Cohesive Classroom Communities (1 Iowa LRC – Self Study)

“This is a comprehensive, practical and useful course on early onset of mental health issues in the classroom. As a Special Education teacher for 17 years – many of those years spent in alternative school settings – this course still had much in the way to offer in terms of knowledge, resources, and up-to-date perspectives on mental health for educators!”

Teachers are equipped to transform their classrooms into cohesive learning communities, through this three-part course.

SECTION A: Classroom Collaboration helps educators understand the importance of the teacher’s role in creating an environment where young people are willing and able to work collaboratively. The collaborative tools and strategies in this section provide a unique educational approach to teaching and learning, that involves groups of students working together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product.

SECTION B: Mental Health equips teachers to recognize, appropriately handle and make accommodations, for diagnosable mental health issues among students. This section also promotes professional development through strategies to design instructional strategies, aligned with individual learning needs, supportive of positive behaviors and management of classroom climate.

SECTION C: Suicide Prevention, helps teachers understand that they play a valuable role, and can help save a life, by learning about the prevalence of suicide; understanding suicide and how it can be prevented. This section also discusses the key ingredients to build resilience among your pupils, including a healthy classroom environment and a caring community of students.

About Self-Study courses:

Professional Learning Board integrated self-study professional development courses are conveniently available 24 x 7 to teacher-learners.Each self-study PD course includes:

• Course content delivered in an interactive online textbook,
• Practical suggestions that can be implemented immediately,
• Resources and links to additional resources,
• Quiz drawn at random so no two are the same from dozens of questions in a subject-specific bank
• Printable certificate of completion
• Lifetime access
• 1 License Renewal Credit