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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="08b085a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Plymouth County Education Association</B></FONT><B>  </B><B>   |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Plymouth County Education Association"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="08cd2e83.jpg"> <div> If you are a Plymouth/Carver teacher please add an extra $15.00 for your P.C.E.A. dues for the current year (July 2008,-June 2009) </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I> Courses</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>COURSE RULES</U></B></div> <div> Courses are offered only to PCEA members ( who must also be members of their local association, MTA, and NEA). </div> <div> By long standing reciprocal agreement with the Norfolk County Teachers Association, PCEA members may take NCTA courses and NCTA members may take PCEA courses at the regular fee. Check NCTA course listings at www.nctateachers.org. </div> <div> PCEA instructors are required to conduct classes for a total of 36 hours. </div> <div> Members who wish to receive Framingham State College credit should check with their local superintendent first, then mark the appropriate box on the registration form. The form should be returned to the PCEA headquarters, with a check payable to PCEA. No mailing should go to the college. </div> <div> Under no circumstances may a person change designation from PCEA credit to Framingham State College credit following registration. Check with your superintendent to see what is required by your school system. </div> <div> Members of the community who are not in the education profession are eligible to take any of the courses as long as they become associate members. Associate membership fee is $10.00. </div> <div> Members planning to take a course must include their course payment fee with the registration form(s). No one will be seated at the first class session unless such payment has been received by PCEA. </div> <div> PCEA does not confirm courses. You will only be contacted if there is a problem or the course is canceled. </div> <div> Students may not change from one course to another once the courses have started. </div> <div> Refunds of the full amount will be made prior to the first class. Half refunds will be made up to the second class. No refunds will be made after the second class. Registration fees will not be returned unless the course is cancelled. </div> <div> Any questions or concerns regarding courses must be referred to the chair of the Professional Development Committee. </div> <div> All Courses are 3 credit courses (67.5 PDP's) unless otherwise noted.</div> <bR> <div> <B>TO RECEIVE YOUR GRADES FOR SUMMER COURSES YOU CAN ACCESS THEM ON -LINE THROUGH FRAMINGHAM STATE COLLEGE.  GO TO- my.campus.framingham.edu.  Then follow the directions to get your grade.  Name- is first intial, last name, password is your date of birth(00/00/00) If you need help call the PCEA office.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>      P.C.E.A.  </B><B>FALL COURSES - 2008</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>                      </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>  P.C.E.A.</B></FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>FALL COURSES - 2008</B></div> <div> All Courses are 3 Graduate Credits/67.5 PDP's through Framingham State College Unless noted in description </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>REGISTRATION DEADLINE - September 19, 2008 For all REGULAR  courses starting the week of SEPTEMBER 22, 2008.  </B><B><U>All </U></B><B><U>ONLINE</U></B><B><U> courses starting must be signed up ONE WEEK PRIOR TO STARTING</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B>                                                                   </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>ONLINE COURSE</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>How an online course works-</B>Each student has access to the syllabus once they have a registered account with Framingham State College (which takes a week after PCEA receives your registration form). The syllabus has assignments with completion dates and how to "hand them in" electronically. The instructor gets the assignments from the students and post comments, suggestions, etc. to their account. Each week students must enter a discussion group and answer a question, give feedback, or post a new question. This, however is again done on their own time as long as the post is done by the due date. None of this is actually "live". Students can get in touch with the instructor and the instructor will post "virtual office hours".   These courses are Framingham State College Credit (3) only. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0099FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>YOU MUST BE REGISTERED ONE WEEK PRIOR TO CLASS STARTING TO TAKE </B><B>ALL ONLINE COURSES</B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>PRDV 75915 LITERACY DEVELOPMENT FOR STUDENTS</B></div> <div> <B>(NEW COURSE ON-LINE)</B></div> <div> <B> </B>This course explores a variety of strategies that will help your students construct meaning when reading fiction or nonfiction text. The strategies that will be focused on are making connections, asking questions, determining ideas or themes, making inferences, making predictions, monitoring/clarifying/organizing, synthesizing, searching and selecting, summarizing, and visualizing. Research indicates that proficient readers automatically use many of these strategies while reading. However, we know that not all students are naturally proficient readers and that some need explicit instruction & consistent use of strategies to make them  proficient, strategic readers and comprehenders.</div> <div> <B>Instructor:</B>  Mari Gates   <B>Location:</B> online     <B>Dates:</B> Sept 22 - Dec 14        </div> <bR> <div> <B>PRDV 73615 MULTI-SENSORY LEARNING AND TEACHING </B></div> <div> <B>(NEW COURSE ON-LINE)</B></div> <div> With the growing number of demands, expectations and responsibilities placed on today's educators, such as MCAS, DCAP requirements, and the ever increasing amount of students who struggle in school (due to an identified disability or not), it is crucial to know how to meet the needs  This course explores a variety of strategies that will help you be more effective teacher so that your students are afforded the opportunity to be successful as possible by tapping into their needs to work at its full potential is vital to the success of out students. The main topics of this course will include current research , information and how-to's related to brain based teaching and learning, along with  information about the impact of  emotions, stress, memory, differentiated instruction (including Gardner's Multiple Intelligences & Bloom's Taxonomy), & classroom management techniques on success or failure of today's students. </div> <div> <B>Instructor</B>:  Mari Gates   <B>Location</B>: online     <B>Dates:</B> Sept 22 - Dec 14        <B>Book:</B> "How the Brain Learns" edition III by David Sousa buy through Corwin Press. cost of book $40.</div> <bR> <div> <B>PRDV 75016 </B> <B>WEB RESEARCH AND AUTHORING FOR EDUCATORS</B></div> <div> <B>(NEW COURSE ON-LINE)</B></div> <div> This course focuses on using the computer and the internet as a research tool and developing web pages to enhance the classroom curriculum. The features of several search engines are considered and criteria for evaluating web sites are established. Participants create curriculum web pages that reflect their classroom practice and the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks.</div> <div> <B>Instructor</B>:  Jane Greenberg     <B>     Location</B>: online        <B>Time</B>:  on your time      <B>Dates</B>: Sept 22 - Dec 14 </div> <bR> <div> <B>PREPARING  EDUCATORS TO USE TECHNOLOGY</B></div> <div> <B>(NEW COURSE ON-LINE)</B></div> <div> This course introduces educators to a basic understanding of information technology operations including microcomputer concepts and applications. Participants will learn to integrate technology into their classes in instructionally valid ways.</div> <div> <B>Instructor</B>:  Jane Greenberg   <B>Location</B>: online    <B>Dates</B>: Sept 22 - Dec 14</div> <bR> <div> <B>PRDV 75015 COMPUTER  TECHNOLOGIES AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT (NEW COURSE  ON-LINE)</B></div> <div> Explores in depth the use of new technologies in developing curriculum. Consideration is given to integrated curriculum development, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches, which go beyond the usual classroom approaches. A secondary objective is to increase skill in using the computer as a teaching tool.</div> <div> <B>Instructor</B>:  Karen Vaughn     <B>     Location</B>: online     <B>Dates-</B>October 1<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >st</FONT> - November 14th</div> <bR> <div> <B>COURSES AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>MONDAYS</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>PRDV 73315:  INTERACTIVE READING AND MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM</B></div> <div> (Formerly called Linking Hands-on Math with Literature)</div> <div> Demonstrates how to involve children in everyday reading and mathematics activities. Strategies for, for making literacy connections to reading and mathematics are shared through children's work, teacher designed materials interactive classroom centers and techniques that involve student feedback.</div> <div> <B>Instructor:</B>  Nancy Silva     <B>Book</B> <B>Fee:</B>20.00 payable to the Instructor</div> <div> <B>Location:</B>  Indian Brook School, Plymouth<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >       </FONT><B>Time</B>: 4-7      <B>Dates</B>: September 22 -  December 15</div> <bR> <div> <B>TUESDAYS</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>PRDV 75014  STRENGHTHENING MULTICULTURAL PREPECTIVES IN THE CLASSROOMS </B></div> <div> <B>(NEW COURSE   HALF ON-LINE /HALF IN CLASSROOM)</B></div> <div> Provides educators with an in-depth understanding of the following concepts and how they relate to education: multiculturalism, diversity, racism, race, ethnicity, stereotype, privilege, prejudice, pluralism, discrimination, ethnocentrism, and cultural identity. Educators will have the opportunity to characterize their own cultural identity and discover how it impacts interactions with people from other ethnic groups, focusing on how cultural background influences perceptions. This course will require educators to become familiar wit current literature on multicultural education.<B>  </B>***<B>This course is taught as a hybrid course a combination of classroom and online. You will meet at Brockton High School for the first 3-4 classes then go online for 6 classes then meet again for the last two classes at Brockton High School.</B></div> <div> <B>Instructor: </B>Kathy Osborne     <B>     Location</B>: Brockton High School/On-line     <B>Dates-</B> September 23 - December 16<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT>   <B>Time</B>: 4-7</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>PRDV 75815 ACADEMIC STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPING SOCIAL SKILLS</B></div> <div> This course is designed to assist participants in acquiring the attitude, knowledge, and skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across one's life span. The relationship between personal qualities, education, and the world of work are explored. Through the use of observation, experimentation and group discussions, the pros and cons of various personal and professional theories will be investigated. Interdisciplinary topics include such areas as communication, perfectionism, decision making, problem solving, and cooperative learning and living.</div> <div> <B>Instructor</B>:  Eileen Page               <B>Location</B>: G.W. Mitchell Middle School, East Bridgewater</div> <div> <B>Day</B>:  Tuesdays         <B>Time:</B>  3:45-7:35 P.M.     <B>Book Fee</B>:  $28 payable to instructor on the first night of class.      <B>Dates</B>: September 23- December 2nd   </div> <bR> <div> <B>PRDV 75215 CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM</B></div> <div> <B>(New Course)</B></div> <div> Includes the following: exploring guidelines for evaluating children's literature ; understanding and selecting literature that recognizes the different development need of all school children; examining the changing world of children's books; helping children make literature connections to their own lives; developing literature reading program for the students, and studying the works of selected authors and illustrators.  Applicable to all grade levels. </div> <div> <B>Instructors:</B>  Ava Goldstein & Grace Nagle     <B>Location</B>:  Raynham Middle School, Raynham, MA   <B>Fee</B>: 15.00 payable to instructor</div> <div> <B>Time</B>: 4:00 -7:45                 <B>Dates</B>: September 23-December 2nd  <B>           </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>PRDV 73114</B> <B>LIFE LONG ISSUES OF STUDENT HEALTH</B></div> <div> This course will develop an understanding of drug abuse, smoking, alcohol, and sexuality. This course is designed to broaden the horizons of teachers and administrators through analysis of their own feelings about peers and the younger generation. The course compares American cultural conditioning in these areas to other cultures. Specific local subcultures are focused upon such concerns as street anthropology. Methods will include lectures, group dynamics, and value clarification exercises.</div> <div> <B>Instructor</B>: Henry Lague, Ed. Cons. <B>Location</B>: Brockton High School </div> <div> <B>Time</B>- -4-7 <B> </B> <B>Minimum class size: </B>30 <B> </B> <B>Dates</B>: September 23-December16 </div> <bR> <div> <B>WEDNESDAYS</B></div> <div> <B>PRDV 76415 DIMENSIONS OF LEARNING   (PART I OF THE PERSONALITY  COURSE)</B></div> <div> This course will examine the role of performance assessment in classrooms using concepts and tools used in the earlier course. Strategies will be developed for student and classroom management, and classroom evaluation willl be presented. Participants will create units of study which emphasize Dimensions of Learning concepts. Participants develope curriculum elements that will become part of the repertoire for all students.</div> <div> <B>Instructor</B>:  Henry Lague     <B>     Location</B>: Brockton High School, Brockton , MA        <B>Time</B>:  4-7      <B>Dates</B>: September 24- December 17</div> <bR> <div> <B>THURSDAYS</B></div> <div> <B>PRDV 76716  ACTION, REACTION, INTERACTION</B></div> <div> This course explores the many ways to enhance an individual's communication skills and problem-solving techniques by developing an awareness and understanding of self and others.  Approaches to this end include coordinating the verbal and nonverbal messages found in one's graphic marks with the traits associated with each Enneagram type.  Additional methods include components of critical and creative thinking, Howard Gardner's theory of “Multiple Intelligences,” and Daniel Goleman's concept of “Emotional “10”.</div> <div> <B>Instructor</B>:  Eileen Page     <B>Location</B>: G.W. Mitchell Middle School, E. Bridgewater            <B>Time:</B>  3:45 -7:35 P.M</div> <div> <B>Day</B>:  Thursday  <B>Dates: </B>September 25 - Dec<B>. </B>4th       <B>Book Fee</B>:  $30 payable to instructor on the first night of class.  (2 Books)    This course goes for 10 weeks.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>PRDV 78914 DEVELOPING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR THE CLASSROOM  </B></div> <div> Participants in this course will acquire a knowledge and understanding of creating and using manipulative material. . Each participant will be required to produce a specific number of finished products that will enrich and supplement their curriculum. Design of instruction should meet the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, individual learning needs and be related to theories of child development. The educators participating will exchange theory, suggestions, ideas, methods, etc. Classes will be conducted so to allow time for hands-on activities, presentation and follow-up questions and answer period.</div> <div> <B>Instructor:</B>  Kathryn Sardella     <B>Location</B>:  Rose L. McDonald School, West Bridgewater, MA</div> <div> <B>Day</B>:  Thursdays         <B>Time</B>:  4-7:45 P.M.               <B>Dates</B>: September 25- December 4 <B>            Limit</B>:  30 students</div> <bR> <div> <B>PRDV 77014:  INTRODUCTION TO BRAIN LEARNING: CONCEPTS AND STRATEGIES</B></div> <div> This basic course in Brain Learning Concepts is primarily designed for teachers, administrators, consultants and parents.  Concepts in Brain Learning Research and the activities that stimulate an understanding of brain compatibility and its application in today's curriculum will be stressed.  </div> <div> <B>Instructor:</B>  Rick Gilbert     <B>Location</B>:  TBA</div> <div> <B>Day</B>:  Thursdays         <B>Time</B>:  4-7 P.M.          <B>Dates</B>: September 25- December 18</div> <div> <B>Lab Fee</B>:  $10.00 payable to Instructor               <B>Limit</B>:  24 students</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>