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Achieving Student Outcomes Through Cooperative Learning®

In this course, participants will become proficient in the skills of setting up, monitoring, and debriefing group learning while teaching interpersonal skills. Participants will also 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, the processes and procedures for conducting action research, culminating in the development of an action research plan.

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, the processes and procedures for conducting action research, culminating in the development of an action research plan.

Behavioral, Academic, and Social Interventions for the Classroom™

In this course, participants will use the Solution Seeking Cycle and the Intervention Pyramid to design effective universal and targeted interventions for the classroom. With an emphasis on strengths-based learning, creating learning alliances, and designing REACH lessons, participants learn how to foster a climate of respect and responsibility that supports student resiliency.

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®

After exploring and internalizing four basic thinking processes, participants will apply them to enriched lessons and classroom applications. The thinking processes are integrated into real-life applications.

Building Communication and Teamwork in the Classroom®

In this course, participants will 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®

After learning how to use basic computer and related technology in the classroom, each person will have an opportunity to 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, educators are freed from constantly dealing with behavioral and organizational issues. By learning and practicing 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®

By developing the skills to build effective rapport among teaching colleagues, positive instructional change and enhanced self-esteem will result. Participants will 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®

In this course, participants will 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.

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 their teachers know how to apply the practical and effective skills of differentiated instruction. This course offers key knowledge and skills to implement differentiated instruction successfully in their own classrooms.

Discovering the Power of Live-Event Learning®

Incorporating real-life experiences—live events—into teaching serves as a platform for integrating academic curriculum with important life skills. Participants will understand and practice the techniques of a facilitative leader while moving beyond simulations and hands-on learning to the concrete experience of Live-Event Learning™.

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: transformations, symmetry, isometries, tessellations, and Pythagorean Theorem.

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™

Centered on scientific strategies aligned with state and national reading research initiatives, this course addresses implementation of a balanced, integrated approach to teaching beginning reading. These specially-designed curriculum resources and teaching strategies enhance the reading process across all areas of the curriculum.

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.