Cognitive Skills – Understanding Learning Challenges
The U.S. Department of Education, and others indicate that weak cognitive skills are the source of over 80% of learning problems. This course provides methods for detecting students with weak cognitive skills and tools to strengthen those skills. Teachers will receive understanding, as well as ways to apply development techniques in the classroom. The online class is fun and interactive and includes information about new brain research and how it can impact today’s classrooms.
Spanish for Educators PACKAGE
This COURSE PACKAGE is designed for today’s teacher who has a growing number of students in their classroom for whom English is their second language. These courses are a great way to increasing participation of both students and parents to provide a more robust learning experience for students. The package includes PLB’s FACILITATED: Spanish for Educators and SELF-STUDY: Teaching English Language Learners courses.
Bullying: The Golden Rule Solution
During childhood, children learn and practice the skills they will need in their adult lives. Bullying is an unpleasant but inevitable part of life that happens in virtually every social group. If children don’t learn how to deal with hostility in their formative years, how will they manage when they grow up and have to face hostility from their co-workers, bosses, spouses and children?
English Language Learners PACKAGE
This FACILITATED COURSE PACKAGE is designed for today’s teacher who has a growing number of students in their classroom for whom English is their second language. These courses are a great way to increasing participation of both students and parents to provide a more robust learning experience for students. The package includes PLB’s Spanish for Educators and Teaching English Language Learners courses.
Spanish for Educators
A primer for non-Spanish speaking teachers to communicate with families and their children who speak Spanish as a first language. Teachers will be introduced to general vocabulary and phrases that assist with understanding in the classroom as well as throughout a school environment.
Use tools for translation of materials and receive template documents that may be customized for individual use (including letters to parents and telephone scripts). Plus, learn how to read Spanish so that you can be understood.
Web Technology for Teachers
Learn how to use exciting web-based tools to enhance your instruction and transform your classroom into a true 21st Century learning environment. You will explore tools such as blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking (to name just a few) in a quest to understand how the internet is changing the lives of students and teachers alike. At the end of the course you will be able to use these tools in your classroom as well as in your professional development.
Synergizing a Classroom
Instructional Synergy™ is a school model that is student-centered , teacher-driven , and parent-involved . This course will provide valuable strategies how you as a teacher can increase test scores in your classroom and at your school through unconventional test preparation methods.
While Synergizing™ a classroom and a school is a great deal of fun, it is also work. This course is NOT designed so that you can learn as much as possible so that you might be able to use it. Instead, teachers should be currently in a classroom environment and ready to jump into Synergy right now to begin implementing the practices immediately.
Become part of the phenomenon that changed a school, swept through a small community and helped a high school dramatically increase performance on state standardized assessments.
RTI: Using Metaphors to Change Behaviors
Unique early intervention strategies show how metaphors and visual cues can be used to promote a change in behavior as well as to teach students to become aware of their actions. Participants are challenged to think creatively and will be given the tools to individualize and apply the motivating intervention strategies.
Technology for Education Leaders
Students getting passwords, changing grades and breaking into school computer systems compromise safety. This course empowers academic administrators to work in tandem with IT administrators and minimize the risks associated with these types of events. Written in NON-technical language for educational leaders to understand their comprehensive role and responsibilities in providing safe and secure learning environments. The course includes real life examples and solutions and is a MUST for principals and school leaders at every level.
Teaching English Language Learners
Any K-12 teacher, administrator, or support staff member who would like to help English Language Learners do well in school will find this course to be both informative and useful. The focus includes how to make ELLs and their families feel more welcome while generating academic successes through empowerment.
Participants will improve cross-cultural skills and examine cultural influences on school practices, and come away with greater insight into how second languages are acquired. They will also discover teaching methods and educational strategies for today’s diverse mainstream classroom that are considered best practice for reaching and teaching all learners. Included are highlighted practical tips and activities that can be put to use right away.
