[Maillist] New Course in Alt Ed via Viterbo College

[The Morleys]

See announcement below on a new class to be offered through Viterbo  
College. This represents another step toward creating a sequence of  
courses helping educators focus on alternative education while  
pursuing a masters degree in education.

Viterbo University Iowa Center

EDUC 782 – 3 credits

Education 782 Three Credits

Alternatives: Strategies of Person-Centered Education-Resources and  
Models for Implementation



Instructor Name                 S. Pike Hall Ph.D

Phone                                 515-255-8246

Email                                 spike.hall at drake.edu

Course Description:

This is an overview course, one in which discussions, activities and  
readings will serve to introduce teachers to various valuable and  
successful systems for person-centered instruction, a central element  
in maximizing student satisfaction and success. Primary emphasis in  
this course (there is another practical classroom development course  
which follows) will be upon the rationales for, uses of and general  
strategies for implementation of person-centered  instructional  
processes as they may be employed in alternative education settings.

Professor and students will jointly examine student-centered  
constructs for learning, strategies for managing student-centered  
education, and specific classroom activities involving each student’s  
understanding and development of her or his potential. Model programs/ 
schools will be explored regarding how to gain student input into the  
direction that individual and classroom strategies of support for  
students with personal and social development, research-based  
information on varying teaching using multiple modalities and  
counseling strategies teachers can use as mentors.

Objectives:  Students who achieve C, B or A as an overall grade in  
this course will be able to:

a) summarize the technical and pedagogical aspects of the  
individualizing and personalizing teacher/student relationship,

b) argue and substantiate a psychological basis for individualizing  
and personalizing instruction,

c) argue and substantiate an ethical/moral basis for individualizing  
and personalizing instruction and

d) describe , in general terms, the practical steps necessary to  
organize a “typical” middle school or high school classroom such that  
teacher and classroom are more likely to support a high degree of  
personalization for all students.



Course Length: 10 weeks

Timing of Course: March through late May

Location of Course: Online classroom, learning and record keeping  
system, Blackboard, will be the core system but will strongly  
augmented by other online supports for collegial learning (Ning,  
PageFlakes).

Class and program details available on request from Viterbo University  
(http://www.viterbo.edu/mediowa.aspx?id=5440)


Ed Options
raymondmorl at gmail.com



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