Cognitive Skills – Understanding Learning Challenges (1 Iowa LRC – Self Study)
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“When a task is given in school, why does one student take thirty minutes to complete it and another only eight minutes?”
We all know brain plays a major role in learning, but few are aware of how. In a class where each child differs in his ability to learn, it is essential that educators know how the brain is related to the process of learning, in order to help facilitate student performance. Such knowledge will also give the educator an advantage when faced with the challenge of teaching a child with special needs. Cognitive Skills is a two part integrated course that will equip educators with extensive knowledge about the process of learning.
The first section, Cognitive Skills: Understanding Learning Challenges will focus on the skills involved in learning and introduce you to various techniques and strategies on identifying a child with learning difficulties and to overcome their challenges. It also provides tips on how to make learning fun, challenging and different.
The second section, Accommodating All Learners, will help you understand more about various learning styles, and how these impact the way a student learns. You will gain knowledge about specific teaching approaches that can be used to reach and teach each learning style.
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
Wow! Fantastic information-- looking forward to utilizing these strategies in my classroom! Shannon H.
Great class! It was a nice refresher course! I learned the material ages ago and it was nice to review. Hope B.
This has been a great product for me to achieve my goal of license renewal.
This was very informative! Some is difficult to do in a classroom of many students, but really good info especially when trying to help those kids that don't qualify for aid and fall through the cracks. This is one of the best classes I've taken on this site!
I enjoyed this course! It is providing positive and new ways of thinking and learning.
I loved being able to get professional development for licensure renewal from my home at my convenience. It was so nice to be able to complete when I had time to do so. I love how I will have access to the course I took in order to get resources as I need them.
Great course. Very informative!
Very helpful course! Thank you!
I found this course very interesting. Much of the content was new to me and just made sense!
This course was very good. I will be using what I learn when the new term begins...I'm already making plans!
This was an excellent course and was very engaging! I feel excited about using new strategies with my students who have cognitive skills deficits and helping them build these skills.
Thank you! I appreciate that this is available to educators! Well-done!
Everything was smooth.
Great class and lots of excellent information that will be very useful.
Great information regarding cognitive skills training.
I enjoyed the course very much. The content was perfect for school based speech therapists and I will be able to use the information with my students. Thank you.
Very informative!! Against the grain in many ways!
I enjoyed it!
Appreciated the interactive tests and access to lots of helpful charts for future use lots of practical examples.
Thank you.
I really enjoyed taking this course Accommodating all Learners. I learned so many new strategies to use with my students. Thank you.
This class was informative.
I really appreciate that once you pay for the course you have access to the material. Good extra resources are provided. I like that you can take the test as many times as necessary and have unlimited time!
Very user friendly, time manageable, easy to navigate.
Enjoyed.
This was an eye-opening course. I learned a lot of information that will enable me to really help my students with special needs. Thank you.
These classes are very well done. I gained a better understanding of what teachers try and accomplish.
This was the perfect course for me. I learned many new things and am excited to put what i learned to use.
Good course with helpful links. I liked being able to download helpful links for future use.
More frequent checking for understanding or quizzes.
I see I have to spend 5 hours discussing/practicing, but I'm a substitute teacher, so I don't really have colleagues to discuss with. Apart from peer discussion boards, which you don't have, I have no way to attain these five hours.
While some of the modules were very comprehensive and through in explaining (lesson 5,6), other modules seemed to have lots of information that didn't have a clear connection to the other content and was so general that it wasn't useful (lesson 1,3). However, the interactive features and articles/links were very interesting and useful.
Wow. This was a bear, and I'm so glad I finished this first course.
There was so much new information in this course.
Good online course.
I really enjoyed this course. The material was put together in a new way for me and I learned alot.
I liked the interactive feature. I thought this course was very applicative towards my line of work.
I liked my 1st course.
Thank you for providing this service so that teachers can work and learn at their own pace.
Excellent sequential presentation of information.
Great content, easily navigated.
Thank you for this convenient opportunity.
Thank you.
I am thankful you can take the classes on line.
I truly enjoyed the course.
Thanks ! great info.
I enjoyed the course work, it kept me thinking beyond the five hours. I had to review many of my previous concepts and theories. Thanks.
I really enjoy the personal timeline and being able to work at my own pace on my own terms.
I definitely like the flexibility of the online courses. I was very busy the first quarter of school and tried to finish the course but other urgent matters interfered. It was great to have the course available when I had the time to finish! (Please note: there was more reviewing due to the time interval but that actually was good for me.)
Great experience.
Great, thanks so much!
Course just what was necessary for me!
I loved this course.
I really appreciated the links to research articles and resources that I can reference.
This course is extremely informative. I am looking forward to my next course on ADD.
This was very informative. I look forward to using this information with my students.
Thank you!
Good information.
It was rich in content and I seriously enjoyed this coarse! Thank you!
Thank you. This was an interesting and very well put together course.
Nice job; quality was better than expected.
Learned a lot for this course. Very informative and applicable to daily teaching. Very good personal inventory and printable materials for use now and later. thank you.
It was great.
Good lessons...and info.
First course in a relicensure program. I'm very happy with the flexibility the format offers as well as the content in the lesson.
Cognitive Skills was an excellent and timely course. As a Special Education teacher with 17 successful years of teaching experience, I found the course engaging, flowing with content new to me, and exactly what I needed in the the areas of cognition. Bravo to Dr. Ken Gibson!! We need more academics like this. Dr. Gibson is down-to-earth, authoritative, and funny. I could listen to him all day.
This option makes it possible to conveniently accrue needed pd credits when needed. The content was really strong, it was a much better training than I had anticipated. Even though I have been exposed to these topics and concepts previously, it reminded me of things I had forgotten and deepened my knowledge about these things, in addition to giving me new tools to use and making me think about ways I could apply it to improve my teaching and learning practice.
The format of this online course was very easy to use.
Great course, nice review, with updated research included.
I thought this was a really interesting course. Very valuable.
This course gave me the tools that I was looking for to help my students who needed me most. Very informative and useful lessons. Best ever.
Loved this course. I will be reviewing it and using much of this information next year.
Thank you so much, I really enjoyed the course.
Thanks for making this so accessible and technologically easy!
Of all of the classes I have taken thus far, I feel that "Cognitive Skills" was the one that presented me with the most new information I had not learned up to this point. While some of it was review, much of it was brand new to me and I loved learning about all of the different learning styles.
Wonderful and enlightening, thank you!
There were some great resources I printed and hope to utilize in my teaching.
Excellent overall, informative. I like flexibility of being able to break up five-hour on-line course and log on and off as needed to accomodate my personal work and family schedule. Gave option to start up again on last page where I left off. Video demos helpful and interesting. 3. Concern/suggestion- Had some concerns about a few casual references used during ""DEMOS- Skill Building"" portion of video (Memory - Visualization segment)...though honest, seemed a bit inappropriate? I would suggest editing these statements out of video if possible? PLB Administrator: Thank you for your suggestion. We have placed this video in the cue for editing.
"There are a few typos on a few of the pages. Nothing major but they should be corrected. The videos were a little difficult to work at first but I got better as I progressed through the course. I loved all the printable materials and online resources. The course information is valuable and I\'ve already started implementing some of it in my classroom. Thanks so much for offering this course. I enjoyed it very much."
"I really enjoyed how this online class offered so many different ideas to use in your classroom. The experiments were really fun!"
I really do enjoy the set up of this website. I was very anxious at first about trying to find courses for my CEU credits. This site has made me a lot less stressful =)"
This was my first attempt at on an on-line course in a very long time. I enjoyed the lessons and activities. thank you.
Getting tech support was quick and easy.
It was a good course. Lots of information I knew but needed to review and update myself on.
This course was very content rich. To have this information compiled in course was fantastic. Great course.
Course was good. A little slow to start. For me, the most interesting portions of the course were the parts that were not required, like the PLSI (completing it) and the excellent article by Mark Prensky. I really liked the case study at the end; it gave me an opportunity to observe synthesis of the ideas presented. It made me think about my own students more so than the other exercises. Very convenient program. Thank you!
I feel this is the strongest course I have taken so far, because it made the best use of non-lecture style (reading, since this is an online class) methods of delivery: analogies (very effective), video, and diagrams. Also, the resource list was helpful for future reference. I will use my lifetime subscription for this course b/c I will surely reference this material again during y professional work. Thank you!!
I found the concept of teaching ""skills"" versus the facts/how-to of academics interesting; I'd like to see it applied in the college setting I teach in. I will be looking into it more...
Met my needs! Thanks!
I was very impressed with the quality and the presentation of the content -- it made for an engaging and enjoyable experience
Great video content with this course