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Description:
This course will guide learners through a quality televised workshop from the Annenberg Foundation, with an online reflective component concerning educational issues. Conversations in Literature is a professional development workshop series for language arts teachers working with students in middle and high schools. In addition to the televised workshops, the course also includes a reflective online component in which teachers will discuss relevant topics concerning educational theory and practice.

Pre-requisites:
Participants need to have regular access to the Internet. Basic computer and Internet skills are helpful.

Skill Level:
Little Computer Experience

Type of course:
Online

Learning Outcomes:
Participants will: • Observe a sample group of readers and their discussions as examples of the ways effective readers interact with a text and each other. • Explore the habits of the mind these readers employ and how they help them form unique and intricate interactions with the text. • Think about the ways you can encourage these habits of the mind in your own students. • Participate in a reflective online component using WebCT. • Create and implement a lesson plan utilizing these new techniques and skills.

Credit:
1 hour USOE credit 1 semester hour SUU credit

Points:
16 licensure points

Assignment:
1. Televised Workshops – The workshops air on KULC/Channel 9, weekly on Saturdays for 8 sessions of 60 minutes each. 2. Online participation –The online segment of the course involves two primary assignments: • Using Web CT students will respond to questions related to that week’s workshop. For about 30 minutes online a week, students read workshop materials, share ideas, and post responses to the weekly assignments from the televised workshop. • In addition to the weekly assignments from the televised workshops, participants will also be involved in an online community of learners. Using Web CT, students from all of the different televised courses will be required to post their opinions to various issues related to educational theory and practice. 3. Final Project- A final project is necessary for everyone seeking USOE or university credit. • For the final project, participants must create a presentation based on an individual classroom project that demonstrates one concrete way in which they have implemented workshop concepts and strategies in the classroom. Participants should create a multimedia presentation (power point, digital photos, digital video, etc.) that effectively illustrates the classroom activity. If not currently a classroom teacher, the participant may modify the project as appropriate. For example, a parent may work with his or her own children or with a small group of students in an informal learning setting. This assignment will be submitted through WebCT as an attachment. • Additionally, students should submit a one page reflection about their experience in the workshop and how they plan to implement new techniques and strategies in their own classrooms. This should also be submitted as an attachment through WebCT.

This class meets the following NETS for teachers:
I. B II. A, III. A, III. B, III. C, IV. A, IV. B, V. C, VI. A, VI. B