Coe College

Seminars and Workshops

Master of Arts in Teaching at Coe College
Graduate classes for recertification and endorsement credit

The MAT at Coe is a professional development program designed for classroom teachers. Each seminar meets for five 3-hour classes and carries 1 semester hour of graduate credit. Seminars may be taken for 2 semester hours credit by doing a directed study added project. Fall and Spring classes meet one evening per week for 5 weeks. Summer classes meet for one week in late July.

* These courses are pending; schedule subject to change.

Class Descriptions

• Karen Sindelar - We have ways of Making you Talk
  Thursdays, January 21, 28; February 4, 11, 18
  6-9 p.m.
  Quiet classroom? Some students do not speak up in a classroom for various reasons. Students may be shy or fearful, others do not speak the language well or lack confidence. Speaker apprehension can be state or trait. This class will explore speaker apprehension in classroom situations such as discussions, group work, and presentations using McCroskey’s Personal Report of Speaker Apprehension. This course will also investigate lecture-less learning opportunities that encourage classroom participation. Through experientials and discussion, students will explore and demonstrate ways to encourage the reluctant or non-native speaker to participate in class. (We have ways to make you talk!).
  
• Karla Steffens-Moran - Freire: Critical Pedagogy
  Thursdays, March 18, 25; April 1, 8, 15
  6-9 p.m.
  As Aristotle said: "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Critical Pedagogy will explore primarily the work of Brazilian writer and educator, Paolo Freire, specifically Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed which challenges traditional education. Freire identifies several characteristics of what he refers to as “banking education”: “the teacher teaches and the students are taught, the teacher knows everything and the student knows nothing, the teacher talks and the students listen.” Critical Pedagogy will further consider its early roots in the Frankfort School as well as the subsequent influence of Freire on contemporary critical pedagogists including among others, Henry Giroux, Pete McLaren and Ira Shor (who has postulated eight values of empowering education: participatory, affective, situated, problem-posing, multicultural, dialogic, de-socializing, and democratic learning). This will not be a lecture based class, but rather a place for those curious in exploring and sharing ideas on pedagogy for self and social change. Meets Thursdays, March 18, 25; April 1, 8, 15 from 6-9 p.m.
  

For enrollment information, please call 399-8575.
Betsy Kigin, office coordinator; Roger Johanson, MAT program director
Coe College, 1220 First Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402