The Reading/Writing Connection for K-2
EDG 513/G
Monica Lively
Participants will explore the links between the reading and writing processes with very young learners. Discussion topics will include bridging all parts of the readers and writers workshops, using assessments to guide our instruction, planning and executing a balanced literacy program, and planning units of study that benefit children in both reading and writing. This class is designed for classroom teachers or future teachers of grades K-2. Grade is P/NC; 1 semester credit. Register by June 16. Tuition: $425. Minimum
participants: 8.

June 23-26, Mon-Thu, 9-12:30, Dixon Hall 10

This class may be used as elective credit for the reading endorsement at Whitworth.

Teaching the Autistic Child
EDG 511/G
Amy Finkel
The primary purpose of this course is to give students a comprehensive and practical understanding of the developmental disability of autism and its impact on learning. Particular attention will be given to identifying the major characteristics of autism spectrum disorders, current treatments available, functional goals and curricula, and practical strategies. Teachers will leave with a better understanding of the condition and the effective process to work with these students. A practical class for K-12 teachers, counselors, administrators and parents. Grade is P/NC; 1 semester credit. Register by June 16. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 8.

June 23-25, Mon-Wed, 10-3, Dixon Hall 106

Professional Teacher Certificate Culminating Seminar
EDU 512 Section E
Sharon Mowry & staff
The seminar will provide opportunity for candidates to demonstrate their competency in the three standards and 12 criteria required for Washington’s Professional Teacher Certificate. Prerequisite: EDU 511. Contact Graduate Studies in Education, 509-777-3228, for more information.

June 23-July 3, Mon-Thur, 9-2:30, Dixon Hall 103 & 206

Teaching for Independence and Responsibility: The Affective Component in the Classroom
EDG 552/G
Joni Domanico
Developing independence and responsibility in students is a major challenge in many classrooms today. A student’s perceived self-concept and school achievement are correlated. Therefore, how a student perceives him/herself is a critical factor in the equation of success. This course examines practical and engaging strategies to attend to the affective needs of students and the environment in which they learn. The ultimate goal is to maximize a student’s perception of his/her capabilities and increase achievement, self-reliance, independence, and responsibility. Areas to be studied include character education, dialogue, collaboration, learning preferences and styles, classroom approaches, motivational and directional support, special needs of the gifted, and corresponding research. Audience: Teachers K-12. Letter grade; 2 semester credits. Register by June 23. Tuition: $850. Minimum participants: 8.

June 30-July 3, Mon-Thu, 8-4, Dixon Hall 107

Informational Texts: Strategies and Skills for Readers and Writers, Grade 1 through Middle School
EDG 505/G
Jodi Wilson
What do students need to know about informational texts? How can text features be the signposts for expository readers and writers? How can text laden with visual information be as rich in content as worded text? In this class, teachers will explore the world of expository text and its important use in elementary classrooms and beyond. Using balanced literacy as the instructional backdrop, participants will explore, learn, and apply multiple strategies for reading and writing to make texts more attainable for all readers, and to bridge content curriculum with literacy strategies. Appropriate for classroom teachers, reading specialists, administrators, instructional leaders, staff developers and paraprofessionals. Grade is P/NC; 1 semester credit. Register by June 23. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 8.

June 30-July 2, Mon-Wed, 8-1, Dixon Hall 106

This class may be used as elective credit for the reading endorsement at Whitworth.

Ways to Improve Your Math WASL Scores - 3rd-8th Grades
EDG 516/G
Shari Hartwig & Lisa Piper
Finally, and just in time. Learn practical and proven strategies to improve your WASL scores yearly. Content will include designing WASL-like problems; focus on writing problems and scoring with rubrics; strategies for helping your struggling math learners; and, very importantly, developing extensions to challenge bright mathematicians. Explore the brand-new math standards. Further your ability to implement grade-level expectations. Leave with confidence in math to instill in your students. Audience: Teachers grades 3-8, principals and resource specialists. Grade is P/NC; 1 semester credit. Register by June 30. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 8.

July 7-9, Mon-Wed, 8-1, Dixon Hall 106

Developing Productive and Responsible Global Citizens
EDG 506/G
Margo Long
Learn the higher-level thinking skills to cope in a challenging world of rapid technology and constant change. Based on the conditions of Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat, the contentions in The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and in Affluenza by John DeGraaf, the implications presented in The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, and other current informational resources, infuse your content and classroom with strategies to push students beyond the silent crises of today’s adolescents. Thomas Lickona’s Smart and Good High Schools will be used as a foundation to scaffold the curriculum emphasis of Intellectual Character and excellence in performance. Fascinating new literature and ideas made practical for the classroom of today. Audience: Teachers K-12, counselors, administrators and parents. Letter grade; 1 semester credit. Register by July 2. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 10.

July 9-11, Wed, 1:30-4:30; Thu & Fri, 8-1:30, Dixon Hall 106

Helping Children Feel Secure In an Insecure World
EDC 500/E
Roberta Wilburn
This course is designed to assist counselors, teachers and other professionals helping children deal with the anxiety and stress that is produced by traumatizing experiences such as 9/11, hurricane Katrina, and violence in schools, home and the community. Practical strategies will be provided and integrated with current research, theories and best practices in order to prepare professionals in providing needed support for children and their families. Audience: Counselors, teachers, and administrators. Letter grade; 1 semester credit. Register by July 2. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 10.

July 11 & 12, Fri, 4:30-9:30; Saturday, 8-5, Dixon Hall 206

Intentional Character Development Through Extracurricular Activities
EDG 521/G
Kirk Westre
Extracurricular activities are supposed to be exciting and a striving for excellence, whether it be a grade school camp, beginning sports program or science club; whether it be middle school band, drama or chess club. And it should be the same in high school sports, debate or writer’s guild. Most agree that all these extracurricular activities should have a primary purpose of developing caring, hardworking, disciplined people. And they should offer an opportunity that goes beyond skill building, talent recognition and winning. Through selected readings, primary sources and presentations, participants will explore the value and practice of infusing ethics and morality into their teaching and activities. They will leave with a working definition of character development and with practical strategies to increase in their students these ideal behaviors of sportsmanship, citizenship and ethical decision-making. Letter grade; 1 semester credit.  Audience: coaches, teachers, administrators, parents. Letter grade; 1 semester credit. Register by July 7. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 8.

July 14-16, Mon-Wed, 8-1, Dixon Hall 204

Professional Teacher Certificate Preassessment Seminar
EDU 510/E
Sharon Mowry & staff
Participants will assess their teaching skills based on Washington state’s three standards and 12 criteria. Each participant will develop a Professional Growth Plan designed with a Professional Growth Team to move them toward certification. Prerequisites: bachelor’s degree; residency teaching certificate; a position in a public or approved private school in Washington state. Contact Graduate Studies in Education, 509-777-3228, for more information.

July 14-24, Mon-Thu, 8-1:30, Dixon Hall 103 & 206

Meeting the Social and Emotional Needs of the Gifted Learner
EDG 508/G
Linda Kreger Silverman
This course is taught by the top national clinician and author in understanding the social/emotional needs of the gifted. An excellent presenter, Dr. Silverman will cover the fascinating landscape of the gifted learner, describing asynchronous development, overexcitabilities, the complexity of socialization, personality styles, and unique learning style preferences. She will explain how these conditions relate to the issues of accurate identification of profoundly gifted children, working with underachievers, and successfully teaching the twice-exceptional learner. Participants will leave with a map of current, research-based information, as well as practical responses and strategies that work with this challenging and provocative population of students. The inclusion of the new exciting information on the profoundly gifted makes this class a must for K-12 teachers, counselors, administrators and parents. Grade is P/NC; 1 semester credit. Register by July 3. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 15.

July 16-18, Wed, 1:30-4:30; Thu & Fri, 9-2:30, Weyerhaeuser Hall 111

Brain-Compatible Learning Strategies
EDG 504/G
Carole Allen
Participants will come away from this class with powerful information about the brain, brain-compatible strategies and resources, and assistance in designing lesson plans and units to be used with their students. Information is thoroughly grounded in current brain research on student learning and achievement. Participants will learn what students should know about their brain in order to make good decisions about their own learning. A must for every educator in any content area. Call Whitworth’s Center for Gifted Education for directions to M.E.A.D. Audience: Teachers K-12, counselors, administrators and parents. Letter grade; 1 semester credit.  Register by July 14. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 10.

July 21-23, Mon-Wed, 8-1, M.E.A.D. Alternative High School

Taking Gifted Students Beyond the WASL 4
EDG 515/G
Margo Long & selected experts in gifted
The current challenge is to motivate gifted students to achieve beyond the scoring of the WASL. One-size-fits-all is no longer appropriate for classroom instruction. Participants will learn how to extend their curriculum within the context of standards-based GLEs to create practical assignments for their diverse learners. Particular focus will be given to creating extension activities to motivate gifted students to go beyond the 4. Differentiation of instruction, as well as aligning the core curriculum to state standards, is the key to this process. Participants will choose, develop and share the content (language arts, social studies, math or science) and grade level to create activities that they will be able to use in their classroom next fall. These options will be submitted for possible inclusion on the OSPI web site. Audience: Teachers grades 3-8, principals and resource specialists. Letter grade; 1 semester credit.  Register by July 14. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 8.

July 21-23, Mon-Wed, 8-1, Dixon Hall 106

Diagnosing and Teaching Secondary Students to Read and Understand
EDG 507/G
Lisa Laurier
Learn the reading process and the dynamic interaction among cueing systems. Discussions will center on the unique challenges of struggling adolescent readers and the factors that affect their success. The majority of the class will focus on specific strategies that can be used in the classroom to facilitate improvement and successful intervention for underachieving secondary students when reading expository material. Important cutting-edge information in the face of the WASL. Audience: Secondary teachers, principals and resource specialists. Letter grade; 1 semester credit.  Register by July 16. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 8.

July 23-25, Wed, 1:30-4:30; Thu & Fri, 8-1:30, Dixon Hall 106

This class may be used as elective credit for the reading endorsement at Whitworth.

Tech Options 2008
EDG 510/G
Eric Caldwell
Here’s your opportunity to explore the current menu of technology options for today’s classroom with an avid and knowledgeable techie. Strategies could include additional PowerPoint functions, interactive whiteboards, document cameras, podcasting, blogging, web pages and photo editing software, depending on the needs and choices of the participants. Bring your questions and projects. Leave with a bundle of new techniques and resources to enhance the effectiveness of your instruction, as well as possible extended assignments for your bright students. This class is intended to provide the credit and the time to increase your computer skills and their application into your class. Audience: Teachers and administrators at all levels. Grade is P/NC; 1 semester credit. Register by July 18. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 10.

July 28-30, Mon-Wed, 8-1, Hawthorne Hall 112

Developing Curriculum
EDG 512/G1 or G2
OJ Cotes
Create a personalized curriculum for your 2008-2009 school term working with the instructor on an individualized, directed and group basis. Implement your current summer coursework by applying your information to your fall classroom assignments. Adapt regular units and textbooks to multiple-intelligence theory, learning styles, mainstreaming, challenges in classroom, or changes of your choice. Audience: Teachers K-12. Grade is P/NC; 1 or 2 semester credits. Register by July 25. Tuition: $425 ($850 for two credits)

July 28-30, Mon-Wed, 8-1 or by arrangement (2 credits – follow-up TBA), Dixon Hall 104

Essential Information for Developing Number Sense in Today’s Students
EDG 509/G
Rachel McAnallen
This class is a must for teachers and parents to teach correctly the foundation concepts to math learners. The approach is new and very exciting. Last year’s participants were “amazed” and suggested “anyone instructing in math must take this course.” It is new and revolutionary. Participants learn to use place value as a tool to understand the four basic arithmetic operations. Using a monetary approach and calling numbers by their correct place value names, the participants will find creative and engaging ways to teach the basic math concepts. Developmental theory, multiple intelligences and different learning styles will be emphasized, which should enable teachers to help all students – including those who are dyslexic and math anxious – to understand math concepts from the concrete stages to the abstract. The final outcome is to understand that arithmetic is answering the question whereas mathematics is questioning the answer. Participants should come prepared to learn creative and infectious ways to teach math without worksheets. Audience: K-12 teachers. Grade is P/NC; 1 semester credit. Register by July 25. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 15.

August 4-6, Mon-Wed, 8-1, Dixon Hall 106

The Six T's of Effective Elementary Literacy Instruction: Time, Text, Teach, Talk, Tasks, and Tests
EDG 502/G
Linda Lee & Mary Haymond
This interactive class will show teachers how to implement/enhance a Readers' Workshop by utilizing the six common features Richard Allington found when he observed exemplary elementary classrooms: *Time – How to create a classroom community that develops reading stamina. *Texts – How to teach children to select books of appropriate complexity. *Talk – How to foster accountable talk that is more conversational than interrogational. *Teach – How to craft explicit demonstrations of skill and strategy use. *Tasks – How to assign meaningful tasks that include choice. *Test – How to use effort and improvement with achievement. Audience: K-6 teachers, principals, support staff. Grade is P/NC; 1 semester credit. Register by July 25. Tuition: $425. Minimum participants: 10.
This class may be used as an elective credit for the reading endorsement at Whitworth.

August 6-8, Wed, 1:30-4:30; Thu & Fri, 8-1:30, Dixon Hall 103

This class may be used as elective credit for the reading endorsement at Whitworth.

Diversity: Focus on the Bright Side (videotape series)
EDG 500/V
Margo Long, Joni Domanico, Sue Fischer
This 16-hour taped series focuses on how to teach, motivate, challenge or even get out of the way of your bright learners. Learn how to move your advanced students beyond work that is “good enough” into stretching their abilities and knowledge. Go beyond the stereotypes to develop current, practical strategies for today’s students and your own classroom that you can incorporate immediately into your teaching. How to teach critical and analytical skills-building confidence for Washington state testing is also addressed. Tuition and handouts: $125. Grade is P/NC; 1 semester credit.

Contact Whitworth’s Center for Gifted Education for details on viewing this self-paced class.

Educational Insights 2008 & Wellness Revitalization 2008, EDG 525/G & EDG 526/G
Rick Giampietri & staff
These are annual, repeatable classes with different presenters and topics each year. Educational Insights is designed for new and experienced teachers to enhance their teaching strategies and to provide them with the tools to become more effective in the classroom. The program will help teachers in equipping their students to master the basics, prepare them for college or employment, and cope in the real world. Wellness Revitalization assists students to acquire the knowledge and skills to maintain an active, healthy life. Participants come away from both classes with a refreshed and revitalized outlook on teaching. For registration and  information, contact Rick Giampietri at 701-5100 or 924-9263, giamfbwesw@msn.com. Grade is Pass/No Credit; 3 credits total.

July 14-18, Monday-Friday, 8-5, off-campus