Repository of Mini-Courses and Instructional Cases
KNILT has developed a rich set (>150) of mini-courses and instructional cases that cover a wide range of educational topics, including new learning goals, approaches, technologies, assessments, and so forth.
Mini-courses present new learning approaches, technologies, and assessments etc., for teacher learning and development. Instructional cases document lessons planned/enacted showcasing how the new learning approaches, technologies,and assessments can be applied in specific contexts.
You may find mini-courses and cases related to the following topics. Or if you have a topic in mind, you can search for possible matches using the search tool provided (see top).
Problem-Based, Collaborative Inquiry
Please click General Information about Problem-Based, Collaborative Inquiry courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Heather Gould:Teaching for Understanding 07
- Barbara Easton: Learning Communities in the Classroom
- Mary Donohue: Knowledge Building & Information Literacy K-16+
- Abigail Moskovits:Effective Questioning in the Classroom
- Jingping Chen:Science Inquiry
- David Lawrence: Teaching to Multiple Intelligences
- Donna Alese Cooke:Garden-Based Learning Across the Curriculum
- Francia Reed:From Teacher-Centered to Learner-Centered, A Faculty Mini-course
- Maria Urquidi:Introduction to Project Based Learning
- April Taylor:Incorporating Problem Based Learning Using the Scientific Method
- Alex De Kweldju:LOOP IN PASCAL Course
- Robert Ekblaw: Collaboration_course
Learning How to Learn
Please click General Information about Learning How to Learn courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Roger Wistar: Effective Use of Self-paced Learning in the Classroom Environment
- Colleen DePuy: Developing Student Skills for the Constructivist Classroom
- Scott Jill: Preparing Students for Self-Directed Learning
- Julia Kelley: ARCS Model of Motivation Design
- Anthony Traina: Utilizing Graphic Organizers
- Kelly Fernandez: Advance Organizers
- James Ranni: Reducing Student Stress Through Instructional Practice
- Laura Bartlett: Understanding and Integrating Interactive Student Notebooks in the Secondary Classroom
- Hend Elsantaricy: Before You Copy
- Teresa Dobler: Student Driven Community Service
- Ian August: Student lead classroom model
New Approaches to Assessment and Classroom Data
Please click General Information about New Approaches to Assessment and Classroom Data courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Randy DeVett: Teaching For Understanding: Ongoing Assessment
- Brooke Hasey: Teaching and Assessing for Understanding
- Mary Beth Rock: Assess for Success
- Colleen Bryla: Data analysis for differentiated instruction
- Allison Hubbs: Creating Authentic Assessment
- Valerie Anwari: Utilizing Formative Assessments
- Jennifer Boisvert: E-Portfolio
- Classroom Case of E-Portfolio: Ashley Keegan: Electronic Portfolios: Case Study
- Ashley Setter: Action Research
- Kristina Rosenberg: Response to Intervention
- Alicia Mari:Keeping Imaginative Play In the Kindergarten Classroom:How to conduct observations of play behaviors to identify and understand individual student development and integration of skills within authentic play contexts
- Julie DelPapa: Multiple Intelligences in the classroom
Integrating Technology across the Curriculum
Please click General Information about Integrating Technology across the Curriculum courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Michael Lucatorto: Instant Screencasting: Quick and Basic Screen Capture for Online and Hybrid Instruction
- Cheyenne Whirley: Digital Storytelling Course
- Thomas Cutonilli: Simulations for Inquiry Course
- Michelle Duncan: Using the internet for inquiry-based learning
- Susan McKinstray: Web-based Inquiry Learning with WebQuests
- Miriam Ramos: Creating a WebQuest to Teach Pet Emergency Preparedness
- Elizabeth Branca: Interactive and Collaborative Learning Environments
- Matt Pagano: Collaborative Learning with Technology
- Elizabeth Kinney: Collaborative Learning with Computer Support - using examples of nutritional hazards
- Anna Maria Wing: Writing Instruction using Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
- Xiyao Huang: Educational Use of Wikis Course
- Vanessa Warner: Application of PB Works in the Classroom
- Caelynn Prylo: An Introduction to Using Social Networking Sites in Education
- Danielle Melia: Evaluating Websites
- Tamara Niquette: Integrating Technology in Mathematics
- Nichole Keiper: Using Excel for Statistics
- Meredith Kelly: Moving to Word 2007
- Amy Fleury: Educational Gaming
- Susan Towey: Educate with GoAnimate
- Jason Kozel: Snagit: Instructional applications
- Jason Chwirut: Mini Course: Camtasia Studio
- Annmarie Parathiras: Using MOO's to Foster Literary Understanding
- Alex De Kweldju: LOOP IN PASCAL Course
- Melissa Stepanian: Podcasting
- Jennifer Krol: Better Understanding of Mathematical Concepts through the Graphing Calculator
- Colleen Organ: Teaching Using Technology
- Vivian Richelsen: Using Smartboard Technology to Teach the Future and Conditional Tenses (An Instructional Case)
- Melissa Pietricola: Web 2.0 for the 21st Century Educator
- Suzanne Hayes: Developing Learning Communities Through Blended Learning Activities
- Mike Zelensky's: Harnessing the Power of Technology in the Science Classroom
- Irene Watts-Politza: WordPress Portfolio for Teachers
Online Learning
Please click General Information about Online Learning courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Anne Canale Stalnecker: Facilitating Effective Online Discourse
- Anne de la Chapelle: Using the E-Learning Best Practices: A Guide for Faculty to develop a quality online course
- Katherine Watson: Multimedia in Online Courses
- Sun Hee Seo: Essential Guide to Online Teaching
- Michael Lucatorto: Instant Screencasting: Quick and Basic Screen Capture for Online and Hybrid Instruction
Teaching Science and Math for Understanding
Please click General Information about Teaching Science and Math for Understanding courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Joanne Contreni: Problem-Based Learning in Math
- Serafina Chinappi:Making Math Problematic
- Jenna Tyler: Teaching Mathematics for Understanding
- Scott Beiter: Teaching for Conceptual Change
- Maria-Teresa Ferrer-Mico: Learning Communities and using visual information to teach mathematics
- Jamie J Woodcock: Models: an Instructional Tool
- Christine Podgorski: Portfolio for Models: A Case Study for Instructional Tools
- J. McCarthy: Case Study of Models in Math Instruction
- Kasey Van kleeck: Get Wise about WISE
- Augustine Fucci: Motivating the Mathematics Student
- Daniel P. Mahoney: Communication in Math Classrooms
- Lindsey Wilson: Varying the Level of Inquiry in Science Lab Activities
- Patricia Murphy: Basic Number Properties
- Hailey Pozniak: Customary and Metric Units of Measurement
- Kaitlyn King: Problematic Mathematics: PBL designed for the math classroom
- Steph Conklin: Project-Based Learning in a 10th Grade Special Education Mathematics Classroom Steph Conklin's Portfolio Page
- Joseph Pudlewski: Quadratic Modeling with the TI-Nspire: An Instructional Case
- Tara Akstull: Problem-based Learning in Math through Technology
- Matthew Fay:Design Project: Using Real World Data to Teach Statistics and Probability
- Jamie Davis: Pythagorean Theorem
- Stephen Lyons: Welcome to the Graphs of Life
- Victoria Keller: Word Problems in Mathematics: Teaching/Student Strategies to Comprehend Word Problems
- Donna Joyner: Donna Joyner - Case Studies in Neurology
- Kimberly Barss:Mini-course: Preparing Students for Success in Biochemistry and Chemical Bonding.
- Joe Walker: Biology of HPV Mini Course
- Nicole Carey: Issues of Cloning
- Christina Slojkowski: Addressing Misconceptions through Collaborative Learning: The Digestive System
- Catherine Strattner: Integrating Metacognitive Development in Mathematics Instruction
- Alex S. Berg:Mathematical Literacy: Teaching with, developing, and utilizing Math Journals
- Julia Manetta: Problem-Based Learning in a Mathematics Classroom
- Linsey Bland:Developing Preschool Number Sense
- Hannah Bischoff:Factoring Quadratics Using Lattice Multiplication
- Devan Godfrey:Case Study: Word Problems in Mathematics
Teaching Social Studies for Understanding
Please click General Information about Teaching Social Studies for Understanding courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Tammy Clark: Using Cognitive Flexibility Theory to Teach History
- Mark Frament: Teaching Themed History
- Lawrence Moultrie: Design Project Theme: Using Project Based Learning to Teach The United States Constitution
- Jamilah Jones-McLean: It's All Greek To Me!(An instructional case on integrating a variety of sources)
- Kimberly Young: 21st Century Skills and Technology in the Social Studies Classroom
- Dan Fountain: Effective Social Studies Classroom Discussion
- Mike Porter: US History Through Digital Storybooks
- Sarah Graham: Career Exploration Mini-Course
- Frank Engle: Slavery Unit
- Scott Graham: The Historical Puzzle of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Jessica Mascle: Designing Effective Learning Targets for US History and Government
- Todd Lewis: Improving Geography with the Help of Google Earth
- Magaly Barreto: Exploring Latin American Countries and Caribbean Islands
- Michael Flynn: Teaching Socials Studies for Understanding
- Susan Fenstermacher: Design Project: Theme Project - Native American Indians
- Fiona Grady: News Literacy
- Susan Hereth: The Hudson River as the Context for Learning
- Andrew Walldroff: Communities_course
Effective Strategies of Language Learning
Please click General Information about Effective Strategies of Language Learning courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Diane Hamilton: Developing Phonemic Awareness in Kindergarten Children
- Yueh-Chen Weng: The Discussion-Based Approach to Improving Literary Understanding
- Melissa Filotas: Promoting Reading Comprehension in the Early Grades
- Lindsey Alongi: Foreign Language 2.0: Benefits and Implementing Online Communication
- Anna Maria Wing: Writing Instruction using Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
- He Zhou: TOEFL ibt Independent Writing Step-by-step
- Matthew Gunderman: Introducing iBT TOEFL Speaking
- Chaeyoung Jun: Strategies to teach children vocabulary
- Wesam Saleh: Teaching English Punctuation for the ESL students
- Ben Blanchard: Data-Driven Language Learning Using Corpora and Concordancing
- Barbara Recchio-Demmin: Using VoiceThread as a Tool for Language Learning
- Arayoan Tylec: Integrating Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom
- Kurt Hassenpflug: Integrating Sequential Art into an English Language Arts Curriculum
- Sapphire Gimenez: Jubilee Montessori Instruction System (.pdf file)
- Stephanie Ames: Strategic Reading Across the Content Areas
- Bonnie Blood: Reading Strategies in the High School Curriculum
- Christina Nash: Using Fan Fiction and Instructional Conversation to Increase Student/Text Involvement
- Yang Huang: Let's Speak Chinese!
- Huei-Cheng Lin: Mini Course: Play "Go Fish" in Chinese
- Mengxin Song: Chinese Characters: A Big Picture of Chinese Writing System
- Christopher Compson: Collaborative Writing Utilizing Online Environments
- Ildefonso Correas Apelanz: Gaming in an ESL Classroom: An Instructional Case Ildefonso Portfolio
- George Ryon: Digital mobile devices as a teaching tool for phonological awareness.
- Lisa Martin:Understanding Emergent Writing
Effective Strategies for Music Learning
Please click General Information about Effective Strategies for Music Learning courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Michael Fortune: Jazz in the General Music Classroom
- Kristina Lattanzio: Developing Music Analysis Skills Using Feedback, Composition And Technology
- Salvatore Viola: Let's Keep the Beat: Teaching rhythmic notation incorporating the theories of Multiple Intelligence
- Laura Kraebel: Integrating Technology into the Music Classroom
- Daniel Hacker: The Staff
Creating Inclusive Environments and Supporting Students with Special Needs
Please click General Information about Creating Inclusive Environments and Supporting Students with Special Needs courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Jane DeMeis: Career Development for MRDD Adults using Authentic Learning
- Elise Weiss: Understanding Learning Disabilities and the Learning Disabled
- Kelly Geddes: Concept Mapping Across the Curriculum
- Sandy Feocco: Movement in Learning
- Jeffrey Bordeman: Students with ASD: Developing Socialization and Self-Management Skills
- Sue Rappazzo: Understanding Dyslexia and Severe Reading Disabilities
- Chris Poulopoulos: Creating a Bully Free Environment
- Elizabeth Mancuso:The Montessori Learning Environment
New Technological Designs
Please click General Information about New Technological Designs courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Vincent Amodeo: WISE: The Web-based Inquiry Science Environment
- Lorraine Emerick: Second Life
- Kevin Goodman: Moodle
- Julie Smit: Digital Libraries and the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL)
- Patrice Torcivia: World Watcher; Math Forum
- Yueh-Chen Weng: WorldWatcher
- Yueh-Chen Weng: Inspiration
- Caitlin Donahue: The Inquiry Learning Forum
- Caitlin Donahue: TeacherTube
- Xiyao Huang: Facebook & Social Bookmarking
- Jingping Chen: Programming Tool for Children
- Jane Wilde: Virtual Worlds
- Nathan Cadoret: Video Games in the Classroom
- Corie Quattrocchi:Creating a Digital Archive: ePortfolio's for Elementary Student's Mini-course
- Irene Watts-Politza: WordPress Portfolio for Teachers
- Diana Cary: Blackboard 9.1 Module Creation
Other Courses
Please click General Information about Other Courses to see the brief introduction to each following course.
- Nathan Lockett: College Attainment
- Lydia Ashley: Fingerprinting
- Meghan Blair: Management
- David Wixted: David's Menu Course
If want to find mini-courses based on year and class, please go to: Index by class.