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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. This particular series of eight professional development for secondary Social Studies teachers explore questions such as: Why do people migrate? What factors determine city location, growth, and development? How does place influence the spread of disease? These questions form the basis of inquiry for geographers, teachers, and students. In exploring such questions, this video workshop provides a strong foundation in geography content and inquiry-teaching skills, as outlined in the National Geography Standards. The video programs combine case studies that profile locations around the globe, engaging classroom segments, and commentary from geography and pedagogy experts.

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:

• understand and implement four major instructional objectives:
1. Teaching the geographical perspective - spatial consideration, including size, scale, relative location, regional similarities, spatial variation, and human-environmental interaction.
2. Teaching World Regional Geography content - understanding why and how places with similar characteristics evolve as distinct cultural and geographical regions; comparing and contrasting regions.
3. Teaching Human (Thematic) Geography content for the new College Board Advanced Placement test - investigating urbanization, rural land use, migration, and other aspects of population, the spatial nature of politics and land use patterns.
4. Integrating the 18 National Geography Standards, the geographic perspective, and five geographic skills with the geographic content.

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.

UEN TV Workshops
Find a schedule of programs currently showing, as well as information about this and other UEN TV workshops being offered by UEN.

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