Classes For Teachers
My courses offered through The Heritage Institute
Earn undergraduate or graduate-level college credit from Antioch University in Seattle, CEUs or clock hours in courses offered by The Heritage Institute. The Heritage Institute is a progressive organization dedicated to top-quality in-service education for teachers and other interested adults. Find out more about The Heritage Institute here. You may enroll in these courses at any time and take up to one year to complete them. Click on the course titles to find out more.
CURIOSITY & WONDER: CULTIVATING QUESTIONS, NOT ANSWERS
Interest in new ideas is the essence of great science, of great art, and of a lively social life, so how do we support children’s curiosity? This online course will explore the connection between curiosity, creativity and intelligence. Participants will refresh their own curiosity, wonder about the world, find help to value children’s offbeat ideas, channel their experimentation into socially acceptable forms, and discover fresh ways to support children’s potential.
EDUCATING CHILDREN’S SENSES: WAKING UP YOUNG MINDS
Children’s full physical involvement in learning - touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing - is vitally important and downright fun! Enliven your teaching and maximize learning with lessons that involve all the senses. Whether your young students are adventurous or squeamish, all the children you work with will respond eagerly to the kinds of activities, loving instructions and encouragement you will discover in this online course.
Patricia Nan Anderson is an expert in child development and learning with over thirty years’ experience in innovative programming, public speaking and guidance of parents and teachers of young children. She earned her doctorate in Educational Psychology from Northern Illinois University and a master’s degree in Education from University of Minnesota. She taught first grade for six years in St. Paul, Minnesota and developed programs for children, teens and parents at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She was a professor of Early Childhood Education at National-Louis University for 13 years, until deciding to devote her energies exclusively to the development of parents and families.
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