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Digital Literacy

PME/GDE

How does this course support learners outside K-12 teaching contexts? 

This course is beneficial for all learners and has clear applications across diverse professional contexts. 

Each student’s professional practice and goals are unique. We highly encourage students to reach out to their course instructors at the start of the term to discuss the relevance and application of course learning and assignments to their own learning goals and context of practice. 

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Problem Based Learning

PME/GDE

How does this course support learners outside K-12 teaching contexts? 

The Problems of Practice engaged for PBL learning in the course are structured in a way that encourages thinking about professional practices beyond K-12. Students are able to find ways of working with the Problems of Practice and the readings in ways that resonate with them, whether that be K-12 or otherwise. Beyond being an instructional approach, PBL can be used as a process to learn about complex problems of practice in any professional context.

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Knowledge Translation and Mobilization

PME/GDE

How does this course support learners outside K-12 teaching contexts? 

The KMb and KT theories and approaches explored in this course apply across organizations. Course readings, learning activities, and assignments can be applied to a diverse range of professional contexts.

Each student’s professional practice and goals are unique. We highly encourage students to reach out to their course instructors at the start of the term to discuss the relevance and application of course learning and assignments to their own learning goals and context of practice. 

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Innovation in Teaching and Learning

PME/GDE

How does this course support learners outside K-12 teaching contexts? 

 This course is applicable to all persons who facilitate teaching and learning spaces (e.g., classrooms, seminars, workshops). 

Each student’s professional practice and goals are unique. We highly encourage students to reach out to their course instructors at the start of the term to discuss the relevance and application of course learning and assignments to their own learning goals and context of practice. 

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Integrated Planning, Instruction, and Assessment

PME/GDE

*You will complete Final Assignment Option 1 or Option 2.

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Organizational Leadership

PME/GDE

How does this course support learners outside K-12 teaching contexts? 

The leadership theories and approaches explored in this course apply across organizations. Course readings, learning activities, and assignments can be applied to a diverse range of professional contexts.  

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Cultivating Creativity

PME/GDE

How does this course support learners outside K-12 teaching contexts? 

The course material is drawn from a wide variety of sources and many are speaking to a broad context of cultivating creativity, not specifically targeted to K-12 teachers. The course assignments are very flexible in how students can approach the content and medium of presentation, so assignments are easily adapted to each student’s particular context, K-12 or otherwise.