #10
Monday-Friday
8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Instructor  Sandee Goldsmith Becker
 
Section 6, June 18 - 22
Crossing Inn & Suites
231 Market Drive
Perham, MN
Monday-Friday
1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Instructor  Kelli Hanninen
 
Section 7, June 25 - 29
C'Mon Inn
1586 Highway 59 South
Thief River Falls, MN
Monday-Friday
8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Instructor  Kelli Hanninen