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Workforce Development: Every Teacher’s Responsibility
EDUC 744 964 3 semester hours graduate credit
Instructor: Becky Mather
Research on the relationship between 21st century skills needed in the workforce and those commonly taught in schools. Explore and implement new strategies and tools for infusing problem solving, teamwork, and creative and innovative thinking into any curricular area's content.
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To be most effective, citizens of the 21st century will need to creatively blend several relatively traditional skills with emerging information and communication tools, problem solving, collaborative teamwork, and creative and critical thinking skills. And they will need to practice these skills in an information landscape that is genre-shifting, media-rich, participatory, socially connected, and brilliantly chaotic. To be most effective, students also need understandings of traditional information structures as well as understandings of the shifts in the way knowledge is built and organized.
Business and industry have continually purported that today's schools are not in sync with the learning needs of today’s students. This course will address that gap and model the use of Web-based tools and resources, among the best vehicles we have for achieving 21st century skills -- and, in the process, expand your own 21st century expertise.
This online course is designed for educators and support staff at all levels including special education teachers and curriculum coordinators.
Because this class is asynchronous and open to you 24/7, you may participate from your home or work computer during hours that are best for your work and family schedule.
The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component. All projects/assignments will be submitted via e-mail or presented via the WWW. Instructor/peer comments will be available through discussion groups or sent by e-mail.
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The demand for online education is growing as teachers discover that Web-based courses offer a convenient alternative when pursuing educational and career advancement goals.
Note:The School of Education reserves the right to cancel classes that do not meet minimum enrollment requirements.
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School of Education Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, WI 54751
phone: (715) 642-0209 or 715-232-2253