Navigating the 'Wild West' of AI in K-12 education? This hands-on online course moves beyond policing to foster a culture of high-level thinking. Shift your students from using AI as a shortcut to utilizing it as a powerful cognitive partner. By integrating AI tools like Brisk Teaching, MagicSchool AI, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot, you will streamline your workflow while building a robust ethical framework.
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.
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.
Unleash the creative potential of artificial intelligence in your classroom. AI and Creativity in the Classroom explores how AI can inspire and support student creativity across disciplines. From creative writing and visual arts to music and multimedia projects, educators will learn to integrate AI tools that foster innovation and imagination.
Teaching is a balancing act, and your time is your most valuable resource. AI for Teacher Productivity and Workload Reduction introduces AI as a transformative partner, giving you more time to focus on your students. This course supports all K-12 educators, regardless of experience, through hands-on activities, extensive tutorial resources, and methods to automate time-consuming tasks.
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.
Incorporate the power of Artificial Intelligence in your classroom while protecting you students' safety, privacy, and well-being. Student Protections and AI Tool Selections, part of the AI Flash Innovative Course Series, is a hands-on course designed specifically for K-12 teachers to navigate the intersection of student privacy and emerging AI technology.
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.
AI-Powered Web and YouTube Resources is a dynamic course designed to equip K-14 educators with the skills to become innovative curriculum leaders by leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance student learning. This is a hands-on experience where you'll dive into the practical application of cutting-edge AI tools, including Language Learning Models (LLMs) and AI teacher assistants, drawing on high-quality resources from YouTube and various web platforms.
This course provides an opportunity to learn about autism spectrum disorders. Students study in-depth psychological, sociological, and vocational aspects of programs designed to serve this population of children. The course also addresses the basic concepts in autism research and education that are foundational in understanding the patterns of behavior, social abilities, and language difficulties that unfold in students with autism spectrum disorders.
This is an empowering course designed to help educators manage anxiety, depression, procrastination, grief, addiction, worry, panic attacks, perfectionism, rejection, insomnia, and chronic pain using practical, evidence-based techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
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.
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.
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!
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.
Canva Plus is the next step after Canva for Education, created in response to Canva's rapid growth and powerful new features. As Canva continues to evolve - adding tools like AI helpers, photo and video editing, Sheets, and interactive apps - this course gives educators a chance to explore what's new and discover how these tools can support more engaging and efficient teaching.
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.
Enjoy the benefits of 21st century learning. Discover the best apps and methods for student collaboration. Encouraging students to reach out to each other to solve problems and share knowledge not only builds collaboration skills, it leads to deeper learning and understanding. This class allows teachers to discover which collaboration and problem-solving apps work best in the classroom. Don't accept a one-size fits all mentality. Find what works best for you!
This course is designed as a basic overview of the knowledge and skills required to effectively participate as a member of a collaborative team working with children who have exceptional needs. Members of the collaborative teams include teachers, para-educators, school staff, related service providers, administrators, the child, and the child's peers. Students will learn essential skills, teaching strategies, personal safety, and confidentiality requirements.
This course is for the experienced ESL educator and/or content area educator with ESL certification. This course assumes the educator has knowledge of ESL pedagogy, as well as experiences working with a population of immigrant students. The engaging text models integrating story telling with students to improve literacy as well as create connections with language learners, developing an ideal classroom environment to maximize student literacy outcomes.
Creating Assessments and Grading with AI is a hands-on course specifically designed for K-14 educators who are ready to revolutionize their practice. This multifaceted course empowers you to harness next-generation Artificial Intelligence tools, including AI teaching assistants and Language Learning Models (LLM), to design personalized assessments and provide instant feedback that enhances students' learning.
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.
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?).
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.
All students should be supported in school socially & emotionally as they develop through their childhood, yet multilingual learners often have particularly challenging circumstances and/or trauma that can affect the educational experience. This course is for teachers of any content area, K-14, who are interested in improving the social & emotional development of multilingual learners simultaneously while they meet content and language targets.
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.
Unlock the vibrant world of dance in this exciting course that blends movement, creativity, and culture. Dive into a variety of dance styles--hip hop, jazz, contemporary, cultural, and social--while building your strength, flexibility, and coordination. Learn how rhythm, music, and teamwork can inspire creativity and foster connection.
Dealing with parents is one of the most difficult tasks for teachers and administrators today. Yet it is essential to know how to handle difficult situations and to establish positive relationships with students' parents. This course will equip teachers and administrators with the skills needed to expertly navigate even the most challenging encounter with parents while feeling that you have made a positive and meaningful impact.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unlock the potential of an AI enriched classroom with Elevate Student Thinking with AI a premier installment in the AI Flash Innovative Course Series. This hands-on course is designed for all K-12 educators regardless of prior AI experience, who want to use AI as a partner to create curriculum that includes problem-based learning, the art of inquiry, ethical design, and digital critiquing skills.
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.
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.
This course provides an overview of the executive functioning skills and their importance in the classroom setting. Course participants will learn how to support students' growth in the executive functioning skills, including but not limited to, organization and planning, task initiation, and self-monitoring. Elements of behavior support plans, including data collection, replacement behaviors, and goal writing to support students' behavioral needs throughout the school day are also covered in this course.
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.
Google Certified Educator Level 2 is for students who want to become recognized as GCEL2 certified with expertise in Google applications and how to use the apps to improve student learning. Google for Education created GCEL2, which, in their words, "is for those educators who want to prove that they are advanced users with expertise in the use of Google classroom tools."
Our most popular course, Google Drive for Educators, is for all teachers, technology coordinators, administrators, and librarians who want to take personal and educational productivity to a new level. You will learn to create documents, quizzes, surveys, slideshows, and spreadsheets using five free Goole applications: Drive, Documents, Forms, Sheets, and Slides. These apps are easy to learn and packed with features.
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).
Adverse childhood experiences, neglect, poverty, divorce, and other childhood stresses have radically changed school culture in the past ten years. In his most recent book, Paul Tough gives educators and care-givers practical, research-based ideas and suggestions for strengthening the non-cognitive skills in students like persistence and grit, relationship building, and developing a growth mindset to support social emotional learning (SEL).
This course is designed for K-12 teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers, nurses, coaches, specialists and other educational professionals who seek to enhance their skills in meeting the needs of students who are coping with grief or loss. The course provides helpful, practical, information on the developmental stages and understandings of death, how to talk with students about death, and four important concepts about death for student understanding.
In this course you will be provided with an overview of the most common disabilities found in private and public schools: learning disabilities, other health impairments - AD/HD, asthma, diabetes and Tourette's syndrome - along with autism and speech and language disorders. The course will also provide insights to executive functioning and the impact on social skill development.
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.
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.
iMovie is Apple's free video editing program for Macs, iPads and iPhones. It is very easy to learn and integrates very well with all Apple devices, yet also has many advanced features for easily creating captivating video content for educational and personal use. Educators can use iMovie to bring their lessons to life through video, sound, and pictures. iMovie has become a powerful and engaging tool to use in classrooms across the nation.
This course provides students with the opportunity to reflect upon their own values of including children with disabilities in their schools and in their classrooms. The course provides discussion on the differences between inclusion and belonging. Students will discuss the challenges in providing inclusive education while developing a strategic plan to move their schools and classrooms to a culture of belonging.
Unleash the creative potential of artificial intelligence in your classroom. AI and Creativity in the Classroom explores how AI can inspire and support student creativity across disciplines. From creative writing and visual arts to music and multimedia projects, educators will learn to integrate AI tools that foster innovation and imagination.
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.
Tailored for the computer novice, this newly updated course provides the background, concepts and basic skills needed to become a productive and confident computer user. Easy to understand explanations, illustrations and step-by-step hands-on exercises make 'Introduction to Computers for Teachers' a painless way to learn the basics or brush up on your skills.
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.
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.
Learn to remember. Remember to learn. Learn to apply Sprenger's 7 stages of learning/memory and Marzano's strategies to develop academic language and retain information. Content is applicable, K-12, all curriculum areas and fully aligns with the Common Core Standards (CCSS) to support development of language, reading and literacy skills.
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.
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 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.
Step into the future of teaching with the hands-on course, Modifying Educational Materials with AI. Discover how easy-to-use AI tools can streamline your workflow and help you create engaging, standards-based, personalized curriculum using existing resources. AI teaching assistants designed by teachers for teachers offer a wide range of optimized tools that enable you to import text files, PDFs, images, websites, handwriting, and YouTube videos.
Formative! has now partnered with Google for Education, and is part of the G Suite Marketplace. It is one of the most powerful and free online tools available to classroom teachers. You will create custom formative assessments for your students that will allow you to easily assess and provide immediate feedback to your students in real time.
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.
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 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.
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 design of this course is to teach the participant how to make powerful electronic presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. Whether making a classroom lecture, board presentation, committee update, or a student report, this course will equip the participant to present content with a professional appearance using a minimal amount of effort.
Preparing for an AI-Infused Future is designed as a visionary roadmap for the long-term educational shift ahead. As AI evolves from a trend into a fundamental paradigm shift in instruction, the course empowers K-12 teachers to move beyond simple information retrieval toward high-level human-AI collaboration.
We live in a world where YouTube is the top-rated search engine. Presentation and Video Apps for Educators is designed to fit technology needs of a student-centered classroom. Both teachers and students know that technology is here to stay. However, it can be overwhelming. In this course, teachers and administrators will explore, research, and choose platforms that fit the needs of 'their' classrooms, not someone else's.
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.
Project-Based Learning Using Technology (PBL) is designed to train educators to succeed in using PBL infused with technology with their students. PBL is a teaching method in which your students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period to investigate and respond to authentic, engaging, and complex questions, problems, or challenges.
Students learn about the identification process under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, including the identification of children in private schools. Students learn how to read a psycho-educational report and how to write SMART individualized education plans, individualized service plans, individualized transition plans, and individualized family service plans.
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.
Apps for Educators is a series of courses for tech-minded educators. Quiz and Vocabulary Apps for Educators is the first in this series. Compare Kahoot and Quizziz. Which review application works best? Does it depend on the situation, the class, grade level or subject matter? Vocabulary acquisition is the foundation of content reading. Consider strategies and best practices to implement new vocabulary, and share what you have learned with other educators.
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 course provides an overview of Response to Intervention (RTI) and its role in identifying challenging behaviors and at-risk students. It covers RTI education, including its history, legal framework and the three tiers of RTI: whole class, small group and intensive interventions. The course also introduces Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), a framework supporting all learners through academic, social, emotional and behavioral services.
Responsible AI Practices is designed to empower K-14 educators as leaders in implementing AI technology safely and ethically. A primary goal is to ensure both teachers and students understand the critical need for responsible AI use that directly addresses issues such as academic integrity and the importance of adhering to legal frameworks like FERPA and COPPA to safeguard student privacy and safety.
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.
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).
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?
This fully online course introduces participants to playful apps and activities to get students excited about sharing what they know through digital artifacts. A digital artifact is a technology-enhanced documentation of student learning. Digital artifacts offer teachers an alternative to traditional assessment methods and an opportunity to know their students through creative personalized assignments.
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.
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.
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.
Supporting Diverse Learners with AI empowers you to harness next-generation Artificial Intelligence to generate lessons, curricular materials, and activities that personalize the learning experience for students at all levels. Whether you are an AI novice or have some experience, this course provides the tools to address the urgent need to support diverse learners.
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.
Pixlr Editor is a browser photo editor for all your editing needs. Have full control over your images, including layers and effects. Pixlr Editor is the most popular advanced online photo editor. No download is required, and it's 100% free for everyone! Perfect for anyone looking for a great image editor, Pixlr requires no installation like Photoshop and GIMP, making it ideal for students using Chromebooks, or any computer.
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.
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.
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!
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.
This course was designed to prepare teachers with the background knowledge and skills they will need to design and develop high-quality online learning experiences for their students. The history of online learning will be explored as well as strategies and best practices that lead to success in online learning environments. Combining effective pedagogy with engaging curriculum and a variety of technology tools, participants will learn how to increase teacher presence in virtual instruction to humanize the learning experience which builds academic and social connections in the online classroom.
Digital Citizenship is the new frontier in education. Growing numbers of educators and parents alike are realizing that students today exist in two worlds -- the digital world and the real world. For years, educators have provided instruction when it comes to navigating the real world. Something we do not address, however, is how to successfully navigate the digital world. We can no longer afford to be absent in our students' digital lives.
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.
The Teaching With Canvas course is designed to help teachers transform their classrooms by mastering Canvas and learning to navigate the platform's Learning Management System (LMS). Canvas can open the door for teachers to engage students better and achieve better student outcomes. Educators leave this course ready to use Canvas in their classrooms, including creating content and managing student submissions and grades.
Nearpod is an award-winning, interactive mobile-learning platform that engages students with images, videos, quizzes, polls, drawing boards, game-based quizzes, virtual field trips, VR and other collaboration tools. Teachers can create their own interactive lessons or access thousands of other premade lessons or search for lessons by grade, subject, or CCSS-aligned standard. Nearpod can be used in the classroom or with remote instruction.
Technology Tools for Teaching Online is a hands-on course that takes a holistic view of the challenges of online teaching and the required technologies. Video conferencing is an integral part of this course, with tutorials and assignments designed for teachers to use their selected VC platform features. Teachers will learn to upload recorded VC sessions and make tutorials. There is much more to this course, including creating an online site for students/parents to keep informed.
The flipped classroom reverses how class and home time are utilized. A flipped classroom means, at its most basic definition, that students watch a video of the day's lesson while at home. Then during class time, they work on problem sets, projects, and discussions. Traditional homework is done during the school day where students have access to the teacher's expertise and interaction with their peers while the lecture (lesson) would be watched at home.
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.
Technology has expanded the ways teachers design learning experiences for students, but the ever-growing list of educational tools and apps can be overwhelming for classroom teachers. This book application course introduces teachers to an exciting and versatile set of tech tools through ready-to-use lessons for any grade level, content area, or curriculum.
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.
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.
Move beyond surface-level strategies and explore ADHD through a practical, classroom-ready lens in this fully self-paced professional learning course for K-12 educators. Participants will examine how attention, behavior, and executive functioning impact learning in authentic classroom environments and gain research-based approaches that can be implemented immediately.
Over half of public school students in the United States have experienced some form of trauma, which is associated with adverse effects on academic performance, behavior, and social emotional learning (SEL). This course is designed to help educators utilize trauma-informed strategies to create an environment that is safe and supportive for students who may have experienced trauma.
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.
Transform how you connect with families in AI for Communication with Parents, a hands-on course designed to streamline your workflow and elevate every interaction. Whether you are a tech enthusiast or an AI novice, this course empowers you to use free, next-generation tools to save time and enhance professional clarity.
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.
Field trips are an excellent way for students to engage with and learn about artifacts while exploring places that are connected to their discipline of study, bringing their coursework to life. While in-person field trips can be challenging to organize, can be expensive, and usually involve travel, online technology has removed some of these barriers to bring virtual experiences available to students.
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.
Zoom has come into its own in recent years. For educators. Zoom is an interactive, mobile, and collaborative tool for engaging students in the classroom and remotely. The many applications and features of Zoom expand the capabilities of the modern classroom. Teachers provide one-on-one student support and schedule video conferences. Zoom can be programmed to record class lessons and upload them to the cloud. Beyond technical features, understand how to prepare content for the platform.
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