Focuses on best practices for reaching American Indian students and families along with providing you with significant Native American Cultural Competence content and culturally responsive practices. Many states and districts require Cultural Competence credits or hours and this course will cover much of that required material. Gain significant background information and overall teachings about Native…

Read all of the books recognized for the Newbery Award in 2024. Covers both fiction and nonfiction material targeted for high-level students from 4th-8th grade. You will be required to complete comprehension assessments as well as engage with weekly online discussions. The assignments will provide you a chance to draw from previous experiences, critical thinking,…

Obtain a deeper understanding and appreciation for Science Fiction. Go past spaceships and lasers and explore how authors use Science Fiction to examine the human condition and illuminate the struggles that humanity continues to engage in. Read new books and explore how they can be used in the classroom. This course will cover Science Fiction…

Learn what is meant by Differentiated Instruction (DI) and the common myths associated with creating the differentiated classroom. Discuss the legal, theoretical, and pedagogical foundations in the field of education that support the use of differentiated instructional practices and principles.

Provides a foundational understanding of violence and the motivational purposes behind aggression. Learn identification and intervention approaches for working with out-of-control behaviors.

Consider the many forms of aggression, both criminal and otherwise; its costs and motivation; its perpetrators and targets; its likely and unlikely locations; its impact on our schools, the children; and, most especially, its several causes and promising solutions.

In this book, author Stuart Brown explores the role of play in our lives. Brown breaks down the facets of play, explores how play is necessary, how it impacts us biologically and socially, and examines ways of re-introducing play back into our lives. The text includes many implications for professionals who work with and provide…

You are invited to take an honest second look at current literacy practices, bravely considering the question, "What needs to shift?" Unpack the why and the how behind six critical shifts for literacy instruction in the intermediate grades, aligning current practices with brain science. If you are a teacher, coach, interventionist, or school leader who…

You are invited to take an honest second look at current literacy practices, bravely considering the question, "What needs to shift?" Unpack the why and the how behind six critical shifts for literacy instruction in the intermediate grades, aligning current practices with brain science. If you are a K-2 teacher, coach, interventionist, or school leader…

An opportunity to learn about an instructional framework, Differentiated Instruction (DI), aimed at creating supportive learning environments for diverse learning populations.

Understand the special learning needs of students who are experiencing stress, trauma or violence in their life and how to meet their needs in the regular classroom.

Explore an instructional methodology that incorporates strategies for teaching concepts, constructively, and contextually. Focuses on the topics of integers, fractions, factoring, and functions.

Explore an innovative teaching model that incorporates strategies for teaching concepts constructively and contextually. Gain a deeper understanding of the underlying concepts of various math topics and explore the principles of teaching those concepts to learners.

This training program is designed to equip teaching staff with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage the full spectrum of student behavior, including challenging behaviors such as externalizing actions (e.g., aggression, disruptions), refusals to follow directions, and other behaviors that impede learning. Moving beyond traditional approaches, this course emphasizes the unique expertise teachers possess…

Emphasizes understanding how students' learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, disabilities, gender, language, culture, family, and community values.

Gives you an understanding of ways to meet the affective needs of the gifted and talented student in the regular classroom and lists resources for teachers and parents who would like more information about the talented and gifted.

Learn internal and external factors that place a child at risk, how heredity and environment affect a child's development, the characteristics of various risk factors, and interventions for each risk factor.

Educate and empower both parents and teens about the critical issues surrounding teen driving safety. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the risks associated with teen driving, including the impact of brain development, the importance of graduated driver licensing, and the dangers of distracted and impaired driving.

Focuses on cognitive and cognitive-behavioral interventions (often lumped together under the label "social skills") with an emphasis on teaching students how to adapt, change and manage their own behavior.

Learn the history of the disorder, accepted methods to assess and identify students with the disorder, and various treatment methods that are currently being used to treat the disorder.

Identify characteristics and learning styles associated with the disorder, communication weaknesses, and various intervention strategies that have proven to be successful when working with students with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Learn behavioral techniques and intervention strategies that remediate disruptive behaviors, reduce power struggles while increasing classroom control and reduce your workload and burnout.

Build genuine bonds between yourself and your students and between students and their classmates, to create "kindred classhomes." For many of our students, our classrooms may be a safe, nurturing refuge-the eye of the hurricane they experience as life. Build School Communities for Educators is about effective transformative actions. Develop strategies and rituals, along with…

Understand the special learning needs of the abused or neglected child, and how to meet those needs in the regular classroom. Work with parents and community agencies is also emphasized.

Gain a contextual framework for understanding what students may be experiencing through their own substance use or the impact of substance use around them. Understand a multitude of complex dynamics that contribute to this biological and social phenomenon.

Provides conceptual frameworks for working with families of children from a variety of backgrounds with emphasis on family-centered practices designed to help early childhood professionals involve and support families in the care and education of children.

Explore observation and assessment instruments, as well as recommended practices and available resources for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

Gives you a new perspective on planning and implementing developmentally appropriate practices for young children from birth through age eight.

Covers development during the first six years of life and research-based best practices in early learning with an emphasis on individual differences, cultural influences, and the impact of developmental delay and disability.

Outlines procedures for designing or selecting, administering, scoring, and interpreting a variety of informal assessment measures for use in schools. Learn about a range of informal assessment measures in the academic, social and behavioral skills areas.

Provides foundational concepts that must be considered to effectively integrate technology into your classroom.

Gain a better understanding of the concept of evaluating and assessing English language learners.

Includes the theories of teams and ethical leadership in schools. Provides knowledge and application for individuals to function as ethical leaders, tools for developing teams, and guidelines for operating within ethical leadership principles. Discuss how to create high performing teams and how teams progress through stages of development into high performing teams. As a school…

Discuss definitions and the personal, social, and legal ramifications associated with sexual harassment, bullying, and cyber-intimidation. Explores preventative strategies as well as how school staff can address these issues. Learn what we know about these troubling areas. A clear understanding of what constitutes harassment and the harmful effects of harassment on people and institutions is…

Learn the continuum of placements schools can use in providing special education and related services to students with disabilities. Identify and describe the roles and responsibilities of special and general educators in providing special education services to students as well as classroom management strategies to work with these students in the least restrictive environment.

Helps you understand and identify your role as a child care provider, educator, and early childhood professional. Provides you with research-based information on child development, attachment, temperament, and curriculum.

Educators often have to learn new information and skills in order to support students and their families. We learn things like how to use a new software or application, operate a new device, or quickly get up to speed on new content. Most of this learning was in the moment but just as valuable as…

Educators often have to learn new information and skills in order to support students and their families. We learn things like how to use a new software or application, operate a new device, or quickly get up to speed on new content. Most of this learning was in the moment but just as valuable as…

Provides an introduction to the field of Learning Disabilities for special education teachers, general classroom teachers, integration teachers and related professionals, especially those working in the areas of language, psychology and counseling.

Explore myths and misconceptions concerning reading instruction and remediation. Takeaway an evaluation checklist designed to assess the effectiveness of your current reading program. Reading Fundamentals supports the concept of using scientifically-based reading research to develop an effective approach to reading assessment, instruction, evaluation, and remediation.

Lays the foundation for effective reading instruction. Learn about the elements of effective instruction. It is important that all teachers have a firm understanding of effective instructional procedures. Learning to read is the most important skill students learn in school because it serves as the foundation for all other coursework. Given the importance of this…

Focuses on learning to read, reading to learn, and an introduction to reading assessment. The five elements of effective reading instruction is highlighted, including definitions, implications for instruction, and future directions. This course will focus on grades K-3 and 4-12 reading instruction and an introduction to reading assessment. The five elements include instruction in phonemic…

Introduces the Response to Intervention process for special education teachers, general classroom teachers, parents, and related professionals.

Focuses on why teaching writing is an essential skill for life, and gives theory and practical steps to implement the six traits of writing in any classroom.

Students who have strong social and emotional skillsets will be more successful in the classroom and in life in general. Examine the five SEL competenciesâ "self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-makingâ" and explore how each of these can be developed first in the classrooms and then in the schools to create optimal…

Read a wide range of graphic novels covering biographies and fantasy. Reflect on what you learn about graphic novels, draw correlations to what you are doing in the classroom, and reflect on past experiences. This course will cover graphic novels (comics) and is targeted at instructors at the high-school grade level.

Obtain a much greater understanding of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and what it means to be a professional and advocate in the field. Prepares you for teaching second language acquisition. Focuses on using the Sheltered Instruction Operational Protocol (SIOP) to meet the needs of English learners' content classrooms.

Learn the foundations of second language acquisition. Explore the following questions: Who are English Learners? What is Language? What are the theories of language learning? What are the federal and state policies surrounding English language learners? What are the different instructional models and programs being used to teach English language learners?