UEN-TV Teacher Workshops
Access Professional Development on UEN-TVOur FREE televised workshops are nationally produced by Annenberg Media. They offer lively glimpses into classrooms and current teaching practices, providing an unparalleled, authoritative professional development method that is part of a rigorous model.
This includes four parts: Initial orientation, televised workshops, online participation, and an optional final review project to meet Utah State Office of Education (USOE) or Southern Utah University credit guidelines and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) standards.
These workshops are intended to strengthen the professional credentials of educators at all levels. Workshops are appropriate for preservice and inservice teachers and are targeted to specific curricular areas and Grade Levels - “middle school Math teachers,” for example. You will find training in content and education theory and practices, as well as supplemental video programs called teaching practices libraries that give a “fly-on-the-wall” view of real teachers in real classrooms.
Workshops air on UEN-TV, weekly on Saturdays usually for 8 sessions of 60 minutes each. For details about offerings and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development or call toll free 1-800-866-5852.
Credit
The Utah State Office of Education offers one licensure credit to those who participate and successfully complete the entire sequence of activities offered through the UEN Televised Workshops program, including the final project. Or, participants can request one semester (5000 Level) university credit that is available through Southern Utah University. For credit information and details visit our Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Choose from these great titles:
Subject |
Titles |
Arts |
Arts in Every Classroom |
Educational Theory and Issues |
Looking at Learning Parts 1 & 2 |
History and Social Studies |
Democracy in America |
Literature and Language Arts |
American Passages: A Literary Survey |
Mathematics |
Mathematics: What’s the Big Idea? |
Science |
Assessment in Math and Science |
Currently Showing
March 24th – May 12th| 8:00-9:00 | Developing Writers |
| 9:00-10:00 | Looking at Learning Again Part 2 |
| 10:00-11:00 | Connecting with the Arts |
| 11:00-12:00 | Insights into Algebra |
| 12:00-1:00 | Reactions in Chemistry |
| 1:00-2:00 | The Economics Classroom |
| 2:00-3:00 | Learning Science through Inquiry |
| 3:00-4:00 | Teaching Reading: A K-2 Workshop |
| 4:00-5:00 | Teaching Geography |
History and Social Studies
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Making Civics Real: A Workshop for Teachers
Making Civics Real is a video workshop for high school civics teachers. It includes eight one-hour video programs, a print guide to the workshop activities, and an accompanying Web site. Each of the eight programs presents authentic teachers in diverse school settings modeling constructivist teaching strategies. The goal of this workshop is to give teachers new resources and ideas to reinvigorate civic education. This workshop was created in collaboration with the Center for Civic Education and the National Council for the Social Studies. For more details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 9-12 Social Studies Teachers
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Primary Sources: Workshops in American History
In this workshop, 12 high school history teachers explore the use of primary-source documents in the research and interpretation of American history. The programs feature informal lectures by prominent historians on pivotal events from the settlement of Jamestown to the Korean conflict and the Cold War. The teachers are led in discussions, debates, interviews and role-playing as they investigate the original documents that “transmit the voices of America’s past.” Teachers will find the activities in this workshop can be adapted and used in their own classrooms. For more details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 9-12 History Teachers
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Social Studies in Action: A Methodology Workshop, K-5
Social Studies in Action: A Methodology Workshop, K-5 captures innovative teaching practices, learning theories and classroom activities designed to stimulate your teaching and enhance your curriculum. This eight-part workshop provides a methodology framework for teaching social studies, with a focus on creating effective citizens. Individual workshop sessions explore social studies themes, strategies for planning and teaching and ways to connect social studies to the world beyond the classroom. For more details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: K-5 Teachers
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Teaching Geography
Why do people migrate? What factors determine city location, growth, and development? How does place influence the spread of disease? These questions form the basis of inquiry for geographers, teachers and students. In exploring such questions, this workshop for seventh through twelfth-grade teachers provides a strong foundation in geography content and inquiry teaching skills, as outlined in the National Geography Standards. The programs combine case studies that profile locations around the globe, engaging classroom segments, and commentary from geography and pedagogy experts. Activities and discussion questions from the accompanying print guide and Web site supplement the programs, providing for a richer understanding of geography education. For more details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 7-12 Teachers
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The Economics Classroom: A Workshop for Grade 9-12 Teachers
This video workshop for teachers provides a solid foundation for teaching the concepts covered in high school economics courses. Topics range from personal finance to global economic theories. In addition to defining economics concepts and outlining modern economic theory, the programs review the national standards for economics education and provide effective lesson plans and classroom strategies. The programs also feature unscripted footage of diverse economics classrooms, interspersed with reflections by teachers and students. The accompanying print guide and Web site provide a complete package for the professional development of high school economics and social studies teachers. For more details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 9-12 Teachers
Episodes/Length: 8 programs/60 minutes each
Literature and Language Arts
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American Passages: A Literary Survey
American Passages: A Literary Survey places literary movements and authors within the context of history and culture. The course takes an expanded view of American literary movements, bringing in a diversity of voices and tracing the continuity among them. For more details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 9-12 English Teachers
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Artifacts & Fiction: Workshop in American Literature
Artifacts & Fiction is a workshop designed to help new and experienced teachers teach American literature in its historical and cultural context. Through videos, hands-on activities, print and Web-based resources, Artifacts & Fiction will guide you through the process of expanding your classroom practices as you pair cultural and historical artifacts with works of literature. You can heighten your students’ analytic skills and help them develop a deeper understanding of course material. This workshop is for high school teachers, although middle school teachers or college instructors might find they can adapt the approach to their classrooms. For more details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 9-12 English Teachers
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Conversations in Literature
In these programs, you will meet a group of people not unlike yourselves. Although they have made different career choices – some are teachers, some are professors, and others are authors – they all have several things in common. They all feel that being engaged in literature is one of the most satisfying and enriching experiences of their lives. And they are also passionate about teaching literature. They all believe that it is important for all students to know the joys they themselves feel as they interact with poems, short stories, drama, and other works of fiction. We brought these readers together to talk about some important works of classical and contemporary literature. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 6-12 Literature and Language Arts Teachers
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Developing Writers
Developing Writers: A Workshop for High School Teachers presents practical and philosophical advice for teaching writing, while examining issues every teacher faces—such as high-stakes assessments and dealing with differently abled students. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 9-12 Literature and Language Arts Teachers
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Engaging with Literature
Engaging in Literature centers on the belief that students have the innate skill to make sense of information they discover in a text—if they are presented with the opportunity and expectation of doing so, and are generously scaffolded by their teachers as their story worlds evolve through reading, writing, and talking about literature. Individual programs deal with initiating and maintaining such a classroom community while dealing with numerous pragmatic issues, including high-stakes assessments and meeting the needs of students of many ability levels. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 9-12 Literature and Language Arts Teachers
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In Search Of the Novel
Using eight key questions as a guide, participants in this workshop will discuss ten novels, including Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Innovative classroom activities, interviews with novelists, classroom videos and an electronic discussion group allow participants to share ideas and concepts with others from around the state. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 6-12 English Teachers
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Teaching Reading: K-2 Workshop
The Teaching Reading K-2 Workshop introduces innovative research-based principles, teaching practices and classroom activities designed to stimulate your teaching. Each of the eight workshop sessions examines a critical issue of early literacy. These sessions are designed to enhance the way you teach your K-2 students to read and write. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: K-2 Teachers
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Teaching Multicultural Literature
This workshop is designed to provide secondary Language Arts teachers with new and innovative ideas for incorporating multicultural writings into their curriculum and provide teachers an opportunity to reflect upon their ideas through participating in an online course. This workshop gives Language Arts teachers several different techniques for instruction and provides the support materials needed to implement them in the teaching of multicultural literature. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 7-12 English Teachers
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The Expanding Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature in High School
This professional development workshop includes eight one-hour video programs, a comprehensive Web site and a print guide. The workshop features the literature of African American, Asian American, Native American and Latino writers examined through four pedagogical approaches — reader response, inquiry, cultural studies and critical pedagogy. In the video workshop, teachers from across the country demonstrate innovative strategies for using these multicultural works with high school students. Integrated with the classroom footage is background information on featured authors and analysis of their works by leading scholars, educators and the authors themselves. The Web site includes a wealth of resources about the authors, literature, pedagogical theories and teaching strategies. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 7-12 English Teachers
Episodes/Length: 8 programs/60 minutes each
Mathematics
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Assessment in Math and Science: What’s the Point?
How many times a day do students ask you this question? Understanding is more than simply knowing. This workshop examines what it means to understand, and will explore how teachers can design a set of performance tasks to fairly and accurately assess the levels of understanding that their students have or have not achieved. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: K-12 Math and Science Teachers
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The Missing Link
Recent studies have shown that once American students reach middle school, they begin to fall behind the students of many other countries in mathematical understanding and achievement. The Missing Link will help you close that gap. The eight one-hour professional development workshops present four concepts that have been identified by TIMSS (the Third International Mathematics and Science Study) as crucial to your students’ success in the world beyond school. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: K-12 Math Teachers
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The Next Move
This eight-part workshop series for K-5 educators explores current issues of change in elementary math and science. Each session builds upon the previous session by focusing on issues that might arise while proceeding through one possible “cycle” of learning in the classroom – guiding student ideas when a unit of study begins, facilitating critical thinking during subsequent math and science investigations, alternative forms of assessing understandings and cultivating connections outside the classroom as a way of enriching knowledge. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: K-5 Math and Science Teachers
Episodes/Length: 8 programs/60 minutes each
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Essential Science for Teachers: Life Science
This course is composed of eight sessions, each with a one-hour video program addressing a topic area in the life sciences that is likely to be part of any elementary school science curriculum. Posing the question “What is life?” the course begins by defining life and by considering how life forms are classified. Animal and plant life cycles then become the focus for investigating the continuity of life. Next, diversity within the living world provides the context for exploring the basics of biological evolution. Finally, large-scale biological processes are introduced by looking at how energy and matter enter and move through the living world. Video examples, colorful graphics, lively animations, demonstrations, models and other visual strategies are used as learning tools to bring meaning to the content being addressed. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: K-6 Science Teachers
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Learning Science through Inquiry
Inquiry-based teaching, central to the National Science Education Standards and the Benchmarks for Science Literacy, should not be an isolated occurrence, but a comprehensive and ongoing approach. However, many teachers did not learn this way themselves, as children or during their preparation to become teachers. This eight-part workshop shows inquiry teaching and learning in action in real classrooms. Whether you have already experimented with inquiry teaching and want to enhance your practice, or are new to the approach, this workshop shows you how to make it work in the classroom and how it benefits students. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: K-8 Science Teachers
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Reactions in Chemistry
This workshop is for high school chemistry and physical science teachers. The workshop blends chemistry content, history and technological applications with a range of classroom lessons to provide teachers with updated knowledge and new approaches to pedagogy. Teachers will see diverse classes doing hands-on lessons and labs and will hear teachers reflect on their own practices. The on-camera teachers meet in roundtable discussions about teaching strategies and the particular challenges of helping students connect the content to their own lives. The programs also present the work of industrial and forensic chemists and researchers. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: 10-12 Science Teachers
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Science in Focus: Energy
Understanding the concept of energy is crucial to the comprehension of many ideas in physical science, earth and space science and life science. This workshop for elementary school teachers provides a solid foundation, enabling you to distinguish between the way energy is commonly understood and its meaning in science. You will examine energy’s role in motion, machines, food, the human body and the universe as a whole. Learn how energy can be converted from one form to another and transferred over space and time. And explore the notion of “conservation of energy” – the idea that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Return to the classroom with a new focus on the important concept of energy. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: K-6 Science Teachers
Episodes/Length: 8 programs/60 minutes each -
Science in Focus: Force and Motion
Explore science concepts in force and motion and come away with a deeper understanding that will help you engage your students in their own explorations. With science and education experts as your guides, learn more about gravity, friction, air resistance, magnetism and tension through activities, discussions and demonstrations. Extensive footage shot in real classrooms shows students learning and building on ideas as they explore the relationships among motion, force, size, mass and speed. As you watch the students develop understanding through activities that connect science concepts to real-world phenomena, you will be asked to think about your own ideas on force and motion and compare them to what you observe. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: K-8 Science Teachers
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Science in Focus: Shedding Light on Science
This series uses light as a theme through which to explore topics in physics, chemistry, biology and earth and space science. Unlike most science content courses that approach subject matter through one narrow discipline, these workshops show how light is a common thread that runs through many areas of science. The workshops make connections to real world phenomena as they explore the behavior of light, the transformation of energy, and the role of light in plant production of food, weather and the seasons and more. For details about this course and to register, go to the Utah Education Network Professional Development Web site at www.uen.org/development.
Grade Level: K-8 Science Teachers
Episodes/Length: 8 programs/60 minutes each