Practical Graduate Courses for Teachers
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 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. brain-based teaching and learning strategies. 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.
Collaborative Inquiry for Students: Preparing Minds for the Future™ **NEW COURSE**
| Design collaborative 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®
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.
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.
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.
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™ **NEW COURSE**
Optimize student engagement and achievement by developing high-yield learning activities aligned to standards and process skills. Align standards, assessments, and scoring guides for essential activities and curriculum requirements. Design standards-based activities that foster 21st century skills, differentiate instruction, and engage all learners. 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.