MEETING THE NEEDS OF ALL STUDENTS, K–12 (CEDUC 619)

This course provides teachers with proven strategies and classroom management techniques to help them reach all of their students regardless of ability, language development, race, socioeconomic status, gender, and/or learning challenges. The featured expert who provides commentary for this course is Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson.

• Apply strategies to increase student engagement, address students’ individual learning styles, and verify teaching effectiveness.
• Strengthen partnerships with parents to facilitate academic achievement of students.
• Deepen understanding of student variance, and apply strategies to support: cognitive impairments, difficulties attending to task, learning disabilities, English language learners, above-average abilities, and students who are at risk of failure.

Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson is associate professor of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at The Curry School of Education, University of Virginia. She is co-director of the University of Virginia’s Summer Institute on Academic Diversity and secretary of the Executive Board of the National Association for Gifted Children. Dr. Tomlinson was a public school teacher for 21 years, working at the preschool, middle school, and high school levels. In 1974, she received Virginia’s Teacher of the Year award.

For successful completion of this course, you will earn three graduate credits through the University Outreach Professional Development Department at Cardinal Stritch University. The course may be completed where and when it’s best for you in a self-paced, independent online study format. Work at your own pace, and finish the class within a 17-week deadline. Regular tuition is $450 for each course which includes all materials; however, WEAC members receive an additional $100 discount for each course for a final tuition rate of $350/course.

 

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Subject(s)

Instructional Strategies, Curriculum, Classroom Management

Educator categories

Teacher

Credit Options

Graduate credit

PI34 Standards

  PI 34.02 - Teacher standards
To receive a license to teach in Wisconsin, an applicant shall complete an approved program and demonstrate proficient performance in the knowledge, skills and dispositions under all of the following standards:

(2) The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social and personal development.

(3) The teacher understands how pupils differ in their approaches to learning and the barriers that impede learning and can adapt instruction to meet the diverse needs of pupils, including those with disabilities and exceptionalities.

(5) The teacher uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.

(7) The teacher organizes and plans systematic instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, pupils, the community and curriculum goals.

(8) The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social and physical development of the pupil.

(9) The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates the effect of his or her choices and actions on pupils, parents, professionals in the learning community and others and who actively seeks out opportunities to grow professionally.