A course taught online by an American expert who has already been
teaching this course for a number of years. There will be a f2f meeting;
the rest of the learning will occur online, purely asynchronously. This
is actually the first time we are offering a course taught by an
instructor who is not physically present in Israel; if this course is a
success, we'll make further efforts to provide attractive, cutting-edge
content developed by US academics - at a price not exceeding that of
locally-produced courses.
Registration is open to teachers, coordinators and counsellors (not
restricted to English teachers - teachers of any subject can register
provided their English is adequate).
Here's the course rationale provided by the developer:
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Bullying is a widespread (international) problem that has serious
ramifications on students' ability to progress academically and to grow
emotionally and socially. Every school should have a comprehensive
prevention and intervention plan that involves all students, teachers
and parents.
Successful prevention/intervention plans include not only whole school
education, but support for the victims and counselling for the bullies.
Successful plans also include ongoing education and consistent
enforcement of consequences for bullying behavior. Trying to teach the
victim to handle bullying incidents by being assertive and ignoring the
behavior and other such nonsense is worse than useless; it serves to
further the victim's plight. Successful plans target the cause of the
problem, the bully rather than the victim. In this class, students will
develop a school-wide Prevention/Intervention Plan and write a Proposal
that explains the problem, research, solution, and benefits of
implementing the plan. This class will focus on research and
prevention/intervention plans that are comprehensive and successful.
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Taking into account that the Bagrut date is May 18, we have set the
start date to May 20. The 56-hour course is only 8 weeks long (over by
mid-August). Due to its asynchronous nature it can be taken even if you
are planning to travel: you can log in from any computer, and there are
no fixed hours.
While at it, you can browse other online courses we are offering at
http://www.schiffman-institute.com/moo (click on Available courses) -
all these courses are 56 hours long, with a gmul, and totally
asynchronous (except for a f2f meeting required by the Ministry). The
[constantly growing] list includes
- Creating and Managing an Educational Web Site with MS FrontPage
- Planning and Implementing Web-Based EFL Projects
- Efficient EFL Instruction in a Web-Enabled Computer Lab
- Mining the Internet for EFL
- Integrating Internet Resources into Classroom EFL Teaching.
Please spread the word around doing a favor both to us and to all the
colleagues who are not on the list.
Yours -
Lev
Lev Abramov
Course designer
The Schiffman Institute Ltd.
