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Classroom Instruction Courses: Classroom Management
 
 

EDCA 5839 Tools for Working With Oppositional Students (3 credits)

Evaluates the origins of oppositional behavior, strategies for preventing its occurrence and for addressing it when it happens. Provides five components of a comprehensive plan for more effective intervention with oppositional students and strategies for approaching problem behaviors from new perspectives. Includes specific suggestions for developing management tools within these new perspectives. Appropriate for any K-12 educator who is interested in learning strategies for working with oppositional students.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 53 Green, Marjorie (3 credits)
- Course completion time: up to one year.
Tuition: $240 flat fee
Register: Register for this course online by clicking here or call 800/482-3848.
Fees: plus cost of materials. Course medium: CD-ROM.

EDCA 5894 Love and Logic: Positive Discipline in the Classroom (1-2 credits)

Do you go home at the end of the day with energy left for yourself and family? Build a stress-free classroom with Love and Logic! Learn practical techniques which help teachers achieve respectful relationships with students. Participants will learn the two rules of Love and Logic; how to use delayed or anticipatory consequences; how to use empathy and Love and Logic one-liners to neutralize arguing; how to create a Love and Logic classroom; and, much more! Equivalent: CEU 2115.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 1301 Burdett, Susan (2 credits)
Jul 30-Aug 1 8:30am-4:30pm MT SPU, Seattle, WA
(Also available under CEU 2115 (1-2 Units))
Tuition: $425 flat fee
Register: To register for this course, visit here, call 206/281-2274, or use the form found in this catalog. Registration will close one week before the start of the class.

EDCA 5936 Constructive Discipline II: Stopping Disruptive Behavior (1 credit)

Please see Computer Prerequisite E on page XX for minimum computer requirements. Addresses how to stop disruptive behavior with three carefully worded questions. Learn how to implement this effective strategy for dealing with problem behavior and lead students through a process that promotes solutions they create and will accept. Watch demonstrations and practice strategies to use in the classroom today.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 893 Casey, Barbara (1 credit)
- Course completion time: up to four months.
(Also available under CEU 3188 (1 Units))
Tuition: $42 per credit
Register: To register for this course, please contact Sandra Blazevich at 888/263-9980 x107.
Fees: Additional $115 course fee payable to CE Credits Online. Course medium: Internet.

EDCA 5937 Constructive Discipline: Giving Directives That Students Will Follow (1 credit)

Please see Computer Prerequisite E on page XX for minimum computer requirements. Presents teachers and administrators with a four-step verbal skill to help gain responsible control of K-12 students. Teaches methods to end power struggles and gain cooperation from resistive students. Learn why this fast and effective, choice-based approach to behavior management is used successfully by thousands of educators. Discover how to develop plans for maintaining safe and orderly classrooms that maximize learning time.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 278 Casey, Barbara (1 credit)
- **Online
(Also available under CEU 3190 (1.5 Units))
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, please contact Sandra Blazevich at 888/263-9980 x107.
Fees: Additional $175 course fee payable to CE Credits Online. Course medium: Internet.
School Year 2011 - 2012 469 Lomas, Barbara (1 credit)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, go to www.esd112.org and click on "Courses."
Fees: plus cost of materials. Course medium: Internet.
School Year 2011 - 2012 895 Casey, Barbara (1 credit)
- Course completion time: up to four months.
(Also available under CEU 3190 (1.5 Units))
Tuition: $42 per credit
Register: To register for this course, please contact Sandra Blazevich at 888/263-9980 x107.
Fees: Additional $115 course fee payable to CE Credits Online. Course medium: Internet.

EDCA 5938 Constructive Discipline: Conducting the Parent Conference (1 credit)

Please see Computer Prerequisite E on page XX for minimum computer requirements. Offers teachers and administrators persuasive and effective strategies for conferencing with defensive or confrontational parents. Learn how this seven-step interview will move parents from being part of the problem to committed participants in the solution.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 897 Casey, Barbara (1 credit)
- Course completion time: up to four months.
(Also available under CEU 3189 (1.5 Units))
Tuition: $42 per credit
Register: To register for this course, please contact Sandra Blazevich at 888/263-9980 x107.
Fees: Additional $115 course fee payable to CE Credits Online. Course medium: Internet.

EDCA 5990 Classroom Management for the K-12 Educator (5 credits)

Participants will improve and review their classroom management techniques through the use of interactive multimedia CD, and will reflect on their current practices and compare their methods with best practices based on research.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 54 Bruestle, Greg (5 credits)
- Course completion time: up to one year.
Tuition: $450 flat fee
Register: Register for this course online by clicking here or call 800/482-3848.
Fees: includes all materials. Course medium: CD-ROM.

EDCN 5562 Classroom Management: Building Effective Relationships (2 credits)

Presents a broad conception of classroom management. Explores how interpersonal relationships can provide the key to successful classroom management. Examines the origins of misbehavior. Provides tools and strategies for developing stronger relationships with students for successful classroom management.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 326 Fuson, Marlene (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, contact Claudine Rode at crode@psesd.org.
Fees: Additional $99 course fee payable to Puget Sound ESD. Course medium: Internet.
School Year 2011 - 2012 476 Lomas, Barbara (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, go to www.esd112.org and click on "Courses."
Fees: Total $195 credit and course fee payable to ESD 112. Course medium: Internet.

EDCN 5663 Managing Challenging Behavior (2 credits)

Please see Computer Prerequisite C in the Registration Information for minimum computer requirements. Offers strategies to help teachers move beyond judgements of challenging behaviors and look at the behaviors more objectively, allowing the teacher to shift focus from controlling the student to teaching the student personal responsibility - educating the student to become a self-regulated learner. Includes information on challenging behavior risk factors; teacher self-monitoring skills; control versus power games; accepting personal responsibility; and family and community involvement.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 327 Fuson, Marlene (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, contact Claudine Rode at crode@psesd.org.
Fees: Additional $99 course fee payable to Puget Sound ESD. Course medium: Internet.
School Year 2011 - 2012 480 Lomas, Barbara (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, go to www.esd112.org and click on "Courses."
Fees: Total $195 credit and course fee payable to ESD 112. Course medium: Internet.

EDCN 5771 Constructive Discipline IV: Rights and Responsibilities in the Disciplinary Process (1 credit)

Guides teachers and administrators toward understanding their school's discipline policies and understanding and managing disruptive and violent behaviors. Focuses on creating and maintaining safe and orderly environments. Explains the practical and legal definitions of force as well as their rights and responsibilities, particularly regarding the use of physical restraint. Teaches participants how to correctly describe and document incidents and explore strategies and techniques that are preventative.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 903 Ikeda, Koh (1 credit)
- Course completion time: up to four months.
(Also available under CEU 3185 (1.5 Units))
Tuition: $42 per credit
Register: To register for this course, please contact Sandra Blazevich at 888/263-9980 x107.
Fees: Additional $115 course fee payable to CE Credits Online. Course medium: Internet.

EDCN 5911 Book Study: Classroom Assessment and Grading that Work (3 credits)

Provides an in-depth exploration of effective standards-based formative assessment to enhance student achievement from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Identifies the characteristics of effective assessment, uses national and state standards to create topic-based assessment, and teaches what types of assessment items and tasks best measure student progress. Lastly, this course discusses types of scoring and grading systems to accurately portray student progress along a continuum of learning.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 539 Kane-Ronning, Susan (3 credits)
- Course completion time: up to one year.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, visit www.armchaired.com.
Fees: Total $220 course and credit fee payable to Armchair Ed. Course media: print/Internet.

EDCN 5912 Book Study: Assessing and Improving School Discipline Programs (3 credits)

Provides a framework for preventing and effectively dealing with school discipline problems. Discusses four principal components: positive relationship with students; clearly defined parameters for student behavior; effective monitoring of students; and appropriate consequences for misbehavior. Also discusses a framework for devising and implementing appropriate interventions, in addition to guidelines for talking to parents.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 540 Kane-Ronning, Susan (3 credits)
- Course completion time: up to one year.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, visit www.armchaired.com.
Fees: Total $220 course and credit fee payable to Armchair Ed. Course media: print/Internet.

EDCN 5922 Book Study: Effective Classroom Management (5 credits)

Offers a solid foundation for developing an individualized classroom management plan that suits educators' unique instructional philosophy. A variety of models of classroom management are examined according to their primary focus; classroom management as discipline, as a system, and as instruction. Each of the models effectively addresses current Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) standards. Presents a review of research on classroom management. Also provides two new innovative models of classroom management, including character education, and a focus on at-risk students and classroom safety.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 542 Kane-Ronning, Susan (5 credits)
- Course completion time: up to one year.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, visit www.armchaired.com.
Fees: Total $320 course and credit fee payable to Armchair Ed. Course media: print/Internet.

EDCN 5959 Classroom Management: Teacher-Student Relationships (2 credits)

Please see computer prerequisite C in the Registration Information for minimum computer requirements. This course asks participants to think about classroom management as a way of interacting with students. It suggests that cooperation and enthusiasm for learning are not things that teachers build in students; rather, they are behaviors and attitudes that teachers help students recognize within themselves. The strategies presented will emphasize helping students discover that they want to be cooperative, active learners. Among other learning goals, this course will allow teachers to explore intent. Educators will consider what they bring to the student-teacher relationship, and examine how personality, background, and biases influence interaction with students. Also investigates how an engaging curriculum can help eliminate most classroom management challenges. Explores why it's important to give students a voice in the classroom, along with the strategies for doing so. Lastly, the course explores several classroom management models and determines how those approaches can be adapted.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 343 Rolling, Julie (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, contact Claudine Rode at crode@psesd.org.
Fees: Additional $99 course fee payable to Puget Sound ESD. Course medium: Internet.
School Year 2011 - 2012 489 Lomas, Barbara (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, go to www.esd112.org and click on "Courses."
Fees: Total $195 credit and course fee payable to ESD 112. Course medium: Internet.

EDCN 5960 Student Health Program: Essential Elements (2 credits)

Please see computer prerequisite C in the Registration information for minimum computer requirements. Introduces a coordinated approach to addressing school health issues that is useful for school administrators, teachers, and anyone concerned about promoting the well-being of students and staff. Shows how to develop the case for a coordinated approach to school health; identify the health-related activities in the school or district that lay the foundation for a coordinated approach; structure a coordinated approach; and find resources to support school health efforts.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 344 Rolling, Julie (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, contact Claudine Rode at crode@psesd.org.
Fees: Additional $99 course fee payable to Puget Sound ESD. Course medium: Internet.

EDCN 5961 Achievement Gaps: The Path to Equity (2 credits)

Please see computer prerequisite C in the Registration information for minimum computer requirements. This course helps district and school-level leaders explore what it means to strive for equity in achievement and provides insight about education policies that support their earnest efforts to attain equity in achievement.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 345 Rolling, Julie (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, contact Claudine Rode at crode@psesd.org.
Fees: Additional $99 course fee payable to Puget Sound ESD. Course medium: Internet.

EDCN 5964 Conflict Resolution: An Introduction (2 credits)

Please see computer prerequisite C in the Registration information for minimum computer requirements. Helps educators understand how they can teach conflict resolution skills and empower students to resolve conflicts. Based on the Johnson and Johnson book, Reducing School Violence, this course helps teachers understand how they can - and why they should - address conflict resolution in the classroom, and, if feasible, in the school setting. Teachers' responsibilities include: creating an environment that empowers students to resolve conflicts constructively; teaching students how to negotiate; teaching students how to mediate; knowing how and when to mediate if peer mediation fails; and knowing how and when to arbitrate if peer and teacher mediation fails. Also features lessons from the Working Together to Resolve Conflict curriculum published by the University of Florida's Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation Project.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 348 Rolling, Julie (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, contact Claudine Rode at crode@psesd.org.
Fees: Additional $99 course fee payable to Puget Sound ESD. Course medium: Internet.
School Year 2011 - 2012 491 Lomas, Barbara (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, go to www.esd112.org and click on "Courses."
Fees: Total $195 credit and course fee payable to ESD 112. Course medium: Internet.

EDCN 5991 Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School (5 credits)

Presents in-depth information and strategies to help educators understand, prevent, and address school-based behavior problems. These evidence-based techniques work with the most difficult behaviors, and benefit every child in the classroom. They can be used alone or together, creating tools suitable for many different children and situations. The course follows two students to bring alive discipline strategies, and provides for self-reflections and self-awareness as it relates to effective teaching. The teacher-child relationship is emphasized, with concrete suggestions for building relationships with children with problem behaviors. Information about diversity and the influence of culture helps make teaching more culturally responsive and enables teachers to avoid misunderstandings that lead to inappropriate behavior. Inclusion and preventing/responding to difficult behavior in children with disabilities is discussed.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 549 Kane-Ronning, Susan (5 credits)
- Course completion time: up to one year.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, visit www.armchaired.com.
Fees: Total $320 course and credit fee payable to Armchair Ed. Course media: print/Internet.

EDCN 5995 Primary Prevention: School-Wide Behavior Support (3 credits)

Covers the scope and sequence of school-wide positive behavior supports. School-wide Positive Behavior Support (SW-PBS) is a framework for understanding and applying a pro-active systems approach for helping school professionals to increase appropriate student social and academic behaviors. Emphasis will be place on employing and evaluating empirically supported practices in applied settings.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 234 March, Robert (3 credits)
- Course completion time: up to eight weeks.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, go to successfulschools.org/online-academy/register or call 303/442-6789.
Fees: Total $753 credit and course fee payable to Successful Schools, Inc. Course media: print/Internet.

EDCN 5996 Positive Behavior Support: Targeted Prevention and Interventions (3 credits)

Gives educators information and strategies for secondary prevention approaches. Provides background information on secondary prevention and how such strategies fit into a model of school-wide discipline using Positive Behavior Interventions and Support.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 235 March, Robert (3 credits)
- Course completion time: up to eight weeks.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, go to successfulschools.org/online-academy/register or call 303/442-6789.
Fees: Total $753 credit and course fee payable to Successful Schools, Inc. Course media: print/Internet.

EDCN 5997 Positive Behavior Support: Utilizing Functional Assessment (3 credits)

School-wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) are preventative strategies designed to support students through a three-tiered system of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention plans. Primary prevention utilizes school-wide procedures as a basic level of behavioral support for all students in all settings in the school. Some students require additional support through a secondary prevention or targeted group support plan. Secondary supports are often needed for 5 to 20% of a given student population. Typically there will be a small number of students (usually 1-5%) that will require a more comprehensive plan, designed to support their unique needs across multiple settings. These comprehensive plans are referred to tertiary prevention or intensive plans of support.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 236 March, Robert (3 credits)
- Course completion time: up to eight weeks.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, go to successfulschools.org/online-academy/register or call 303/442-6789.
Fees: Total $753 credit and course fee payable to Successful Schools, Inc. Course media: print/Internet.

EDCT 5156 Classroom Management: Models and Tools (2 credits)

Classroom Management has many facets, including classroom organization, scheduling, handling discipline issues, and managing the dynamic relationship between teachers and students. Teachers often cite it as their number one challenge. This course investigates how an engaging curriculum can help eliminate most classroom management challenges. Participants will explore why it's important to give students a voice in the classroom, along with the strategies for doing so. In addition, they will examine several classroom management models as well as opportunities to adapt them for individual situations.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 505 Lomas, Barbara (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, go to www.esd112.org and click on "Courses."
Fees: Total $195 credit and course fee payable to ESD 112. Course medium: Internet.

EDCT 5179 Music Moves the Mind: Preventing Teacher Burnout (2 credits)

Harnesses the voice, body and rhythm as powerful instructional tools inherent to all of us. Employs creative strategies for classroom management and learning that prevent teacher burnout. Explores techniques and variations in teaching BrainDance to all ages. Introduces a simple, brain-compatible process for teaching any concept through active experience. Builds personal joy and confidence as differences and commonalities are celebrated in drum, dance, and song. Enhances student cognitive, social-emotional and motor success through play. Equivalent: CEU 3383.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 1281 Nichols, Kerri Lynn (2 credits)
Aug 13-Aug 15 8:30am-4:30pm MTW Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Olympia, WA
(Also available under CEU 3383 (2.1 Units))
Tuition: $45 per credit
Register: Preregistration is required by calling the instructor at 360/789-2056.
Fees: Additional $275 course fee payable to Tree Frog Productions.

EDCT 5196 Love and Logic for Educators: Modules 5-9 (1 credit)

Five Essential Skills for the Love and Logic classroom will be taught. These skills will focus on building relationships with the toughest kids, setting limits with enforceable statements, using choices to prevent power struggles, quick and easy classroom interventions and guiding students to own and solve their own problems. Appropriate for all K-12 educators. Equivalent: CEU 3388.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 1388 Homnick, Craig (1 credit)
Jun 28 8:00am-4:00pm Th SPU, Seattle, WA
(Also available under CEU 3388 (.7-1 Units))
Tuition: $45 per credit
Register: Preregistration is required by calling Lorie Homnick at 360/907-5145.
Fees: Additional $199 course fee payable to the instructor.

EDCT 5208 Conscious Classroom Management: Succeeding with Difficult Students (3 credits)

This is an entertaining and interactive course that gives beginning and veteran K-12 teachers practical, hands-on strategies for successfully managing their classrooms. In this course participants will learn how to structure safe and engaging learning environments; improve relationships with challenging students; prevent or reduce arguing and other distracting behaviors; appropriately intervene when students resist or become defiant; successfully manage feelings of anger or frustration with students; and implement dozens of practical yet innovative management strategies. Features material by Rick Smith author of the best-selling “Conscious Classroom Management”.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 988 Dearborn, Christina (3 credits)
- Course completion time: up to four months.
Tuition: $60 per credit
Register: Register for this course online by visiting here.
Fees: Additional $199 course fee payable to Conscious Teaching. Course media: print/Internet.

EDCT 5215 Love and Logic Strategies for Educators (3 credits)

Based on the work of Jim Fay and Dr. Foster Cline, M.D., this course examines how Love and Logic works by discussing the four key principles; the Enhancement of Self-Concept, Shared Control, Consequences with Empathy and Shared Thinking. Educators who use the Love and Logic approach to discipline have better relationships with challenging kids, have less stress, and spend less time dealing with disruptions.¿
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 889 Homnick, Craig (3 credits)
- Course completion time: up to one year.
Tuition: $50 per credit
Register: Register online at http://craighomnick.com/Online_Class.html.
Fees: Course media: print/Internet. Additional $160 course fee payable to Craig Homnick.

EDSE 5022 Behavior Is Language: Strategies for Managing Disruptive Behavior (3 credits)

Please see computer prerequisite B in the registration information for minimum computer requirements. Presents new perspectives on student behavior and effective tools to facilitate positive change. Provides a developmental framework for understanding what students are trying to say through the "language" of their behavior. Learn behavioral techniques and intervention strategies that remediate disruptive behaviors, reduce power struggles while increasing classroom control, and minimize teacher workloads and burnout. Gain creative, effective solutions to behavioral problems.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 747 Jackson, Mick (3 credits)
- Course completion time: up to one year.
Tuition: $290 flat fee
Register: Register for this course online by clicking here or call 800/482-3848.
Fees: includes all materials. Course medium: Internet.

EDSE 5160 Advanced Classroom Management: Children as Change Agents (3 credits)

Prerequisite: EDSE 5022. Please see computer prerequisite B in the registration information for minimum computer requirements. Introduces the social-cognitive approach to behavior management in the school as well as motivation and self-management. Covers cognitive-behavior modification (CBM) and cognitive restructuring, a CBM strategy used to help students challenge their own irrational thinking that contributes to their behavior problems. Also examines the CBM strategies of self-instructional training, verbal mediation, and problem solving. Discusses teaching students how to manage stress (in the form of anxiety, depression, anger) that also contributes to their behavior problems. Also covers the diagnosis of behavior problems using a social-cognitive approach, facilitating student use of self-management and CBM strategies, and measuring student progress.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 750 Jackson, Mick (3 credits)
- Course completion time: up to one year.
Tuition: $290 flat fee
Register: Register for this course online by clicking here or call 800/482-3848.
Fees: includes all materials. Course medium: Internet.
Notes: It is strongly recommended that participants take EDSE 5022 to learn the basic terms and concepts of behavior management prior to taking this advanced course.

EDSE 5195 Practical and Powerful Management Strategies for All Students in Inclusive Classroom (5 credits)

Teaches what all educators need to understand about the learning, attention, and behavioral challenges of students with mild to moderate disabilities (e.g., ADHD, LD, and other hidden brain-based disorders), as well as the 'how-to's' of managing these students effectively in the general education classroom. Shares powerful and practical attention, behavioral, and management strategies; and the various interventions and accommodations to enable all diverse learners to achieve success.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 81 Rief, Sandra (5 credits)
- Course completion time: up to one year.
Tuition: $425 flat fee
Register: Register for this course online by clicking here or call 800/482-3848.
Fees: Additional $35 materials fee payable to the instructor. Course media: print/DVD/CD-ROM.

EDSP 5941 Effectively Serving Children with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities: Core Training (2-3 credits)

This course will provide an in-depth immersion in the critical elements for working successfully with students with challenging behavior. Participants will experience the strategies at the same time they learn how to implement them in their own settings. This course is designed to provide front line service providers (education, mental health, and Para educator) with the skills and knowledge necessary to implement effective interventions with children and youth with or at-risk for E/BD. Topics include: components of a structured and effective environment, designing effective instruction, effective behavior management, working with groups effectively, understanding the conflict cycle, and creating positive behavior support plans for students and their families. May be repeated for credit up to 6 credits. Equivalents: CEU 2695 and EDCN 5541. Class not open to: Undergraduate level.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 1202 Finigan, Karen (3 credits)
Aug 6-Aug 10 8:30am-4:30pm MTWThF Puget Sound ESD, Blackriver Conference Center, Renton, WA
(Also available under CEU 2695 (3-3.5 Units))
Tuition: $45 per credit
Register: Preregistration is required: all registration materials should be sent to: WAREA PO Box 37 Lynnwood, WA 98046-0037 or register online at www.warea.org.
Fees: Additional $50 course fee payable to WAREA.

EDUC 5180 Multiple Intelligences: Strengthening Teaching (1-5 credits)

Study Dr. Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) which identifies at least eight different ways people understand and know their world, communicate, and solve problems. Explore different MI teaching and assessment applications. Gain experience creating lesson plans and a curricular unit which utilize MI concepts. Apply MI strategies to nurture diverse strengths in students and thereby increase teaching effectiveness and student motivation. Class not open to: Undergraduate level.
Term CRN Instructor Credits
School Year 2011 - 2012 357 Rolling, Julie (2 credits)
Sep 1-Aug 31 - Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, contact Claudine Rode at crode@psesd.org.
Fees: Additional $99 course fee payable to Puget Sound ESD. Course medium: Internet.
School Year 2011 - 2012 520 Lomas, Barbara (2 credits)
- Course completion time: up to six months.
Tuition: $40 per credit
Register: To register for this course, go to www.esd112.org and click on "Courses."
Fees: plus cost of materials. Course medium: Internet.

 
 
 

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