Intensive Courses for Teachers Offered During Summer
at the University of Saint Francis
February 22, 2008, Fort Wayne,
Indiana: The Department of Education at the University
of Saint Francis will host an Educator’s Academy
featuring three separate, three-credit classes for
teachers this summer: “The Differentiated Classroom,”
“Strategies for Struggling Readers” and “Strategies for
High Ability Gifted Students.”
“The Differentiated Classroom” will
run from June 9 to June 13 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The
purpose of this course is to help teachers respond
to the learning needs of an increasingly diverse
student body while also navigating the demands of
their curriculum.
“Strategies for Struggling Readers”
runs from June 16 to June 20 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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This
course will teach research-based strategies and
approaches to improve students’ reading
comprehension, vocabulary and decoding that can be
applied across grade levels.
“Strategies for High Ability and
Gifted Students” will be web-based and lasts from July
28 to August 1.
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This
course will help to create strategies and develop
further understanding of students with special
talents and abilities.
Tuition for each three-credit class
is $750 until May 2 and $775 after May 2. For more
information or to register, contact Nancy Hankee at
260-399-7700 ext. 8405 or e-mail her at
nhankee@sf.edu
The University of Saint Francis,
founded in 1890, is a comprehensive university in the
Catholic Franciscan tradition, offering undergraduate
and graduate programs to more than 2,100 students from a
broad geographic region. |
