Free classes?

John Muir Academy has teamed with ide@s, the portal website for Wisconsin curriculum and educational resources, to offer free classes for Wisconsin teachers. Teachers can take classes at John Muir Academy and waive the $350 registration fee, if they agree to submit two curricular units to ide@s. Typically, these kinds of units are the work teachers do anyway for their grad credits at John Muir.

A feature class that will be taught by Sharon Ellner is Teach Essentials, an Intel course that will take teachers through all the steps necessary for completing the units for ide@s.

In the Teach Essentials class, participants will:

• Create a unit of study for the curriculum they teach by using the Backwards Design (Understanding by Design) method
• Learn about and use Web 2.0 technologies (blogs, wikis, etc.) throughout the course to see how these 21st Century tools can be embedded in teaching learning.
• Learn how to write a problem-based learning unit that weaves content area curriculum, real-world tasks, and 21st skills to make learning engaging for students.
• Develop an assessment plan for their unit that involves student self-assessment, peer-assessment as well as teacher assessment of both the process and product.

The week for John Muir Academy is July 27-31. The Academy will be at Verona High School.

For more details, see the John Muir Academy website at: http://www.johnmuiracademy.org/Catalog_Verona.html

Or contact Jeff Horney directly at: horney@conted.uwex.edu

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