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 curriculum more interesting, motivational, and fun. As educators, we spend countless hours of our own time working to broaden and enhance 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 making yourself a better educator professionally. As a teacher, you often creatively merge subject matter expertise and firsthand knowledge of student needs into motivating projects that support student learning; now all that’s needed to earn PD credit for your invested time is to submit (1) a short description of the projects you have already created (or that you plan to create), (2) a timeline verifying the hours of work you have invested, and (3) proof of completed objectives. It’s as easy as 1-2-3!
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:
- Integrate your subject matter expertise and knowledge of student needs into a special project that improves the learning of individual students through a challenging problem or question that requires sustained inquiry.
- Engage students in a meaningful project that supports authentic learning experiences.
- Reflect on the project’s effectiveness relative to your students’ learnings.