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| Course packages combine multiple self-paced seminar replacement courses in which you study the course content and complete a quiz in order to earn a certificate of completion. Course packages typically offer a savings of 20% or greater compared to enrolling in the courses individually.
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Essential Teaching Package #2
The following online classes for teachers are included in this package – Cognitive Skills: Understanding Learning Challenges, Introduction to Autism, Tackling Tough Text, Technology in the 21st Century Classroom and Transformative Classroom Management.
25 Hours
$155 |
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21st Century Learning Package
This package is made up of 5 five-hour online courses covering Classroom Collaboration, Classroom Organization in the 2st Century, Flipping Classrooms, Inquiry-based Learning and Standards-based Instruction through STEM.
25 Hours
$155 |
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Accommodating All Students Package
This package is made up of 5 five-hour online courses including the following topics, cognitive skills, accommodations, UDL, differentiation for gifted learners and IEPs.
25 Hours
$155 |
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Common Core Package
This package is made up of eight five-hour online courses addressing standards, assessment, evaluation and covers the Common Core, a great addition to your teaching tool kit whether your school is implementing Common Core or simply looking to improve student performance.
40 Hours
$250 |
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| SELF-STUDY COURSES |
| Self-paced seminar replacement courses in which you study the course content and complete a quiz in order to earn a certificate of completion. |
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Accommodating All Learners
Addressing accommodation, modification, and adaptation of curriculum, materials, and instruction to appropriately meet the needs of teachers and a variety of students.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Accommodations through UDL
Make teaching ALL students a very real possibility with the Universal Design of Learning (UDL) framework. This structure builds on research findings that show how a single teaching approach has very limited results on student learning and highlights the need for a new curricular approach in which a learner’s level of recognition, strategic, and affective networks are all taken into account to determine the best means of teaching.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Action Research for School Improvement
This course is designed to equip teachers to initiate action research for potential areas of improvement in a classroom or at the school level. Through this course, teachers will be able to learn how to go about each step of the action research process from selecting the area of focus, gathering and interpreting data, setting up an action plan, and finally presenting the findings in order to help others.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Apps for Education
Teachers will be equipped to go beyond using an app merely because someone else has recommended it and fully examine the true learning potential. The integration of apps into education, may seem like a natural product of the times. However, successfully impacting students’ learning, requires a whole new level of teachers’ engagement and effort.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Assessment Strategies for the Common Core
Assessment is an essential part of learning. It helps teachers and students determine to what extent education goals are being met. This course familiarizes teachers with the strategies and methods that are available to help make assessments meaningful and useful tools.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Assistive Communication for Every Classroom
This course also shows teachers how to improve learning using various low-tech and high-tech Assistive Communication devices. It instructs teachers on how to identify and choose suitable devices and how to explore the laws promoting and supporting the use of these devices in the classroom. Teachers will also gain a clear understanding of their role in the evaluation and implementation of Assistive Communication technology in the classroom. The suggestions, ideas and templates provided in the course will help teachers confidently apply these strategies in the classroom.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Classroom Management for Positive Behaviors
As educators, we want to be able to ensure that all students have access to a positive school environment that is conducive to learning. Classroom Management for Positive Behaviors presents an instructive approach that ensures creating this environment with efficient behavioral practices and interventions in order to support academic success. This concept uses prevention to reduce new problem behaviors from occurring and eliminates the problem behaviors that already exist.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Classroom Organization for the 21st Century
Effective classroom organization aids teachers as they strive to make their lives and classrooms more structured and a lot less stressful. The ideas in this course present effective ways for teachers to be organized with practical steps in planning enabling teachers to avoid last minute time crunches.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Cognitive Skills -Understanding Learning Challenges
Discover methods for detecting weak cognitive skills in students and strategies to strengthen such skills.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Common Core Enhancing Instruction
For students graduating from high school to be fully equipped and college and career ready, they must possess high standards of academic and behavioral skills. Learn the scheme of implementing the Common Core State Standards as a successful strategy to address what students are expected to know and be able to do when they have graduated from high school and prepares them for life outside the classroom.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Common Core Mathematics for All Teachers
Successfully address a range of mathematics learning needs with strategies designed to benefit veteran math teachers, as well as teachers who have ever thought or said, “I’m not good at math.”
5 Hours
$39 |
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Common Core: Raising Academic Achievement
Teachers play a critical role in identifying those who are struggling to learn and succeed in academics and intervening with help. This is even more critical as students are exposed to higher standards with the adoption of Common Core by states and school districts.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Differentiation for Gifted Learners in the Classroom
Better understand gifted and talented education by learning how to identify, instruct and assess these students.
5 Hours
$39 |
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English Language Learners in the Classroom
Create a welcoming environment that ensures English Language Learners thrive educationally through the integration of useful research based strategies that promote student engagement with the lessons and curriculum.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Examining and Evaluating Student Work
Understand effective and dynamic methods by which teachers can assess student work. Learn to examine student work through a process of intentional reflection with other teachers. Engage with other teachers on improving educational practices through critical evaluation of student work samples.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Flipping Classrooms
Explore how you can use technology to effectively ‘flip’ your classroom and enhance your students’ learning experience. The resources, examples and templates presented in this course help teachers to plan and create efficient flipped classrooms. Educators are shown how to integrate content while collaborating effectively with students, co-workers and school leaders.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Formative Assessment
Respond to the needs of students and shape instruction through the use of formative assessments.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Guided Reading
Develop students’ independent reading skills in the classroom, through the process of guided reading, while also promoting comprehension, critical thinking, problem solving, intellectual skills and interpersonal communication.
5 Hours
$39 |
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IEPs: Documentation and Implementation for Teachers
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 use the recommended strategies in a classroom setting.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Inquiry-based Learning
The Inquiry-based Learning course details some models that teachers can adapt to meet specific needs of their class, as well as to monitor and enhance the learning of their students. Teachers learn practical and dynamic ways of evaluating their students’ progress while also incorporating technology for better results.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Integrating Standards in Teaching
Untangle what turns out to be the not-so-mysterious language of today’s teaching and learning and put successful strategies, including the Common Core, into practice.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Introduction to Autism
Understand what learning and interactions are like for a student with Autism while also learning to accommodate and teach students with Autism in the classroom.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Introduction to Technology for Teachers
Gain confidence in navigating the Internet and using technology in teaching and learning.
5 Hours
$39 |
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iPads in the Classroom
You have iPads in the classroom. Now, what do you do with them. This course will introduce you to the pedagogy of using iPads to improve student learning in your classroom.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Language Acquisition
This course provides an in-depth understanding of the language acquisition process to enable educators to successfully teach English Language Learners.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Mobile Technology in the Classroom
Teachers integrate smartphones, tablets, iPads, Kindle and more into everyday classroom activities while achieving learning targets. In this course, teachers learn to create technology-based lesson plans, activities and assessments that incorporate mobile devices.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Peer Review of Teaching
Aimed at propelling teachers toward growth and improvement, this course presents peer review as an easy-to-apply model of whole teacher evaluation. Teachers will be equipped with practical strategies and tools so they can engage in systematic assessment of teaching performance.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Preparing College & Career Ready Students
Teachers are the strongest and most influential link between high school and college for every student, and are often the best people to guide students in the endeavor to become college and career ready. This course will examine the details of mastering the current needs of students to be college and career ready.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Project Management for Students through Project-based Learning
For students to be truly equipped to succeed in the 21st century college scenario or workplace, they must possess a level of mastery in essential project management skills. This course presents project-based learning as a successful strategy to promote project management skill development in students.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Reading Across the Curriculum
Equips teachers to support student learning through better reading and comprehension across the curriculum and grade levels.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Reading through Technology in the Classroom
Transform teaching practice, and enhance students’ reading levels, by incorporating technology into classroom reading activities. This approach enables teachers to successfully assess available technology, employ it successfully, and help students read with higher accuracy and better comprehension.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Reflective Teaching Practice
Embark on a sustainable professional development journey by integrating successful reflective practices into your teaching. Strategies build on research findings to present reflective teaching as a crucial component in professional development, empowering teachers to make informed decisions about their own learning and every day instruction.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Research-based Instructional Strategies
Enhance teacher effectiveness by integrating research-based instructional strategies into teaching practices and addressing specific learning areas to improve student achievement. Approaches equip teachers to use recent educational research and developments to cater to their own professional development as well as students’ learning needs.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Rubrics in Teaching and Learning
A rubric is much more than an assessment too. Provide quality formative and summative feedback for students at periodic intervals throughout the year by using consistency when grading student work. Teachers use rubrics to grade a wide range of student work including: solo projects, group work, portfolios, homework assignments, book reviews, and tests.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Standards Based Instruction through STEM
STEM integration doesn’t need a huge budget, lots of technology, or a ready-to-use curriculum. It’s something any teacher, any school and any classroom can integrate. This course teaches you how.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Student-Centered Learning
This course presents resources, research-validated strategies and practical examples to equip teachers with the necessary toolkit to seamlessly turn their classrooms into student-centered environments. Teachers will also learn details principles of Student-Centered Learning, a comparison of teacher-led classrooms and student-centered classrooms, developing student-centered objectives, facets of understanding, practical teaching methods that can be used, and several online tools that will help achieve success.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Student Portfolios
With the effective implementation of portfolios, students can learn to discover their individual talents, strengths, interests, and goals for ensuring success beyond school. The practical tips and suggestions provided in this lesson will take teachers through the process of implementing portfolios in their classrooms, with factual information clearly linking student learning to the actual goal.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Tackling Tough Text
Help students to tackle difficult text and understand it better. The strategies in this course help improve learning comprehension and are applicable to all subjects.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Teacher Coaching
Information and skills essential to the process of Cognitive/Peer Coaching in their school. Learn about the process of Cognitive Coaching, the roles and responsibilities of the coach and the coachee and how to implement this process in your school, reaping multiple benefits for the school, teachers and students.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Technology in the 21st Century Classroom
Concepts and ideas behind using technology in the classroom help teachers to understand the various skills that students need to develop in order to use technology in the most effective way.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Transformative Classroom Management
Smart teachers struggle with classroom management. Skilled teachers elect to use strategies that create more problems than they solve. This course focuses on proven ideas that when used, work.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Understanding ADHD
Gain confidence in not only accommodating students with ADHD, but also other students who are energetic, hyperactive or have difficulty paying attention.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Videos in the Classroom
Students retain information faster, grasp concepts more rapidly, and become more enthusiastic about learning when videos are used in the classroom. This course encourages teachers to use of videos already available online and learn to record, edit, create, embed and share videos. The course presents guidelines and practical tips on choosing the right videos to align with learning objectives.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Virtual Field Trips
This course introduces teachers to the idea of the virtual field trip as a highly effective alternative for enhancing course material. Teachers will familiarize themselves with a tool that integrates technology in classroom instruction.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Visuals in Learning
Understanding and using visual materials is an important life skill and advantageous for students. Visual tools make useful teaching aids in the classroom whether they are technology-rich or technology-free. Examples in this course help teachers see how to incorporate visual instruction into lessons, and prepare and present visual teaching aids and assessments for all students.
5 Hours
$39 |
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Welcome Tennessee Teachers
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Teachers in Tennessee use Professional Learning Board online courses for teachers to meet TN requirements, keep a Tennessee teaching license current and renew a teaching license in TN.
- Online professional development point and continuing education unit/ pdp and ceu courses
Self-study classes (see video).
- Graduate Credit Courses
Incorporate quizzes and a Course Action Plan. Teachers, study at your own pace, complete within 4 weeks and receive 1 semester hour through a regionally accredited university partner.
Professional Learning Board courses align with teaching standards and are designed for teachers across grade levels and subject areas. Professional Learning Board is recommended by school districts and teachers across the country, please ensure the courses meet the requirements of your local authorities to meet your local needs.
Click on the course name(s) below to enroll or see the descriptions to the left.
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The information and courses listed on this page are presented based on the information available at the time of publication. Please note that state licensing requirements and school district approval processes may change and it is the responsibility of each teacher to know their licensing requirements and the process for submission and approval of all professional development and licensing work. Professional Learning Board does not guarantee acceptance by your school, district or licensing authority.
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