Nondegree Course Descriptions

Mount Holyoke College Graduate Programs offers intensive credit and non-credit options for many of our courses. While both options provide you with valuable skills for career advancement and the opportunity to network with other professionals, they are geared towards learners with different goals and needs.

Read more about the differences here: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/admission/professional-and-non-degree/coursework-fees

Important Note: After a class begins, it is not possible to switch between the non-credit and credit options. If you need additional guidance, please call 413-538-3478 or email graduateadmissions@mtholyoke.edu.

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July 2024

Outreach and Advocacy for Educational Change
Description: This course integrates Teacher Leader Model Standards for Domains VI and VII: assessing community needs and values, engaging families and colleagues in partnerships, and advocating for students and for the teaching profession. Participants will explore culturally responsive teaching approaches and strategies for collaborating with families to support meaningful and relevant student learning and development. Participants will also learn how to use research, policies, and persuasive communications to help build appropriate programs, interventions, and advocacy efforts that promote positive outcomes for both students and teachers.
Format: Online.
Meeting dates: July 2024.
Meeting times: TBD
Noncredit Cost: $1590.
Credit Cost: $3680. Scholarships available.

Building a System of Tens
Description: Participants will explore the base-ten structure of the number system, consider how that structure is exploited in multi-digit computational procedures, and examine how basic concepts of whole numbers reappear when working with decimals. They will study the various ways children naturally tend to think about separating and combining numbers and what children must understand in order to work with numbers in these ways.
Format: Hybrid.
Meeting dates: July 8 - 12, 2024.
Meeting times: Monday - Thursday, 8:30am - 4:30pm ET; Friday, 8:30am - 12:00pm ET.
Noncredit cost: $895.
Credit cost:$1840 for 2 credits. Scholarships available.

Educational Leadership I: Exploring the Roles of Math Teacher Leadership
Description: Explore the roles of teacher leadership in math education at the local, state, and national level. Topics will include: coaching; mentoring; writing (blogs, journals, op-eds, articles); professional learning communities (virtual and face- to-face); and advocacy. Consider current issues and challenges facing students and teachers with regard to math education and work to develop an action plan to address these issues in the coming school year.
Format: Online.
Meeting dates: July 15 - 19, 2024.
Meeting times: Monday - Thursday, 8:30am - 4:30pm ET; Friday, 8:30am - 12:00pm ET.
Noncredit cost: $895.
Credit cost: $1840 for 2 credits. Scholarships available.

Making Meaning for Operations
Description: This course provides opportunities for participants to examine the actions and situations modeled by the four basic operations. The course will begin with a view of young children's counting strategies as they encounter word problems, moves to an examination of the four basic operations on whole numbers, and revisits the operations in the context of rational numbers.
Format: Live online via Zoom.
Meeting dates: July 15 - 19, 2024.
Meeting times: Monday - Thursday, 8:30am - 4:30pm ET; Friday, 8:30am - 12:00pm ET.
Noncredit cost: $895.
Credit cost: $1840 for 2 credits. Scholarships available.

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Professional Development for Coaching Mathematics

Description: This course is designed for elementary math specialists with responsibilities for supporting teachers in the development of strong mathematics education programs. Participants explore issues related to: learning mathematics while in the context of teaching; facilitating the professional development of colleagues; teachers' and students' ideas about mathematics and learning; and fostering a stance of collaborative investigation. By way of a central theme of mathematics learning, the course will offer coaches opportunities to explore, through the coaching perspective, ideas of number and geometry in the elementary grades.
Format: Live online via Zoom.
Meeting dates: July 15 - 19, 2024.
Meeting times: Monday - Thursday, 8:30am - 4:30pm; Friday, 8:30am - 12pm.
Noncredit cost: $895.
Credit cost: $1840 for 2 credits. Scholarships available.

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Developing Mathematical Ideas Facilitator Training
Description: This course focuses on understanding the process of facilitating Developing Mathematical Ideas seminars. Students will analyze key mathematical and pedagogical ideas, examine the affordances of various instructional formats, learn how to respond in writing to the ideas of their seminar students, discuss issues of engaging adult learners, become familiar with the links between Developing Mathematical ideas and the Common Core content and practice standards as well as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) teaching practices, and explore how to situate Developing Mathematical Ideas seminars in their own systems. Students will be actively engaged in every session, working in small group and whole group formats.
Format:In Person.
Meeting dates: July 22 – 26, 2024.
Meeting times: Monday – Thursday: 8:30am – 4:30pm ET. Friday: 8:30am – 12:00pm ET.
Cost: $1095.
Credit cost: $1840 for 2 credits. Scholarships available.

Examining Features of Shape
Description: Examine aspects of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes, develop geometric vocabulary, and explore both definitions and properties of geometric objects. The seminar includes a study of angle, similarity, congruence, and the relationships between three-dimensional objects and their two-dimensional representations. Examine how students develop these concepts through analyzing print and video cases as well as reading and discussing research articles.
Format: Live online via Zoom.
Meeting dates: July 22 - 26, 2024.
Meeting times: Monday - Thursday, 8:30am - 4:30pm ET; Friday, 8:30am - 12:00pm ET.
Noncredit cost: $895.
Credit cost: $1840 for 2 credits. Scholarships available.

Nondegree Course Descriptions

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