PEDU 9849: Expanding Curriculum with Innovative Teaching Strategies

This course is designed to provide educators an opportunity to earn professional development credit for the extra work and effort devoted to expanding curriculum. Through your research and implementation of various teaching strategies, you’ve probably discovered many innovative teaching strategies and spent hours of your own time melding them into your lesson plans and presentations. Now you can earn PD credit for the time you have spent (outside of paid professional work hours) making innovative teaching strategies part of your skill set . Earning credit is easy when you’ve already done much of the work–just submit a short description of the innovative teaching strategies you’ve explored on your own time, a time log documenting the number of hours you invested in creating or implementing new strategies, and proof of completion. You can choose to earn up to 6 graduate-level semester credit hours (1 hour for every 15 hours of your own time spent incorporating innovative teaching strategies into your lessons).

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.