ESA Winter/Spring Online Course Offerings

A bookstudy: What Great Teacher Do Differently
Description: “It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it. How do you deal with all the demands placed on you? How do Great Teachers deal with those same demands? What about the high achievers? How do you handle bullies in the classroom? What will your best students think about your teaching performance? How will you teach your struggling students? What about those standardized tests? These ideas and others will be presented and explored in the course to offer understanding into the world of great teaching. What sets great teachers apart from the rest?

Course Textbook: What Great Teachers Do Differently: Fourteen Things That Matter Most by Todd Whitaker 2003. You can purchase the text from this amazon link http://tinyurl.com/6aczy8

Participants can earn one graduate credit for this course ($40).  The course session dates are Feb 5 - March 5, 2009.


Formative Assessment 101
Description: Assessment is the key that can motivate, restore the desire, and encourage students to learn. This course will focus on summative and formative assessments, designing quality assessments, and communicating results with students and parents.

Course Textbook:  Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right – Using It Well by Rick Stiggins, Judith Arter, Jan Chappuis, Steve Chappuis 2006. You can purchase the text from this amazon link  http://tinyurl.com/572wjm

Participants can earn one graduate credit for this course ($40).  The course session dates are Jan. 7 - March 18, 2009.

netTrekker: an introduction
Description: Participants will access online resources and engage in a self-paced introduction to netTrekker. netTrekker is an educational search tool designed specifically for k-12 schools. It contains over 300,000 resources aligned with state standards and organized by readability and grade level.

No Course Textbook: All resources are online.

This is a mini-course and does not meet the contact requirements for graduate credit. Courses will run Monday – Friday on these weeks: Dec. 8, Dec 15, Jan 5, Jan 12, Jan 19, Jan 26, Feb 9 and Feb 16.