Online Courses
MOGO Online - Sowing Seeds Online
Coming Soon: Humane Parenting Online (March 1-30, 2010). Developed for parents with children of any age, this course will expand your parenting strategies to help you bring humane education concepts and values to your kids and manifest your vision for a better world starting with your family.
MOGO Online
“THANK YOU!! I am a happier, more balanced, and more fulfilled person than a month ago, and I feel that this is just the beginning!”
~ Estela Diaz Carmona
Learn to tap into your deepest values and help create a peaceful, just, compassionate, sustainable world while cultivating your own inner peace and joy. Join us for a month of inquiry, introspection and transformation. Through our MOGO Online course, you’ll have the opportunity to assess your life, examine your values, explore new information and make a difference in the lives of others while improving your own life at the same time.
Course Dates:
January 2-31, 2010
May 1-30, 2010
September 1-30, 2010
Take advantage of our special limited discount rate for our January MOGO Course:
Registration:
BEFORE you register online for this online course, please be sure to log into your IHE account. If you don't already have an IHE account you can set one up here.
Individual Rate:
REGISTER BY NOVEMBER 22 for the SPECIAL LIMITED OFFER RATE OF $50 (that's $39 off the regular rate!)
Special Family Rate:
$89 for the first person and $25 for each additional family member (one book/packet shipped per family) REGISTER FOR the special family rate.
Prefer to pay by check or money order? Download and complete the MOGO Online registration form and send it in.
Registration Deadline: The registration deadline for the January course is December 30. We encourage you to register as soon as you can, so that you have plenty of time to read the course book ahead of time.
MOGO Online Course Description:
MOGO Online will educate and inspire you to do more good for yourself, other people, animals, and the environment.
Learn about the 7 Keys to MOGO and how to apply them to your own life, and to examine your values, choices and habits through the lens of the 3 I's -- Inquiry, Introspection and Integrity.
As part of MOGO Online you'll have a chance to interact virtually with other participants through discussion boards, receive input from the course advisors and connect with people who are passionate about empowering themselves and transforming the world. Participants will receive a copy of Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life by IHE President, Zoe Weil.
Download a couple sample exercises. (pdf)
For more information, email us at MOGO@HumaneEducation.org.
Course Structure:
Shortly before the course begins, you'll receive a workbook of daily exercises that you'll complete on your own. The exercises fall into three categories: Inquiry days (where you seek info), Introspection (where you explore your values, passions, abilities and commitments), and Integrity (where you take action to make your life more MOGO). MOGO Online has its own Online Commons -- a discussion forum that you can visit any time during the course to interact with fellow participants and advisors. Participants use the Online Commons to share experiences with the activities, share insights, quotes or resources, connect with classmates and advisors, ask questions, and give and receive support.
Time Commitment:
This course will be as meaningful as you make it. We estimate that the exercises themselves will take an average of an hour a day. The more time you have each day to devote to the exercises and the online discussions, the better the course will be for you.
Course Advisors:
Marsha Rakestraw, graduate of IHE's Humane Education Certificate Program and IHE's Web Content & Community Manager, and Zoe Weil, co-founder and President of the Institute for Humane Education, will be the course advisors.
Marsha's background includes experience teaching at the Pre-K – graduate school levels, and more than 14 years working as a youth specialist in school and public libraries. Marsha has a B.F.A. in dance and a B.A. in English,, an M.L.S. in Library & Information Management, and received her certification in Humane Education from IHE in December 2005. She is also a freelance humane educator and is involved with several non-profit groups.
Zoe has been a humane educator for more than 25 years, and is a pioneer in humane education. In addition to creating IHE’s M.Ed. and certificate programs Zoe is the author of several books, including Most Good, Least Harm, The Power and Promise of Humane Education (2004) for educators, Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times (2003) for parents, and books for young people, including Claude and Medea: The Hellburn Dogs (2007) and So, You Love Animals: An Action-Packed, Fun-Filled Book to Help Kids Help Animals (1994). She has written numerous articles on humane education and humane living and has appeared frequently on radio and television.
Sowing Seeds Online
Educators & homeschool parents: Get inspired! Get connected! Be empowered!
Our 30-day humane education online course is for educators who want to revolutionize and revitalize your students' education and learn new strategies, tools and ideas for teaching about the most important issues of our time, such as human rights, animal protection, environmental preservation, and issues of media and culture.
Course Dates:
November 1-30, 2009 - Course closed. Going on now.
Registration:
BEFORE you register online for this online course, please be sure to log into your IHE account. If you don't already have an IHE account you can set one up here.
Individual Rate:
Check back for our next Sowing Seeds Online Course in 2010.
Prefer to pay by check or money order? Download and complete the Sowing Seeds Online registration form and send it in.
Registration Deadline: The registration deadline for the November course is October 31. We encourage you to register as soon as you can, so that you have plenty of time to read the course book ahead of time.
Sowing Seeds Online Course Description:
Sowing Seeds Online is designed to train classroom teachers, community educators and homeschooling parents to effectively teach critical thinking about social justice, environmental ethics, and animal protection, and enhance your students' understanding that their choices make an impact on themselves, their local community, the fate of other people, other species, and the Earth. The course’s emphasis throughout on building critical thinking skills provides participants with a constructive approach for teaching about complex, controversial issues. You'll develop new techniques and ideas to make your teaching even more rewarding, interesting, and meaningful. As part of Sowing Seeds Online you'll have a chance to interact virtually with other participants through discussion boards, receive input from the course advisors and connect with people who are passionate about empowering themselves and transforming the world. Participants will receive a copy of The Power & Promise of Humane Education by IHE President, Zoe Weil.
Download a couple of sample exercises (PDF).
For more information, email us at: Sowing Seeds@HumaneEducation.org.
Course Structure:
Shortly before the course begins, you'll receive a course booklet of daily exercises that you'll complete on your own. The exercises provide opportunities to explore your values and the impact of your choices, consider what education is for, learn more about humane issues, practice creating and integrating humane education into your teaching, and reflecting on how to live a humane life while helping create a humane world. As part of the course, you'll have the opportunity to interact with fellow participants and course advisors via the Online Commons (see below).
Online Commons:
Sowing Seeds Online Commons is the discussion forum that you can visit any time throughout the course to interact with fellow participants and advisors who are passionate about empowering themselves and transforming the world. Participants use the Online Commons to share experiences with the activities, share insights, quotes or resources, connect with classmates and advisors, ask questions, and give and receive support.
Time Commitment:
This course will be as meaningful as you make it. We estimate that the exercises themselves will take an average of an hour a day. The more time you have each day to devote to the exercises and the online discussions, the better the course will be for you.
Teacher CEUs:
Earn 3.5 CEUs offered for Maine teachers through the University of Maine.
Course Advisor:
Christopher Greenslate, graduate of the Master of Education in Humane Education from IHE, teaches English, Journalism and Social Justice at La Costa Canyon High School just outside of San Diego, California. Christopher’s groundbreaking social justice courses and social justice projects, notably his One Dollar Diet Project, a month-long food experiment, have attracted a lot of media attention, including from Fox News and The New York Times, and led to a book project with Hyperion.
What is humane education? Visit: http://humaneeducation.org and click on "BEGIN MOVIE" in the header at the top.
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