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Course description Explore a learning system that gives you a framework for understanding how people behave. Actively engaged while working together, K–12 students alternate team tasks as they strengthen all modalities, achieving greater classroom results. Creating multiple intelligence learning stations gives students alternate team tasks to manage their own self-directed behavior in a core curriculum instruction subject area. Organizing thinking in the classroom results in freedom to experience and develop an on-task proactive approach. Brain research shows how to differentiate learning stations to respect learning differences and learning rates. Implement and engage students in cooperative teams to accomplish daily classroom tasks. Students mentor and discover each others' interactive sensory preferences. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Communication Technology.
| CI 510 1 Credits |
| Graduate |
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Course descriptionTeach to your strengths to build engaged schools. Identify triggers that may be causing conflicts and re-connect in positive ways. Learn how parents and teachers can guide students to develop their promise. Learn how changes in technology and globalization are going to impact the way we live, work, and imagine our world. Coercion in any form undermines the emotional safety necessary for student to learn and for teachers to teach; relationship-based teaching and learning discovers a whole new mind that will shape our children's future world. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Communication Technology.
| CI 410/510 3 Credits | Undergraduate
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Course description Misfits, queen bees, odd kids out, bullying, gangs, street kids, and the subsequent victimization are topics of keen interest in U.S. education. Help students refocus their attention when they are angry so that everybody wins. Learn the key truths about what anger is really telling us. How can we express what's alive in us? Provide a safe environment for students to discover how everyone sees the world differently, including themselves. By looking into transforming anger responses into creativity, initiative, innovation, team productivity, results, problem solving, and decision making, students make room for the "best" of themselves and the way they are wired. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Communication Technology.
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Course description Gain insights into what great teachers do differently. Learn how to teach by building on your strengths and talents to manage innovation in the classroom. All teachers can improve their performance by making the most of their innate talents. Developing your talents can improve outcomes that matter: teacher engagement and retention, and student achievement and well-being in the classroom and beyond. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Communication Technology.
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Course description Research shows educational excellence relies more on the talents and engagement levels of the people within an individual school than on any other factor. If we lose students' hearts and minds in middle school, we lose their bodies in high school. Gain strategies to understand that when building engaged classrooms in a time of relentless change, there's only one thing that's certain: new challenges and opportunities will emerge tomorrow that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know what skills will be required to succeed? New brain science reveals that the more you do learn, the more you can learn. Connections attract more connections. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Communication Technology.
| CI 810 3 Credits |
| Graduate |
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Course description Learn language skills in the way in which our learning process dictates. It is extremely necessary for people who have difficulty acquiring language arts skills through conventional methods to use a multisensory, problem-solving approach for concepts and direct teaching skills. All teachers can improve their performance by making the most of differentiated instruction for diverse learners. Explore issues of literacy, culture, gender, and individuals with exceptionalities, and how these affect literacy. Literacy learning prepares students for the future both inside and outside the classroom. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Communication Technology.
| CI 810 3 Credits |
| Graduate |
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Course description Is IQ destiny? Not nearly as much as we think. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind to create and change the global brain. Our view of human intelligence is narrow, ignoring a crucial range of Multiple Intelligence (MI) abilities that matter immensely in terms of how we do in life. Recent groundbreaking behavioral research shows the globalization factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart. Gone is the age of "left brain" dominance. Think about a whole new mind for a future that has already arrived. Learn how to make our Synergy Quotient (SQ) strengths relevant for far greater results working together. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Communication Technology.
| CI 510 5 Credits |
| Graduate |
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Course description An overwhelming sense of mentoring camaraderie is helping communities pull together and accomplish things they never thought possible. Children will need creative minds to mentor each other to succeed in this new world. Synergy Mentors takes a deep look at what school successes are made of and how young brains develop neurologically within current innovation and reform. We know that the world would not have progressed to where it is without our mentors and critical thinkers as we learn across disciplines. The human touch is the most valuable element in education, while offering technology savvy children, research-based classroom strategies to teach inter-generational critical thinking and other 21st century skills. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Communication Technology.
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