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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

Action research is a process of inquiry and reflection in which educators examine their personal instructional practice systematically using the techniques of research. This online course addresses concepts associated with action research and the processes and procedures for conducting action research, and culminates with the development of an action research project.

Action Research in the E-Learning Environment™ Online

Action research is a process of inquiry and reflection in which educators examine their personal instructional practice systematically using the techniques of research. This online course addresses concepts associated with action research in online settings such as web-based courses and virtual learning communities. Topics covered include the processes and procedures for conducting action research with an additional focus on issues particular to engaging in action research via Internet-based technologies and culminates with the development of an action research project.

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.

Blended and Synchronous Learning Design™ Online

Given the growth of online teaching and learning, educators explore ways to incorporate best practices to meet the needs of all learners. This online course focuses on designing courses and activities for blended (part online and part face-to-face) and synchronous online learning environments.

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

How can classroom teachers harness the power of online technologies like blogs, podcasts, and wikis for student engagement and learning? Course participants will experience the web as more than a source of information, instead as a means of constructing new knowledge through conversation, networking, and collaboration. Focus is 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

Learn and practice skills for orchestrating classroom life and learning so that instruction flows smoothly, student misbehavior is minimized, and learning potential is maximized. Free yourself from constantly dealing with behavioral and organizational issues, and empower your students to take responsibility for their own learning experience. Create an Action Plan of practical strategies to implement immediately in your classroom.

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

Cultural Competence: A Transformative Journey™ Online equips experienced and beginning K–16 educators with the knowledge, awareness, and skills to work in today’s diverse classroom settings for the end goal of student success. Participants will be given opportunities to critically examine how privilege and power impact educational outcomes and to understand the role of educators as agents of change for social justice. Learners will use the framework of knowing yourself, your students, and your practice to better understand their role in student achievement. Diversity will be explored through multiple perspectives, providing participants with insight into how their own cultural lens impacts their relationships with students and families.

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

This course introduces participants to existing frameworks for 21st century skills developed by enGauge and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. In particular, the course focuses on the importance of information literacy, adaptability, and risk-taking skills. Participants will also learn important multimedia skills and how to share their creation through read/write Web tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, and social networks. The course covers new metrics and means of evaluating student work as well as the need for organizational change in order to integrate these skills into existing educational institutions. For the culminating activity, each participant will plan a student project that meets curricular goals and helps to develop 21st century skills.

Differentiated Instruction for
Today’s Classroom® Online

Differentiated Instruction for Today’s Classroom® Online is a Performance Learning Systems® course that equips experienced and beginning educators with the essential knowledge and skills to implement differentiated instruction (DI) successfully in their own classrooms. As a widely respected, research-based instructional approach, DI provides teachers with effective, manageable strategies for meeting the needs of an increasingly diverse student population within the context of today’s challenging standards-based curriculum. In a highly interactive learning environment that models the DI principles and processes participants will learn, class members will gain expertise in understanding and implementing a broad range of strategies associated with three essential, distinguishing components of DI: first, the teacher’s role as guide and facilitator in a classroom environment specifically designed to support self-directed student learning and teacher-student collaboration; second, the interdependent nature of assessment and instruction in a DI classroom; and third, the implementation of specific instructional strategies to adapt the curriculum content, processes (activities), and products to provide students with entry points to learning that match their readiness, interests, and/or learning profiles.

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

Educating the Net-Generation™ Online examines the learning styles, expectations and technical acumen of the Net-Generation and explains the implications for classroom learning environments. During the course you will learn the key differences between the generations and how those differences can be bridged through sound instructional design techniques. You will also learn how to leverage the gadgets, games and gizmos of these students to create pedagogy that meets their needs and transfers knowledge from teacher to student.

Geometry for Middle School
Teachers™ Online

This online course offers opportunities for participants to increase their knowledge and understanding of the central geometric concepts the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has recommended for middle grade learners. These concepts include vocabulary development, logic and reasoning, transformations, symmetry, two- and three-dimensional figures, and the Pythagorean Theorem. The course also encourages participants to promote their students’ higher-level thinking skills by exploring the van Hiele Model of Geometric Thinking and applying the concepts found in Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Infusing Arts into the Curriculum™ Online

Instructional design is the process of developing instruction beginning with an analysis of the learner and learning needs. The Instructional Design for Online Educators course focuses on the development of skills and knowledge related to the design of online instruction with a real-world virtual classroom as the context. Participants will begin with analysis of learning needs in an online classroom and progress through the development of an instructional plan designed to meet student requirements for successful online learning.

Instructional Design for Online Educators™ Online

Instructional design is the process of developing instruction beginning with an analysis of the learner and learning needs. The Instructional Design for Online Educators course focuses on the development of skills and knowledge related to the design of online instruction with a real-world virtual classroom as the context. Participants will begin with analysis of learning needs in an online classroom and progress through the development of an instructional plan designed to meet student requirements for successful online learning.

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

Learn to implement a balanced, integrated approach to teaching beginning reading centered on scientific strategies aligned with state and national reading research initiatives. These specially designed curriculum resources and teaching strategies will enhance the reading process across all areas of the curriculum. Teachers will have access to an interactive CD-ROM and other resources to offer every student the opportunity to successfully learn to read.