This course is designed to guide teachers through a series of activities and thought processes that have been found to be effective in creating effective classroom learning environments. The strategies included are supported in the large body of research that exists in the area of student discipline and have proven to be helpful to teachers working in their classrooms.
Whether you are a new or a seasoned teacher, the nagging questions keep surfacing in our minds: How can I be a more effective teacher; how can I empower my students to achieve academically, behaviorally, and socially? This online course will answer these questions and equip you to be the most effective teacher ever!
Let's be pragmatic, you either love homework or hate homework. However, it is inevitable that homework is and always will be a part of our educational landscape. Whether you align yourself closer to the no-homework camp or to the pro-homework camp, the debate will continue to rage on for decades. It is the cause of more friction between administrators, teachers, and families than any other aspect of education.
Motivation, effort, interest and desire to learn are key to student success. Learn to maximize student potential using a variety of strategies designed to increase student engagement in relevant learning activities and raise student academic performance. You will learn to analyze the role student engagement, motivation and effort play in learning, apply research and evaluate current practices to determine instructional gaps.
Classroom Restorative Discipline, also known as Discipline that Restores (DTR) is a restorative discipline system for schools and classrooms. This course will show you how to resolve conflicts and practice problem-solving techniques that are based on a step-by-step process developed by Dr. Ron and Roxanne Claassen, based on their book, Discipline That Restores: Strategies to Create Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in the Classroom.
To plan effectively for change, leaders must know where they are, where they want to go and how they will get there. Strategic planning provides a framework to create, adjust, and align the organization's vision and beliefs with identified goals to sustain forward momentum and achieve desired results. The purpose of this course is to support the effective implementation of the Restorative Discipline program.
StrengthsFinder is an innovative personal development tool developed by the Gallup Organization that zeros individuals in on their strengths rather than weaknesses. It is a strengths development program designed to give people the opportunity to develop strengths by building on their greatest talents! This course will help develop teacher leaders by exploring what they do well, and then finding ways to apply those talents authentically and productively.
Have you ever wondered the best way to resolve conflict in your classroom? This course is designed for teachers, administrators and other educational professionals from Pre-K through 14. Learn best practices and methods currently being used in conflict resolution in the classroom. Not only will you build skills to reach students, you will become a go-to for other teachers, staff and school community stakeholders.
This cognitive approach to managing human behavior can be taught to students and parents for life-long social and emotional learning, self-esteem development, and healthy lifestyle choices. Learning and using Choice Theory, students & teaching staff learn how to be fully responsible for making more effective decisions and choices in their academic and personal lives.
This course is designed to provide participants (teachers, school counselors, and administrators) with the theory, models, skills, and strategies to train students (grades 3-12) to be peer mediators and peacemakers using the Making Things Right (MTR) curriculum by Ron and Roxanne Claassen, pioneers in the field of restorative justice practices.
This is a course for teachers, grades K-12, to encourage the integration of the PBIS principles into their classroom management. They will identify the behavioral issues addressed by PBIS at their grade level. Teachers will explore PBIS for their chosen grade level and select the skills that will reinforce behavioral standards for their age group. This course addresses the five core propositions of the National Teaching Standards.
This class will introduce some skill sets that can be acquired and used in becoming an effective communicator with students, parents, and colleagues, increasing a teacher's ability to make significant connections with everyone. Many of the tools discussed in this class are not usually taught in a typical teacher training program, but once recognized and practiced can make a huge difference for anyone's effectiveness in their professional career and private life.
Engage and motivate students to learn and achieve even when they are falling short of standards and achievement. This course will apply intentional teaching with high-yield learning strategies. Examine how to create small specific adjustments to lesson planning, teaching, and assessment practices that will engage students, at-risk students, English Language Learners and Special Education students.
According to educator Rick Smith, being a new teacher is like trying to fly a plane while building it. If you've ever been a first-year teacher, you know exactly what that means. There are times you feel like you are frantically trying to attach the wings before the aircraft goes into a tailspin. All new teachers need someone they can count on for encouragement and support. That's where you come in.
This course is designed for teachers and administrators of all grade levels and provides basic conflict management and meditation instruction, skill development, strategies, and practice based on the process of peace-making and restorative justice based discipline in the classroom. Positive Discipline in the Classroom articulates a reproducible step-by-step process to increase cooperation and mutual respect.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the employment of teachers of all levels will grow between 2016 and 2026, with almost a quarter of a million new teaching jobs opening before 2026. Unfortunately, this is due to a phenomenon called teacher burnout. Over half of U.S. teachers report that their morale is low, and more teachers than ever are leaving the profession within the first five years in the classroom.
Educators- teachers, administrators, counselors and coaches (K-12) -are often feeling pushed to their personal and professional limits as they strive to meet the complex demands of their roles. This course is taught by a former school counselor and current consultant to teachers, administrators, and parents as a licensed therapist.
In today's multicultural world, educators look for ways to connect with their students and colleagues as effectively as possible. The online Cultural Intelligence in Education course helps educators enhance their cultural intelligence related to education delivery, both in the classroom and in multiple capacities around campus for K-12.
Our teen years are filled with heightened emotions, the push and pull of independence, and excitement of applying abstract principles. Instead of giving readers a toolbox of how to "deal" with the struggles of emerging teens, Dr. Siegel informs us of how the rapidly growing brain is affecting actions and choices, and he invites us into coming alongside this age group with healthy guidelines and appropriate encouragement.
Teachers and administrators will learn the types of executive skills that are essential for student learning, how to recognize strengths and weaknesses with students and how to practically improve students' executive skills in order to better access curriculum. This course will help administrators, counselors, and teachers in the Student Study Team (SST) process by providing specific strategies for intervention if executive skills are the reason a student is struggling as well as provide supports to parents to help their children develop skills to improve their learning.
Understanding teenage addictions is the first step to intervention and support of those in your classroom who may struggle with overcoming alcoholism, stealing, pornography, and a multitude of drug dependencies. This course provides an overview on common addictions that prevent today's middle and high school students from academic and personal success.
Emotional resilience is an important skill to master for educators who face emotionally charged challenges every day. The Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators professional development course builds this skill using strategies Elena Aguilar outlined in her book, Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators.
Teachers face unprecedented stress and demands in the current educational landscape. But, as the WestEd Center for Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety reported, in order to support others, educators must support themselves first. In fact, across helping professions generally, self-care is considered an ethical imperative (Pate, 2020).
Are you aware that experiences you had as a young child (some you may not even be able to remember) are still influencing you and your behaviors today, as an adult? Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, MD explores the long-term effects of childhood adversity in her book and gives strategies for how to heal them.
Mindfulness is an approach that helps teachers and students navigate the social-emotional challenges of the classroom. For teachers, mindful awareness cultivates a compassionate 'noticing' of the internal and external experience of teaching. Teachers who both sense and observe these experiences can respond to classroom circumstances rather than react to them.
Mindfulness is the awareness and acceptance of each present moment in time. Mindfulness can be cultivated by paying attention to thoughts, feelings, senses, and surroundings. Neuroscience research shows that the practice of mindfulness grows connections in the brain that improve the ability to self-regulate emotions, thoughts, behavior, and attention. This is welcome news for teachers and their students as they co-navigate the many opportunities and challenges of school.
Mindfulness is a practice increasingly making its way into schools. Mindfulness can be defined as "the awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally" (Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn). Cultivating mindful awareness through exercises of attention, noticing, and compassion has been shown to rewire our brains in ways that make us happier, calmer, and energized.
This course equips educators with the tools and strategies to foster character in the classroom by focusing on core virtues such as honesty, integrity, compassion, humility, perseverance and self-control. Designed for K-8 teachers, this course emphasizes the integration of character education into everyday lessons, helping students develop ethical and moral reasoning alongside academic growth.
Discover evidence-based techniques to foster happiness and overcome obstacles to well-being. Designed for educators, this course offers a blend of personal growth and professional strategies, equipping you to apply the science of happiness within educational environments.
Step confidently into your role as a teacher leader by discovering who you are as a leader and how you can influence change in your school community. In this course, you will explore your leadership identity, clarify your mission and vision, and design the principles that guide your daily practice. You'll engage in activities such as conducting a personal SWOT analysis, applying Patrick Lencioni's Working Genius model, and building collaborative team structures that foster purposeful growth.
One of the most important, but usually neglected aspects is training office staff, teachers, counselors, and administrators how to develop a community environment that focuses on Teamwork among all staff and students as well. This course will give all of the aforementioned individuals hands-on experience of training that can be applied to any work environment.
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