Course Description
This course is designed to provide educators like you the opportunity to earn professional development credit for the extra work and effort you devote to making your history curriculum more motivational, memorable, and interesting. As educators, we spend countless hours of our own time working to enhance and add depth to our curriculum to meet diverse needs associated with specific classroom audiences, custom online programs, or state and district guidelines. Earn 1 hour of graduate-level semester credit for every 15 hours of relevant work, completed on your own time, that you dedicated to creating a more dynamic history curriculum for your classroom. As a teacher, you often creatively merge your history content with engaging elements such as simulations, re-enactments, role-playing activities, etc. If you have projects or activities you’ve already added to make your curriculum more dynamic, or ideas for projects/activities you’d like to explore, you can easily earn PD credit for your invested time. Simply submit (1) a short description of the creative teaching ideas you have already created (or that you plan to create), (2 ) a self-created time log verifying the hours of work you have invested, and(3) selected proof of completed objectives.
About University of the Pacific
University of the Pacific, established in 1851, is California’s oldest private chartered university and is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
The credits offered are post-baccalaureate, graded, graduate-level semester units of credit, provided directly through University of the Pacific, Benerd College. They are specifically designed to meet the needs of educators for Salary Advancement and Recertification. The credits/units are acceptable where local districts approve and applicable to state licensing where authorized. We always encourage you to check with your employer for acceptability of these credits/units. Course participants are responsible to determine acceptability of these credits for their intended use. Each graduate-level semester credit is equivalent to 15 hours of academic involvement.
Course Objectives
Upon successful mastery of this course, you will be able to:
- Create activities or projects designed to actively engage students in learning history.
- Reflect on how these projects or activities impact student learning and mastery of history objectives.
- Reflect on the professional development experiences, specific to your future growth.