When
Monday, August 9, 2021 at 8:00 AM EDT
-to-
Friday, August 13, 2021 at 4:00 PM EDT
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Cost: $600 per person
$450 additional for graduate credit option
Meet the Instructor:
Nelia Rath
Nelia Rath is the Assistant Head of The Riverside School, where she also directs integrated, co-curricular programs and teaches World Issues and Current Events to 8th graders. She recieved her BA in Spanish and Anthropology from Colby College and her M.Ed from Antioch University New England in Integrated Learning. With a background in outdoor and experiential education, it has always been her philosophy to incorporate life skills and real world applications into her lessons. She believes that Critical Skills is the development of a classroom culture that happens over time as the teacher explores and finds ways to share the values of collaborative, experiential, problem-based, and standards-based learning in the classroom.
Summer 21
Northeast Kingdom
Critical Skills Level One Institute
CNED-5750-E, 3 credits
Monday, August 9–Friday, August 13, 2021
The Critical Skills Level One Institute will be held Aug. 9–13, 2021 at the Teacher Center at Riverside in Lyndonville, Vermont. All educators are invited to attend this event, especially teachers from northern Vermont and northern New Hampshire.
Course Description:
We need adults who know how to work together to solve problems, so let's establish classroom cultures where students practice doing that. We'll integrate collaborative, experiential, problem-based, and standards-based learning methods along with ideas of your own and methods that are a priority in your school.
The Level 1 institute experience is designed to introduce you to the Critical Skills classroom model and prepare you to begin implementing it in your own learning environment. Our classroom model is a highly interactive, experiental approach to learning that develops student knowledge and skills through collaborative problem solving. Students in a Critical Skills classroom are thoroughly engaged in their learning and play a very active role in all aspects of the learning process. The overwhelming majority of students find our approach to be fun, stimulating, and very demanding. Your institute experience will reflect this same educational design. Participants are first immersed in a Critical Skills classroom, then explore the integration of problem-based learning, experiential learning, collaborative learning, and standards-based learning for implementation in their own classroom.
Learning Outcomes:
- Developing and maintaining the classroom as a strong, collaborative learning community,
- Setting and assessing standards for quality work,
- Targeting critical skills and fundamendal dispositions within curriculum frameworks,
- Utilizing technology and media resources as tools for problem solving,
- Designing problem-based classroom challenges that address subject area standards through a meaningful context for learning,
- Guiding and coaching students' production and reflection processes using the Experiential Learning Cycle.
Registration Information:
The summer face-to-face 5-day institute is a Continuing Ed event offered through the Teacher Center at Riverside. The cost is $600.
You have the option of taking this course for graduate level credit through Antioch University New England. By choosing this option, you earn 3 graduate-level transferable credits, with a transcript maintained by the AUNE Registrar's office. There is an additional registration fee of $450 for this online course. Please be aware that there will be additional online class time and documentation required for the graduate course.
Questions regarding the registration process should be directed to Peg Smeltz at msmeltz@antioch.edu, or call 603-283-2301.
If enrollment is sufficient and the most recent set of governor's guidelines for schools allow, we will conduct this course accordingly. That may include being outdoors in variable condititons, wearing masks, regularly sanitizing surfaces, keepying physical distance, etc.