New IDEAS courses

COURSE 1. Parental Involvement - This session addresses parent involvement in the education of children. It reviews all parental notification requirements of Title III and gives educators a variety of tactics proven to increase parent involvement and awareness in the schools.

 

COURSE 2. Cultural Sensitivity - This session addresses an issue unfamiliar to many educators; that of cultural sensitivity. The presenter, having lived in a variety of Middle Eastern, Eastern and Western European cultures, shares with the viewers the sensations and manifestations of culture shock, the process of acculturation, and several activities developed for the purpose of sensitizing school personnel to value other cultures and languages.

 

COURSE 3. Instructional Strategies - This session provides valuable content and skills-training necessary for working with non-native English speakers in the classroom. It gives the viewers tactics to modify both lessons and the delivery of lessons in order for the language-minority student to understand the topic, tasks and objectives of the class. These skills cross the curriculum and may be used in all content areas: Math, Science, Social Studies, and English.

 

This three-part "Educating the Limited-English Proficient Child," online professional development series includes three video segments denoting parental involvement, cultural diversity, and instructional strategies for working with non-native English speakers in the classroom.  Each course includes a web link for PDF course handouts, content assessments with mastery level tracking established as eighty percent, a discussion board topic opportunity to facilitate collaborative online opportunities, and a course survey to evaluate effectiveness.

How do I find these courses?

 

These three one hour courses are located in the following Libraries:

• Instructional Strategies – All three courses
• Parental Involvement course – Parental Involvement course only
• Leadership and Administration – Cultural Sensitivity course only

 

Course credit would only be given once per course.

 

To view the video online; a broadband connection is required.

 

This three part ADE-approved LEP course was developed and is brought to you by SCITV and AETN Education through the Arkansas IDEAS Learn Now! system. Professional Development Credit for this course is only available to Arkansas Teacher's Like You!

 

Are you ready to Learn Now? Learn Now!

 

"We have a broadband connection in my district, and through our local library; however at home we only have access to the Internet via dial up. How else might I have access to the videos and documentaries?"

 

This documentary is available via broadcast on AETN/Arkansas ETV Network during Late Night programming. For viewing times go to: http://www.aetn.org/pbsx/ and select the Full Week view.

 

Selected professional development programs are available between 3:00pm until 6:00pm on AETN's Scholar Channel: KETS-DT3 Channel 2.3. For viewing times go to http://www.ideas.aetn.org/scholar_channel and select the Full Week view.

 

To receive ADE-approved professional development credit for Arkansas IDEAS Learn Now! system's courses that are televised, you must sign in to the Arkansas IDEAS Learn Now! system at http://lms-1.aetn.org/ and complete the course.

 

Are you ready to Learn Now? Learn Now!