WTCS Summer 2010 Immersion Experience
Six weeks: June 7 - 25 and July 5-23, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Earn Your WTCS 5-year license in one summer session at UW-Stout!*
UW-Stout is offering a unique Summer Immersion Experience for new technical college instructors this summer. It is designed for individuals who need to complete all seven Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) certification courses. Individuals engage in an intense study of career and technical teaching areas including curriculum, evaluation, diversity, educational psychology, teaching methods, guidance, and principles of career and technical education.
*Before being 5-year certified, a full-time instructor must have two years of teaching experience and a part-time instructor needs to have 8 semesters of teaching.
Benefits:
- Complete the course work towards a WTCS 5-year teaching license by completing all seven certification courses in 6 weeks.
- Be ready to student teach in Fall 2010.
- Engage in a rich learning experience with technical college instructors from all disciplines.
- Apply all 14 undergraduate credits towards a Bachelor of Science in Career,Technical, Education and Training (BS CTET) degree completion program, or
- Apply all 14 graduate credits towards a Master of Science in Career, Technical Education (MS CTE).
- Advance on the pay scale faster.
- Take away new teaching strategies and updated evaluation tools you can use directly in your classroom.
- Learn from experienced UW-Stout faculty.
The Immersion Experience will also include participation in the low ropes course, a cross-cultural field trip to Minneapolis to visit the Somali Mall, Latino Mall, and the Global Marketplace. Students will deliver their micro-teaching lessons in Millennium Hall using one of the distance education classrooms.
For more information
Ms. Melody Brennan, Program Director
BS Career, Technical Education and Training
424 McCalmont Hall,
brennanm@uwstout.edu or 715-232-1600
Dr. Carol Mooney, Program Director
MS Career and Technical Education
232C Communications Technology Bldg
mooneyc@uwstout.edu or 715-232-1444