SELF-STUDY: Cognitive Skills – Understanding Learning Challenges (5 clock hours)
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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?”
The U.S. Department of Education, and others indicate thatweak cognitive skills are the source of over 80% of learning problems.
In this course you’ll come to understand the answer: students approach each task with varying learning tools. These tools are called cognitive skills, and these skills determine the quality, speed, and ease with which individuals learn and perform.
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.
Wow! Fantastic information-- looking forward to utilizing these strategies in my classroom!
Great class! It was a nice refresher course! I learned the material ages ago and it was nice to review.
Enjoyed learning about cognitive skills. Wish I know more about this when I was still teaching.
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.
Very informative. Great resources!
This class was extremely interesting to me. The videos interspersed throughout helped to cement understanding. I would HIGHLY recommend this class. 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!
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!
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.
This is an excellent course. I learned new information that I will use.
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.
I enjoyed the information. I found it interesting and helpful.
I really enjoyed this course. The material was put together in a new way for me and I learned a lot.
Excellent sequential presentation of information.
Great experience.
Great, thanks so much!
Courses are very convenient and I like that there is no time limit once the course has started.
Thank you!
Thank you. This was an interesting and very well put together course.
Great class! Excited to bring these tools to my classroom!!
Good lessons...and info.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 =)"
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...
Great video content with this course.