Course Number: | EDU 5515 C14 |
Instructor: | Laura Terry |
Location: | Online using Canvas |
Dates and Times: | February 14 - April 25, 2022 |
Credits: | 3 Graduate Credits |
Tuition: | $1,195 |
This course focuses on the need for responsive teaching in our classrooms. By incorporating healthy and effective responsive teaching, all students with diverse needs and abilities will be successful. By learning how to implement curriculum and instruction thoughtfully and how to communicate what we teach, we as teachers build trusting and healthy connections and relationships with all our students. Students in our classrooms will then be empowered to be all they can be!
“Teachers need to communicate...I respect who you are as well as who you can become; I want to know you; You are unique and valuable; I believe in you; I have time for you; I learn when I listen to you; This place is yours too; and We need you here." (Tomlinson, 2003)
“I have the opportunity each and every day to help kids feel like competent, important people.” (Nieto, 2005)
“Teaching is based on trust, and when students see me as a real person who genuinely wants them to succeed, strong bonds are formed.” (Nieto, 2005)
“I teach because it requires that I become my most courageous self, and I am constantly inspired by students who learn the power of being whole people along with me.” (Nieto, 2005)
Course Goals & Objectives
Student Expectations and Goals:
Students will..
- Implement in the classroom the necessary elements in order to meet each learners' individual and diverse needs
- Understand and incorporate the following components: the needs of learners, the response of teachers, and the use of curriculum and instruction
- Reflect and respond to assigned weekly readings that relate directly to the incorporation of a successfully diverse and inclusive classroom
- Implement knowledge and design instruction gained from this course directly to your classroom teachings
- Collaborate with peers around strengths, challenges, and ideas for implementing an inclusive learning environment to meet all diverse learners' needs and learning styles.
- Encounter and discover how individual diversity is so empowering to both learners and educators in the classroom
Learning Outcomes:
- Meet the diverse needs of all learners in your classroom through responsive teaching
- Effectively, thoughtfully, and successfully implement curriculum and instruction to all your learners
- Develop strategies needed to build strong, trusting, and healthy connections and relationships with every learner
- Engage in daily opportunities to implement these strategies with all learners
- Reflect and respond to weekly readings that will enrich teachers' knowledge of responsive teaching, and promote healthy and effective responsive teaching opportunities
- Encounter how individual diversity and inclusion is so empowering for all...teacher and learners!
Required Texts:
Costs for required readings, if any, are not included in the course tuition.
The Text: Fulfilling The Promise Of The Differentiated Classroom" by Carol Ann Tomlinson
In addition, there will also be articles provided by the instructor.
Laura Terry
(802) 849-2225
Bethany Sprague
(802) 468-1325