Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 SGPP Catalog and Handbook 
    
2020-2021 SGPP Catalog and Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MED672 Be Wild: Unleash Your Innate Creativity to Engage Learning (3 cr.)


This course is grounded in the book Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator’s Creative Breakthrough and provides educators with a pedagogical framework for infusing the most relevant, engaging, and responsive teaching practices into today’s ever-changing classrooms. Learners study practical activities that tap into students’ strengths and interests that create a dynamic classroom environment to motivate students and bring new life into the classroom.  This course empowers learners to reclaim their own innate creativity and encourages keeping classroom instruction interesting.

Upon completion of this course, learners are expected to be able to do the following:

  1. Examine current instructional and student engagement methods. 
  2. Analyze perspectives on disengaged and bored students. 
  3. Identify areas of strength across educational instructional domains using several inventories and surveys.
  4. Research best practices germane to engagement and self-reflection.
  5. Apply research in order to create Wild Card changes within the classroom.
  6. Use personal reflections as a tool for growth.



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