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Regardless of your age, it is always helpful to increase your understanding of how your current students learn and what your future students might need. Students learn in a variety of ways, this course will focus on the influence of generational characteristics on learning styles. Your students learn differently than you do. Come find out how to help your students learn more. And discover something new about yourself too!
We will explore fascinating information on the brain and how each generation has responded to their unique “cohort experience”. You will acquire the skills and information needed to facilitate Gen Y and the emerging generation of learners. Understand how your own generational characteristics impact your learning AND your teaching.
Come away with our top 20 generational techniques for helping your students learn more.
Kassia Dellabough,MS, GCDF instructor. One month course
All courses for K-12 teachers are $145 each, with an optional additional $45 paid later for graduate credit from the University of Sioux Falls.
Course Outline
Unit 1.
Introduction to Generational Learning Styles
The origin of generational learning styles & foundation of learning style theories
Learning theory and the brain
What defines a generation - the concept of the cohort experience
Unit 2.
Understanding generational factors influencing how you learn and teach
Characteristics of the Baby Boomers
Characteristics and definitions for Generation X
Learning characteristics of both Baby Boomers and Gen Xers
How YOUR generational characteristics influence your approach to teaching: Baby Boomer, Gen X, Gen Y
Unit 3.
Understanding Generation Y
Core values of Gen Y
Impact of technology on generational learning
The impact of generational characteristics on approaches to and expectations of education, perceptions of time, prioritizing work/life/school, goals and ambition, collaborative vs. individual, worldview, inputs versus outcomes and other value differences
Unit 4.
Helping Your Gen Y Students to Learn More
Communication tips with Gen Y students and the emerging generation
Classroom instruction tips for Gen Y and the emerging generation
Addressing awkwardness and other social characteristics of Gen Y
Understanding and using technology to facilitate learning
The top 20 generational techniques for helping your students learn more
About online learning
Online learning is a fun, enjoyable and very productive way to learn. Millions of people are learning online each year. You will engage with the instructor and other participants. You will get to know your instructor and other participants. You may make friends. It’s easy. It’s fun.
How the Course Works
It is easy to participate in your online course. After you register, you will be given a web address to go to get into your online classroom. You will have a password and use your email address and password to gain access.
Once inside the online classroom, here’s what you can expect.
Participate when you want
You can participate any time of day or evening. The online classroom is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
There are no live real-time requirements or meetings. You decide when you participate.
For the best learning, participants should log into the course on 2-3 different days of the week.
What you will do
For each Unit, you will:
For best learning, you should make one or more comments at 2-3 different times each week.
The content (readings, audio lectures, slides) and self quizzes are accessible for the entire course, so you can work ahead, or go back and review again, at your convenience.
Discussion
The Discussion for each Unit lasts one week. All comments are made in writing and can be made at any time of the day or night.
Your instructor will log into the Discussion area at least once a day and answer questions, make comments, and respond to comments by you and the other participants.
We encourage you to make 2-3 comments each week to maximize your learning and enjoyment of the course.
It’s easy. It’s fun.
All courses for K-12 teachers are $145 each, with an optional additional $45 paid later for one graduate credit from the University of Sioux Falls. Print the Graduate Enrollment form to start the credit process.
Avg. hours 16, 1.6 CEUs/ILUs
About Your Instructors
Kassia Dellabough has over thirty years of teaching experience ranging from Montessori pre-school to teaching as artist-in-residence in elementary and high school settings. She has been teaching at the university level for over 20 years and currently holds a Senior Instructor position at the University of Oregon. She teaches a wide array of subjects ranging from Applied Creativity: Thinking Outside the Box to Presentation Skills and Portfolio Development. She currently teaches a general education Art and Human Values course both face-to-face and on-line. She was one of the pioneer faculty to teach on-line at the university in 1997 and serves as mentor for faculty across campus for on-line teaching.
Dellabough has worked as a career counselor with pre-service teachers on career preparation and developed a long-standing annual Career Explorations event focused on linking student teachers with school administrators for mentoring and career guidance. She has assisted students with the preparation of teaching portfolios for the national standards. She is a Qualified Meyers-Briggs Assessment Administrator, has a Neurolinguistic Practitioner&##39;s Certification, and is a Global Career Development Facilitator certified by the GCDF Council for Credentialing & Education. Dellabough has written on the subject of generational learning styles, does speaking all over the United States and Canada on the subject, and is LERN’s lead presenter for a four day intensive training institute for professionals on the subject. She is currently completing her doctoral degree in Educational Leadership in the College of Education at the University of Oregon. Her dissertation focus is on how an undergraduate arts curriculum facilitates cultural proficiency. She considers generational differences as one important facet of diversity.
Course Objectives
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, you will: