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Fall 2008 Graduate Course Listing |
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Please retain that confirmation as your
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regular business hours.
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Go to http://my.framingham.edu, the
portal login page. Enter a username and password:
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Your username is: your first initial
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· Your default password is as follows: the two digit month of your birth + day of your birth + year of your birth (MMDDYY)
· Example – if your birthday is August 4, 1972, your default password would be 080472
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Tuition: Member price:
$475 – Non-Member Price: $560
Payment:
Text/Material Fees:
All materials fees are payable to the instructor at the
first class. Textbooks should be purchased by the first class session.
Graduate Courses: 3 college credits is equal to 67.5 PDPs.
Courses are approved through Worcester State College or Framingham State
College.
Withdrawal Policy: Full refund
prior to first class; 80% after first class; no refund thereafter. This policy
is consistent with
Attendance: 100% attendance
is expected. Participants
cannot receive a grade of A if absent for more than 6 hours.
Additional Information: Contact
Maddy Dudley, Programs Coordinator at: 508-987-0219
Ext.104 (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) or mdudley@frec.org
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COURSE LISTING |
OUT OF DISTRICT COURSES ARE LISTED AT THE BOTTOM
NEW – JUST ADDED on October 20, 2008
ED971-R88 Reading
& Writing Connection
(3
Graduate Credits - Worcester State College)
Wednesdays
- 3:45 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
Nov. 5,
12, 19, Dec. 3, 10, 17, Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28
Warren
Comm. Elem. School
West
Warren, MA
Click for Course Flyer and
Registration form for this course
Instructor: Tammy Howe
This course is
designed to explore how reading and writing are closely related. It emphasizes workshop
approaches to teaching reading, writing, and poetry. Time will be spent exploring
the value of independent reading and literature study. Participants will learn and
experience how genre study can model and support good writing.
Materials Fee: $15 to instructor at first class.
15.769
Preparing Educators to Use Technology I
(3
Graduate Credits - Framingham State College
Mondays - 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
September
22—December 15
Bay
Path Regional Vocational Technical High School
Old
Muggett Hill Road
Charlton,
MA
Instructor:
Sharon Schliapa
For
all educators, this course is designed to teach participants how to
use the latest version of Microsoft Office Suite—Office 2007—and how to
successfully incorporate this software into daily lesson plans. Software
components covered will include Word 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Excel 2007 and
Publisher 2007.
Bring
a USB flash drive to class.
ED971-R58
Legal Awareness for School Administrators
(3
Graduate Credits - Worcester State College)
Mondays - 3:30 to 7:30 p.m.
September
22—November 24
Auburn
HIGH SCHOOL
Auburn
Street
Auburn,
MA
Instructor:
Dr. Richard Brown
For
all district, K-12 administrators, guidance counselors, and those interested in
pursuing administrative licensure, this course is designed to bring awareness of how
today’s legal decisions have a direct impact on administrators, staff, and
students, as well as the entire community. Topics covered are students’ rights
(expulsion-suspension), Special Education law updates, sexual harassment,
school safety, student records, confidentiality, teacher liability, CHINS Laws,
drugs and court decisions.
Materials
Fee: $15
ED971-R100
Curriculum Design for Differentiated Instruction
(3
Graduate Credits - Worcester State College)
Mondays - 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.
September
22—November 24
David
Prouty Regional High School
Main
Street
Spencer,
MA
Instructor:
Kathy Dubuque
For
K-8 and special education teachers, this course is designed to assist educators in designing
curriculum that will address the learning needs of students with varying levels
of mastery and also will accommodate the struggling and fluent learner.
Classroom management with differentiated instruction and flexible-grouping will
be discussed. Strategies to incorporate learning processes that produce
independent learners will be a major focus. Educators will be designing
curriculum for their own implementation into the classroom.
16.748 Integrating
Reading and Writing Strategies
(3
Graduate Credits - Framingham State College
Wednesdays - 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.
September
24—November 19
Oxford
High School
Main
Street
Oxford,
MA
Instructor: Kathy Dubuque
For
K-8 and special education teachers, this course is designed to demonstrate processes of
development of curriculum where reading and writing are extensions of each
other. Literature samples, children’s writing, learning center activities and
writing environments are shared. Participants develop appropriate curriculum
for their classrooms.
NEW COURSE FOR FALL 2008!!
ED971-R245
Writing, Numbers and Human Communication
(3
Graduate Credits - Worcester State College)
Wednesdays - 3:30 to 6:00 p.m.
September
24—November 12
Burgess
Elementary School
Burgess
School Road
Sturbridge,
MA
Instructor:
John Baron
For
teachers, grades 3—12, this course is designed to examine, through lecture
and hands-on activities, the evolution of writing words and numbers and how
this historic development effects and confounds learners of all ages, based on
the Mass ELA, Math, and History and Social Science Frameworks. Visual and
verbal communication systems make humans unique from other animals and are at
the basis of our modern educational system.
Required Field Trips: Sundays, Oct. 19 (MFA) and November 16 (WAM),
9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
ED971-R158
Interactive Strategies to Enhance the Math Curriculum
(3
Graduate Credits - Worcester State College)
Thursdays - 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
September
25—December 18
Oxford
High School
Main
Street
Oxford,
MA
Instructor:
Janice Berthiaume
For
teachers, grades K-6, this course is designed for participants to gain a
multitude of strategies to improve math instruction in support of the Mass
Frameworks, through the use of hands-on activities, games, manipulatives, and
web sites.
Materials
Fee: $25
ED971-R145
Aligning Curriculum Standards to the Learner
(3
Graduate Credits - Worcester State College)
Fridays & Saturdays - Fri. 4:30—8
p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m.—4:00 p.m.
September
26, 27, Oct. 31, November 1, 14, 15
Auburn
High School
Auburn
Street
Auburn,
MA
Instructor:
Kathy Dubuque
For
K-8 teachers, this course is designed to assist teachers in
preparing lessons that connect standards with the many levels of learners in
the classroom. Demonstrations of curriculum that focus on the cognitive aspect
of skills but also on the writing component will be shared and the rationale
for this approach will be explained. Participants will design curriculum and
assessment to map solid, well-defined goals.
TUITION is
$575 for members & non-members
Fall 2008
ED971-R100
Curriculum Design for Differentiated Instruction
(3
Graduate Credits - Worcester State College)
Tuesdays - 4:00
to 8:00 p.m.
September 23 —
November 25, 2008
Phelps School
689 Main Street
Agawam, MA
Click
here for map and directions
Instructor: Kathy Dubuque
Tuition: $575
Click here for course flyer and
registration form for this course
For K-8 and special education
teachers, this course
will assist educators in designing curriculum that will address the learning
needs of students with varying levels of mastery and also will accommodate the
struggling and fluent learner. All curriculum
demonstrated is teacher-designed and tested and can be adapted to all areas.
Classroom management with differentiated instruction and flexible-grouping will
also be discussed. Educators will be designing curriculum that will be valuable
for implementation into their classrooms.
Please
bring the following to the first class: oaktag,
poster board, glue stick, rubber cement, clear contact paper, scissors, pencil,
ruler, black fine-line markers, and colored markers (broad and fine-line).
15.733 Interactive Reading and Math
Curriculum
(3 Graduate Credits -
Framingham State College)
Fridays and
Saturdays
Oct. 3, 4, 17,
18, 24, 25
Fridays, 4:30 to
8:30 p.m.
Saturdays 8
a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Roderick School
120 Taunton
Street
Wrentham, MA
02093
Click
here for map and directions
Instructor:
Kathy Dubuque
Tuition: $575
Click here for course
flyer and registration form for this course
For K-8 and special education
teachers, this course
is designed to demonstrate how to involve children in everyday reading and
mathematics activities. Strategies for making literacy connections to reading
and math are shared through children’s work, teacher-designed materials,
interactive classroom centers, and techniques that involve student feedback.
Teachers will be developing their own curriculum materials for the classroom.
Please bring the following
materials to the first class: oaktag, poster board,
glue stick, rubber cement, clear contact paper, scissors, pencil, ruler, black
fine-line markers, and colored markers (broad and fine-line).
ED971-R17
Violence in Society
(3
Graduate Credits - Worcester State College)
Tuesdays - 3:30
to 7:30 p.m.
October 7—December 9,
2008
Hunking Middle School
98 Winchester
Street
Haverhill, MA
Click
here for map and directions
Instructor: Dr. Richard D. Brown
Tuition: $575
Click here for course flyer
and registration form for this course
For all educators at all levels, this course is designed to make
participants aware of the forms of violence in today’s society (child abuse,
domestic violence, teen dating violence, etc.) and see what is being done to
curb violence. Schools and courts are attempting to deal with the problem on a
daily basis. No one is immune to violence: it is in the streets, in the home,
and in the schools.
Materials Fee: $15 payable to
instructor at first class.
ED971-R128
School Law Basics
(3
Graduate Credits - Worcester State College)
Wednesdays - 3:30
to 7:30 p.m.
October 8 - December
10, 2008
Woburn Police
Department
22 Harrison
Avenue
Woburn, MA
Click
here for map and directions
Instructor: Dr. Richard D. Brown
Tuition: $575
Click here for course flyer
and registration form for this course
For all educators at all levels, this course is designed to provide an overview of important state and federal statutes that every educator should know. The area of Education Law continues to develop as a result of federal and state initiatives regarding education reform and new statutes and case laws. Educators will get a solid foundation of legal understanding