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Credit
hours shown in parentheses
| 14.710 |
Understanding
Family Systems (1) -
Explores the family and
societal structures and
strategic interventions used
in the classroom with students
and their families. |
| 14.730 |
Understanding
Our Students and Community (3)
- Examines
community resources that deal
with the problems confronting
young adults.
Teachers will visit
community centers and agencies
to discuss such issues as:
criminal justice, probation,
substance abuse, communicable
diseases, and domestic
violence. Participants
consider the impact of the
community, its neighborhoods,
and local service
organizations on the education
of pupils. |
| 14.731 |
Lifelong
Issues in Student Health (3)
- Designed
to provide participants with
information regarding the
health status of the youth of
Massachusetts.
Using the human
development approach, this
course gives teachers a tool
to study the history and
development of attitudes
regarding cigarettes, alcohol,
drugs and sexuality of the
state’s youth.
Teachers use this
information to develop
integrated health and common
core lessons in their
classrooms in line with the
Massachusetts Health
frameworks. |
| 14.738 |
Community
Service Learning (3) - Uses
an instructional approach that
integrates meaningful service
to one’s school or community
with group problem solving,
critical thinking, reflection,
academic competencies,
personal growth, and civic
responsibility.
Teachers and students
identify a community or school
need.
Students learn academic
skills and content as they
study ways to lessen the need
within the community.
Participants perform
community service and engage
in structured reflective
thinking in order to learn
from their service experience.
Extensive class
discussion, readings, and
journal writings are required. |
| 14.750 |
Strengthening
Multicultural Perspectives in
the Classroom (3) - Provides
educators with an in-depth
understanding of the following
concepts and how they relate
to education:
multiculturalism, diversity,
racism, race, ethnicity,
stereotype, privilege,
prejudice, pluralism,
discrimination, ethnocentrism,
and cultural identity.
Educators will have the
opportunity to characterize
their own cultural identity
and discover how it impacts
interactions with people from
other ethnic groups, focusing
on how cultural background
influences perceptions.
The course will require
educators to become familiar
with current literature on
multicultural education. |
| 14.793 |
Legal
Issues of Student Discipline
in Massachusetts (3) - Designed
for school administrators,
headmasters, coordinators,
department heads, and
educators who deal with
discipline issues on a daily
basis.
This course examines
the numerous legal decisions,
statutes, and regulations that
all school employees should be
aware of and consider in their
work when disciplining
students. |
| 14.794 |
Literacy
and Character Education: A K-5
Integration (4) - Designed
to assist educators teaching
character education through
the standards of the English
Language Arts and Health
Frameworks.
Participants will
discuss and write about
selected pieces of adult and
children’s literature where
characters are making
important decisions.
Teachers will learn to
select literature with themes
that provoke thinking and
provide insight into universal
human emotions and dilemmas.
They will also learn to
teach specific skills and
strategies to ensure that
students are able to interpret
the meaning of literary works
by using critical lenses and
analytical techniques.
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| 15.702 |
The
Teacher, the Child, and the
Law (3) - A
law-related education course
for teachers, administrators,
guidance counselors, nurses,
and all support personnel at
grade levels K-12.
The purpose of the
course is to develop an
understanding of the law as it
affects educators in their
daily work with children and
to clearly understand the
school-court connection.
Timely topics of the
law and society are developed
so that educators may be
better prepared to deal with
the same issues confronting
society at large. |
| 15.721 |
Issues
in Teaching Troubled Students
(2) - Focuses
on issues directly related to
teaching students with
emotional and behavioral
disabilities.
Each class is devoted
to a specific topic, including
teaching children with
Attention Deficit Disorder,
Childhood Depression,
Post-Traumatic Disorder,
building alliances with
families, interactions between
family systems and school
systems, behavioral management
systems, and psychotropic
medications. Guest speakers include experts in social work, psychology,
and psychiatry who will share
information and clinical
insights.
Readings are from
current journals in special
education, child psychiatry,
and child welfare.
All presentations will
be directly relevant to the
teachers’ classroom. |
| 15.732 |
Violence
in Society (3) - Explores
the impact of violence on
schools in today’s society. Domestic violence, teenage dating violence, and sexual
harassment are discussed.
The Massachusetts
Juvenile Offender Law is
considered as well as the role
of various social agencies
such as the Department of
Probation and the Department
of Youth Services. |
| 15.741 |
Talking
About Race and Anti-Racism (3)
- Explores
the fundamental concepts of
race, power, unearned
privilege, active anti-racism,
and how our culture transmits
racism in school.
A significant portion
of the course deals with the
racial identity development of
white people, people of color,
and bi-racial children, and
how racial identity affects
classroom performance and
teaching.
The course focuses on
ways that teachers can
safeguard racial or
ethnocultural minority
students against
discrimination and ensure that
these students have an equal
opportunity to achieve success
in the classroom. |
| 15.743 |
Strategies
to Teach Social Competency
Skills to Gr. K-5 (3) - Emphasizes
using the new grade level
curriculum to build classroom
community, enhance student
self-esteem, and improve
social problem solving skills
in children. This is a Social
Competency Program course. |
| 15.749 |
Strategies
to Manage Student Discipline
and Violence in K-12 Schools
(3) - Addresses
a variety of classroom
management approaches to
assist in dealing with
discipline problems and
violence in today’s schools. Participants will focus on the causes of discipline problems
in school and explore ways
teachers can address these
challenges by developing
useful strategies and
interventions. |
| 15.758 |
Academic
Strategies for Developing
Social Skills (3) - Designed
to assist participants in
acquiring the attitudes,
knowledge, and skills that
contribute to effective
learning in school and across
one’s life span.
The relationship
between personal qualities,
education, and the world of
work are investigated. |
| 15.766 |
Today’s
Classrooms:
Assessment and
Intervention Strategies for
Children at Risk (3) - Introduces
common behaviors found in
children at risk and offers a
conceptual framework and
repertoire of strategies to
deal with such behaviors.
Participants learn
developmental issues of
children at risk, examine
assessment as an intervention
strategy, analyze issues of
temperament and behavior
management, and explore an
integrative, therapeutic
approach to treatment. |
| 15.775 |
Kids,
Courts, and the Classroom (3)
- Designed
to bring educators of all
grades and disciplines into
direct contact with our legal
system.
By visiting different
courts (District, Superior,
Probate) and a juvenile
facility, the participants
develop an awareness of real
world problems that impact
children.
The course will provide
a realistic look at our
judicial system at work and
the effect its efforts have on
our educational institutions. |
| 15.779 |
Self-Esteem
and Character Education for
Educators (3) - Focuses
on specific techniques and
skills for assessing and
improving self-concepts.
Participants develop
strategies and lesson plans to
incorporate these concepts
into daily activities with
students. |
| 16.700 |
Multicultural
Interactions in the Classroom
(1) - Provides
an in-depth examination of the
dynamics of culture and
history of both educator and
student in classroom
interactions.
Participants learn
techniques for conducting
cultural and historical
analysis of self and others.
There is discussion of
white race consciousness
models, minority identity
development processes, and
community genogram models. |
| 16.712 |
Conflict
Resolution in the Middle
School (1) - Presents
an introduction to conflict
resolution.
Among the topics
discussed are: causes of
conflict escalation,
de-escalating conflict,
demands and needs in
conflicts, negotiation,
mediation, and arbitration. |
| 16.714 |
Identification
of Youth at High Risk for
Alcohol and Drug Use
(1) - Designed
to help teachers and staff
recognize the signs and
symptoms of drug involvement,
develop strategies for talking
with students about their
possible drug involvement, and
to know when, how, and to whom
to make a referral. |
| 16.772 |
Contemporary
Legal Issues for Educators –
Part I (3) - Considers
legal issues that impact
classroom teachers.
Practitioners from the
bench, bar, and state agencies
discuss such issues as time
and learning, teacher
evaluation and dismissal,
school discipline, SPED laws,
sexual harassment,
delinquency, child abuse,
civil liability, mental health
issues, and safe schools. |
| 34.761 |
School
and Community Health
Education: A Course for Health
Educators (4) - This
course is an introduction to
assessment, planning,
promotion, implementation, and
evaluation of health education
in school and community
settings.
The interdisciplinary
nature of health education is
explored.
The team effort of
health, physical education,
and family and consumer
sciences teachers, school
nurses, and food service
directors is examined in
relation to the Massachusetts
Health Frameworks, the Healthy
People 2000/2010 objectives,
and other health planning
documents.
Current health problems
emphasizing controversial
issues are examined through
review of literature,
discussion, site visits, guest
speakers, and projects. |
If
you have questions or need
additional materials, please contact:
Nancy
Proulx
School/Community
Liaison
Graduate
and Continuing Education Office
Framingham State College
100 State Street, PO Box 9101
Framingham, MA
01701-9101
508
626 4034
E-mail:
nproulx@frc.mass.edu
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