PDS Workshops

Ongoing Workshops
Printed: 05/18/2013


  Number Workshop Title
6170 C1 Thinking, Feeling, and Doing: Emotion Regulation Skills for the Classroom
  Dates/Times: Can be taken any time. / Online
  Hours/Cost: Asynchronous / $293.00
  Offered By: Columbus Center (online)
  Instructor/Contact: Janice Morabeto- morbets@aol.com
  Behavioral acting out which includes violence, bullying, poor peer relationships and academic under-achievement is highly correlated with the lack of emotion regulation skills.  With these practical and easy to learn strategies, teachers, can help student to Think before they Feel or Behave. This workshop will equip teachers with the skills they need to provide children with essential thinking strategies designed to help with emotion regulation.  For more information please contact Janice Morabeto at morbets@aol.com. 

6170 D1 Street Drugs: Chemicals that Destroy Minds & Lives
  Dates/Times: Can be taken any time. / Online
  Hours/Cost: 2 graduate semester hours / $571.00
  Offered By: Columbus Center (online)
  Instructor/Contact: Janice Morabeto- morbets@aol.com
  This course will cover the essential information that every educator must have as it relates to the serious problem of drug abuse among children and adolescents.  Participants will increase their knowledge of the most common forms of illicit and licit drugs of abuse including hallucinogens, psycho-stimulants, over the counter medications, narcotics such as heroin, oxycontin, and more.  For more information please contact Janice Morabeto at morbets@aol.com. 

6170 B1 Classroom Improvisation Drama
  Dates/Times: 9/15/2012 through 8/25/2013 / Online
  Hours/Cost: 2 graduate semester hours / $565.00
  Offered By: Columbus Center (online)
  Instructor/Contact: Nina Mengali NinaMengaliEDU@aol.com
  This course is designed to provide teaching tools to educators who are interested in creative drama in the classroom through the utilization of improvisation as a pedagogical teaching strategy.  Through improvisations the participants will expand the possiblities for students to develop imaginiation and become complex thinkers, grow as independent and creative thinkers, develop ideas within a group through cooperation and collaboration, build social awareness, develop better habits of speech, and help build self-confidence.  Participants will engage students in multiple improvisational exercises and create and implement a lesson plan that integrates improvisational creative drama into a core subject area.  For more information please contact NinaMengaliEDU@aol.com.