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 spend building creative projects for your classroom. As educators, we spend countless hours of our own time brainstorming ways to keep our students motivated and on task, and then developing these ideas into projects that will arouse student interest, increase engagement in our classes, and meet state and district guidelines such as requirements for project-based learning activities. If you are an educator who has enhanced your classroom with creative projects above and beyond those suggested or specified in your curriculum, you can earn 1 hour of graduate-level semester credit for every 15 hours of relevant work (completed on your own time) that you dedicated to developing them for your classroom. 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 self-created verifying the hours of work you have invested, and (3) 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 Teacher-created projects Upon successful mastery of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify specific learning objectives that students can master through the use of creative methods.
- Integrate a completed creative project into your curriculum to enhance a specific lesson.
- Reflect on how your teacher-created project will impact the future growth of you and your students.
- Integrate and apply relevant strategies and insights acquired to a final creative project that will be used in your work setting.
- Reflect on the professional development experiences, specific to your future growth.