Summer
Teaching
SPSC 580 P -- Meeting New Challenges in Education -- 1 credit
SPSC 580G P -- Use for graduate credit
This class will focus on some of the most current issues in education: urbanization, violence, poverty, closing the gap, diversity, and No Child Left Behind. The class will look at the effects of these issues on the day to day classroom routine and curriculum as well as a variety of strategies that can be incorporated into the school day to positively impact these effects.
Instructors: Kathy Wilk Otto
Dates:
Monday, July 7 -- Wednesday, July 9
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Room: Lentz Hall 230
SPSC 511 P -- Service Learning: What’s It All About? -- 1 credit
SPSC 511G P -- Use for graduate credit
This course will help you set up a Service Learning Project if you do not have one and would like one. It will also help you organize for future projects you would like to accomplish. Give your students an edge in networking with various community agencies and add to their resumes!
Instructors: Melissa Whitaker
Dates: Tuesday, July 8 -- Thursday, July 10
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Room: Lentz Hall 227
SPSC 581 P -- Using Humor to Avoid Teacher Burnout -- 1 credit
SPSC 581G P -- Use for graduate credit
Teachers will learn how to use humor as a healthy coping strategy to avoid burnout. We will learn to laugh at chaos and everyday stresses.
Instructors: Steve DeClark
Dates: Thursday, July 10 -- Friday, July 11
Room: Lentz Hall 230
9:00 a.m. -- 2:15 p.m. (working lunch)
SPSC 448 R -- Children without Fathers: What Teachers and Adults Can Do to Help -- 3 credits
SPSC 448G R -- Use for graduate credit
This course will address critical psychological, social, and academic issues that effect children growing up without a father. Specifically we will be examining three major areas of concern within families: the absentee father, the emotionally and psychologically abusive father, and the chemically dependent father. Specific insights and strategies to help teachers make connections with these kids will be provided throughout this course.
Instructors:Dave Schani
Dates:
Monday, July 14 -- Friday, July 18
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Monday, July 21 -- Thursday, July 24
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Room: Lentz Hall 221
SPSC 451 P -- Designing Discipline -- 1 credit
SPSC 451G P -- Use for graduate credit
The practical and workable ideas of Allen Mendler, Richard Curwin, Lee Canter, and the instructor (Rosanne Hahn) will be studied and discussed. Each participant will have the opportunity to design a workable plan for discipline within his or her K-5 classroom. Teachers will share ideas and have time to network.
Instructors: Rosanne Hahn
Dates:
Tuesday, July 22
8:00 a.m. -- 3:00 p.m. (Working lunch)
Thursday, July 24
8:00 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m.
Room: Lentz Hall 227
SPSC 582 P -- Guided Reading and Literacy Centers -- 1 credit
SPSC 582G P -- Use for graduate credit
Teachers can explore the topics of scheduling of centers and guided reading groups, accountability for center work/grading, grouping of students, and implementing guided reading, as well as ideas for literacy centers both store bought and homemade.
Instructors: Stephanie Goodman
Dates:
Tuesday, July 22 -- Thursday, July 24
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Room: Lentz Hall 337
SPSC 421 Q -- Classroom Assessment for Student Learning -- 2 credits
SPSC 421G Q -- Use for graduate credit
This course will allow classroom teachers at any level the opportunity to work with their own curriculum and develop effective assessment for learning strategies to improve student learning. This course will also focus on reading or gathering information on new assessment ideas and strategies, experimenting with new ideas and reflecting on what would work in the classroom, and sharing lessons/ideas of what could be used in the classroom.
This class will focus on the following topics:
* determining essential knowledge and skills from state standards
* creating effective learning targets for students
* developing classroom assessment strategies to match essential knowledge and skills (including selected response, constructed response, performance assessment, and informal assessment)
* creating quality rubrics
Students in this course will read and study the text Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right, Using It Well by Richard Stiggins, Judith Arter, Jan Chappuis, and Stephen Chappuis of the Assessment Training Institute, Portland, Oregon. Students need to purchase the textbook prior to the first night of class. They are also asked bring along one textbook from their classroom.
Instructors: Jamie Foeckler
Dates:
Tuesday, July 22; Thursday, July 24; Friday, July 25; Monday, July 28; Wednesday, July 30; and Thursday, 31
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Room: Hedberg Library 217
SPSC 583 P -- Reading Alive -- 1 credit
SPSC 583G P -- Use for graduate credit
Want to put pizzazz in your reading curriculum? This course will do just that with lots of practical ideas and projects to interest your students. Designed to be hands on so all modalities of learning styles will be addressed. Ideas ready to be implemented into the classroom immediately. This course is appropriate for teachers of grades K-8.
Instructors: Doreen DeCesaro
Dates:
Wednesday, July 30 -- Thursday, July 31
8:30 a.m. -- 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. -- 2:45 p.m.
Room: Lentz Hall 227
SPSC 584 P -- Make Your Classroom Yours: An Exercise in Classroom Management -- 1 credit
SPSC 584G P -- Use for graduate credit
What is it that all teachers need, but are not taught nearly enough in college? That’s right, classroom management. Some of us struggle with it, but all of us can use more good ideas on how to make our classrooms run more smoothly so we can achieve the maximum amount of teaching time. This course will cover classroom management for teachers from K-8. What’s out there? What do we struggle with? How do we get parents more involved? What are we already doing right? This course will cover all those questions and any more you may have. Sign up now and make your classroom yours!
Instructors: Dick Coshun
Dates:
Monday, August 4 -- Wednesday, August 6
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Room: Lentz Hall 233
SPSC 585 P -- Mama’s Boys and Bullies: Loosening the Gender Straitjackets -- 1 credit
SPSC 585G P -- Use for graduate credit
In this course, we will identify the various male personalities you have in your classrooms and study ways to help all of them be successful. We will study how male students struggle with inner conflicts of who they are and how society sometimes places them into awkward situations, which often creates an emotional wreck or an aggressive young man.
Instructors: Melissa Whitaker
Dates: Tuesday, August 5 -- Thursday, August 7
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Room: Lentz Hall 337
Teaching -- Video Networked Offerings
SPSC 579 R -- Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents -- 3 credits
SPSC 579G R -- Use for graduate credit
This course will address the signs, symptoms, and health consequences of the three most prevalent eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating. We will also take a detailed look at the nationwide crisis of childhood obesity and what teachers and other adults can do to help. We will examine how eating disorders are related to personality, self-esteem, and body image concerns. Classroom activities to help children develop a positive sense of identity, body image, and size acceptance will be provided throughout the course.
Instructors: Dave Schani
Dates:
Monday, June 30 -- Thursday, July 3
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Monday, July 7 -- Friday, July 11
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Room: Hedberg Library 170
SPSC 452 P -- What Works . . . -- 1 credit
SPSC 452G P -- Use for graduate credit
“Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.” -- Unknown
Why recreate the wheel? This session will offer valuable insights and information on school-related issues for teachers and specialists of Pre-K through fifth grade. Topics covered will include classroom management, state standards, inclusion, peer education, testing and assessments, character education, and much more.
Instructors: H. Christine Holmstrom
Dates:
Tuesday, August 5 -- Wednesday, August 6
8:00 a.m. -- 1:15 p.m. (Working lunch)
Room: Hedberg Library 170
Personal Development
SPSC 586 Q -- Learning Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel -- 2 credits
SPSC 586G Q -- Use for graduate credit
We will have fun while learning how to use the basic tools in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Some projects include: flyers, newsletters, personal letters, cards, budgets, presentations, checklists, inventory lists, address books and merging them into a letter, and more! Enjoy learning in a very relaxed and fun environment.
Instructors: Kirsten McCollum
Dates:
Tuesdays (July 15, 22, and 29)
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Thursdays (July 17, 24, and 31)
1:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Room: Straz Center B-12
Personal Development -- Video Networked Offerings
SPSC 587 R -- Living Life to the Fullest: Professionally and Personally -- 3 credits
SPSC 587G R -- Use for graduate credit
This is a fun course designed to give everyone insight and information in how to live life to the fullest. During this course, we will examine exercise made simple for everyone, effective time management techniques, stress reduction strategies, the healing power of humor, the power of positive thinking, the art of forgiveness, understanding and overcoming negative thought patterns, and much more.
Instructors: Dave Schani
Dates:
Monday, July 28 -- Friday, August 1
1:30 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
Monday, August 4 -- Thursday, August 7
1:30 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
Room: Hedberg Library 170
Workshops
Carthage is delighted to offer enrichment workshops for the surrounding communities.
SPSC 588 L -- Introduction to Genealogy
This course is designed for both the beginning and experienced researcher. We will cover how to begin, how to organize material, proper citation of sources, and where to search for records. United States and foreign sources will be examined according to the needs of the students. The related subjects of surnames and heraldry will be covered as they relate to genealogy. Computer programs and searching on the internet will also be discussed.
Instructor: Sue Holt
Dates:
Tuesdays (July 22 and 29 and August 5 and 12)
1:00 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m.
Room: Lentz Hall 230