19th Annual Action in Education Summer Institute
Course Details.

Please call 906-227-2103 or e-mail conteduc@nmu.edu for more information.

Action in Education Summer Institute 2008
Monday-Thursday, June 16-19, 2008
4-Day Sessions

ED 989-90 “ Video Cameras in the Classroom”
CRN# 50782
Instructor:  Eric Hammerstrom

This four-day course will explore the use of video cameras in the classroom as a tool to help teachers, students and administrators.  Shooting and editing with a camera can augment instruction, provide authentic audiences and allow for reflection upon classroom and school-wide activities.  Broadcasting and web-streaming of teacher-produced and student-produced video will also be explored.

ED 989-95 “Outdoor Cross-Curricula: Comparing & Contrasting Watersheds in Michigan”
CRN# 50787   
Instructor:  Charles Yeager

This four-day course will provide information to develop and implement strategies for teaching natural science in the outdoors.  The emphasis is on teaching the interrelationships among watersheds and the environment. The activities address Michigan Education Standards for Earth Science for grade levels 6-12. This project will connect UP and LP teachers in Wayne County and will be an on-going project with coordinated activities through the 2008-09 school year. Participants will: a) Develop or enhance observational skills; b) Employ and compare various outdoor teaching techniques; c) Investigate and evaluate natural science programs and resources; d)Synthesize or create outdoor natural science lessons appropriate for their teaching situation; and, e) Implement outdoor lessons related to Michigan watersheds and incorporating biological or ecological concepts and content.

ED 596 “Creating & Maintaining a Collaborative Classroom Community”
CRN# 50807
Instructor: Joe Lubig

This four-day course will provide information applicable for all classrooms at all levels, and this class will engage participants in collaborative problem-solving strategies. It promises to provide purposeful and high-energy hands-on lessons the classroom teacher can use to connect to all aspects of the curriculum.

ED 596-05 “Mapping the New Social Studies GLCEs & HSCEEs”
CRN# 50769
Instructor: Derek Anderson

This course is designed to give teachers and administrators a working understanding of the new Michigan K-12 Social Studies Grade-level Content Expectations. In this course, students will analyze the SS curriculum for their grade level and subsequently map their yearly schedule to address each GLCE, including resources and assessment.

ED596-92: “Co-Teaching for Success in the ELA Secondary Classroom”
CRN# 50812
Instructor:  Susan Standerford (Block A) and Laura Reissner (Block B)

This four-day course (4th day optional to work on lesson units) will provide opportunities to study and develop instructional lessons and units for teams of secondary English and Special

Education teachers. Each team will have previously completed four days of workshops on co-teaching during January and February 2008. This institute will look more carefully at the state expectations for secondary students and ways in which co-teachers can provide instruction that will bring all students

to successful levels of performance. (**Please note that is a predetermined course. Please call Betty Burke-Coduti at (906) 226-5132 to see if you qualify**)

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Action in Education
Monday & Tuesday, June 16-17, 2008
2-Day Sessions

ED 989-92 “Legal Updates on Michigan’s Personal Curriculum, RTI and Curriculum Issues”
CRN# 50784
Instructor: Sharon LaPointe

This two-day course will focus on legal requirements/issues for teachers in relation to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Sharon will review the issues related to

special education such as the personal curriculum, response to intervention, curricular accommodations, etc. This course has two objectives: 1) to build awareness of the legal impact of

IDEA on special and regular education teachers; and 2) to assist teachers in addressing their own classroom issues and effectiveness.

D 989-93: “Michigan Mathematics Program Improvement Part B”*
CRN# 50785
Instructor: Ann Joyal
Note: Part “A” required

This four-day course will help develop and implement strategies for teaching mathematics. The emphasis of this course is on teaching the GLCEs and HSCCEs. The Michigan Mathematics

Program Improvement project consists of 6 days of trainer-of trainer’s workshops as developed for the strand of Numbers and Operations, including whole numbers, fractions, decimals, rational numbers and integers. All activities address Michigan Education Standards in math for grade levels 6-12. (**This is an invitation-only training session for middle school math and Special Ed teams and all 6 days are required attendance. For more information, please contact Deb Asano at 906-226-5133**)

ED 989-99: “Michigan Mathematics Program Improvement Part C”*
CRN# 50791
Instructor: Ann Joyal
Note: Part “B” required
Specific content includes (same as Part B)

*This is an invitation-only training session for middle school math and Special Ed teams and all 6 days are required attendance.  For more information, please contact Deb Asano @ 226-5133.

ED 989A-93: “Applying Chicken Soup for the Soul in the Classroom”
CRN#50811
Instructor:  Anna Unkovich

Everyone loves to hear a good story!  From social studies to math, to English to Spanish class and from 1st grade to seniors, Chicken Soup stories have been successfully used in classrooms to create a heart-to-heart classroom climate, and to light a fire for literacy.  This course will be filled with real stories of success from real classroom, just like yours.  Be ready to hear some true anecdotes and to experience and take home several hands-on activities created for use in any classroom.

ED 989-96 “Student Behavior Issues and Disorders – Working with ADD, ADHD, ODD and Bipolar Students”
CRN# 50788
Instructor:  Dave Opalewski

This two-day course will explore the disruptive behavior of some students in our classrooms. This session examines why students misbehave and what teachers can do to understand and re-direct disruptive behavior to improve student learning. Time will be spent on the research of brain chemistry and it’s

relationship to behavior disorders of ADD, ADHD, ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder), and CD (Conduct Disorder). Successful, research-based techniques will be presented and discussed to help the classroom teacher, counselor, and administrator work with behavior challenged children. Behavior management is one of the critical skills for effective teaching and learning. The two objectives are: 1) to build awareness,

knowledge and understanding of student behavior problems; and 2) to assist staff in developing strategies for their students in crisis behavior situations. The course will be interactive, collaborative,

and solution-focused. Teachers will acquire the skills to begin addressing student behavior problems at their school or in their classroom.

ED 989-97 “Service Learning Projects to Enhance the Curriculum”
CRN# 50789
Instructor:  Joe Zahn

This course will provide PreK-12 educators, in all content areas, with an opportunity to learn the difference between Academic Service Learning (ASL) and Community Service. Participants will learn the importance of integrating service-learning, and how to connect it to their curriculum through projects identified by their students and community as needs in their areas. Participants will share their 07-08 Service Learning projects. Resources will be given to those attending the session.  Opportunities for funding including ASL Mini-Grants for Teachers, local and state resources will be shared and discussed.

ED 989-98 “Lift Off to Literacy – Reading Instruction for Adolescents”
CRN# 50790
Instructor:  Debra Asano

This course will be a two-day applied training that integrates scientifically-based adolescent reading and writing instructional strategies and technology. Michigan’s Regional Literacy Training Centers have collaborated on a free web-based system to assist secondary ELA teachers to access online reading resources to improve student literacy skills. This will be a hands-on course specifically designed to provide ELA teachers grades 6-12 and special education teachers with practicum-based opportunities to enhance understanding of how the *five core components of reading instruction are impacted by and must incorporate the following critical components:

• Reading Comprehension
• Critical Reading
• Reading Fluency
• Word Study
• Writing Development
• Writing Fluency

Participants will be able to access and apply the six areas of literacy assessment, screening tests and resources. Teachers will have an opportunity to explore and experiment with protocals and templates to support and improve student literacy. Strategies for adaptations and accommodations to meet the needs of struggling readers will be integrated throughout the course.

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Action in Education
Wednesday & Thursday, June 18-19, 2008
2-Day Sessions

ED 989-91: “Legal Issues for Educators”
CRN# 50783
Instructor:  Betty Burke-Coduti & Lisa Swem

This two-day course will provide educators with vital information on issues impacting our schools with one of the school attorneys from Thrun.  Lisa Swem is a former teacher and coach and is well known for her expertise in school safety legislation, student discipline, harassment, and First Amendment Rights, Search & Seizure, etc.   Participants will be able to address specific legal questions/issues that impact school practices or create legal liability issues for teachers.

ED 989-90: “UTube Meets Your Classroom”
CRN# 50808
Instructor:  Rico Zenti

This two-day course will explore the use of UTube and united streaming in the classroom as a tool to help teachers, students.  Learn how to search, access, and save Internet videos and organize them to reinforce what you are already using as content resources in the classroom.

ED/MU 989-94: “Mind, Movement and Music”
CRN# 50786
Instructor:  R. Engelhart

This two-day course introduces bodymapping, an innovative yet simple strategy for improving the freedom and expressiveness of voluntary movement. Though designed for music educators,

the course requires no musical expertise and is relevant to teachers in many other disciplines. Coordinated movement is made possible by the brain’s internal representation of the

body’s size, shape, and function. When this map is accurate, movement is facilitated; when it is incomplete or wrong, movement becomes effortful, limited, and injury producing.

The course will introduce basic principles of bodymapping and provide guidelines for applying the ideas in teaching. Robert Engelhart, a certified Andover Educator and member of the NMU music faculty will teach the course.

ED 989A-92: “Motivating and Enhancing Reading Skills for the Middle and High School Students”
CRN#50810
Instructor:  Dave Opalewski

The purpose of this course is to provide teachers with practical and proven knowledge and strategies for using reading, thinking, and writing tools in various content area classrooms. This course will assist the teacher in providing students the tools needed for success in the classroom and also to be lifelong independent learners.

D 989A-91: “Adolescent Brain – A Time of Danger & Opportunity”
CRN# 50809
Instructor:  Dee Lindenberger

This course will focus on what has been learned in neuroscience about brain function and how it can be translated into practical teaching strategies. Participants will learn key elements of a "brain-friendly" learning environment; strategies to get and keep students' attention, increase retention, and direction-giving for greater clarity and compliance.

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Keynote Speakers

Daily registration and Check-in @ 7:30 a.m.
Keynote Speaker at 8:15 a.m. – Jamrich Hall 101. 
Attendance is required.

Monday (6/16) - John Kuglin
“Technology tools for the classroom”

Tuesday (6/17) - Anna Unkovich
“Managing personal issues- finding balance and stress management”

Wednesday (6/18) Jerry Mills
“No teacher left behind”

Thursday (6/19) - Kathryn Russell
“Teacher travel to inspire your profession”