The Innovative Northwest Teacher

DISTANCE CLASSES

From Good Teacher to Great:

Teach with Your Strengths

        Mary Mitchell and Kristin Rogers     

Explore ways to capitalize on your strengths and natural talents in order to captivate even the most reluctant of learners. You will be working with the required text a NEW copy of: Teach with Your Strengths – How Great Teachers Inspire Their Students by Rosanne Liesveld and Jo Ann Miller. The methods discussed in this course are gleaned from 40 years of research by the Gallup Organization in addition to our own experiences as educators. Through readings, assignments, self-reflection and the online Strengths Finders Assessment Instrument, you will examine how to incorporate your strengths into your daily practice to become a better teacher, to maximize teaming opportunities, and to make a difference in the lives of your students.

Fall:

   Register anytime until 11/5/10.

    Course work due 12/5/10.        

    Grades posted online (www.pdx.edu) 12/15/10.

Fees:   3 Graduate Quarter Credits: $165 PSU + $480 TINT

     (Noncredit: $480 TINT) 

Fees**

Portland State University is changing the way fees are collected.

Although total tuition amounts are unchanged PSU credit students will now make two payments:

1. a course fee payable to TINT (paid by all students)

1. 1.2.a credit fee payable to PSU (paid by credit students only)
   
   

All materials and assignments will be found online and can be completed through email or sent to your instructor in the mail. Grades available online (www.pdx.edu).

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