SELF-STUDY: Common Core Assessment and Evaluation (10 hours)
“Equip teachers to make accurate assessments of students’ learning needs, and plan targeted interventions.”
Welcome to this dual course aimed to help you understand more about common core assessment and evaluation. This dual course consists of the following 5 hour courses:
Common Core Assessment and Evaluation
Common Core Curriculum-Based Measures
Successful implementation […]
SELF-STUDY: Core Academic Instruction (10 hours)
“Explore practical strategies to bring the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and educational research findings into your classroom in meaningful and effective ways.”
Welcome to this dual course aimed to help you understand more about core academic instruction. This dual course consists of the following 5 hour courses:
Common Core: Raising […]
SELF-STUDY: Enhancing Classroom Instruction (10 hours)
“Do you wonder how you could transform your teaching to benefit your students more?”
Welcome to this dual course aimed to help you understand more about enhancing classroom instruction. This dual course consists of the following 5 hour courses:
Cognitive Skills
Introduction to Autism
Through this two part online PD course, […]
SELF-STUDY: Public Speaking for Teachers (5 hours)
“Discover successful strategies to enhance your public speaking skills, and communicate effectively with your audience”
A competent and resourceful teacher must be able to effectively relate to and communicate with students, the school community, peers, parents and even school support structures such as the school board or the PTA. However, […]
SELF-STUDY: Examining and Evaluating Student Work (5 hours)
“Explore successful strategies to carefully evaluate student work and enhance teaching practices”
21st century students must have more than just textbook knowledge. Evaluating student learning goes beyond merely grading papers. Both schools and teachers need to intentionally move toward assessing students’ understanding, and then use this insight to enhance teaching […]
SELF-STUDY: Classroom Collaboration (5 hours)
“Cultivate a collaborative environment in the classroom.”
Implement collaborative learning in classrooms and develop successful learners. This framework enables teachers to recognize characteristics of collaborative classrooms, be aware of student and teacher roles, and practice group activities as an essential part of the classroom. Teachers are introduced to school-wide policy […]
SELF-STUDY: Apps for Education (5 hours)
“How can you use apps to engage and teach your students with greater success?”
Integrate Ruben Puentedura’s SAMR model with Alan November’s work on Transformative Learning to find the best apps to educate YOUR students. The integration of apps into education, may seem like a natural product of the times. […]
SELF-STUDY: Flipping Classrooms (5 hours)
“Explore how you can use technology to effectively ‘flip’ your classroom and enhance your students’ learning experience”
Harness technology to enhance students’ learning by examining successful strategies to “flip” classrooms. The flipped classroom approach prioritizes students’ needs beyond traditional teaching styles, while challenging teachers to employ innovative instructional methods. Students […]
SELF-STUDY: Inquiry-based Learning (5 hours)
“Guide students into discovering and creating knowledge for themselves.”
Preparing teachers for 21st century students requires a close look at what it means to teach and learn in increasingly networked, technology-rich, digital classrooms. Schools and teachers need to thoughtfully and intentionally design learning environments and tasks in which teachers explore […]
SELF-STUDY: IEPs: Documentation and Implementation for Teachers (5 hours)
“The Individualized Education Program (IEP) is the cornerstone of special education.”
The goal of this course is to help teachers understand the IEP process and build the teachers comfort level in developing, aligning with and carrying out the IEP through rich examples and templates to help teachers understand and practically […]
