Our Graduate Courses
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Achieving Student Outcomes Through Cooperative Learning®
Become proficient in setting up, monitoring, and debriefing group learning while teaching interpersonal skills. Discover how quick cooperative learning starters immediately involve students in specific learning tasks.
Action Research for the Classroom™ Online
Explore your instructional practices then develop, conduct, and analyze the results of a data collection plan. As a culminating activity, write an action research report showcasing your findings and how you plan to improve your current practices.
Action Research in the E-Learning Environment™ Online
In the e-learning environment, action research takes on a new dimension as educators integrate technology into traditional research methodologies. Discover online data collection techniques, interpret the data to affect change in the online classroom, and develop a research plan that integrates and makes effective use of e-learning technology.
Behavioral, Academic, and Social Interventions for the Classroom™
Implement the Solution Seeking Cycle and the Intervention Pyramid to design effective universal and targeted interventions for the classroom. Learn how to foster a climate of respect and responsibility that supports student resiliency with an emphasis on strengths-based learning, creating learning alliances, and designing REACH lessons. The strategies offered in this course will help you meet the expectations of a Response to Intervention (RTI) classroom.
Blended and Synchronous Learning Design™ Online
This course focuses on two different formats for online learning environments: blended and synchronous. In this course, you will define these environments, understand the development process each one requires, and conclude with considerations for implementing each.
Brain-Based Ways We Think and Learn®
Explore the four basic thinking skills of induction, deduction, analysis, and synthesis. Experience, model, and internalize specific techniques of brain-based teaching and learning. Integrate thinking processes into real-life applications.
Building Communication and Teamwork in the Classroom®
Reach a new level of positive communication with strategies necessary to foster an emotionally-engaging classroom where students are connected to school, learning, and one another.
Building Online Collaborative Environments™ Online
Experience the Web as a means of constructing new knowledge through conversation, networking, and collaboration. Harness the power of online technologies like blogs, podcasts, and wikis for student engagement and learning. Focus on currently-available tools and effectively utilizing them for student research, writing, and learning.
Building Your Technology Education and Skills®
Learn how to use basic computer and related technology in the classroom. Create motivational materials, manage classroom chores, use the Internet, and identify quality teacher and student software. (Additional fees may apply for this course.)
Classroom Management: Orchestrating a Community of Learners®
When students are empowered to take responsibility for their own learning experiences, you are freed from constantly dealing with behavioral and organizational issues. Discover and practice skills for orchestrating classroom life and learning so that instruction flows smoothly, student misbehavior is minimized, and learning potential is maximized.
Classroom Management:Orchestrating
a Community of Learners® Online
When students are empowered to take responsibility for their own learning experiences, you are freed from constantly dealing with behavioral and organizational issues. Discover and practice skills for orchestrating classroom life and learning so that instruction flows smoothly, student misbehavior is minimized, and learning potential is maximized.
Coaching Skills for Successful Teaching®
Develop the skills to build effective rapport among colleagues and experience the resulting positive instructional change and enhanced self-esteem. Learn a prescriptive process for communicating through a pre- and post-classroom observation.
Cultural Competence:
A Transformative Journey™ Online
Discover how your cultural lens influences your relationship with students and families. Explore the framework “know yourself, your students, and your practice” to understand your role in student achievement and as an agent of change for social justice.
Designing Motivation for All Learners®
Design learning experiences that successfully build motivation by reinforcing student effort and reducing student risk. The leadership and effective communication strategies taught in this course support confident, self-directed, and engaged learners, especially those of Generation Me.
Developing 21st Century Literacy Skills™ Online
Examine 21st century frameworks and why information literacy is a critical skill in today’s classroom. Explore multimedia skills, digital storytelling, the read/write Web, metrics and assessment, and the need for organizational and social change as agents for integrating 21st century skills into today’s curriculum.
Differentiated Instruction for
Today’s Classroom® Online
All students can thrive in today’s standards-based learning environment when their teachers know how to apply the practical and effective skills of differentiated instruction. Learn key knowledge and skills to implement differentiated instruction successfully in your own classroom.
Differentiated Instruction for Today's Classroom®
All students can thrive in today’s standards-based learning environment when you know how to apply the practical and effective skills of differentiated instruction. Learn key knowledge and skills to implement differentiated instruction successfully in your own classroom.
Discovering the Power of Live-Event Learning®
Support and enhance student achievement by creating real-life classroom experiences—Live-Event Learning™—that actively immerse students in the learning process, stimulate the brain’s natural learning systems, and teach lifelong learning skills.
Educating the Net-Generation™ Online
Explore the learning styles, expectations, and technical acumen of the Net-Generation. Identify this generation’s key educational and cultural influences then create pedagogy which meets their needs.
Facilitating Online Learning Communities™ Online
Discover the strategies and best practices of successful online facilitation in order to engage diverse learners, support various learning styles, and handle conflict constructively. Learn how to manage assessments and feedback, analyze and solve problems, and create a plan of action for teaching in an online learning environment.
Foundation of Literacy: Beginning Reading™ Online
This course explores the components of early reading defined by the National Reading Panel and the International Reading Association. Students will build a knowledge base for each component and then apply that knowledge within a classroom setting.
Geometry for Middle School
Educators™ Online
Apply research-based teaching strategies designed to develop mathematical literacy and foster logical thinking. Build upon and expand your current understanding of geometry by exploring how lateral thinking, vocabulary, a knowledge of learning styles, an understanding of your state standards, and technology enhance student learning.
Infusing Arts into the Curriculum™ Online
Discover the power of an arts-infused lesson plan. Appeal to diverse learning styles with an arts-infused unit of study which you can use in your own classroom.
Instructional Design for Online Educators™ Online
Instructional design is the process of analyzing learners’ needs and developing instruction that answers those needs. Understand the basics of instructional design, explore philosophies of e-learning, and receive hands-on experience with online delivery and interaction techniques and tools.
Learning to Read: Beginning Reading Instruction™
Implement a balanced, integrated approach to teaching beginning reading and enhance the reading process across all areas of the curriculum. Incorporate specially-designed curriculum resources and teaching strategies which are aligned with state and national reading research initiatives and scientific strategies.
Learning to Read: Beginning Reading Instruction™ Online
Centered on scientific strategies aligned with state and national reading research initiatives, this course addresses implementation of a balanced, integrated approach to teaching beginning reading. These specially-designed curriculum resources and teaching strategies enhance the reading process across all areas of the curriculum.
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Meaningful Activities to Generate Interesting Classrooms®
The first step to designing interactive and engaging learning activities within existing curriculum is to unlock creativity. Establish clear and meaningful criteria when preparing activities and actively engage students in learning.
Merging Educational Goals and
Interactive Multimedia Projects® Online
Explore ways to incorporate multimedia projects into the classroom. Empower students to move beyond rote learning into problem solving, collaboration, researching, designing, testing, and communicating. You must have a working knowledge of PowerPoint before enrolling in this course.
Merging Educational Goals and Interactive Multimedia Projects®
Explore ways to incorporate multimedia projects into your classroom. Find out how to empower students to move beyond rote learning into problem solving, collaboration, researching, designing, testing, and communicating. You must have a working knowledge of PowerPoint before enrolling in this course. (Additional fees may apply for this course.)
Merging Educational Goals and
Interactive Multimedia Projects® Online
Merging Educational Goals and Interactive Multimedia Projects®
Explore ways to incorporate interactive multimedia projects into your classroom. Meet your state’s standards requirements in ways that motivate your students. Empower your students to move beyond rote learning into problem solving, collaborating, researching, designing, testing, and communicating.
Project-Based Learning: Building for the Future™
When students can create sense and meaning of required content, they are empowered to become self-managing, responsible individuals and citizens in an emerging global community. Design meaningful standards-based lessons to help students internalize the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in school and in real-life pursuits.
Purposeful Learning Through Multiple Intelligences®
Acquire an understanding of Howard Gardner’s intelligences and how to apply them in the classroom. Experience the intelligences personally and create lesson plans that you can use immediately.
Purposeful Learning Through Multiple Intelligences® Online
Acquire an understanding of Howard Gardner’s intelligences and how to apply them in the classroom. View a multitude of Web sites, experience the intelligences personally, and create lesson plans that can be used immediately.
Reaching Learners Through Their Intelligences™
Participants will gain an overview of Howard Gardner's identification and understanding of multiple intelligences.
Reading Across the Curriculum ™ Online
Discover research-based active reading comprehension strategies which you can apply to your grade level or content area. This course emphasizes learning styles, types of text, notation systems, content-area reading, assessments, fluency, motivation, and grade-level vocabulary.
Reading Across the Curriculum™
Discover research-based active reading comprehension strategies which you can apply to your grade level or content area. This course emphasizes learning styles, types of text, notation systems, content-area reading, assessments, fluency, motivation, and grade-level vocabulary.
Reading to Learn: Comprehension Instruction™
Explore the best ways to help students construct meaning from what they read. Examine scientifically-based comprehension strategies and learn how to adapt them to your classroom and/or content areas. Assess student progress and learn how to adjust your teaching to become more effective.
Reading to Learn: Comprehension Instruction™ Online
Explore the best ways to help students construct meaning from what they read. Examine scientifically-based comprehension strategies and learn how to adapt them to your classroom and/or content areas. Assess student progress and learn how to adjust your teaching to become more effective.
Secondary Content Methods™ Online
Examine the content in the secondary school content curriculum standards and help students make connections among the higher level courses they have taken in college and the material taught in secondary schools.
Simulations and Gaming Technologies for the Classroom™ Online
Critically evaluate learning games to determine how they relate to academic content and standards. Identify how particular game mechanics appeal to diverse learners.
Strategies for Middle School Science Teachers™ Online
Design effective lesson plans, integrate technology, manage the classroom, develop assessments, and meet the needs of diverse learners while connecting the science classroom to the real world.
Structured English Immersion (SEI) Training for Administrators
Learn the essential knowledge and skills needed to support the implementation of strategies and instruction that meets the individual needs of English Language Learners. Participate in interactive, hand-on activities and focus on creating a culture of change through coaching educators in best practices.
Structured English Immersion (SEI) Training for Administrators (PD)
Learn the essential knowledge and skills needed to support the implementation of strategies and instruction that meets the individual needs of English Language Learners. Participate in interactive, hand-on activities and focus on creating a culture of change through coaching educators in best practices.
Structured English Immersion Training (Augmented)
This course equips PreK-12 educators with the essential knowledge and skills to design standards-based objectives, monitor and assess student progress and achievement, and design and deliver research-based instruction that meets the academic and social needs of English Language Learners.
Structured English Immersion Training (Augmented) PD
This course equips PreK-12 educators with the essential knowledge and skills to design standards-based objectives, monitor and assess student progress and achievement, and design and deliver research-based instruction that meets the academic and social needs of English Language Learners.
Structured English Immersion Training for Educators
Gain the essential knowledge and skills required to implement differentiated instruction that meets the individual needs of English Language Learners. Discover effective, manageable strategies for satisfying an increasingly diverse student population and explore cultural and social aspects of the English Language Learner.
Structured English Immersion Training for Educators PD
Gain the essential knowledge and skills required to implement differentiated instruction that meets the individual needs of English Language Learners. Discover effective, manageable strategies for satisfying an increasingly diverse student population and explore cultural and social aspects of the English Language Learner.
Successful Teaching for Acceptance
of Responsibility® Online
Gain new techniques to model, teach, and support responsible student behavior while creating a classroom that fosters personal power and self-responsible behaviors. Examine how you can expand your own personal power by encouraging appropriate behavior and empowering students to make good decisions.
Successful Teaching for Acceptance of Responsibility®
Gain new techniques to model, teach, and support responsible student behavior while creating a classroom that fosters personal power and self-responsible behaviors. Explore how you can expand your own personal power by encouraging appropriate behavior and empowering students to make good decisions.
Teaching Algebra to Middle School Students™ Online
Explore and evaluate the major concepts fundamental to teaching algebra to middle school students. Topics include algebraic number sense, order of operations, linear functions, properties of slope, and an introduction to quadratic equations.
Teaching the English Language Learner™ Online
Identify the academic content which English language learners need to compete with native speakers in a consistently competitive global and information society. Design and deliver appropriate language and content instruction for these students.
Teaching the Skills of the 21st Century®
Incorporate real-life skills while teaching curriculum to prepare students for their occupations and lives. Develop a vision for change and explore innovative approaches to teaching. Computer access is needed to do assignments outside of class.
Teaching Through Learning Channels®
Learn how to match brain-compatible teaching strategies with learning style preferences while addressing the basic motivational needs of students.
Teaching Through Learning Channels® Online
Learn how to match brain-compatible teaching strategies with learning style preferences while addressing the basic motivational needs of students.
Thinking Mathematically: Elementary Edition
This course is designed for elementary school teachers to deepen their knowledge, appreciation, and understanding of K-4 mathematics. Participants will use the NCTM Content and Process Strands as a vehicle for understanding what students need to know and be able to do in math. They will also investigate strategies for developing mathematical literacy and fostering logical thinking.
Using Online Resources to Bring Primary Sources to the Classroom™ Online
Discover how digital primary source archives can enhance and improve student learning. Use online resources to access and analyze primary sources, think critically about classroom applications, and develop authentic, engaging learning experiences for students.
Writing Across the Curriculum™ Online
In this hands-on writing workshop appropriate for teachers of grades 3 through 8, you will discover content-area appropriate strategies for modeling writing formats, supporting below-grade level writers, engaging all students in writing, and balancing the expectations of writing and content in both formal and informal assessments.