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Renew Your Creative Spirit

with Southern Oregon University classes at the coast - 2008

 

Two summer courses designed

to enhance your professional growth and energize your teaching!

 

Dr. Wilkins-O'Riley Zinn, artist, poet, and teacher returns to Southwestern Oregon Community College with two courses:

 

ED 512 Education Research: I will focus on what I call the Scholorship of Teachers, and will offer the opportunity to explore personal teaching and learning processes and passions.  A research process I've developed called The Collectory will be used in the development of a project that relates to your teaching.  This process is also useful for teachers who wish to help thier students avoid issues of plagiarism.

Students must attend all 4 days.

Friday & Saturday, June 20 & 21, 8 am - 5 pm
Friday & Saturday, July 11 & 22, 8 am - 5 pm

3 credits

$870.00

ED 595: Methods of Professional Growth: This course will explore ways in which teachers can stay energized and enthused through the development of a plan for purposeful professional growth.  You’ll design a project related to teacher leadership and/or service which you will carry out either in the summer or in the following school year.  Possibilities include planning and engaging your students in a significant service learning activity, planning and presenting an in-service for your district, planning and delivering a disciplinary conference session, taking on a significant leadership role in your school or district, or some other project of your choice.  Incompletes will be available to those who wish additional time past the summer to work on and/or implement their idea.
Students must attend all 4 days. 
Wednesday and Thursday, June 18 & 19, 8 am–5 pm
Wednesday and Thursday, July 9 & 10, 8 am–5 pm
3 credits

$870.00

 

To register,

call PJ Mau, 800-552-5388

or email maup@sou.edu

Classes will be held at

Southwestern Oregon Community College.

Coming from out of town?

Conference rates available at SOCC
$25/night with 3 night minimum for each session
for details call 541-888-7635

 

All courses appropriate for inclusion in a master's degree program of study.

Join Dr. Wilkins-O'Riley Zinn for an exploration of new ways to create classroom communities that engage students and nurture meaningful learning. For almost two decades, Zinn has been asking people when learning was fun for them, and from her analysis of replies from people of all ages, she uncovered the six themes of fun in learning that are relevant in any classroom. Her courses are hands-on, minds-on experiences, and participants are asked to bring a spirit of playfulness and a willingness to passionately engage in learning, two signature characteristics of fun at school. However, skeptics are also welcome!

 

She has presented from her book-in-progress: Making Fun of School, or Why Does Learning Have to Be Such a Drag?, as well as her research at the March 2007 National Conference of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).

 

Dr. William Glasser, author of Choice Theory, The Quality School, and The Quality School Teacher, identifies fun as one of five basic human needs.

 

Seymour Sarason says that if you don't feed the teachers they'll eat the children, and since the teacher has been identified as one of the most important elements in making learning fun, the summer institute will also focus on educators' need for renewal, and on ways to lead students to the kinds of self-responsibility that make teaching fun.

 

 

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