Graduate Education Courses
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The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning through Movement - Online - 3 Graduate Credits Modeling dynamic movement and kinesthetic activity to enliven K-12 classroom content is a key part of this course. Discover the connection between movement, the brain, and learning. Examine implicit learning, class cohesion activities, content-based kinesthetic activities, brain breaks, and energizers. Use movement to meet standards, improve test scores, and develop life skills. Note: This course involves optional physical activities. The Kinesthetic Classroom II: Moving Across the Standards - Online - 3 Graduate Credits The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning through Movement is not a pre-requisite for this course. Design kinesthetic activities for the K-12 classroom focusing on teaching Common Core and national standards based content. Refine strategies and techniques to ensure maximum student participation that enhances academic achievement, builds class cohesion, and develops life skills. Create new activities and tactics to enhance the learning process for both educator and student. Design effective action plans to increase movement in the school environment. Note: This course involves optional physical activities. Motivation: The Art and Science of Inspiring Classroom Success - Online - 3 Graduate Credits The traditional reward-punishment model does little to promote achievement; however, concrete researched-based ways to motivate students do exist. Motivation as it applies to the learning process will be surveyed: basic human needs, the driving force behind all human behavior, inspiration and peak performance, energizing classroom strategies, and frameworks that encourage change and achievement. Creating Health and Balance in Today's Classroom Online - 3 Graduate Credits Research shows that students who are physically fit and well nourished perform at a higher academic level. "Mindfulness in Education" will be emphasized as a technique to reduce student anxiety and help students succeed. The impact of stress, poor time management, lack of physical activity, and poor nutrition (One of every three students will develop Type 2 diabetes), on students and educators will be examined in order to better facilitate the learning process. RTC along with their partners La Salle University and The College of New Jersey offer graduate level courses to educators K-12th grade. About RTC RTC is singularly talented in designing and delivering graduate-level courses that move beyond traditional college lecture/discussion methods toward a model of effective teaching practices. This is done by infusing instruction with opportunities for participants to experience an active, engaging program of teacher education whether it’s at one of our off-campus sites or in our new online format; both with teacher-friendly schedules. |
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If you live in Pennsylvania, Maryland or Washington DC you must take the course through La Salle University. If you live in any other state you must take the course through The College of New Jersey. (Residents of California, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianna Islands are not eligible to take THESE COURSES ).
Regional Training Center courses and Masters degree programs are approved/accredited by the following institutions and organizations: The College of New Jersey (NCATE/CAEP/Middle States/NJ DOE) and La Salle University (Middle States/PDE/MHEC)
Regional Training Center courses and Masters degree programs are approved/accredited by the following institutions and organizations: The College of New Jersey (NCATE/CAEP/Middle States/NJ DOE) and La Salle University (Middle States/PDE/MHEC)