Adolescent Literature: Middle to High School Level(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810Description: This course introduces you to the powerful role the world of print plays in understanding ourselves and our world. Literature enables adolescents and others to discern meaning in life and its experiences, to explore language and ideas, to be entertained and informed, and to dialogue with others about the written word. Geared for middle through high school, the course emphasizes the history of the discipline, issues of development and young adult literature, literary genres, and Instructional implications. Helps meet Oregon and Washington benchmarks. Primary Audience: Middle-High School Tuition: $700.00 - Payment made out to Portland State UniversityInstructor: Anne Maxham
American Literature for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This course introduces you to two ambitious topics: American literature from its inception to the present day and to techniques for teaching contemporary American literature to adolescents. It acquaints you with selected significant literary works in a variety of genres from the last two hundred years to the 20th century. The course explores the teaching of selections of American literature in active, dynamic ways. When literature is taught effectively, it enables adolescents and others to discern meaning in life and its experiences, to explore culture, language and ideas, to be entertained and informed, to understand themselves, others, and the world, and to about the written word. Geared for pre-service or in-service educators, this course’s goals are informed by standards adapted from the 1996 National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association and meets Oregon state’s benchmarks and Washington State Essential Learnings . Applicable for middle through high school.
Primary Audience: Middle-High School
British Literature for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810Description: This course should more appropriately be titled English Literature since it refers to the poetry, prose, and drama written in the English language. English or British Literature has a rich and expansive history. It includes masterpieces of numerous genres such as the novel, short story, epic, and lyric poetry, the essay, literary criticism, and drama. It is one of the oldest national literatures in western civilization and features some of the world’s most prominent literary figures. This course offers a chronologically-oriented study of key texts and in doing so provides an introduction to works that led to the development of American and British literature. Applicable for middle through high school. Primary Audience: Middle-High School Tuition: $700.00 - Payment made out to Portland State UniversityInstructor: Anne Maxham
Child & Adolescent Literature for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This course introduces the powerful role stories play in understanding ourselves and our world. Literature enables children to discern meaning in their lives, to explore language, to ponder ideas and experiences, to be entertained and informed and to dialogue with other readers about meanings of the written word. Because children’s literature is so valuable to children, it should certainly be valuable to those who teach children. This course emphasizes three broad dimensions of children’s literature. These include history of the discipline, issues of child development and children’s literature, and instructional implications and field-based experiences. Applicable for Intermediate through middle school.
Primary Audience: Intermediate - Middle Tuition: $700.00 - Payment made out to Portland State University
Effective Communication in Secondary Classrooms(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This course introduces you to a wide range of communication concepts and processes and to appropriate pedagogy for teaching communication in secondary classrooms. While providing a broad overview of communication theory, the course emphasizes the application of effective strategies in educational, professional, and everyday settings. The outcomes are also informed by the 1996 Standards for the English Language Arts from the National Council of Teachers of English Language Arts and the International Reading Association and from Washington State’s Essential Academic Learnings and Oregon State’s benchmarks for communication. This course helps you meet the state and national guidelines. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
Developing Students’ language and Communication Skills(3 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810Description: This course addresses ways to improve communication verbally, non-verbally, interpersonally, in small groups, and in public speaking. You will learn a wide range of communication concepts and processes and to appropriate pedagogy for teaching communication in K-8 classrooms. The course is structured to enable you to achieve two broad course outcomes: the knowledge and ability to teach diverse students communication skills appropriate for numerous audiences and purposes; and, the knowledge and ability to respond to the impact of race, gender, language diversity, and social influences on communication. This course helps meet Oregon’s benchmarks and Washington State’s essential academic learnings. Primary Audience: K-8 Tuition: $600.00 - Payment made out to Portland State University
Science in the Multicultural K-8 Classroom(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: In this course, students identify K-8 disciplinary science concepts, demonstrate knowledge of Oregon’s benchmarks and Washington State’s Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs) for Science, identify whether the benchmark are included in instructional materials, demonstrate appropriate instructional and assessment methods for the teaching of science, and demonstrate knowledge and skills to reduce negative gender or minority student achievement issues in science. This course addresses the Oregon State benchmarks and the Washington State required essential area of science. Primary Audience: K-8
Concepts for K-8 Health and Fitness(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This course introduces pre-service or in-service educators to health and fitness concepts that are appropriate for K-8 grade instruction. The course emphasizes active, healthy and safe behaviors. Health and physical fitness, while related disciplines, are nevertheless broad and far- reaching. For the purposes of this course, they are integrated by being anchored in Oregon State’s requirements and Washington State’s Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRSs) for Health and Fitness. Content is also influenced by the National Health Education Standards. Primary Audience: K-8
Integrated Arts for the Classroom Teacher(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This course introduces educators to diverse forms of artistic expression including music, dance, visual arts and drama. Upon successful completion of this course, you will have gained the knowledge and ability to experience and analyze different art disciplines, explore one’s artistic skills and apply one’s knowledge of the arts, apply the essential learnings in instruction, and teach and reflect upon the art forms. Applicable for grades K-8. Primary Audience: K-8
K-8 Social Studies Concepts(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This four-credit course introduces pre-service or in-service educators to basic concepts of social studies. Based on course readings, students will reflect on history, geography, civics, and economics, record their thoughts, and design lesson plans for K-8 students. The content of this course is based on the Discipline Standards of the National Council for Social Studies in U.S. History, which align closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for U.S. History. Primary Audience: K-8
Mechanics of Writing for the K-12 Classroom(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: The content of this course addresses Oregon’s benchmarks and Washington State’s Essential Learning Requirements for writing conventions . The course expands your content knowledge of the mechanics of writing in a user-friendly fashion. You will fine tune your writing mechanic skills and you will consider ways to teach such content to secondary level students. You will also gain clarity about writing conventions, manuscript preparation, and ways to reduce bias in language usage. By the end of this course you will have increased your background knowledge of writing conventions and will have identified curricular topics that are appropriate for instruction to secondary students. Applicable for middle through high school. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
Multicultural Literature for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This course introduces participants to numerous dimensions of multicultural literature and ways to teach such literature to adolescents. For the purposes of this course, multicultural literature is perceived primarily as a search for identity, a developmental challenge many adolescents are negotiating. The course addresses the ways individuals define themselves through differences, such as skin color, religious beliefs, gender, or cultural practices, and through similarities in feelings, relationships, or life goals. The course also explores the teaching of multicultural literature (or any other form of literature) in active, dynamic ways including integrating multiculturalism across the curriculum. Applicable for grades 6-12. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
Story Writing Using Science Concepts and Reading Strategies in the Classroom(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: You will learn how to use a variety of prewriting strategies such as using a content based pictured event to help students generate story ideas and build vocabulary related to science concepts and their story ideas. How to use interactive, ready made who, what, when, why and how question work pages to guidestudents through the prewriting process will also be introduced. Specific visual reading, writing and spelling strategies will explored. You will also gain an understanding of how to integrate science concepts using a balance literacy approach while at the same time meeting the needs of the diverse group of learners in their classroom. Specific visual strategies to help students organize their writing ideas as well as to refine and edit their ideas will also be a topic in the course. Primary Audience: K-6 classroom teachers, ELLteachers, special education teachers, reading specialists, literacy support staff and instructional assistants
Solving Reading Problems: Middle/High School(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This four-credit course introduces pre-service or in-service educators to research-based principles and practices for strengthening the reading skills of adolescents. It specifically targets the needs of adolescents who struggle with reading or who hesitate to engage in classroom-related reading tasks. This course emerged from the professor’s ten years of teaching in public junior and senior high schools, her tutoring of disenfranchised and traumatized youth, and her abiding belief that all students, and society as a whole, benefit from the attainment of advanced literacy skills. While much attention has focused on the needs of beginning readers, this course, by contrast, addresses the instructional needs of the adolescent, roughly those students between the ages of 12 to 21. The content of this course aligns closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for Reading. Primary Audience: Middle-College
The Structure of Language for Educators(3 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This three-credit course introduces you to language use, development, and acquisition. While at first glance, this topic may appear somewhat dry, the course addresses interesting sociopolitical issues such as language and gender, nonstandard English usage in the classroom, and language policy such as the “English only” movement. The course emphasizes “applied linguistics” that enrich teachers’ knowledge and skills in the classroom. This course addresses the Washington State required essential area – that of the social and historical aspects of language. In addition, it addresses a standard from the 1996 National Council of Teachers of English, that of teaching language acquisition skills. Primary Audience: Elementary - Middle School
World Literature for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This course introduces participants to two ambitious topics: world literature and techniques for teaching literature to adolescents. It acquaints you with selected significant literary works of several continents from ancient to modern times. The course explores the teaching of world literature (or any other form of literature) in active, dynamic ways. When literature is taught effectively, it enables adolescents and others to discern meaning in life and its experiences, to explore culture, language and ideas, to be entertained and informed, to understand themselves, others, and the world, and to dialogue about the written word. This course’s goals are informed by standards adapted from the 1996 National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. . This course helps meet Oregon’s benchmarks and Washington State’s essential academic learnings. Applicable from grades 6-12. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
The Writing Process for Educators(3 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This course introduces you to the writing process, issues, and methods appropriate for elementary and middle level instruction. Its goals and outcomes are based upon meeting Oregon’s benchmark requirements and/or Washington State’s Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs) for Writing and the 1996 National Council of Teachers of English Standards. You will be able to establish an environment that promotes writing integrate the essential benchmark requirements into instruction, design and teach a variety of genres for a variety of purposes, evaluate students’ writing, and implement writers’ workshop in the classroom. Primary Audience: K-8
Civics for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This course introduces educators to civics. Based on course readings, you will reflect on the principles of democracy, the purposes and organization of government, laws and international relationships, and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. You will record your thoughts and design lesson plans for secondary students. The content of this course is based on the Discipline Standards of the National Council for Social Studies in U.S. History, which align closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for U.S. History. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
Economics for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This four-credit course, introduces educators to basic economic concepts and the effects of economic systems on individuals, groups, and nations. Based on course readings, you will reflect on these foundations of economics, record their thoughts, and design lesson plans for secondary students. The content of this course is based on the Discipline Standards of the National Council for Social Studies in Economics, which align closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for Economics. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
Geography for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This four-credit course introduces pre-service or in-service educators to Geography. Based on course readings and resources, students will reflect on peoples, places, demographics, and the earth itself, record their thoughts, and design lesson plans for secondary students. The content of this course is based on the Discipline Standards of the National Council for Social Studies in Geography, which align closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for Geography. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
A Multicultural Perspective of U.S. History(3 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This three-credit course, introduces educators to A Multicultural Perspective of U.S. History. Based on course readings, students will reflect on significant “multicultural” events and individuals from U.S. History, record their thoughts, and design lesson plans for secondary students. The content of this course is based on the Discipline Standards of the National Council for Social Studies in U.S. History, which align closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for U.S. History. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
Early North American history to the Civil War for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This four-credit course introduces educators to basic concepts of North American history from before Columbus to the Civil War. Based on course readings, students will reflect on the events and issues of early North American History to the Civil War, record their thoughts, and design lesson plans for secondary students. The content of this course is based on the Discipline Standards of the National Council for Social Studies in U.S. History, which align closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for U.S. History. Primary Audience: Middle-High School Tuition: $700.00 - Payment made out to Portland State University
Pacific Northwest History: A Secondary Classroom Perspective(3 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This three-credit course, introduces pre-service or in-service educators to Pacific Northwest History. Based on course readings, participants will reflect on issues, events, and individuals in Pacific Northwest History, record their thoughts, and design lesson plans for secondary students. The content of this course is based on the Discipline Standards of the National Council for Social Studies in U.S. History, which align closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for U.S. History. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
U.S. History from the Civil War to 2000 for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This four-credit course introduces educators to basic concepts of American history from the time of the Civil War. Based on course readings, students will reflect on the events and issues of American History from the Civil War to 2000, record their thoughts, and design lesson plans for secondary students. The content of this course is based on the Discipline Standards of the National Council for Social Studies in U.S. History, which align closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for U.S. History. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
United States Government for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This four-credit course introduces educators to basic concepts of United States government. Based on course readings, you will reflect on the foundations of U.S. government and democracy, record their thoughts, and design lesson plans for secondary students. The content of this course is based on the Discipline Standards of the National Council for Social Studies in U.S. History, which align closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for U.S. History. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
Women’s History(3 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This three-credit course introduces pre-service or in-service educators to the achievements of famous and lesser-known women whose efforts have transformed their communities and countries. Through course readings and related activities, students will identify key figures, events, and themes in women’s history and design and teach lesson plans to secondary students that introduce them to the female half of history. The content of this course is based on the Discipline Standards of the National Council for Social Studies, which align closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for History. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
World History for Educators(4 Quarter Hours Graduate Credit) - CI 810
Description: This four-credit course introduces educators to basic concepts of world history. Based on course readings, you will reflect on these foundations, cultures, events, people and places of world history, record your thoughts, and design lesson plans for secondary students. The content of this course is based on the Discipline Standards of the National Council for Social Studies in World History, which align closely with Oregon State Benchmarks and Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements for World History. Primary Audience: Middle-High School
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