MISCELLANEOUS
AMAZING STORIES, FACTS, TALES, GAMES, AND RESOURCES TO HELP BRING EXCITEMENT AND INTEREST TO YOUR CLASSROOM (K–12)
Music and scandal, candy and crime, toys and politics, sports and presidential secrets, feminists and food, stunts and games, the history of language and slang, race relations, and conspiracy theories—the secret and not-so-secret stories of the captivating, unusual, and enchanting people, events, circumstances, and predicaments that are never taught in the classroom. Come aboard an excursion into the past. What secrets, skeletons, lies, and laughter will we find? Using various media, the instructor will demonstrate how to use entertaining and engaging facts, stories, details, activities, and anecdotes to both fascinate and educate students in the classroom.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 2
STANDARDS: 1, 6, 7
INSTRUCTOR: Jerald Anderson
- LOCATION: Milwaukee Viterbo Center
DATES: March 15, 16, April 12, 13
Number of registrants: CANCELLED
- LOCATION: Middleton High School
DATES: April 26, 27, May 10, 11
Number of registrants: CANCELLED
- LOCATION: Milwaukee Viterbo Center
DATES: June 24–27
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THE ENNEAGRAM—NINE POINTS OF VIEW (K–12)
The Enneagram is a system of personality typology that combines both psychology and spirituality in the search for self awareness and self acceptance. Based on an ancient understanding of spiritual growth, this approach describes nine different personality types and how each has a distinct way of viewing self and others. Study of the Enneagram can improve relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. The Enneagram can be particularly helpful for teachers as a tool for developing an understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses in the classroom.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 1
STANDARDS: 3, 5, 9
INSTRUCTOR: Marci Madary
- LOCATION: Green Bay Viterbo Center
DATES: April 19, 20
Number of registrants: 11
- LOCATION: Viterbo University, La Crosse
DATES: May 3, 4
Number of registrants: CANCELLED
- LOCATION: Appleton Xavier High School
DATES: July 8, 9
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- LOCATION: Milwaukee Radisson Hotel, Mayfair
DATES: July 22, 23
Number of registrants: 1
- LOCATION: Middleton High School
DATES: Aug. 5, 6
Number of registrants: 2
New Course 2013
EVERYONE COMMUNICATES, FEW CONNECT LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES
An important aspect of a caring school climate is the ability of the educator to connect with students. If you connect with students, colleagues, and the community you will have better relationships, less conflict, and increased influence. Based on materials by John Maxwell, bestselling author and leadership expert, this course will provide opportunities to develop strategies to increase your ability to connect.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 1
STANDARDS: 5, 6, 7, 9, 10
INSTRUCTOR: Lisa Schaefer
- LOCATION: Milwaukee Viterbo Center
DATES: July 10, 11
Number of registrants: 2
- LOCATION: Viterbo University, La Crosse
DATES: July 17, 18
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- LOCATION: Appleton Xavier High School
DATES: Aug. 7, 8
Number of registrants: 2
GENERATIONAL LEARNING AND TEACHING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATION
This three-credit course will investigate the events, values, and profiles of people born between certain years, and how their life experiences affected the educational process. Discussion sessions on the various generations and their contributions to present day educational strategies will prepare instructors to balance and address the needs of their students.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 3
STANDARDS: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
INSTRUCTOR: Kay Rollert
- LOCATION: Milwaukee Radisson Hotel Mayfair
DATES: April 12, 13, 26, 27, May 10, 11
Number of registrants: CANCELLED
IMPROVING LEARNING (LITERACY AND NUMERACY) THROUGH MANAGING THE CLASSROOM LISTENING ENVIRONMENT (K–12)
This course will develop beliefs, skills, and behaviors to manage acoustic accessibility for students in the classroom by investigating recent auditory brain research. Students will examine the relationship between classroom acoustics and student academic achievement and review studies discussing background noise, signal-to-noise ratios in classrooms, noise effects on academic teacher performance, speaker-to-listener distance, and speech perception in the classroom.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 1
STANDARDS: 1, 5
INSTRUCTOR: Sherwood Williams
- LOCATION: Milwaukee Viterbo Center
DATES: July 17, 18
Number of registrants
- LOCATION: Middleton High School
DATES: July 22, 23
Number of registrants: 1
- LOCATION: Green Bay Viterbo Center
DATES: Aug. 19, 20
Number of registrants: 1
MENTORING: A PROMISING STRATEGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH RESILIENCY
At its most basic level, mentoring helps because it guarantees a young person that there is someone who cares about them. The child is not alone in dealing with questions, stressful situations, and day-to-day activities. Mentors provide their mentees with an experienced friend who is there to help in any number of situations. Educators can use mentoring as a powerful tool to provide stability for students, boost student self-esteem, and reinforce academic content taught in the classroom. In this course we will examine the value of mentoring, the major components of a successful youth mentoring program, and the process of establishing a mentoring program in a classroom or school.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 3
STANDARDS: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
INSTRUCTOR: Denise McFarlin
- LOCATION: MacArthur Elementary School, Green Bay
DATES: Aug. 5–9 (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
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OPPRESSION IN THE CLASSROOM: TEACHING WITH POVERTY IN MIND
This course will define the nature of poverty and examine the effects of poverty on teaching and learning. Brain-based research, proven teaching methodologies, and curriculum adaptations will be considered. Participants working with students of poverty will be challenged to formulate a research-based plan for future teaching with poverty in mind.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 3
STANDARDS: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
INSTRUCTOR: Denise McFarlin
- LOCATION: MacArthur Elementary School, Green Bay
DATES: June 17–21 (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Number of registrants: 1
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PRACTICES FOR EDUCATORS—CONFERENCING, CIRCLES, PROBLEM-SOLVING
We will work interactively in class to experience restorative justice practices while exploring concepts and plans for school settings. Our work is based on a foundational understanding of restorative principles and possibilities. We will work according to the needs of class participants to engage in practices for these areas: teamwork; responses to conflict-conferencing or restorative discipline (alternatives to suspensions); building positive effect-accountability, leadership, respectful communication, emotional intelligence; after school programs; school climate issues; whole school plans that integrate needs of administration, classroom, after school, security, and attendance. Finally, we will establish a baseline evaluation tool for measuring our success in restorative practices and principles.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 2
STANDARDS: 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10
INSTRUCTOR: Jane Nicholson
- LOCATION: Comfort Suites, Green Bay
DATES: July 22–25
Number of registrants: 2
- LOCATION: Milwaukee Radisson Hotel, Mayfair
DATES: July 29–Aug. 1
Number of registrants: 2
SERVANT LEADERSHIP—THEORY AND PRACTICE
(To register for Servant Leadership—Theory and Practice, contact Maureen Cooney at 608-796-3082.)
By examining the foundations of servant leadership in scripture, theology, and the experience of the people of God, participants may begin to identify and understand their own ways of leading and the gifts and skills that they bring to leadership for the common good so that they may set goals for developing them. The course should help participants answer these questions: What are the virtues of a servant leader? If I am to be a servant leader, what type of person would I need to be, and how would I need to act?
COURSE #: SVLD 601
CREDITS: 3
INSTRUCTOR: Tom Thibodeau
- LOCATION: Milwaukee Viterbo Center
DATES: July 15–18
Number of registrants:
New Course 2013
TEACHING WITH MOVIES
Using movies in the classroom can be highly motivating for students. This class will examine how movies can enhance any curriculum and provide insights and understanding that teach students on a deep intellectual and emotional level.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 1
STANDARDS: 1, 3, 4, 7
INSTRUCTOR: Richard Frost
- LOCATION: Milwaukee Viterbo Center
DATES: June 10, 11
Number of registrants: 1
- LOCATION: Appleton Xavier High School
DATES: June 13, 14
Number of registrants: 5
- LOCATION: Comfort Suites, Green Bay
DATES: June 24, 25
Number of registrants: 5
- LOCATION: Middleton High School
DATES: June 27, 28
Number of registrants: 1
- LOCATION: Wausau Holiday Inn
DATES: July 22, 23
Number of registrants: 1
- LOCATION: Stevens Point Pacelli High School
DATES: July 25, 26
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- LOCATION: Viterbo University, La Crosse
DATES: Aug. 12, 13
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VITERBO UNIVERSITY D.B. REINHART INSTITUTE FOR ETHICS IN LEADERSHIP
HOLOCAUST SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOP
- LOCATION: Viterbo University, La Crosse Campus, Fine Arts Center
DATES: Thursday, April 11 (9 a.m.–8:30 p.m.)– Friday, April 12 (9 a.m.–4:15 p.m.)
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In addition to attending this workshop, you can earn an optional graduate credit by attending a course that is imbedded into the two-day presentation:
TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST
This course is intended to prepare middle and high school instructors for teaching lessons on the Holocaust as part of their literature, history, or social studies curricula. The symposium/course features national experts in the area of Holocaust instruction and is developed in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Workshop fee is $75.
Optional graduate credit fee is $110 for the one-credit course.
Required Text: Bauer, Y. (2001) A History of the Holocaust (Rev. ed.) Danbury, CT Franklin Watts. ISBN: #9780896949137.
The text is available through the Viterbo bookstore, 608-796-3848.
Call the Ethics Institute at 608-796-3097 to register for the workshop.
TRIBES II: A NEW WAY OF LEARNING and BEING TOGETHER
Students will develop a deeper understanding of the Tribes process to create/sustain caring and safe learning environments. In addition to learning advanced inclusion techniques, cooperative learning procedures, and reflection strategies, students will take a close look at how to successfully navigate through the influence stage of Tribes to create a true learning community.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 1
STANDARDS: 2, 3, 5, 10
INSTRUCTOR: Lisa Schaefer
- LOCATION: Milwaukee Viterbo Center
DATES: July 8, 9
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- LOCATION: Viterbo University, La Crosse
DATES: July 15, 16
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- LOCATION: Appleton Xavier High School
DATES: Aug. 5, 6
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WHAT GREAT TEACHERS DO DIFFERENTLY
There are scores of books written to help you become a better teacher. The reality is: the best teachers and the worst teachers can read more books, pass college exams, recite educational theory, and write lesson plans to include the proper standards and benchmarks. But in the classroom, the difference between more effective teachers and their less effective colleagues is not what they know. It is what they do and how they do it. This course is about clarifying what great teachers do, recognize how great
teachers teach, and practicing those methods in your own classroom.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 3
STANDARDS: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
INSTRUCTOR: Denise McFarlin
- LOCATION: MacArthur Elementary School, Green Bay
DATES: June 24–28 (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Number of registrants: 3
WICKED! AMAZING STORIES OF THE INFAMOUS AND NOTORIOUS IN UNITED STATES HISTORY
Take a journey through a sea of amazing stories U.S. history textbooks fail to tell: gunfighters, outlaws, poker tables, and cattle drives of the Wild West; prohibition and the rise of organized crime, speakeasies, flappers, Jazz, and Murder, Incorporated; outlaws of the Depression Era and the rise of the F.B.I.; political and presidential scandals; famous duels and the code duello; infamous crimes and criminals. These are stories of words (where do they come from?) and the stories of wicked men and women who have left an indelible mark on the history and mythology of our country. Learn their stories and tell them in a way that totally engages your students from Doc Holiday and Big Nose Kate Elder to Bonnie and Clyde, from WW I to Winnie the Pooh, from Lizzie Borden to Mae West, from Dutch Schultz to Lucky Luciano, from Jesse James to the Roswell Incident, from 1893 Chicago World’s Fair to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Learn to have fun and make it fun for your students.
COURSE # EDUC 547
CREDITS: 2
STANDARDS: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7
INSTRUCTOR: Jerald Anderson
- LOCATION: Milwaukee Viterbo Center
DATES: March 15, 16, April 12, 13
Number of registrants: CANCELLED
- LOCATION: Milwaukee Viterbo Center
DATES: Aug. 19-22
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