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Teaching Themes Through the Year

(Grades K-12)

 

Do you love to teach with themes? Are you looking for some new ideas and resources? This online course will provide you with new and exciting theme ideas. You will receive excellent activities and projects for the kids to do. You will also get new ideas to breathe life into the themes you have been teaching for years. Suggestions for integrating technology and literature into themes will also be offered.

"The course was very interesting with excellent resources." - Patricia Sykes-Brown

     Registration Fee $65        Tell a Friend About PDI Online Courses

Topical Outline/Three Units    Click here to request a copy of the syllabus

Unit One
  • Introduction to the Course
  • Introduction to Thematic Teaching
  • Teaching Skills and Standards
  • Planning a Thematic Unit
  • Test #1

Unit Two

  • Skill-based Thematic Units
  • Literature and Thematic Teaching
  • Home-School Connection
  • Test #2

Unit Three

  • Using the Internet
  • Thematic Unit Scavenger Hunts and WebQuests
  • Test #3

Unit Four

  • Rubrics
  • Portfolio Assessment
  • Implementing the Theme Study
  • Test #4

 

 

Chapman Course Number: 9963A

One Graduate Level Credit Available

PDI Course Number: 59T01 

 

  Registration Fee $65

 

 

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