IMPORTANT: You must register directly with the university offering these courses. Each university/college has developed its own PrISM Oregon webpage where program, course, and registration information is available. Please consult the following PrISM webpages for course registration instructions:
TUITION: The seven colleges and universities have agreed to a common,
equivalent PrISM tuition level. The formula for converting between quarter-term
and semester credits is: Semester credit hours x 1.5 = number of quarter credit
hours; quarter credit hours x .67 = number of semester credit hours. Three quarter-term credits is equivalent to two semester credits. A 3-credit quarter-term-based course at a public university has a tuition of $1,102; a 2-credit semester-based course at an independent college/university has a tuition of $1,102.
TUITION ASSISTANCE: Partial tuition assistance (60% to 80%) is available
for teachers employed in Oregon schools through a Title II-A University/School
Partnership grant. Click on Tuition Assistance in the navigation bar on the
left and submit a tuition assistance request after you register for your course(s).
INTRODUCTORY COURSE
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PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY - CI 510
The Young Child As Scientist
Instructor: Chaille
Credits: 3 quarter term credits
Dates: 09/27/10 — 12/10/10
Delivery Method: Online course
Register: Register at Portland State University
Explore developmentally appropriate science for preschool and primary school age children. Activities will focus on experimentation and problem solving. Using the book by Chaille and Britain, The Young Child As Scientist, experience and design activities for young children around three questions that derive from traditional science content: "Can I make it move?," "Can I make it change?," and "How does it fit?" Through this process, participants will learn more about constructivist teaching and curriculum, particularly as applied to science education.
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MATHEMATICS FOCUS COURSE
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PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY - CI 510
Deepening Mathematical Understanding in Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability for Elementary Teachers
Instructor: Catherine Brown
Credits: 3 quarter-term credits
Dates: 09/27/10 - 12/10/10
Optional Blackboard Orientation
Delivery Method: Online with 2 face-to-face meetings
Register: Register at Portland State University
Look at statistics as a problem-solving process. Explore investigations of different ways to collect and represent data, and describe and analyze variation in data. Learn how to apply what you have learned to practices in your own classroom. This course is organized around the Curriculum Frameworks from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) to help you better understand the mathematics concepts underlying the content that you teach and to help you know what standards-based lessons look like in the classroom.
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SCIENCE FOCUS COURSES
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EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY - SCI 510
Scientific Method
Instructor: Anna Cavinato
Credits: 3 quarter term credits
Dates: 09/27/10 — 12/10/10
Delivery Method: Hybrid course. Online with one course meeting (date/time to be determined by instructor and students).
Register: How to register for EOU PrISM courses.
The course is designed to provide students with a broad background in the physical sciences with emphasis on the scientific method and energy. The curriculum stresses both theoretical principles and applications of concepts using experimentation as a vehicle for modeling scientific process.
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EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY - SCED 510
Nature of Science
Instructor: Miriam Munck
Credits: 3 quarter-term credits
Dates: 09/27/10 — 12/10/10
Delivery Method Online course
Register: How to register for EOU PrISM courses.
Students will explore how the processes of science develop our understanding of the natural world and reflect on the value and limits of the scientific process. This course explores a historical and conceptual approach to science rather than only stressing factual data or computational methods. Questions about the heuristics of science will be examined and related to the assigned readings. We will attempt to discover answers to the questions, but science sometimes only leads to more questions.
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PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY — G510
Earth/Space Science in the Elementary Classroom
Instructors: Michael Cummings
Credits: 3 quarter term credits
Dates: 09/27/10 — 12/10/10
Delivery Method: Hybrid: Online + field-study sessions
Register: Register at Portland State University
An integrated study of concepts from geology, astronomy, and climatology appropriate for primary and upper elementary students. Emphasis on place-based strategies that employ appropriate inquiry frameworks used in the earth/space science disciplines. Course will explore use of mathematics to describe landscape features.
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INTEGRATED COURSES
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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - SED 582
Personal Dimensions of Free-Choice Learning
Instructor: John Baek
Credits: 3 quarter term credits
Dates: 09/27/10 — 12/10/10
Delivery Method: Online course
Register: Registration instructions for OSU. If you are not in an OSU degree program, enroll as a non-degree student.
Investigates connections between theories of free-choice learning and the fundamental concepts of sociology, social psychology and anthropology: social stratification, social structure and interaction, social institutions, and cultural background. Real world examples will be included to support learning leaders' efforts to facilitate the socio-cultural dimensions of lifelong science and mathematics learning. Participants will explore the nature of science and mathematics content that is learned outside the classroom, and how to best utilize place-based learning for the benefit of an overall education in science and mathematics as well as the use of learning communities that enhance learning through apprentice-like experiences.
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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - SED 565
Inquiring into Science & Mathematics Learning and Teaching
Instructor: Emily van Zee
Credits: 3 quarter term credits
Dates: 09/27/10 — 12/10/10
Delivery Method: Online course
Contact Emily.vanZee@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-1880 for more information.
Register: Registration instructions for OSU. If you are not in an OSU degree program, enroll as a non-degree student.
Participants prepare to lead instructional changes in their communities by planning inquiries into the learning that they foster in their own contexts, critiquing relevant literature, making connections to national standards, and constructing a documentary website or writing a journal article that reports upon ways to foster science and/or mathematics learning. Participants make in-depth examination of learning in science and mathematics that have relevance to teaching. The course builds skills for the integrated teaching of science and mathematics targeting appropriate content and pedagogy. Participants explore students' personal understandings of science and mathematics and turn this analysis into instructional design. Depending upon the teaching context that is the source of the inquiry, this course supports the PrISM themes of multiple literacies, integration of science and mathematics, and integrating science and mathematics across the curriculum.
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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - SED 599
Topics in Science Education: Enhancing Literacy Learning in Science and Mathematics Contexts
Instructor: Emily van Zee
Credits: 3 quarter term credits
Dates: 09/27/10 — 12/10/10
Delivery Method: Online course
Contact Emily.vanZee@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-1880 for more information.
Register: Registration instructions for OSU. If you are not in an OSU degree program, enroll as a non-degree student. The CRN is 19888.
Examining ways of enhancing literacy learning will include analyzing research on learning to speak clearly, listen closely, write coherently, read with comprehension, and make and critique media resources competently in science and mathematics contexts.
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