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Experience the many benefits of our graduate courses, which are backed by impeccable research in the science of learning. Venture into a new world of ideas, open your mind to new possibilities, and change the lives of children. You will stay current in education trends and learn how to enhance the classroom experience for both you and your students.
PLS site-based classes are conveniently scheduled and strategically located to meet the needs of teachers. Earn three-hour graduate credit with site-based and online classes for teacher recertification or apply to master's degree requirements.
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Achieving Student Outcomes Through Cooperative Learning®
Become proficient in setting up, monitoring, and debriefing group learning activities for the classroom 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. The strategies offered in this course will help you meet the expectations of a Response to Intervention (RTI) classroom.
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®
Acquire teacher technology education by discovering uses for 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.
Collaborative Inquiry for Students: Preparing Minds for the Future®
Design collaborative inquiry learning experiences for the twenty-first century classroom. Explore the various models of collaborative inquiry that develop the skills students need now and in the future. Discover big-picture strategies for teaching collaboration, teamwork, and decision making via real-world inquiry experiences based on essential questions.inquiry experiences for students that encourage depth of knowledge, promote critical thinking, and incorporate the skills students need now and in the future.
Designing Motivation for All Learners®
| Explore the dimensions of motivation and a variety of motivational classroom strategies designed to support content and enhance student motivation. Evaluate your strengths as a motivational leader and assess the qualities of a motivational classroom environment. |
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.
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®
Discover the power and potential of teaching and learning through Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences. Explore the subcapacities of the intelligences and your personal dominant intelligence. Experience classroom strategies and explore entry points for integrating the intelligences into your classroom to engage and challenge diverse learners.
Reading Across the Curriculum™
Discover research-based active reading comprehension strategies that you can apply to your content area. This course emphasizes learning styles, types of text, notation systems, content-area reading, assessments, fluency, motivation, and grade-level vocabulary.
SAS for Pennsylvania Educators™
| Explore a comprehensive approach to student achievement through the Pennsylvania Standards Aligned System (SAS). Access and align the six components of the SAS Portal to design instruction that enhances academic success, engages students, and fosters lifelong learning skills. (This course meets the requirements for conversion to Level II Certification.) |
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 (ELL).
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.
Student Engagement and Standards-Based Learning™
Optimize student engagement and improve student achievement by developing high-yield learning activities aligned to standards and process skills. Develop standards-based activities designed to engage learners, foster 21st century skills, and adapt to learner needs. Experience a variety of standards-based activities for use in your classroom.
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 Through Learning Channels®
Learn how to match brain-compatible teaching strategies with learning style preferences while addressing the basic motivational needs of students.