Spring 2012 Workshops
Spring 2012 session runs January 17 - April
30
For information on how to enroll in a workshop, please see our
Enrollment
Procedures page.
Spring 2012
Full Tuition
Assisting Grieving Children and Families
G 1 Credit
ED 501 01
(3858)
Limit 30
JH348
Jan. 18 & 19 and
W, R
4:30-9:00pm
Jan.
28
S 8:00
am-4:30
pm
Braden, Carol
This workshop will teach techniques to assist the bereaved
child. You will explore normal vs. complicated grief
behavior, grief styles, why children fail academically, isolate
themselves and often use disruptive behaviors in the
classroom. You will learn developmental stages, grief
reactions, communication tools, group processes and the
facilitator's role in companioning children in their grief.
This course offers an option for interested participants in
becoming a facilitator for Brooke's Place.
Intended Audience: Middle/Secondary, Early/Middle
Childhood, Counseling
When Trauma Rocks Your World
G 1 Credit
ED 501 02
(3859)
Limit
25
JH076
Jan.
21
S
8am-4pm
Feb.
4
S
8am-4pm
Carla Gaff-Clark
Every 10 seconds a woman is abused in her home. She is at
serious risk of bodily harm or death, as are the children being
raised in that environment. This workshop will look at
personal trauma an domestic violence and its effects on the family,
community and society as a whole, while examining steps that can be
taken to assist those in the midst of it.
Intended Audiences: Middle/Secondary, Early/Middle
Childhood, Physical Education, Counseling and Special Education
The Lindamood-Bell Literacy
Techniques
G1 Credit
ED 501 03
(3863)
Limit
20
JH170
March 3 &
10
S
9am-5pm
Tasha C. Ring
This workshop will explore some of the Lindamood-Bell research and
sensory-based methods for reading, spelling, and
comprehension. Ideal for learning support educators as well
as regular classroom teachers seeking additional strategies to
introduce and support reading.
Intended Audience: Early/Middle Childhood,
Middle/Secondary, Special Education
How to Use Stories in Your Teaching: Lessons from the
Martial Arts
G1 Credit
ED 501 04
(3864)
Limit
20 JH172
Feb 25
S
8am-4pm
Heinz, Michael
March
3
S
8am-4pm
In this two-day workshop we will explore the ways in which East
Asian martial arts teachers use stories. Participants will
learn: a set of eight core "teaching stories"; methods for
exporting those stories to different teaching contexts; and
techniques for designing stories to be used in their own
courses.
Intended Audience: Early/Middle Childhood,
Middle/Secondary, Physical Education, Counseling,
How in Blue Blazes did this
Happen?
G 1 Credit
ED 501 05 (3865)
Limit 15
JH242
March 17
& 24
S
8am-4pm
Herbkersman, Mark
Why are we the way we are? Understanding ourselves helps
us to understand the uniqueness of others. This course
focuses upon self-exploration through various methods, helping to
pinpoint some of the reasons we are who we are.
Intended Audience: Middle/Secondary, Early/Middle
Childhood, Counseling, Administration, Special Education, Physical
Education
Assisting Grieving Children and
Families
G 1
Credit
ED 501 06
(3866)
Limit 30
JH348
April 11 & 12 and
W, R
4:30-8:30pm
April
21
S 9am-4
pm
Braden, Carol
This workshop will teach techniques to assist the bereaved
child. You will explore normal vs. complicated grief
behavior, grief styles, why children fail academically, isolate
themselves and often use disruptive behaviors in the
classroom. You will learn developmental stages, grief
reactions, communication tools, group processes and the
facilitator's role in companioning children in their grief.
This course offers an option for interested participants in
becoming a facilitator for Brooke's Place.
Intended Audience: Middle/Secondary, Early/Middle
Childhood, Counseling
Spring 2012
Half Tuition
NEW!!! The Opal School Intensive Workshop in
Portland, OR
U/G 3
Credits
ED 403 52
(3870)
Limit
20
March
4-10
ALL
WEEK
Shelley, Ena; Cadwell, Louise
An in depth field experience based at Opal School of the Portland
Children's Museum in
Portland, OR will be the foundation of this week long, intensive
course. The topics for
our investigation:
• What elements, organization, curricula, environments and
teaching styles produce
creative, meaningful and highly successful teaching and
learning?
• Our focus will be in mathematics, literacy and students'
social and emotional growth.
• Several content area books will be required reading before the
course begins. The
Final project will be due at the end of April.
Intended Audience: Early/Middle Childhood
To register or for more information, email Cindy Smith at clsmith@butler.edu
Physical Science Adventures
G1 Credit
ED 501 53
(3867)
Limit
20
March
3
S
8am-4pm
Wolfe, Becky; Fortney, Mary
March
10
S
8am-4pm
Go on a physical science adventure at the Children's Museum of
Indianapolis and explore forces, simple machines, flight and
transportation. Participants will examine museum exhibits and
models that engage children in science concepts through play and
hands-on inquiry. Participants will receive related lessons
from museum units of study.
Intended Audience: Early/Middle Childhood
This workshop is held at the Children's Museum.
There is an additional
$150 fee. Make check payable to The Children's
Museum. Registration deadline is February 7th. After
registering with Butler, students must also register with The
Children's Museum at (317) 334-4133 or register online at the
Professional Development Page of the website www.childrensmuseum.org.
The following workshops are offered at half-tuition and
held at Clowes Memorial Hall. For additional
information and requirements, please contact Donna Rund at
317-940-8052 or drund@butler.edu
Exploring Historical Images for Writing Across the
Curriculum
G1
Credit
ED 501 54
(3868)
Limit
40
Feb. 2
R
4:30-7:30pm
Pixey, Cassandra
Clowes Hall, Krannert Room
Understanding historical events in the abstract is often difficult
for students. Making personal connections with the past, however,
not only engages them, but gives students an understanding of the
complexities and dynamics of a time period. Join us for this
interactive workshop that uses historical photographs or prints and
works of art as springboards for critical thinking and writing
across the curriculum. Learn drama and visual arts strategies for
examining images in depth; then draw upon that understanding to
write narratives that demonstrate comprehension, insight and
interpretation. This workshop can focus on either the Civil War or
the period of The Great Migration (1919 - 1940) in the United
States, but can be adapted for any time period. Teachers will leave
with materials and resources to use in their classrooms. Join
Carolyn Owens, Arts Educator, for this participatory experience
that will help your students connect to history in a new way.
All participants must also register with Clowes Hall
by contacting Cassandra Pixey, Clowes Education Manager, by e-mail
at cpixey@butler.edu or by
phone at (317) 940-9942.
Intended
Audience: Classroom Teachers of Grades 4-9
Upside-Down Fairytales: Understanding Text through
Theatre
G1
Credit
ED 501 55
(3869)
Limit
40
March 8
R
4:30-7:30pm
Pixey, Cassandra
Clowes Hall, Krannert Room
Theatre has been proven to be one of the most effective art forms
to use with kinesthetic and social learners. In this workshop we
will combine theatre and literature, teaching you how to deeply
engage in literacy strategies, skills of story elements and
character perspective through reading, writing and drama with
classic tales. Using the dramatic technique of tableau (living
statues), you will engage even reluctant readers in exploring
wonderful texts, examples include "The Three Little Pigs"
(traditional) and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, by Jon
Scieszka." Using stories from your classroom curriculum as source
materials, students will learn to transfer these skills as they
dramatically re-tell a classic tale from a new character
perspective-turning it upside-down. These theater techniques are
sure to engage your students in the process of reading. Join Len
Mozzi, Young Audiences artist and professional trainer with 25
years of experience as a theatre professional and educator for this
exciting workshop.
All participants must also register with Clowes Hall
by contacting Cassandra Pixey, Clowes Education Manager, by e-mail
at cpixey@butler.edu or by
phone at (317) 940-9942.
Intended
Audience: Classroom Teachers of Grades 2-6