Engaging Parents Using Androgogical Principles
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This is a template that you can use to set up your own curse intro/front page. You can click the Edit tab of this page, select all, and copy/past to the page you've started for your mini-course. DO NOT ADD YOUR CONTENT IN THIS PAGE.
This course introduction/front page shows what information should be provided about each mini-course. This is only an example. Feel free to modify/adapt as you'd like. I want our mini-courses to be creative, instead of only uniformed.
Overview and Purpose
After completion of the mini-course, teachers will be able to:
- explain the principles of androgogy
- describe how androgogy effects parent/teacher communication
- determine if existing parent communications are androgogically sound
- modify existing parent communication documents to align with androgogical principles
- create parent communications and interactions that follow androgogical principles
Needs Assessment
Briefly summarize what you found out from your needs assessment regarding the learners' gaps of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that your mini-course means to address.
Performance Objectives
State the course-level objectives here. Sometimes, when the course objectives actually map onto the unit objectives, it is fine to combine the objectives with the following unit structure to state the objective(s) of each unit.
Course Units
This mini-course includes the following units. Click the title of a unit to go to its page.
Brief overview
Brief Overview
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To place the above picture, first I uploaded it using the Upload file button in left pane. Then in Edit on this page I typed File:thenameofmypicture.jpg in double brackets. For the advanced features I added after jpg the following
|thumb - puts the image in a frame and allows me to add a width for my image
|300px - using any number sets the width of the image
|left - or right sets the alignment and allows text to wrap around the other side
|any text - place after the final pipe will be added as a caption to the image
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