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Tuition stipends offered for education graduate course
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KOKOMO, Ind.—Full tuition stipends are available to area K–12 teachers for a 3 credit hour graduate level course offered over seven Saturdays at IU Kokomo. The course will suggest ways to incorporate lessons in basic economics into existing classroom activities, thus meeting state teaching standards for the subject. In the class, participants will prepare and field test curricula that meet national and state standards for the teaching of economics. The Graduate Survey of Economics (W505-Section Number K404) will meet on Saturdays from 9 a.m.–4 p.m., January 17–February 21. Interested parties can register for the course January 6 and 7 on campus. Questions about the class or tuition stipends can be directed to Bobbi Johnston in the Division of Education at (765) 455-9441 or bojohnso@iuk.edu. All participants must pay usual student fees, plus a $50 materials fee. Tuition stipends for up to 20 students are underwritten by a grant from the Indiana Council for Economic Education. Course instructors Margo Sorgman, Ed.D., and Kathy Parkison, Ph.D., applied for the grant this summer, in their leadership roles with the IU Kokomo Center for Economic Education. Students will receive free curriculum materials and have access to the center’s large library of additional curriculum materials, Sorgman said. Another perk of the class is Sorgman and Parkison’s commitment to keep mentoring students after the course. “Kathy and I go out and observe the teachers who’ve have taken part in the course,” Sorgman said. The course is not just for social studies teachers, said Parkison. The state of Indiana now requires that economics be taught in grades K–8, and the class will demonstrate how to meet that requirement without adding economics as a separate course, she added. “We’ll show you how to work across curriculum areas and integrate the teaching of economic concepts into other subjects. You’ll learn to implement the state standards for economics in real time with real kids.” Lessons will be geared to the specific grade levels taught by participants. “We can show you how to teach the material at kindergarten level, at third grade level, to gifted, special needs or high school students,” Parkison said.
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