PEDU 9211: Creating an Integrated Curriculum

Your course. Your timeline. Your way. Earn up to 3 graduate level credits upon completion of this course. You choose how many credits you want to earn when you register.

· June 8, 2020

Course Description

Designed for the educator who wants to expand and reinforce learning across diverse subject areas, this course provides the opportunity to earn graduate-level credit for creating an integrated curriculum that reaches students on multiple levels. Using your own personal travel experiences as a model, you will create activities, projects, and lessons that require students to transfer their learning to other settings. Incorporate map skills as you have students plan their own journey; math skills as they create a budget for their trip or convert foreign currency to U.S. dollars; social skills as they learn culturally related differences in behavior in the “intended” country of travel…. Once you have developed and implemented your ideas for an integrated curriculum in your classroom, you will create a slide presentation demonstrating the professional outcomes of your travel experience and submit it, along with your travel journal and a 1-2 page reflective write-up, for evaluation.

Coursework Requirements

Integrate your travel study experiences into your educational setting. Opportunities are available across all teaching grade levels, disciplines, and subjects or topics. Designed for busy teachers like you, you will get up to 6 months to complete your coursework requirements, and extensions are always granted upon request.

 

Overview of Requirements

 

1. Define your travel objective(s): When registering for this course option, you will be required to provide a short description of your travel objectives, and how you plan to create and implement your learning experiences into your program. You may also utilize previous travel experiences for this course option as long as the materials developed are relevant to your curriculum or programs.

 

2. Create a Travel Journal with times, academic points of interest, and activities relating to your travel experiences and objectives. Your travel journal will document the effort and time that you dedicate to the process of completing your coursework requirements and learning objectives. 

 

Whether you spend time brainstorming, researching, reading, typing, writing, watching educational videos and films for ideas, constructing visuals, putting together new Powerpoint Presentations or rubrics, you are able to document all the professional time you have invested amplifying and enriching your professional needs.

 

3. Develop a 25-30 slide PowerPoint or Google presentation (per credit) to demonstrate the professional outcomes of your travel experience, and implement what you have learned directly into the learning process of your students. 

 

1 credit = 30 Slides

2 credits = 60 Slides

3 credits = 90 Slides

 

4. Complete a 1-2 page write-up: A minimum one to two page write-up describing utilization and/or professional application of material developed.

 

*Additional course guidelines, formatting requirements, and information will be provided upon course enrollment.

Grades & Transcripts

Completed courses are letter graded and will appear on an official transcript from University of the Pacific, Benerd College. An Official Transcript with your final course grade(s) is available from Pacific upon successful completion of coursework. The course ending date that will appear on your transcript will reflect the date on which your completed coursework was reviewed and graded.

Teacher Friendly Course

Choose 1-3 credits
Pay only $79 per credit
100% Online & Self-Paced
Up to 1 year to complete your course
Earn an Official Transcript from University of the Pacific, Benerd College

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:

  • Identify areas of the curriculum with inherent connections that can be exploited.
  • Choose the areas of the  curriculum most in need of scaffolding and extra support to enhance cross-curricular connections.
  • Integrate your subject matter expertise and experiential travel learnings to create activities or materials that will reveal, clarify, or build connections between different issues, themes, or subjects.
  • Implement the activities or materials into your lessons to engage students in activities that build connections and clarify links between ideas, subjects, and learnings.
  • Reflect on the effectiveness of the activities relative to your students’ learnings across the curriculum.
  • Create a 25-30 slide PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation to demonstrate the professional outcomes of your travel experiences. 
  • Reflect on the professional development experiences, specific to your future growth.
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Course Includes

  • 4 Sections