Core Connection Course Catalog

Quiet Wisdom: Continuing our Exploration of Contemplative Practices in Teaching Summer 2024

Quiet Wisdom: Continuing our Exploration of Contemplative Practices in Teaching Summer 2024

This all new session of Quiet Wisdom will delve into seven new contemplative practices for educators to explore, lead by a meditation specialist. We will follow with an interactive discussion, led by teachers who will share the research behind the practice and facilitate a conversation on how to apply it in different classroom settings and disciplines…

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Designing Questions for Effective Learning and AI Applications

Designing Questions for Effective Learning and AI Applications

In this completely asynchronous course, participants will dive into the classroom applications of AI tools, such as Chat GTP, as well as a question design tool called the Question Formulation Technique. This is a concise and powerful protocol that enables learners to produce and improve their own questions, and strategize how to use them…

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Teaching Assistants and Aides Support Series Summer 2024: Atomic Habits

Teaching Assistants and Aides Support Series Summer 2024: Atomic Habits

Teaching Assistants and Aides are invited to join us in this summer book study of Atomic Habits, where author James Clear provides us with four simple laws and very concrete strategies to show us how to make the types of tiny changes that will ultimately lead to those remarkable changes we hope to see…

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ABCD ChatGPT: AI for the Modern Classroom

ABCD ChatGPT: AI for the Modern Classroom

This course will provide you with a toolkit of various AI strategies that you can use to design your classes this fall. You will learn AI tools that create standards specific content as well as how to use them in a fraction of the time it would take to create your own unit or lesson plan, and will be given implementation time each three hour session…

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