Raising Academic Achievement (1 Iowa LRC – Self Study)

“Explore successful strategies to carefully evaluate student work and enhance teaching practices”

Type of course: Self-Study

Course Description:
Academic achievement is one of the main objectives in education today. This online course helps teachers gain skills in creating curriculum and assessments that increase academic achievement.

SECTION A: Raising Academic Achievement helps teachers to identify students who are struggling academically and addresses various academic interventions that can be implemented to support them.

SECTION B: Examining and Evaluating Student Work enables teachers to improve their existing evaluation practices through use of classroom examples and resources. Teachers are introduced to effective and dynamic evaluation methods which can be used to assess student work, while ensuring that the educational focus is on teacher and student development.

SECTION C: Inquiry-based Learning provides teachers with a platform for holistic education. It helps teachers introduce and implement the culture and process of inquiry-based learning in their classrooms. This method helps improve student learning and raise academic achievement.

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