Elementary Programs 
Graduate Credit: ED 3701
PDPs/CEUs: ED 5701
Participants: Elementary Teachers, grades K-5
Dates/Times: July 7 - 11, 2008; 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Northeastern University, Boston Campus
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
In this course, participants will be introduced to effective strategies for integrating works of art into classroom learning, with a particular emphasis on using art to help students develop critical thinking and literacy skills. A powerful form of communication and expression, engagement with art brings possibilities for wonder and connection into the classroom. Such experiences inspire creative thinking and reinforce that capacity for creativity that is inherent to us all. Furthermore, art works provide unique opportunities for differentiated instruction.
Instructor: Corinne Zimmerman is a Museum Educator at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts and has conducted numerous workshops for teachers on integrating the visual arts into the classroom.
Teaching Poetry in the Elementary Classroom: Getting Kids Hooked on the Music of Words
(Also known as Integrating Poetry into the Elementary Classroom) View Syllabus>>
Graduate Credit: ED 3608
PDPs/CEUs: ED 5908
Participants: Elementary Teachers, grades K-5
Dates/Times: July 14 - 18, 2008; 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Northeastern University, Boston Campus
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
This week long course will explore the role of poetry in the classroom. Students will examine the use of poetry within the confines of a writing curriculum, the best strategies for teaching poetry to improve literacy, the writing skills poetry encourages and promotes and which texts to include.
Furthermore, this course will address practical, hands-on applications for teaching and writing poetry with a focus on strategies and mini-lessons for detail, word choice, strong voice, wordplay, and revision. We will look at student work to guide and encourage us in the classroom and to discover how poetry can reach our most reluctant writers and open doors to other avenues of literacy work.
Instructor: Andrew Green is the founder of Potato Hill Poetry, an organization devoted to promoting poetry in schools across the country. A former teacher, her works in schools conducting poetry residencies with students, and in-service workshops with teachers.
Elementary Science: An Inquiry Based Approach
(Also known as Elementary Science By Inquiry)
Graduate Credit: SCI 3617
PDPs/CEUs: SCI 5917
Participants: Elementary Teachers, grades K-5
Dates/Times: July 21 - 25, 2008; 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Northeastern University, Boston Campus
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
The Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Framework specifically includes inquiry-based instruction as a means to develop conceptual understanding, content knowledge, and scientific skills for grades K-5. The course is designed to increase participants' knowledge of inquiry-based teaching. Participating teachers do not need to have great familiarity with scientific concepts, merely and inquisitive nature. With this course, teachers will have a solid foundation in science inquiry teaching methods to improve student achievement and ability to understand how science is done as appropriate for the elementary context.
Participants will practice inquiry lessons as a student/researcher and read and discuss the most recent studies on inquiry. The course will challenge your own conceptions of inquiry and explore how to integrate science with math and English objectives. Participants will consider their teaching practices and how inquiry-based teaching can be brought into their classroom.
Instructor: Mark Salata is the founder of Mining Gems(TM) - www.mininggems.org -and science education consultant who has been hired by the Ministry of Education and National Institute of Education in Singapore, and has worked with teachers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States.
Advanced Topics in Literacy Development and Instruction
Participants: Elementary Teachers, grades K-5
Dates/Times: August 4 - 8, 2008; 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Northeastern University, Boston Campus
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
This course includes and overview of the Reader's and Writer's workshop model of instruction. Topics will include: running records, word study strategies for developing vocabulary, and Guided Reading instruction. The course will also explore strategies for developing fluency and comprehension. In addition, participants will investigate the concept process versus content writing, the writer's notebook, and using mentor texts for teaching the 6 traits of writing. Participants will have the opportunity to analyze assessment tools and student work samples to inform the educator and ultimately drive instruction.
Instructors: Jacquelyn Judge is a literacy coach in the Boston Public Schools. She works with teachers and students in grades K-5. She has been an adjunct faculty at Northeastern since 2006.
Sean Fitzgerald is a ten year veteran teacher who currently teaches third grade in the Boston Public Schools. He has taught writing courses for Fitchburg and Worcester State Colleges.
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