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Creative Activities for Teachers Laboratory


Course Description

Demonstration and hands-on learning, including problem solving, designing, construction, and testing of prototypes, and activities that increase aesthetic, psychomotor, and cognitive development.


Athena Title

CREATIVE ACT TCHRS


Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in ETES 3320


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall, spring and summer


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Course Objectives

1. Use the Internet to obtain and produce various arts and crafts items for use in an instructional program. 2. Engage in and utilize outside research activities to produce illustrated learning activities. 3. Employ technology (tools and machines) to problem solve, design and create arts and crafts products from a wide variety of materials 4. Employ new and emerging technologies to illustrate an arts and crafts activity. 5. Use the Internet to conduct research on multiple instructional issues. 6. Conduct research and employ technology that results in planning, developing, and constructing new design briefs (technology learning activity). 7. Work as a member of a small group (2-6 persons) in problem-solving situations. 8. Develop a lesson plan that clearly incorporates a vocational or avocational


Topical Outline

The course syllabus is a general plan for the course; deviations announced to the class by the instructor may be necessary. 1. Team Building 2. Problem Solving 3. Educational Philosophy 4. Georgia's Quality Core Curriculum 5. Authentic Assessment 6. Rubrics 7. Arts and Crafts 8. Multiple Intelligences 9. Outdoor Curriculum 10. Learning Centers 11. Educational Websites