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Description:
This course guides learners through a quality televised workshop from the Annenberg Foundation, with an online reflective component concerning educational issues. The eight professional development workshops show inquiry teaching and learning in action in real classrooms. Whether participants have already experimented with inquiry teaching and want to enhance their practice, or are new to the approach, this workshop will show how to make it work in the classroom and how it benefits students.

Each one-hour program features classroom case studies and informative discussions. The Learning Science through Inquiry workshop provides a solid starting point to explore, discuss, and critique the inquiry approach—and ultimately put it to use in the classroom. 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:
Some Computer Experience

Type of course:
Online

Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:

• Describe what inquiry teaching entails and how this strategy helps students to learn.
• Demonstrate how to set the stage for an inquiry community of learners classroom.
• Participate in a reflective online component using WebCT.
• Improve teaching techniques and skills using pedagogically proven methods.
• Create and implement a lesson plan utilizing these new techniques and skills.

Online Materials:
Annenberg Media: Learner.org
Find support materials for every workshop, as well as a complete list of all Annenberg programs. Most of the programs listed at the Annenberg site will be offered in future sections of the UEN Televised Workshops.

Credit:
1 hour USOE credit 1 semester hour SUU credit

Points:
16 licensure points

Assignment:
For points only, complete weekly reading, writing and discussion activities defined in the online course materials.

For credit, participants complete the weekly assignments and must ALSO complete a final project. For the required project, participants 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.

1. Participant submits a multimedia presentation (power point, digital photos, digital video, etc.) that effectively illustrates the classroom activity. If not currently a classroom teacher, 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.
2. Participant submits a one page reflection about the workshop experience 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