The focus of this course is promoting the active engagement of all students by embedding cooperative structures into daily instruction. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of cooperative learning at both the theoretical and implementation levels. Participants will engage in a variety of learning activities such as reading the works of leading theorists, creating original definitions and rationale for use of cooperative learning.
When games are integrated into a meaningful way in your classroom they have the power to keep students motivated, engaged, and curious. Games are not only a novelty but they provide an attractive framework for learning and make learning fun for students. In this course you will have the opportunity to explore how traditional games as well as the plethora of online instructional games will enhance instruction in the content areas.
Most everyone enjoys holidays, but few clearly understand the meanings, traditions, and values behind these special days. Holidays tell us much about the past and also about the values that those in the present find worth preserving for the future. Learn how to use holidays to teach a variety of subject areas across the K-12 curriculum.
Just think about it! Our students must learn to problem solve, apply, critically evaluate, create and collaborate to be successful in the 21st Century. Explore a rich variety of thinking-to-learn best practices. Turn your classroom into a thinking highly engaging learning laboratory. Learn to use mind mapping, scatter techniques, claims activities and integrated tech tools.
This engaging and informative course on character education offers a close look at Common Core State Standards, National Standards, classroom lessons, and best practices. A classroom-based unit of study focuses on important elements of character education, including community service, parent involvement, citizenship, civics, conflict resolution, values, and more. A variety of active online assignments will inspire you and your students!
Explore geography skills of map reading, globe study, and land formations such as rivers, mountains, lakes, and oceans. Learn the effect geography has on the development of civilization. Geography studies the relationship between the earth and its people. Discover what Geographers are interested in, where people, plants, and animals live and where rivers, lakes, mountains, cities, and other geographic features are found.
Discover the remarkable achievements of women in math and science and be inspired by their resilience in the face of obstacles and prejudice. This course, designed for teachers of grades 3 through 12, explores the reasons behind the ongoing underrepresentation of women in STEM fields and provides educators with compelling stories of trailblazing women who have paved the way for future generations.
Have you wondered how to capture the excitement of children's literature for the purpose of teaching mathematics? A great story can become a springboard for teaching or reinforcing a mathematical concept. Learn how the linking of mathematics and literacy effectively enhances children's learning. Ideas and sample lessons will enable you to design and teach activities appropriate for K-6 grade levels.
Learn how to teach K-12 students to reflect, share ideas and understand the meaning of math through writing. Teach students to explain and justify their thinking to others. Writing helps them organize their thoughts and procedures clearly. Writing in the mathematics classroom also provides opportunities for students to rethink explanations as peers listen and respond.
How can teachers inspire learning in the K-12 classroom? Enhance student achievement by pairing strategies with course content. Instructional Strategies to Inspire Learning is designed for teachers to implement Robert Marzano's nine strategies with additional McREL 2010 research to increase achievement. Teachers will apply a framework for instructional planning with strategies that creates an engaging classroom environment that inspires learning.
Whether you teach grades K-12 or are a specialized teacher, a professor of higher education, or lead in an administrative capacity, Action Research is the course for you. This research course will make an impact on your own practice, your school, districts, and education as a whole. Through the exploration of intentional research, participants will target an area of personal concern and explore possible solutions and interventions that can improve practice.
Inspire and encourage active meaningful participation, collaboration, and quality task completion. You will learn student-centered activities that motivate your students. Gather a wide variety of fresh resources, observe best-practice strategies and collect standards/CCSS-aligned lessons that meet your needs, any core area, K-12.
Inspire and encourage active meaningful participation, collaboration, and quality task completion. You will learn student-centered activities that motivate your students. Gather a wide variety of fresh resources, observe best-practice strategies and collect standards/CCSS-aligned lessons that meet your needs, any core area, K-12.
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes lessons interactive and engaging. Students can play through a web browser or the mobile app, making it easy to use in both classrooms and distance learning. Teachers can create custom games and quizzes, called "Kahoots," or choose from millions of pre-made, teacher-approved options.
Biblical Worldview Integration is teaching a lesson objective and teaching it from a Christian perspective. It is not a class devoid of God, nor is it solely about God. It is a melding of the two. It is understanding the objective or lesson from the Christian point-of-view. Being able to meld the two is quite a difficult process, but a process this course aims to help teachers be able to bring to their classroom.
Visual note taking is one of the best ways to learn and process new information. Sketchnotes for Comprehension is not a course for artists or those who want to become artists. It is a course for those who want to improve or teach others to improve in the skills of taking better notes. Through this course, you will learn the foundations of how to teach your students to take notes that will help them organize and retain information in a fun and powerful way.
You don't have to be Superman, Batman, or Wonder Woman in this class. Instead, learn about your superpowers that simply need development. This course uncovers strategies to increase productivity and performance on a professional and personal level. Research demonstrates that people who implement the strategies of Habit, Mindset, Willpower, Meditation, and Forgiveness into a weekly if not daily routine have a more impactful life filled with achievement and fulfillment.
Skills for Academic Success is a professional development course designed to help educators teach essential student success skills. Ideal for teachers, counselors, and administrators, this course offers practical tools to create an environment that supports academic achievement and personal growth.
Bring passion, energy, and creativity into your classroom engagement strategies with the Teach Like a Pirate: Book Application professional development course from Fresno Pacific University. Inspired by the bestselling book, "Teach Like a Pirate" by Dave Burgess, this course equips educators with powerful student engagement strategies that capture attention and inspire a love of learning.
Teach Like Finland: Book Application is a professional development course designed for K-12 educators who want to apply Finnish education practices to their own classrooms. Grounded in the world-renowned Finnish education model, this course focuses on building joyful, student-centered learning environments that support engagement, well-being, and meaningful academic growth.
Explore the National Core Arts Standards as a guide to provide quality arts education in your classroom! Gain a repertoire of purposeful games to engage your students and give them a new perspective in the subjects you are already teaching: literature, science or history! Understand grace in your classroom as you implement the Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting process.
Transform the way your students engage with text by turning public speaking into an exciting, creative classroom tool. Designed specifically for K-5 educators, this independent study course bridges the gap between literacy and oral communication by mastering three distinct public speaking genres: Storytelling (retelling in one's own words), Oral Interpretation (bringing literature to life while staying true to the text), and Traditional Speaking (delivering presentations with visual aids).
If you are looking for an inspirational read on how to meet the challenges of transforming education for the 21st century, then Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D., and Lou Aronica's Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education is the book for you. Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his engaging 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization's history (Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?).
Gamification in the Classroom is an online professional development course for educators that gives teachers the chance to set sail on an educational adventure! This game-based course equips you with powerful strategies to use gamification in education to boost student motivation and engagement.
Join an award-winning author, podcaster, instructional technologist and blogger. This Shake Up Learning book application course is for educators wanting to transform their classrooms and schools by rebuilding lesson plans into dynamic learning opportunities. Think through the lens of your students. What do they want from a teacher? What responsibilities do they take for their successes and failures in the classroom? How do they think teaching could be improved?
Read about the story of J.D. Vance, a self-proclaimed hillbilly from Appalachia. Like millions of others, his family left the hills in search of a better life. 'You can take a man out of the mountains, but you can't take the mountains out of the man.' However, Vance points out that the road north was filled with dramatic changes. A stranger in a strange land, his culture and family dysfunction almost destroyed his prospects of a better life.
This class will guide high school teachers through a survey of plays by African Americans to gain an understanding and empathy for African American culture. These texts will expose the reader to an array of experiences within the African American culture, including nuances such as racism within the culture, identity, self-image, and generational differences.
This course explores "The Whole-Brain Child" by Dr. Dan J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson, helping educators understand the brain's role in student behavior. It examines child cognitive development and how the logical left and emotional right brain develop and integrate, influencing reactions to stress. Educators will learn 12 emotional regulation strategies to integrate whole-brain teaching into their classroom and help students reprogram their responses in healthy ways.
Lost at School, Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them challenges educators to reconsider the nature of struggling students and how we can help them build the skills they need to be successful learners. Most educators encounter students who seem to defy the classroom norms and are frustrated that standard discipline methods have limited success or have worsened the situation.
Why do some people overcome difficult circumstances and excel while others don't? What makes some people successful? In this class, you will discover what psychologist Angela Duckworth's research has learned about high achievers in her book Grit: The power of passion and perseverance. Her book provides a research-based explanation of her Grit theory, how to develop grit internally and externally and how passion and perseverance relate to social emotional learning (SEL).
Discover how the minds of your students acquire, process, store, and retrieve information. This course includes a fascinating, 24-video lecture series from The Great Courses that covers topics on learning theories, learning strategies, learning language, learning styles, the role of emotion in learning, cultivating desire to learn, and the domains of learning. This course will not only provide valuable, research-based learning theory, but will allow you the opportunity to make practical application to your teaching.
We live busy lives. Each person has 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week. So why do some people get more out of their time? This course hacks the experts on productivity. Each module offers brilliant insights into getting the most of your precious time out of each day, which can be applied and shared with students and colleagues. Consider lessons learned from minimalists like Thoreau and the Amish.
How do you break through to students who have not been taught empathy or racial reconciliation at home? How can you prepare your students for adulthood by teaching them to cultivate an awareness of their biases, or the effects of bullying? Through Process Drama, your students will gain empathy for the human experience by guided activities that take little set-up and few materials.
This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of performance assessment. It examines classroom-based assessment tasks, including visual representations, tasks using writing, oral presentations, and challenging projects and performances. Various methods of assessment are reviewed, analyzing how they inform the teaching/learning experience.
How do we cultivate young people who are imaginative, inquisitive, innovative, and intrinsically motivated? In his inspirational book, Creating Innovators, education expert Tony Wagner explores practices that nurture passion, play, and purpose in the society-shapers of tomorrow. Creating innovators doesn't take an immediate overhaul of the school system. Wagner offers small, practical steps readers can take to shape cultures of innovation.
SD. Distance Learning Playbook is an essential hands-on book application course that assists in preparing and delivering distance learning or remote learning experiences that are truly effective and impactful for the students. Effective teaching is effective teaching, no matter where it occurs or the delivery method used. Today, teachers have the opportunity to prepare for distance learning with purpose and intent. Learn what works best to accelerate students' learning, engage students, develop meaningful relationships, all the while maintaining an indelible focus on equity.
This introductory course explores strategic methods and best practices in curriculum design and implementation for differentiating instruction that meets the needs of all students. Educators learn and implement successful strategies for "teaching to the diversity" in today's classrooms. Ongoing forums allow for reflection and refinement of individual teaching practice.
This course provides an advanced look at the theory, design, and implementation of differentiated curriculum. Strategies and tools for responsive teaching are researched, used, and reflected upon. Technology is used as a major vehicle to differentiate content, process and product. Candidates will interact with district student information systems, research information literacy and Web 2.0 tools, utilize graphic organizer software, and presentation products.
From first steps to alphabets, all children are born with a natural inclination to learn. Although most educators are familiar with the merits of play, many schools struggle to put play to work for classroom learning. This fully online course will introduce teachers to playful pedagogies that support academic learning at any level. Play-oriented lessons provide students with opportunities to imagine, create, ask questions, take risks, and collaborate.
Discover a set of flexible teaching practices for making students' thinking visible. Developed through decades of research at Harvard's Project Zero, visible thinking establishes classroom routines that help students learn how to think. When students are able to make their thinking visible, teachers can better guide learning for deepened understanding.
This class will guide you through a survey of Asian American plays, focusing on the Chinese and Japanese American experiences as represented through drama. The goals of this course will be to gain an empathy for these cultures by engaging five plays, studying themes within the required plays, and making comparisons to other Asian American media
This class will guide you through a survey of plays by/about Latino Americans to gain an understanding and empathy for Latino American culture. These plays will expose you to an array of experiences within the Latino American culture: dreams and expectations of American life, identity as Latino Americans, self-image, and generational tensions. You will make correlations between assigned plays and other mediums of Latino American media.
This course will take the teacher through the interactive book 'How to Teach your Children Shakespeare', by Ken Ludwig. You will learn the value of teaching students how to memorize Shakespeare's passages, strategies of memorization, and make social emotional connections for your students with famous themes and characters.This course will give teachers something new and exciting in their toolbag!
Dive into the neuroscience of learning and learn how to maximize the learning mechanisms in your brain and your students' brains! Explore the current brain research findings on psychological and neural mechanisms that work together in the process of learning and memory in the human brain to make you a more effective learner and teacher.
Learn how to effectively incorporate QR codes into your teaching practice to enhance student learning and engagement. QR codes are two-dimensional barcodes that can be scanned using a smartphone or tablet, providing quick access to digital content and resources. Throughout the course, participants will explore a range of strategies and techniques for using QR codes in the classroom, including creating scavenger hunts, designing interactive assignments, and gamifying learning experiences.
Educators should always seek to engage, encourage and inspire students. Wayground (formerly Quizizz) is a free online learning platform that offers interactive quizzes and games for teachers, students, and administrators. These stakeholders can benefit from using Wayground because it is a proven platform for enhancing engagement, providing instant feedback and assessment, and facilitating personalized learning.
How do humans learn? How do the ways that humans learn affect you and those you teach and lead? This course will integrate theories from neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and other disciplines into a framework for the principles of learning, then show you how to apply the framework for the principles of learning. By applying the framework for the principles of learning in your areas of influence, you can maximize learning for everyone you teach and lead.
Join us in exploring the dynamic world of esports and learn how to create a program that captivates and engages students. This course covers the strategies, standards, and key pillars that drive impactful esports programs. Discover essential strategies for developing an effective esports curriculum, fostering leadership, and prioritizing student well-being.
Music has played a key role in social change throughout America's history. Students will learn about the influence of music on social change including US conflicts, the rise of Women Suffrage, political movements. The course will move from the pre-colonial period and the music of immigrants to the modern conflicts of the Gulf War. This course will enrich history lessons as well as provide a forum of discussion on the current political and societal landscape and the influence of music.
This comprehensive course is designed for teachers from preschool to college who are committed to create an inclusive learning environment using the Principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). You will learn to meet diverse learners' needs, increasing accessibility and engagement across all subject areas.
With student reading scores declining and attention challenges rising nationwide, many teachers are reexamining the role of technology in the classroom. This course explores practical strategies for creating more focused, connected, and intentional learning experiences with reduced reliance on screens.
Creativity is one of the most important skills educators can cultivate-yet many teachers and leaders have never been taught a practical process for developing it. In The Creative Thinker's Toolkit, you will discover research-based strategies for generating innovative ideas, solving complex challenges, and creating learning environments where creativity thrives.
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