Courses
This course is designed to promote reflection, discussion, and action among the entire learning community. The course will present what research has revealed about successfully addressing the needs of students from economically, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse groups and identifies a wide range of effective principles and instructional strategies. Although good teaching works well with…
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Rewards and punishments may help to maintain order in the short term, but they’re at best superficially effective and at worst counterproductive. This course will prepare educators at all levels to ensure that their classrooms are welcoming, enriching, and constructive environments built on collective respect and focused on student achievement.
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This course will offer seven steps to increase your students’ capacity to receive information in immediate memory, act on it in working memory, store it in long term memory, and retrieve and manipulate it in unanticipated situations. By consciously teaching for memory, we can remediate some of these differences and help students gain confidence in…
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This course addresses the fundamentals of differentiation and provides additional guidelines and strategies for how to successfully meet the needs of academically diverse classrooms and schools.
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This course introduces six signposts that alert readers to significant moments in a reading and encourages them to read closely. Recommended for grades 3-12.
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In this course you will find pearls of wisdom, heartfelt advice, and inspiration on how to become an effective and motivated teacher leader. This course will guide you through the nineteen things that matter most in teaching. It will describe the beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, and interactions of great teachers and what they do differently.
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In this course you will focus on basic strategies you can integrate into everyday instruction in every subject area and across grade levels. It will help you to motivate and engage students in the learning process. The examples in this course will help you to apply these strategies in your own classroom or school.
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More and more English language learners are included in mainstream classrooms. This course will ensure that you can help them understand academic content and develop their English language skills. The strategies in this course include homework and practice, summarization and note-taking, and nonlinguistic representations, among many others. For each strategy a summary of the research…
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This course will detail an affirming approach to managing a classroom that promotes respect for self and others. The course offers practical solutions that emphasize relationship building, curriculum relevance, and academic success. The emphasis is on preventing problems by helping students to understand each other, work well together, and develop responsibility for their own actions.…
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Thanks to unprecedented advances in brain science, we know more about the brain today than ever before. But what does science tell us about how we learn and how we capture the power of neuroscience research so it benefits our students? This course will describe how the brain converts a vast amount of sensory input…
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In this course you will explore the eight intelligences of the mind. The eight intelligences are linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. Resources in this course will help educators apply MI theory to curriculum, lesson planning, assessment, special education, cognitive skills educational technology, and much more. The dozens of practical tips and…
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This course will reveal troubling details related to traditional approaches of assessment and offers numerous examples of educators at all levels who are transforming assessment by using tools that engage and empower students. It speaks to the need for rethinking how we measure student understanding and achievement.
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This course helps educators close the knowing-doing gap as they transform their classrooms and schools into professional learning communities. This course will help educators develop a common vocabulary and consistent understanding of key PLC concepts- Present a compelling argument that the implementation of PLC concepts will benefit students and educators alike-Help educators assess the current…
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Response to Intervention is a system for educational redesign based on a hierarchy of interventions which are implemented to meet the needs of students who demonstrate underachievement in core academic areas. This system for educational redesign aims to meet the needs of struggling students through a pyramid of interventions, collaborative team problem solving, data for…
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Have you ever imagined yourself as a teacher leader but weren’t quite sure whether you had-or could develop-the necessary skills? Have you wondered what the first steps toward becoming a teacher leader might be, what kind of approaches work best, and how you could overcome the challenges that come with leading your colleagues toward improvement…
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Many educators in classrooms feel unprepared to teach students with learning disabilities. Fortunately, brain research has confirmed that strategies benefitting learners with special challenges are suited for engaging and stimulating all learners. In this course you will explore how you can best help students by putting in place strategies, accommodations, and interventions that provide developmentally…
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