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Our dynamic catalog includes evidence-based courses that are updated as educational research informs practice in the discipline. Courses are expertly designed and facilitated to engage participants with personalized interactions from experienced, master faculty and designed to convert to three standard graduate credits. View the digital catalog to explore topics and descriptions, or download a print-friendly version of our catalog below.
Curriculum Design
Developing Educator Expertise
New Teacher Fundamentals
Social Emotional
This course focuses on the importance of supporting academics with social-emotional learning. Explore explore seven social-emotional competencies: self-awareness, self-management, self-care, responsible decision-making, social-awareness, relationship skills, and social-sensing, along with their corresponding components that focus on topics such as emotions, strengths, stress management, self-discipline, resilience, mindfulness, visible thinking, problem-solving, empathy, perspective-taking, communication, teamwork, social justice, and global citizenship. Classroom-applicable strategies and activities for developing a social-emotional culture, while fostering each of the social-emotional areas in students, are modeled so that you can maximize student learning and success.
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Curriculum Design
Instructional Strategies
Teacher Leadership
Examine your instructional practices and explore the benefits of action research. Showcase your findings in an action research report that includes best practices for improving your current practices.
Please note that, for an authentic learning experience in this course, you will need to be a current classroom teacher and/or have access to students or a learning community where you can observe others, reflecting on and sharing your experiences.
Required Text: You and Your Action Research Project by J. McNiff, published by Routledge, 2016, 4th edition
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Curriculum Design
Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Social Emotional
Design effective, universal, and targeted interventions that support student resiliency and meet the expectations of a Response to Intervention (RTI) classroom. Discover how to incorporate strengths-based learning, create learning alliances that demystify the learning experience, and develop action plans to enhance student achievement.
Required Text: DeBruyn, R. L., & Larson, J. L. (2009). You can handle them all. Manhattan, KS: The MASTER Teacher.
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Classroom Management
Curriculum Design
Teaching With Technologies
Explore how to choose a blended learning model and how to apply that model to the logistics of daily class activities. Through the lens of the iNACOL Blended Learning Teacher Competency Framework, this course highlights the practical, everyday skills you and your students need to be successful in a blended learning environment. Discover how blended learning can address and solve common problems while supporting critical school, district, and state initiatives. With a deep focus on the technical skills necessary for success, examine the value in effective assessment design, analysis of student performance data, and differentiated learning opportunities for students.
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New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Explore the thinking skills of induction, deduction, analysis, and synthesis. Discover how an enriched and brain-compatible environment enhances learning. Experience, model, and internalize specific techniques of brain-based teaching and learning. Integrate cognitive skills in lesson plans and instructional practices to enhance brain-compatible learning and increase student achievement.
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New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Teacher Leadership
Learn how to build a professional network by exploring topics such as pedagogy, resources, professional responsibilities, 21st century networking tools, and ongoing professional growth to support classroom learning and achievement.
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New Teacher Fundamentals
Social Emotional
Teacher Leadership
Reach a new level of positive communication with strategies designed to foster an emotionally engaging classroom where students are connected to school, learning, and one another. Practice a wide variety of verbal skills that guide student and teacher interactions. Explore positive thinking, team building, teacher leadership, listening skills, and support strategies.
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Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Teaching With Technologies
Experience the Web as a means of constructing new knowledge through conversation, networking, and collaboration. This course focuses on currently available tools and their utilization.
Partner with us to offer this courseWhen students are engaged in meaningful work where everyone contributes to classroom discussions and deep understanding, transfer of knowledge to real-life applications is more likely. Explore ways to communicate clear directions and procedures and how to evaluate their effectiveness. Create and analyze instructional outcomes that represent high expectations and rigor. Explore verbal and nonverbal communication techniques in order to encourage, redirect, engage, and challenge students. Learn how to increase your cultural sensitivity to better facilitate conversations with families and students.
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Curriculum Design
New Teacher Fundamentals
Social Emotional
Explore the basics of classroom management as you learn techniques for creating a inviting classroom climate, optimizing the physical environment, establishing rules and procedures, designing flow lessons, encouraging parental involvement, and managing student behavior.
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Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Social Emotional
Design collaborative inquiry experiences that develop 21st century skills. Explore strategies for teaching collaboration, teamwork, and decision-making via real-world inquiry experiences based on essential questions.
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Curriculum Design
New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Effective teachers assess student knowledge before, during, and after instruction in order to collect feedback, and understand how and when to adjust teaching and learning appropriately. Purposeful formative and summative assessments may improve student achievement and challenge students at their instructional levels. In this course, you will explore ways to engage students in collaborative learning, how to monitor student learning, the role of self-assessment and progress monitoring, and how authentic and performance assessment can improve content knowledge, learning, retention, and application.
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Curriculum Design
New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Evaluate instructional strategies designed to promote learner engagement and classroom participation. This course offers strategies to ensure that student choice, roles, expectations, reflection, resources, technology, and differentiation are each considered in student grouping within an environment founded upon respect and rapport for each individual learner. Verbal and nonverbal communication with students and their families, a healthy school environment, and trust are also emphasized throughout this course.
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New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Social Emotional
Explore the framework “know yourself, your students, and your practice” to understand your role in student achievement and as an agent of change for social justice.
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Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Social Emotional
Motivate students to learn by exploring a multitude of engaging strategies relating to beliefs in ability, learner orientation, appropriately challenging work, learner preferences, classroom climate, motivational leadership, and student support structures.
Partner with us to offer this courseExplore the correlation between student learning and the executive function skills of the brain. Mind matters, and strong executive function skills enhance student learning and empower students throughout their academic and professional lives. Learn how to develop and strengthen executive function in the areas of organization and planning, focus and attention, working memory, effort and resilience, cognitive flexibility, self-directedness, and inhibitory control. Classroom-applicable strategies are presented in a content-oriented manner to help you strengthen executive function skills in all learners.
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Curriculum Design
Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Delve into the principles and essentials of a DI learning environment and learn strategies for organizing the classroom and groups, designing appropriately challenging work, modifying instruction, utilizing formative assessment, reinforcing self-directedness, differentiating content, process, and product, and individualizing instruction.
Required Texts: How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms, Third Edition, by C. A. Tomlinson, published by ASCD, 2017
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Curriculum Design
Developing Educator Expertise
Teaching With Technologies
Gain the necessary tools to nurture a reflective and successful online learning community by practicing online communication skills, managing assessments and feedback appropriately, analyzing and solving problems, and creating a plan of action. This class also focuses on engaging diverse learners and handling conflict constructively. Class activities provide opportunities to practice course simulations and collaborate with colleagues.
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Curriculum Design
New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Examine the National Reading Panel and International Reading Association’s components of reading. Create reading lesson plans and hands-on activities that include these reading components to increase reading fluency and motivation.
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Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Teacher Leadership
This course focuses on the coach’s role in classroom management, content enhancement, instruction, asking effective questions, and assessment for learning. Explore the fundamentals for sustaining a successful coaching program including how to represent the coach’s role to staff, building trusting relationships, participating in ongoing training, garnering support from administrators, and providing confidential, non evaluative job-embedded professional development for teachers. You’ll also learn about the different types of coaching and how to implement effective verbal and nonverbal communication designed to improve expertise in leadership, communication and listening, positive thinking, and support are major course themes, with additional focus on the conferencing and facilitation skills.
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Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Teaching With Technologies
Analyze instructional design theories and approaches in the e-learning environment. Apply the basics of instructional design, discover philosophies of e-learning, and explore multimedia, interaction, and delivery tools for online courses.
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Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Teaching With Technologies
Effective teaching involves the thoughtful selection of instructional strategies based on student needs, subject matter, and the context of the lesson. A differentiated classroom is also one that is physically safe and effectively-managed, with self-responsible students. Teachers who set clear expectations and are able to prevent or respond to behavioral matters that may arise are integral to effective classrooms. In this course, you’ll examine ways that students may transfer learning as a result of classroom activities that are tightly aligned to instructional outcomes.
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Curriculum Design
New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Effective teaching involves the thoughtful selection of instructional strategies based on student needs, subject matter, and the context of the lesson. A differentiated classroom is also one that is physically safe and effectively-managed, with self-responsible students. Teachers who set clear expectations and are able to prevent or respond to behavioral matters that may arise are integral to effective classrooms. In this course, you’ll examine ways that students may transfer learning as a result of classroom activities that are tightly aligned to instructional outcomes.
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Classroom Management
Curriculum Design
Developing Educator Expertise
Navigate the Danielson Framework for Teaching as you explore methods and strategies for maximizing the effectiveness of your lesson design and instruction, the classroom environment, and your professional responsibilities.
Required Text: The Framework for Teaching Evaluation Instrument (2013 Edition). Visit https://www.danielsongroup.org/framework/ and click the “Download” button for a free PDF, or click here to purchase a hard copy of the book.
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Classroom Management
New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Social Emotional
Explore how to promote a safe learning environment where reflection, encouragement, peer review, and goal setting each has a role. Discover ways to engage students in discussions that promote intellectual and active exploration of content.
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Developing Educator Expertise
New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Enhance student engagement and meet the needs of diverse learners by utilizing Howard Gardner’s eight intelligences, as well as the new Existential intelligence. Delve into the sub capacities, activities, preferences, and entry points for each intelligence.
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Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Explore the essentials of reading comprehension as you experience specific strategies for developing schema, vocabulary, fluency, speed reading, text marking, and note taking. Enhance comprehension through questioning and by understanding the patterns of expository text and narrative test.
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New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Social Emotional
Teacher Leadership
Accommodating student interests, explaining outcomes, creating activities, and designing instruction that ensure engagement and success among all students are key ingredients to a flexible and responsive classroom. This course explores strategies for creating a classroom environment designed to support self-directed student learning and teacher-student collaboration with maximum instructional flexibility. Explore best practices for becoming advocates for students. Explore your role in educating families, and examine ways to form effective partnerships with students, teachers, and other stakeholders.
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Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Social Emotional
Learn the components of facilitating and co-teaching an inclusive classroom by building a community of diverse learners, designing lessons at various levels of thinking, optimizing memory and learning, and reaching learners with special needs (literacy, numeracy, ASD, ADD/ADHD, gifted, and underachievers).
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Curriculum Design
Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Experience a variety of standards-based activities that focus on each of the thinking processes: perception, induction, analysis, comparison, insight, appraisal, summary, evaluation, idea, prediction, and action. Learn how to plan, evaluate, modify, and differentiate effective activities.
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New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Social Emotional
Create a classroom environment in which responsible behavior is modeled, taught, and supported. Teach appropriate behaviors using the 4E Model: Educate, Experience, Evaluate, and Enforce.
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Curriculum Design
Developing Educator Expertise
Teacher Leadership
Design academic content to guide English language learners toward linguistic proficiency.
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Developing Educator Expertise
Instructional Strategies
Investigate the brain’s natural pattern for learning and design lessons that incorporate the various sensory styles, perceptual and organizational styles, and temperament styles of learners. Explore how accessing multiple pathways for learning enhances memory and student engagement.
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Curriculum Design
New Teacher Fundamentals
Instructional Strategies
Investigate the brain’s natural pattern for learning and design lessons that incorporate the various sensory styles, perceptual and organizational styles, and temperament styles of learners. Explore how accessing multiple pathways for learning enhances memory and student engagement.
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