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Graduate Courses for
continuing education
Graduate Courses. Powerful Study.
Gain the content knowledge, practical teaching skills and strategies you need
to raise your students’ achievement immediately and continuously with online
continuing education courses from Teachscape, a leader in providing high-quality
online professional development programs for educators. Marygrove College has
partnered with Teachscape to offer online graduate courses through the Continuing
Education Department at Marygrove. Marygrove College is accredited by the Higher
Learning Commission of the North Central Association (NCA)*. These three semester-hour
graduate credit online courses are the equivalent workload of the same on-campus
courses-but experienced through the convenience and power of anytime-anywhere
learning. Tuition is $450 for each course, which includes all materials.
How the online courses work
- Courses are self-paced. After you
sign up, you can begin your coursework immediately.
- Access the course from any computer
with internet access.
- View online videos of expert commentaries
and classroom demonstrations.
- Although you complete the course
as an individual, you will be asked to collaborate and
problem-solve with colleagues (who do not need to be registered
for the course).
- Apply concepts and skills immediately
into your classroom practice.
- Complete the course in as few as
7 weeks or as long as one year
- Submit all of your assignments online
for grading.
Why Take a Graduate Course for Continuing Education? Interactive
sessions enable practitioners to deepen their content knowledge
and expand their teaching repertoires through:
- Readings that provide critical background
research and a knowledge base for the course of study
- Video case studies of best practices,
research in action, and proven instructional strategies
in real classrooms with real teachers and students engaged
in unscripted, unrehearsed activities
- Commentary and guidance from internationally
renowned content-area experts
- Opportunities for problem solving
and collaboration with colleagues
- Assignments that enable application
of new concepts and skills to classroom practice
Choose the course
that best meets your needs:
> Teacher as Leader,
K-12
This
course introduces participants to current research
related to teacher leadership. A growing body
of evidence shows that teacher leaders can initiate
positive school reform and actually sustain it.
This course focuses on teacher leaders and examines
the specific characteristics of successful teachers.
Participants become reflective practitioners
as they study the current state of education
and leading reform efforts. They learn leadership
strategies, and then apply them in classrooms,
schools, and communities. Participants set personal
goals outlining ways they can strengthen their
commitment to student learning and achievement.
> Instructional
Design, K-12
This
course establishes a comprehensive way for teachers
to engage in unit planning and instructional
design. Based on the intensive backwards-design
model (Understanding by Design) of Wiggins & McTighe,
teachers learn to "create" curriculum
rather than "cover" it. Participants
integrate assessment into their planning and
create a sequence of learning experiences that
logically and meaningfully help students meet
required learning goals. In addition, participants
learn how to align their instructional design
to state and local standards.
> Understanding
Teaching & Learning, grades K-12
This
course focuses on the intricacies of how people
learn. It establishes the firm foundation necessary
for instructional leaders to make intelligent
decisions about the types of teaching strategies
and instructional plans they utilize in their
classrooms. The course covers recent research
related to theories of learning and cognition.
Participants are asked to apply these theories
in their classrooms so that they will use their
knowledge of learning theory to strengthen their
instructional practices and commitment to student
learning and achievement.
> Research-Based
Instructional Strategies to Improve Student Achievement,
grades K-12
Robert
Marzano and his colleagues at Mid-continent Research
for Education and Learning (McREL) examined 30
years of research about the effectiveness of
specific instructional practices in terms of
student achievement and have identified nine
strategies that have been proven to increase
student success. Research-Based Instructional
Strategies to Improve Student Achievement explores
the classroom implications of that research by
helping participants identify how and when to
use these nine strategies in instruction-at any
grade level or in any content area.
> Research-Based
Strategies for Improving Reading Success, grades
K-6
Based
on research from the National Reading Panel and
consultation with internationally recognized
reading specialists, Research-Based Strategies
for Improving Reading Success uses best-practices
video case studies, specialist commentaries,
student work, and collegial collaboration to
enable participants to identify sound theories
and principles for teaching reading and apply
the most effective instructional plans and methods
to their practice to improve student learning.
> Fundamentals
of Mathematics: Teaching for Conceptual Understanding,
grades 2-6
In
Fundamentals of Mathematics, participants build
content knowledge by moving from procedural to
conceptual strategies in the areas of number
and operations, measurement, geometry, and algebra.
Through analysis of research, specialist commentaries,
video-based classroom examples, and student work,
teachers examine ways to develop mathematical
fluency that lead to continued student improvement.
> Proportional
Reasoning in the Middle Grades, grades 6-8
This
course examines mathematical content and pedagogy
related to proportional reasoning, including
the concepts of ratio and proportion, geometric
properties, and measurement. Teachers' decision
making before, during, and after instruction
is also covered.
> Meeting the Needs
of All Students, grades K-12
This
course provides teachers with proven strategies
and classroom management techniques to help them
reach all of their students regardless of ability,
language development, race, socioeconomic status,
gender, and/or learning challenges.
> Effective Assessment,
grades K-12
This
course grounds teachers in effective ways to
assess their students, and how to use this information
to modify their instructional practices.
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*NCA is located at:
30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, Illinois 60602.
Phone: 312-263-0456, Fax: 312-263-7462, http://www.ncahigherlearningcommision.org
>> For a full listing of courses, please click here.
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