PLS On-Site Graduate Courses
Currently, IWU/PLS classes in Indiana are not available to Kentucky educators.
PLS is always searching for extraordinary on-site instructors to join our instructor cadre. For more information, click here.
On-Site Graduate Courses A-L
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On-Site Graduate Courses M-Z
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®
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.)
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.
Reaching Learners Through Their Intelligences™
Participants will gain an overview of Howard Gardner's identification and understanding of multiple intelligences.
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.
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 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®
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 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.