Current Course Schedule

Reimagining Geography Instruction: Making, sharing, and interpreting the world around us

Environments shape people and people shape environments. This class offers teachers opportunities to develop a geographic lens through active learning experiences. Maps play a central role in the class—the creation of maps and the use of maps as tools to spark open-ended inquiry that addresses the needs of all learners. We’ll move from the concrete to the abstract by mapping some of our own lived experiences and navigating a terrain model. The class explores the development of critical vocabulary and fluency with maps and the habits of mind necessary to develop a geographic lens. An inclusive approach is taken with specific references to promoting conceptual and vocabulary development for students with disabilities and multilingual learners. Instructor: Ellen McCrum
  • Course Number
    EDUC866N
  • Focus On
    Across Ages
  • Category
    Childhood / Elementary School, Credit-bearing Courses, Middle School / Early Adolescence, On Campus
  • Registration Options and Cost
    $425 12.0 CTLE or 1.2 CEU
    $1,924 1.0 Credits

Sections

Spring 2026

  • Section 1:
    Date(s)
    April 17, 24, and 25| On Campus
    Day and Time
    Fridays, from 4:45 PM -9:15 PM ET, and Saturday, from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM ET
    Registration Deadline
    Apr 10, 2026
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    • Ellen McCrum
      Ellen McCrum
      Ellen McCrum, MSEd, is currently an education consultant with Reimagine Teaching in New York City and an adjunct professor at Bank Street College. She has taught 4th and 5th grades in New York City and Cambridge, MA and served as a staff developer for a K-8 school in Kathmandu, Nepal. She holds NY State permanent certification K-6 and as a NY State Initial School Building Leader (K-12). McCrum earned degrees in Leadership in Mathematics Education and Early Childhood & Elementary Education, both from Bank Street College of Education. Her BA is in French with a Biology Minor, is from Bowdoin College, ME.