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Summer Intensive Programs
Cinema Studies in the Classroom
Course:
ENGL 585 Cinema Studies in the Classroom
Faculty:
Dr. Cynthia Lucia
Dates:
July 7 – July 25 Monday – Thursday; 9:30 am – 1:00 pm
Cost:
$500 for 36 CEUs or graduate tuition if taken for credit
Contact Info:
clucia@rider.edu 
Cinema Studies in the Classroom is designed for educators or prospective educators who use or intend to use film and other visual media as a primary subject and those who use or intend to use film as a tool in the teaching of other subjects such as English, social studies, drama, art, and history. It will offer guidance in the uses of film in the classroom, as well as provide teachers or prospective teachers with an intensive introduction to key concepts and issues in film history, theory, and aesthetics.
Through specialized readings and the viewing of a variety of fiction and non-fiction films, as well as film extracts, teachers and prospective teachers will study formal elements such as cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, and narrative structure as they work together to shape meaning. Beyond that, they will analyze the ways in which larger structural patterns operate to position viewers with respect to character, action, and event, thus influencing responses and, very often, mediating ideology. In deepening an understanding of the complex interplay of form, content, and ideology within specific films, the course will further introduce central concepts in film theory, providing the necessary grounding for teachers as they approach film in their own classrooms.
The course will include screenings, lectures, and discussions within each session and is designed to immerse teachers and prospective teachers in the subject matter and methodologies of contemporary cinema studies. Guest speakers, “hands-on” presentations by participants, and special extracurricular activities, including at least one film-centered trip to New York City, will add texture to the classroom experience.
Overall, the course will provide materials focused on “how to” use the films we study for specific educational goals through exploring techniques of teaching film, ways of integrating units of film study within particular courses, ways of creating film study courses, and methods of effectively supplementing a specific unit of study with a film or series of film extracts.
Curricular and Instructional Design for Fraction Understanding
| Course: | MATG 552 Curricular and Instructional Design for Fraction Understanding |
| Faculty: | Dr. Sylvia Bulgar & Dr. Judith Fraivillig |
| Dates: | July 21 - July 25, 2008 |
| Cost: | $500 for 36 CEUs or graduate tuition if taken for credit |
| Contact Info: | sbulgar@rider.edu, fraivillig@rider.edu |
This intensive workshop will provide professional development to practicing teachers and Rider graduate students. Participants will explore fractions teaching and learning. Participants will design fraction instruction based on theoretical learning trajectories and on both state and national standards. By engaging in this multi-grade design process, participants will examine new ideas about mathematics, children's mathematical thinking, and mathematics instruction.
Seminar Highlights:
» Based on the successful CONNECT-ED project and aligns with state/national standards
» Learn new ideas about designing fraction instruction that traces children's developmental levels
» Investigate innovative strategies for effective math instruction
» Design meaningful math tasks based on children's thinking
» Create instructional activities that overlap other math topics
By attending this week long program, participants will: develop a deeper understanding of the mathematics and cognition of fraction understanding; extend their understanding of children's cognition to the instructional and curricular design for children's understanding of fractions; extend a Big Ideas Module/ (BIM) in groups, to understand a thorough articulation of the extended curriculum; and develop the means to apply this experience to their own classrooms.
The class will be taught by two distinguished members of our senior faculty, Dr. Sylvia Bulgar and Dr. Judith Fraivillig. Both educators have been instrumental in helping teachers throughout New Jersey develop innovative approaches for the study of math through hands-on inquiry.
Summer 2008 Reading and Writing Program
July 7-31
Registration for our Summer 2008 Reading and Writing Program, directed by Dr. Susan Mandel Glazer, will begin in March. More than 7,000 children have come through our program since 1980. The program is for students ages 6 through 16. Our library of more then 7,500 titles and a student-centered environment permits us to meet individual needs. Our classroom management style encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning.
The program includes:
- A three-hour screening for those children who have NOT been enrolled in Fall 2007 or Spring 2008
- Thirty-six (36) hours of personalized instruction: 8:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
- Parent orientation the morning of the screening
- Parent education night
- Final conference where YOUR child tells about her/his progress, (Thursday, July 31)
- Final written report about your child’s accomplishments
- A professional storyteller, as well as an author of children’s books will visit. Visiting authors and illustrators share their experience about writing, which spurs children to write.
For further information on the Reading and Writing Program call 609-896-5313. The Center is under the direction of Susan Mandel Glazer, Ed.D., professor of graduate education.
