Courses Charlotte took this summer

This summer, I took these courses through Millersville University:


- ASCA National Model - Three of us high school counselors learned about the model that ASCA recommends districts follow to best serve students. We created a skeleton version of what our high school counseling program would look like within this model. We hope to use our knowledge to eventually improve our program of services, as appropriate for the needs of our school. 


- WebQuests in the Classroom - I developed a "webquest" (a website that guides students step-by-step through a web-based research project) regarding study skills.  The webquest and the study skills unit that it fits within still need some polishing, but I believe that they could be very useful to us in the future, possibly for inclusion in our ninth grade classes. 



- Multicultural Assessment & Teaching - Through this class, I developed a lesson on motivation and goal setting that leads students in a discussion about their goals and requires students to learn about "amazing" people who have overcome adversity to achieve success. Stories of success represent individuals from different ethnic, racial and religious groups, in addition to those with disabilities and those who have faced discrimination. I envision this lesson fitting well with the other study skills lessons that I created in my WebQuest course.


- Web 2.0 - Emergent Technology in Education - This course exposed me to an overwhelming array of applications available for our use through the internet. We created wikis, xtranormal videos, scrapblogs, glogsters, blogs (you're reading mine now); we blabberized and voki'd; we used zamzar and videothread; and we learned how to embed everything into websites. Some pretty cool stuff!


Feel free to ask me about what I learned in these classes.  I'm happy to share!