SELF-STUDY: Student Portfolios (5 hours)
“Effectively display evidence of your students’ skills to showcase their learning progress.”
Successfully integrate portfolios to enhance students’ development and become an essential part of teaching and learning. Through the resources in this course, teachers are equipped to understand and use portfolios to emphasize the student’s role of taking responsibility […]
SELF-STUDY: Common Core Enhancing Instruction (5 hours)
“Understand and integrate the Common Core Standards into classroom instruction”
Explore practical ways for you to integrate the Common Core Standards into your classroom instruction, to enhance your students’ learning experiences. The Common Core State Standards have set high expectations for all students that by the time they complete […]
SELF-STUDY: Teachers in Leadership (10 hours)
“Have you wondered how you can bring about change or improvement in certain educational issues by taking on a stronger leadership role? Have you also sometimes wished to find solutions to real everyday problems you have encountered in your teaching practice?”
Empower teachers to get actively involved in transformative practices […]
SELF-STUDY: Core Academic Intervention (10 hours)
“How can teachers use tailored academic interventions to help struggling students succeed in meeting the common core standards?”
Changes in standards in the education system are always aimed at helping all students succeed in the general educational setting. In such a setting, teachers play a critical role in identifying those […]
SELF-STUDY: Building School-wide Initiatives (5 hours)
“Develop effective school-based initiatives to impact student learning on a larger scale.”
All schools want their students to succeed, but they can only make a lasting difference when they focus on specific goals and strategies for change. School improvement planning is a process through which schools set goals for improvement, […]
Professional Development 1 Credit : Common Core Implementation for All Classrooms
“How often have you sat down after a tiring day in the classroom, wondering if your students benefited in any way?”
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EDUC 600
1 Semester Credit
Grading: A-F
Materials: Included in the course fee
Professional Development Credit: 1 semester credit issued through the regionally […]
Using Ebooks in Schools
Ebooks in schools are being increasingly effective as a tool that doesn’t just sit in the library but in part of the practical learning process in the classroom. But first let us define an ebook. Simply put, an ebook is a book that can be read digitally on a computer screen or on an […]
Why Implement Standards in Schools?
Often the importance of setting realistic and achievable standards in schools are underestimated. One doesn’t realize the role that it plays in ensuring efficient student development.
Some of the positives of setting standards are:
Accountability
Standards hold teachers, schools and the districts responsible for what goes on in classrooms. It helps to generate a process […]
School Principal Tips for Keeping Student Data Secure
Schools are responsible for housing much student and staff information and private data. Following are important considerations for school computers that have special programs to access secure data (payroll applications, student management applications, etc):
Limit login to specific user accounts
Secure the computers physically in a limited access room
Set to automatically lock the screen after […]
Principals, Is Your Password Secure?
In order to work with your IT department in creating a secure but functional digital environment you must have a basic understanding of non-board policies that will effect your students and staff. Keep in mind that the information presented here regarding passwords is very basic and you should work […]
