Licensed Personnel
The School and Agency Network each year offers more than 100 courses specially formatted to meet the emerging needs of dynamic and rapidly changing educational institutions.
Listed below are current courses being offered for districts or agencies in central Ohio. Only teachers and administrators currently employed by the district or agency requesting courses are eligible for participation. To verify eligibility, please contact your district professional development director.
Columbus Public Schools:
Note: Applications are not being accepted at this time. All courses are 3 graduate credit hours, except where noted.
Critical Reading in the Content Fields (EDUT&L 853)
Description:
Critical Reading in the Content Areas is designed to familiarize students with the theory and practice of an emerging and expanding view of the linkage between literacy learning and content reading. This course focuses on reading strategies (pre, during, and post) for content classes. However, it will also support all reading teachers.
This course is one of the requirements for the Reading Specialist Endorsement
Start Date: January 9
Instructor(s): Dr. Susan Hayward
Diversity Matters
Description: The rationale of this course is to help professionals in educational settings (as well as other settings) have a knowledge base for working more effectively with children and adults of varying cultural backgrounds. This course will explore various aspects of multicultural education understanding that it "cannot be understood in a vacuum".
Start Date: January 4
Instructor(s): Dr. Antoinette Miranda
Educators and the Arts: The Literary Arts
Description: Engaging in dialogue and discussions with writers and their use of the several literary art forms. Attending readings and other scheduled literary events and presentations throughout Columbus.
Start Date: January 4
Instructor(s): Dr. Sy Kleinman
Special Education: New and Emerging Assistive Technologies for Individuals with Disabilities (EDU PAES 716)
Description:
The purpose of this course is to help students gain the skills needed to assist persons with disabilities in the selection and use of adaptive and assistive technology (AT). The key words here are "to assist persons with disabilities"; the selection and use of the technology should be the responsibility of the consumer, to the greatest extent possible.
Students will learn where to find information on technology, to evaluate a person's technology needs, and to identify how and where to procure AT. Students will analyze factors needed to integrate technology into the lives of persons with disabilities and identify variables related to successful application. Legal, ethical, and funding issues will be addressed. Assistive technology in the following functional areas will be emphasized: (a) communication, (b) learning (e.g., math, reading, and writing), (c) mobility, and (d) computer applications.
This course is one of the requirements for the Intervention Specialist Licensure Program.
Start Date: January 3
Instructor(s): Dr. Joe Wheaton
Special Topics in Education: Math Education (Data Analysis and Probability)
Description:
The focus of this course will be mainly on data analysis – elementary statistics concepts, along with notions of elementary probability. Course participants will engage in collecting, analyzing, displaying, and interpreting data to make informed choices, as well as ideas related to chance, odds, and other probability-related themes. It will provide teachers the opportunity to examine the instructional strategies used to teach the mathematics content and to plan instruction to implement these strategies in their classrooms.
This course meets the Highly Qualified Teacher requirement for Secondary Mathematics for Special Education Teachers.
Start Date: January 9
Instructor(s): Dr. Sybil Brown
Strategies For A Successful Classroom
Description: The Strategies For A Successful Classroom course is designed for young teachers in the Columbus Public Schools. The purpose of the course is to offer sessions that are directly aligned with issues young teachers face in Columbus. The first half of the weekly sessions will be used to present information about the weekly topic to ensure that the participants have a theoretical understanding of the theme, and why it is important to their work in Columbus Public Schools. The second half of each class session will offer opportunities for teachers to address their individual concerns related to the weekly topic. It is intended that the teachers have time to discuss their concerns in small groups, receive suggestions and feedback from course instructors, and that they leave with practical ideas to take back to their classrooms.
Start Date: January 9
Instructor(s): CPS PAR Consulting teachers
Using Value-Added Reporting to Impact Instruction
Description:
Research clearly shows that schools and classrooms that consistently use data to inform instructional practice have higher student achievement. There is evidence that in many schools and classroom teachers are choosing not to use existing data. Their reluctance to do so may be grounded in a lack of understanding of how to apply it to everyday teaching and learning. Unfortunately, many educators never received basic training in their college preparation, and many who did may need a refresher course. The purpose of this course is twofold:
To acquaint (or re-acquaint) educators with the basic concepts and terminology needed to hold meaningful conversations about data directly related to student achievement, leading to informed instructional decisions for improving student performance.
To develop a cadre of educators skilled at using value-added data to inform their classroom instruction, resulting in improved student achievement.
This course will be a combination of online and 10 face-to-face meetings and will occur over two quarters: Winter, 2007 and Spring, 2007.
Start Date: January 9
Instructor(s): Dr. Wendy Naumann
Credit: 6 Graduate Quarter Hours for Spring Quarter
Other Franklin County districts
Bexley City Schools: Nothing at this time
Canal Winchester Local Schools: Nothing at this time
Columbus Diocese: Nothing at this time
Dublin Local Schools: Nothing at this time
Eastland / Fairfield C & TS: Nothing at this time
Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools: Nothing at this time
Grandview Heights City Schools: Nothing at this time
Groveport Madison Schools: Nothing at this time
Hamilton Local Schools: Nothing at this time
Hilliard City Schools: Nothing at this time
New Albany-Plain Local Schools: Nothing at this time
Reynoldsburg City Schools: Nothing at this time
South-Western City Schools: Will offer courses Spring 2007
Upper Arlington City Schools: Nothing at this time
Westerville City Schools: Nothing at this time
Whitehall City Schools: Nothing at this time
Worthington City Schools: Nothing at this time
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