Social Changemakers Series

Plant the Seed of Social Changemaking with Your Students Now

A changemaker is one that wants to make a change in his/her community or the world and gathers the resources to implement that change for the greater good.

The Social Changemakers Series will introduce K-12 educators to a variety of social changemakers and provide opportunities for them to learn about those that have made significant contributions to the world or their communities. Participants will take this information and design engaging, dynamic and standard-based lessons and presentations for use in the classroom. By learning more on the lives of these selected trailblazers, teachers can emphasize with their students their own ability to make positive changes in the world with passion, problem solving and innovation.

Learning Method Information

Online Self-Paced

Our online self-paced courses are similar to online fixed-date courses, but are designed to give you a six-month period from time of enrollment to complete all assignments. Your instructor will provide feedback via written responses on your assignments and exams. Grades are based on completed projects, assignments and exams.

How is the self-paced course structured? Like fixed-date courses, online self-paced courses are asynchronous meaning that you can work on your assignments anytime; the difference being there are no assigned due dates in self-paced courses. The content is divided into learning modules. Each module will cover one or more topics. Within each of the learning modules, you can expect the following components:

• Module introduction that outlines what you can expect to learn in the module.
• Required readings (textbook, articles, journals, websites, etc.) and presentations (audio and/or video).
• Assignments (which may include: written assignments, quizzes, blogs, etc.) based on the readings and presentations.
• Module conclusion to review the topics and what you should have learned.
• Typically, there is a final project, paper, or exam due in the last module that culminates all of the topics covered in each of the learning modules. You’ll find that the design of the learning modules has a rhythm to help you manage your time in the course.

SERIES CURRICULUM

This series of courses is designed for both elementary and secondary level teachers that want to explore the lives of selected social changemakers, and who wish to incorporate their learning into curriculum, as well as providing changemaking inspiration with students.  Participants will focus on this transformational leader, spending time researching their life, and then integrating their journey into engaging, dynamic and standard-based lessons and presentations for use in the classroom.

Benefits of USD’s Social Changemaking series

• Use newfound research to create engaging, dynamic and standard-based lessons and presentations to implement into the classroom
• Design curriculum to promote the social changemaking mindset
• Influence and inform students of their own abilities to become changemakers in their own right

Instructors

Professional development courses offered by the University of San Diego’s Division of Professional & Continuing Education are taught by faculty that possess a depth and breadth of academic and real-world professional experience.

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