The Caring Classroom

THE CARING CLASSROOM

The Caring Classroom: Exploring the Foundations of Experiential Education and Community Building in the Classroom

This course will explore the foundations of experiential education in the classroom and provide a framework for building community in the classroom within the context of academic instruction. Tons of fun activities and methods for helping students create a caring classroom community. No time for "one more thing!"? This course will focus on using community building techniques within existing academic curriculum.

The Caring Classroom will balance practice and implementation of experiential philosophy and theory. Using experiential methodology, participants will share in creating an inclusive, safe learning community, which will provide a practical foundation for developing an experiential lesson plan for their classroom.

Using a brain-based approach, in this course we will bring together the dual elements of environment and content, using experiential learning theory, to build a classroom community. The course content will reflect the experiential learning cycle model, so individuals can learn how to use it effectively in their lessons.

Instructors: Laurie Frank from Goal Consulting, Carla Hacker and Kathy Hellenbrand, MMSD.

The course will meet Saturdays: January 9, 23 February 13, 20 March 6 Location: LaFollette HS LMC Time: 8:30-4:30 Course limit: 40 Credits: 3 Graduate credits from Viterbo University @ $90.00/credit (Total $270) or 4.5 MMSD PAC credits Cost: Course fee of $100.00 to cover course materials and consulting fees for Laurie Frank. Payment for credits and course fee will collected at the first class.

Call the Stress/Challenge office: 204-6895 for more information or register for the courses on MMSD Virtual Campus website:http://oldweb.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/mvc/