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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. Engaging in Literature centers on the belief that students have the innate skill to make sense of information they discover in a text—if they are presented with the opportunity and expectation of doing so, and are generously scaffolded by their teachers as their story worlds evolve through reading, writing, and talking about literature. Individual programs deal with initiating and maintaining such a classroom community while dealing with numerous pragmatic issues, including high-stakes assessments and meeting the needs of students of many ability levels.

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:

• 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.

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-TV 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