EPC 564 Problem Solving Learners (Summer)

Course Number: EPC 564
Course Title: Problem Solving Learners
Class #: 3477
Dates: July 9-11; 23-24, 2013
Times: 9:00am-4:30pm
Location: University of Southern Maine, Portland Campus
Faculty: Lee Anna Stirling
Credit: Three (3) Inservice Graduate Credits
Tuition/Fees: $1,319.00 (Maine Resident)
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With examples, planning and implementation steps as resources, you will plan a unit, for any subject, in which your students work to solve a relevant problem. Assessment strategies, reasoning skills, scaffolding structures to ensure success, and elements of problem-based learning, expeditionary learning and service learning will be discussed. The unit will forward your students' achievement of curriculum content standards, critical thinking, communications, creativity/innovation, interdependent learning, self-directed learning and appropriate use of technology.

Required Texts:

Dean, C.B, Hubbell, E.R., Pitler, H. & Stone, B.  (2012). Classroom instruction that works (Second edition). Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Boss, S & Krauss, J. (2007). Reinventing project based learning: Your field guide to real-world projects in the digital age. Eugene, OR: ISTE