EDU 6710-C08
Studying Skillful Teaching: Course One
Course Overview and Objectives:
Studying Skillful Teaching: Course One is the first of a multi-part series that focuses on improving student learning and achievement by building capacity in three major areas:
1) teachers’ use of a varied and extensive professional knowledge base about teaching
2) students’ and teachers’ beliefs about their own ability to learn
3) schools and school systems’ ability to create and sustain professional communities characterized by shared goals, collaborative work, and shared accountability.
During the course students examine and experiment with:
• approaches to a) planning for mastery b) monitoring learning and adjusting instruction, and c) providing feedback on work in a standards-based environment
• ways to frame learning and help students make connections
• matches between explanatory devices and questioning patterns and standards and objectives
• opportunities to send students clear expectation messages and to help students acquire the strategies and mindsets that characterize effective effort
• ways to link and capitalize on the knowledge of skilled individuals to build cultures that sustain learning and achievement
For course information contact: James Warnock, Truenorth17@earthlink.net, (802) 453-4660
For registration information and assistance contact:
Sandra Skeens, Castleton State College, Woodruff Hall, Castleton, Vermont 05735
Sandra.skeens@castleton.edu, (802) 468-1456, fax (802) 468-6470
Download a registration form here.
Note: Please make checks in the amount of $450 payable to Rutland City School District and forward all payments to the attention of Sandra Skeens, Castleton State College, Woodruff Hall, Castleton, Vermont 05735. |
