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IMPORTANT: You must register directly with the university offering these courses. Each university/college has developed its own PrISM Oregon webpage where program, course, and registration information is available. Please consult the following PrISM webpages for course registration instructions:
TUITION: The seven colleges and universities have agreed to a common,
equivalent PrISM tuition level. The formula for converting between quarter-term
and semester credits is: Semester credit hours x 1.5 = number of quarter credit
hours; quarter credit hours x .67 = number of semester credit hours. Three quarter-term credits is equivalent to two semester credits. A 3-credit quarter-term-based course at a public university has a tuition of $1,102; a 2-credit semester-based course at an independent college/university has a tuition of $1,102.
TUITION ASSISTANCE: Partial tuition assistance (60% to 80%) is available
for teachers employed in Oregon schools through a Title II-A University/School
Partnership grant. Click on Tuition Assistance in the navigation bar on the
left and submit a tuition assistance request after you register for your course(s).
MATHEMATICS FOCUS COURSES
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PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY - CI 510
Deepening your understanding of number sense and operations for Grades 3 - 8
Instructor: Nancy Anderson
Credits: 3 quarter-term credits
Course Record Number (CRN): 65116
Dates: 03/29/10 - 06/11/10
Delivery Method: Hybrid course Online plus 3 Saturdays: April 3, May 1, and June 5, 2010.
Gain a deeper understanding of numbers, representations, relationships, and number systems; the meanings of operations and relationships among those operations; and reasonable estimation and fluent computation. Review the real-number system, place value, the behavior of zero and infinity, meanings and models of basic operations, percentages, and modeling operations with fractions, often with the aid of concrete, physical models that enhance understanding. Learn how to apply what you have learned to practices in your own classroom. This course is organized around the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum Frameworks to help you better understand the mathematics concepts underlying the content you teach and to know what standards-based lessons look like in the classroom.
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SCIENCE FOCUS COURSES
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EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY - SCED 510
Environmental Inquiry
Instructor: Donna Rainboth
Credits: 3 quarter term credits
Course Record Number (CRN): 93281
Dates: 03/29/10 - 06/11/10
Delivery Method: Online course
This course integrates inquiry oriented, experienced-based, and environmental studies. Participants will learn basic ecological field study techniques and will use an inquiry format to conduct studies in their local environment, including weather as well as soils, insects, plants, birds, or another in-depth study. Basic ecological concepts will be presented in the context of the field studies. Individual projects will relate the curricular content to student lives in meaningful ways.
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EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY - SCED 510
Science Matter
Instructor: Anna Cavinato
Credits: 3 quarter term credits
Course Record Number (CRN): 93280
Dates: 03/29/10 - 06/11/10
Delivery Method: Online course.
The course is designed to provide a broad background in the physical sciences with emphasis on the scientific method and the nature of science. The curriculum stresses both theoretical principles and applications of concepts using experimentation as a vehicle for modeling scientific process. PrISM teachers will develop lessons utilizing course content.
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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - SED 564
Engineering & Science In The Lives Of Students
Instructor: Larry Flick
Credits: 3 quarter term credits
Course Record Number (CRN):
Dates: 03/29/10 - 06/11/10
Delivery Method: Online course
Construction engineering is the vehicle through which participants learn to integrate science and technology using research-based teaching methods. By designing problems and investigations based on the built environment of modern life, concepts in science and engineering are made relevant as genuinely useful ideas in the everyday life of students.
The course addresses a student's sense of place by examining science concepts in the context of engineering problems in one's home, school, and community. The engineering problems involve reading and communicating through words, symbols, diagrams, drawings, maps, and graphs. Students learn science in both personal and social dimensions as the concepts apply to living and working and leisure spaces.
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INTEGRATED COURSES
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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - SED 584
Physical Dimensions of Free-Choice Learning
Instructor: John Falk
Credits: 3 quarter term credits
Course Record Number (CRN):
Dates: 03/29/10 - 06/11/10
Delivery Method: Online course
Learning is influenced by the interaction of variables within three contexts--personal, socio-cultural and physical. This course focuses on how macro-scale environmental factors (e.g. space, crowding, novelty) and micro-scale environmental factors (e.g. design elements, real objects, different media) support free-choice learning. The course offers extensive examination of learning environments and how to best utilize place-based learning for the benefit of an overall education in science and mathematics as well as the use of learning communities that enhance learning through apprentice-like experiences. Participants will explore the nature of science and mathematics content that is learned outside the classroom.
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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - SED 595
Assessment and Evaluation
Instructor: Maggie Niess
Credits: 3 quarter-term credits
Course Record Number (CRN):
Dates: 03/29/10 - 06/11/10
Delivery Method: Online course
Contemporary assessment and evaluation theory and the development of valid cognitive, affective, and psycho-motor assessment items/tasks. In-depth attention is given to the development and scoring of alternative assessment techniques such as portfolios and projects.
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PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY - CI 510
Engaging in Science: Ecology / Evolution for Classroom Teachers
Instructor: Barbara Shaw
Credits: 3 quarter term credits
Course Record Number (CRN): 64111
Dates: 03/29/10 - 06/11/10
Delivery Method: Hybrid course. Online with one regional face-to-face meeting (TBA) and one of three Saturday meetings April 3, April 10, April 17, 2010.
Examine the major concepts underlying ecology and evolutionary science and incorporate current science research to design inquiry investigations in your own schoolyard and classroom. Explore how you can engage your students in the scientific process, discover suitable testable questions, and develop an experimental design complete with the math required to analyze the results you need to answer your questions. Gain confidence to present your students with a solid foundation of scientific concepts and process in ecology and evolution. Designed with one regional face-to-face meeting to incorporate the unique ecology of your area specifically into your final product, and one face-to-face meeting to explore evolutionary concepts in everyday science. Meetings to be arranged individually among the three scheduled dates.
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON - EDST 510
Increasing the Math Maturity of K-8 Students and their Teachers
Instructor: David Moursund
Credits: 3 quarter-term credits
Course Record Number (CRN): 37161
Dates: 03/29/10 - 06/04/10
Delivery Method: Online course
Register for Course: Link to course info and registration
This course for K-8 teachers of math and science focuses on increasing K-8 student levels of math maturity (math-oriented cognitive development). The course includes an emphasis on brain science, computational thinking, and problem solving across the curriculum. Course participants must have Email and Web access as well as access to students in order to carry out a number of the course assignments. Content will include a focus on problem solving across the curriculum, transfer of math learning and problem solving strategies across the curriculum, and roles of computers to help represent and solve problems across the curriculum.
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