This course makes the use of AI in education understandable for teachers of all technical levels. Teachers in the course benefit from an approach that focuses on breaking down AI-related concepts in a jargon-free way. It provides step-by-step guidance for integrating AI into daily classroom practices, featuring real-world examples of successful implementation.
Designing Dynamic Units Using AI Tools teaches K-14 educators across all subjects how to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally transform and streamline the creation of unit, sequencing, and pacing guides, enabling greater personalization. The primary goal is to empower teachers with practical skills to design engaging unit plans and to develop broader instructional design skills using teacher-friendly applications.
Discover how artificial intelligence can revolutionize your lesson planning process and lesson activities. This course empowers educators to use AI tools to design engaging, differentiated, and standards-aligned lessons with greater efficiency and creativity. Participants will explore how AI can support curriculum development, pacing guides, and instructional design across grade levels and content areas using teacher-friendly applications.
This online art education course prepares educators to successfully teach students drawing techniques that improve their perceptual-cognitive skills. Teachers in all subjects can benefit from the course. Drawing skills increase the ability for students to accurately perceive, process and use visual information - skills that transfer to all disciplines of learning.
Learning about art at a young age can have numerous benefits for students, fostering creativity and imagination, deepening students' cultural, societal and historical awareness, and fostering empathy and respect for different perspectives. The post-impressionist movement was a movement of innovation and experimentation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Preparing students for success includes teaching health skills that empower them to make informed choices. Fresno Pacific University's Skills-Based Health Education course provides educators with the tools to build, teach and assess a comprehensive health program that meets national standards. This course emphasizes life skills in health education, helping students develop critical thinking, decision-making and self-management strategies for lifelong wellness.
Discover how to use hands-on materials, real-world problem-solving and playful activities to support number concepts while introducing students to the building blocks of Algebra. This course will help you extend primary students' experiences with numbers through the use of patterning, number relationships, and graphing.
Do your students struggle with math facts? Are you looking for practical methods that go beyond memorization? This online course will introduce you to number talks, a classroom routine that engages students in the use of strategies that support number flexibility and fluency. During number talks, students explore and discuss number structure and relationships for mentally calculating addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, percents and decimals.
People often feel intimidated by the wilderness. Unique training is required to successfully provide for our needs without the aid of modern conveniences. Yet, the wilderness invites us to enjoy a lifetime of challenge, rest, and rejuvenation within its boundaries. This course is designed to equip teachers to teach students how to 'maintain meaningful physical activity throughout their lifetimes' by engaging in wilderness adventures.
The American West history course offers an in-depth exploration into the truth about westward expansion and the American frontier, offering both the grit and grandeur of this epic time and place in American history. With stunning storytelling and visuals from The Great Courses, FPU's American West History course combines your love of learning and history with practical teaching tools you can use in your classroom immediately. Assignments address the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) for History.
As a political epicenter, Washington DC is a major national and international crossroads and featured in the global news on a daily basis. But beyond the glamour and glare of high-profile politics, it is a city on par with some of the greatest in the world, brimming over with remarkable history and culture, and offering a multitude of unforgettable sights and experiences. Throughout this capital city, you'll find some of the world's most beautiful and extraordinary national monuments.
STEAM is an educational approach that integrates science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics through project-based, interdisciplinary learning. Drawing on design principles and art practices, STEAM adds to the strengths of STEM learning through increased opportunities for critical inquiry, collaborative exploration, creative design, adaptable problem solving, and real-world application.
Unlock the power of video editing with this dynamic course designed specifically for teachers! Whether you're new to video production or looking to sharpen your skills, this hands-on class will guide you through the fundamentals of creating engaging, professional-quality videos using Clipchamp and CapCut, two of the most intuitive video editors available for both desktops and student Chromebooks.
With Canva for Education, teachers can collaborate with students and colleagues in creating visually appealing presentations for posters, infographics, videos, book reports, lesson plans, worksheets, and more. Canva's flexibility and ease of use, combined with over 60,000 ready-to-use templates, make it the go-to web-based tool for visual design for students and educators.
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