PACKAGE: Course Package #3 (40 Hours)
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You’ve heard of the everything bagel, Professional Learning Board presents the everything PD course package, The Everything Self-Study Package, which includes the following SEVEN self-study courses adding up to 40 hours of professional development. Scroll down to see more information on the courses in this package.
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Relicensure (40 hours)
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Bulletin Boards – Ideas for Every Classroom
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5
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Bullying: The Golden Rule Solution
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5
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Differentiation for Gifted Learners in the Classroom
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5
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Introduction to Autism
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5
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iPads in the Classroom
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5
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Teaching English Language Learners
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10
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Technology in the 21st Century Classroom
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5
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TOTAL
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40
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Bulletin Boards – Ideas for Every Classroom
A classroom can seem incomplete without attractive and educative bulletin boards. Have you ever looked at another teacher’s bulletin boards and wondered how they managed to make it so interesting? Maybe you don’t have a lot of experience with art, or maybe you’re running low on creative ideas.
This course provides a new and fresh direction that helps teachers understand the basic principles of art and design and how to apply these in planning and creating bulletin boards. Included are a number of ideas for interesting, interactive and educative bulletin boards. Through this course, teachers come up with some very creative and visually effective ideas for their classrooms and often are inspired to create their own classroom bulletin board makeovers.
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?
Fortunately, the solution to bullying has been known for thousands of years. It is known as the Golden Rule and has been taught by wise people throughout history. The Golden Rule is the solution to being a victim. When people – both kids and adults – understand the practical application of the Golden Rule, no one can bully them and they can even turn their enemies into friends.
Differentiation for Gifted Learners in the Classroom
This course examines some of the challenges facing gifted learners and offers easily implemented accommodations and success strategies. By understanding the unique learning needs of children who are considered “gifted,” participants will indirectly meet the individual needs of all learners.
Through this course educators and parents can make greater sense of gifted and talented education by learning about identification, instruction and assessment of these students while exploring related topics, issues and resources geared towards our gifted population.
- Characteristics
- Personal, Social and Cognitive Needs
- Special Populations
- Practical Strategies
Introduction to Autism
Most people today know someone with autism. People on the autism spectrum are in our classes, our neighborhoods and our families. Whether you know a little or a lot about autism, this course will give you useful information about the autism spectrum.
Although everyone on the autism spectrum is an individual, this course outlines a constellation of developmental differences common in autism that lead to the key concerns of social and communication issues.
A person with autism experiences the world in a different way. They think and remember events differently. They react and communicate differently. By understanding the how and why of these differences, you can become one who gains insight.
Understanding some of the different issues people with autism must face can help us to be more understanding and improve our interactions. By understanding how students with autism function, we can make more informed choices in education and care and, maybe most importantly, we can assess our own automatic hard-wired responses that might occur when someone is truly different.
By understanding the underlying components of developmental differences in those on the spectrum, teachers, parents and others can reframe their own preconceived expectations and help support the learning and behavior for those with autism. Learn to more clearly understand the world from the perspective of someone with autism.
iPads in the Classroom
“You have an iPad in your classroom, now what?”
The iPad helps us prepare today’s student for today’s world in more ways than we could ever do using traditional teaching strategies. However to achieve heights in teaching and learning, teachers need to understand much more than just how to use an iPad.
This course has been specially designed for teachers who are just beginning to use iPads or those who are considering using them. Rather than a focus on learning to operate an iPad, this course will help teachers gain knowledge about different ways by which the iPad can be integrated into the process of learning. In addition to practical learning activites and ideas, it helps the teacher prepare the classroom environment and schedule for the introduction of iPads. It helps teachers to plan and organize iPad use, so that it is efficient and smooth.
At the end of this course teachers will be able to:
- Learn to use an Ipad
- Find and use apps for teaching
- Organize iPad activities in the classroom
- Set up the classroom environment to encourage efficient iPad us
- Manage technical tasks related to iPad maintainace including charging, updating and storing.
- Use iPads to teach and practice 21st century skills including communicating, collaborating, connecting, creating and critical thinking.
And so much more!
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.
Technology in the 21st Century Classroom
Technology has become an integral part of our life and learning patterns in the 21st century. The internet, blogs and smart phones are some examples of tools that we use to grow in our knowledge and understanding. Using technology like this in the classroom requires more than knowing how to use the tool. Teachers need to understand the role of technology in the learning process, and the principles behind integrating it in a way that it promotes learning without it being a distraction.
This course teaches concepts and ideas behind using technology in the classroom. It also helps teachers to understand the various skills that students need to develop in order to use technology in the most effective way. It equips teachers to help students use technology intelligently and responsibly.
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Thank you for the extremely prompt and helpful response. This Organization course was helpful with explaining all the online apps and programs out there. PLB is a perfect option for me right now. I'm grateful I'm finally well enough to even do an online PD course even if it is from my bed or the couch - baby steps! Thank you! Megan K.
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I was a bit hesitant at the start of this class; however, it turned out to be one of my favorites. The videos were fabulous! Reading content is one thing, but seeing the thoughts role played makes it real. Lots of great info to share not just in the classroom but in life. Highly recommend this class!!!
This class was extremely interesting to me. The videos interspersed throughout helped to cement understanding. I would HIGHLY recommend this class. Very informative.
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I enjoy seeing examples of what teachers have done in the classroom for inspiration. I'd love to see more of that!
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I really enjoyed this course and will be implementing it in my classrooms. I also appreciated the video role playing; it was engaging and helped me to better understand how the method can be implemented.
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I liked this course as a teacher and as a parent of a gifted child. There were strategies I could use right away to honor different students and their strengths. Christina S.
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