Instructor: Maryam Torbati

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IND-1188A: 50 Diversity Strategies for Second Language Learners for Teachers

Diverse Strategies for Teaching Second Language Learners. Join us for a beneficial exploration of strategies for teaching second language learners. With a repertoire of these ideas, you can use appropriate methods to bring life to your lessons and maximize your second language learners' learning.

IND-1192A: Art of Teaching for Teachers

This course is designed as an overview of motivational research in psychology and education. The course focuses specifically on different theories of motivation, and how classroom, school, work, and social environments shape and influence individual motivation.

IND-1193A: Art & Science of Motivation for Teachers

This course is designed as an overview of motivational research in psychology and education. It focuses specifically on definitions of motivation because each individual defines motivation differently. Next, we explore different theories of motivation and how classroom, school, work, and social environments shape and influence individuals' motivation.

IND-1194: Art of Creativity with CCSS

This seminar will introduce participants to new ways of thinking and new processes for creative problem solving. The program provides tools and insights for applying creative thinking at work and in every facet of life.

IND-1194A: Art & Science of Creativity for Teachers

Introducing more creativity into your classroom and assignments does not have to make your job harder. It can make it a lot more interesting. Having to go home to a stack of dull papers to grade was never anyone's favorite part of teaching.

IND-1197A: Science of Memory & Memory Tools

Are you often unable to remember an important fact or figure? Do your students struggle with retrieval? Do you forget people's names at the worst moments? These are common instances where a good memory is important. People with good memories are often seen as knowledgeable, smart, competent, and dependable.

IND-1198A: Emotional Intelligence EQ for Teachers

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the single most significant factor influencing teaching/learning/leadership effectiveness. Research studies confirm that EQ is more important than IQ. Leaders and teachers with well-developed emotional intelligence competencies climb the ladder of success and consistently perform at higher levels within any organization.

IND-1207A: Art & Science of Diversity in Global Education

Most classrooms are widely diverse in areas such as gender, culture, ethnicity, abilities, religion, languages and attitudes. The objective of this course is to provide participants with a broad perspective based on the research centered on the topic of diversity and inclusion in a global society.

IND-1208A: Learning Theories: Common Core in Mind

This online course is an introduction to the important classical treatments of the nature of learning. As such, it covers some of the most influential psychological thinking of the 20th and 21st Centuries. In part, the course will deal with learning theories as they relates to Common Core, and the history of psychological thought, because to study the past leads to an appreciation of the present and an anticipation of the future.

IND-1215: Art of Reading & Comprehension

This workshop is designed to help people manage and improve their communication skills in reading comprehension. This outstanding seminar will provide you with research-based, classroom-tested, practical ideas to increase reading, reading comprehension, and fluency while promoting lifetime reading for your students.

IND-1215A: Art of Reading & Comprehension For Teachers

This course is designed to help people manage and improve their communication skills in reading comprehension. This course will provide you with research-based,classroom-tested, practical ideas to increase reading, reading comprehension, and fluency while promoting lifetime reading for your students.

IND-1220A: Art & Science of Assessment

Class evaluations and observations provide excellent feedback about student satisfaction and teaching style, but they do not provide the important details of how much your students are learning and how valid and reliable your assessments are.

IND-1230A: 7 Secrets of Success for Teachers

What does it mean to be successful? Many answers have been proposed. Most commonly it simply refers to having things turn out the way they were hoped for or planned. As simple as that seems; in reality accomplishing success is not as easy as it sounds.

IND-1232A: Art & Science of Classroom Management

According to the latest research, classroom management is a major assembly of the learning environment, including the individuals within the classroom setting. A teacher's classroom management system reveals much about the teacher's beliefs regarding instructional content and how students learn.

IND-1233: Art of Writing Process

Writing Process Workshop is an instructional model that views writing as an ongoing process in which students follow a given set of prcedures for planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing their writing. It allows students to be at various stages of the writing process at one time.

IND-1242A: 8 Habits of Highly Effective People For Teachers

Over the past three decades author Steven Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has led teachers to effectiveness in their lives and in their classroom. Now, the 8th habit ramps that effectiveness up and turns it into greatness. As author Steven Covey says, 'Habits are powerful factors in our lives.

IND-1255A: 12 Principles of Brain Based Learning and Teaching

Brain based learning and teaching is a cutting-edge educational discipline that optimizes the learning and teaching process by teaming together neuroscience, psychology, and education. This course will introduce you to brain based learning and teaching and why it matters.

IND-1262A: Art & Science of Communication for Teachers

Today's leaders/teachers must have an ability not only to analyze thoughtfully but also to communicate clearly and persuasively. According to researchers at Harvard Business school "No matter where you go, you need to be an expert at communicating.

IND-1264A: Art & Science of Stress Management for Teachers

A primary goal in this stress management independent study course is to determine the aspects of a situation to which an individual is stress target specific. This goal is most easily realized by identifying the physiologic, emotional, and intellectual response cues to stress, and pinpointing the specific occurrence.

IND-1293A: Art & Science of Optimism

Optimism can profoundly impact students, teachers, and those in business, empowering them to grow and flourish. Research has shown that salespeople who are optimistic sell 47% more, optimistic students are more engaged and 45% more productive, 33% more energetic, 25% more accurate, 57% more successful.

IND-1318A: Art & Science of Happiness for Teachers

Everyone wants to be happy, or at least we all think we do. But what is happiness? Why do advertisements, pharmaceutical companies, doctors, parents, and teachers all think they know the big answer? We know it when we feel it, and certainly when we don't.

IND-1337A: Art of Mindfulness in Education

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where you are and what you're doing, and not being overly reactive or overwhelmed by what's going on around you. Everyday teachers in America walk into classrooms with multiple abilities, many different levels of readiness, and above all with a variety of emotional well beings, labels, and classifications.

IND-1352A: Art of Dealing with Loneliness, Depression & Suicide

What is loneliness, what is depression and ultimately what is suicide and what causes each? Is it part of the nature of our human condition? Is it a feeling or a thought we can describe? Does age, personality, or social contact matter? What are the symptoms? Can we recognize a lonely student from the crowd?

IND-1369A: Art of Neuroplasticity With Common Core in Mind for Teachers

This workshop is designed with the latest information about Neuroplasticity, how it happens in the brain and how to tie it to Common Core. You may have heard that the brain is plastic. Our brain is not made of plastic, our brain plasticity refers to the brain's ability to CHANGE throughout life.

IND-1378: Empowerment Through Cultures of Visual Thinking

In this course, participants learn how to create "cultures of visual thinking," communities where a group's collective as well as individual visual thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted every day. Participants will explore the eight cultural forces present in every group learning situation-language, time, environment, opportunities, routines, modeling, interactions, and expectations-and how they influence the group's cultural dynamic.

IND-1378A: Empowerment Through Cultures of Visual Thinking

In this course, participants learn how to create "cultures of visual thinking," communities where a group's collective as well as individual visual thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted every day.

IND-1381A: Neuroscience of Dyslexia and Coping Strategies

The focus of this course will be on developing an understanding of dyslexia and the various remediation approaches. You will come away with not only the definition and characteristics of dyslexia but also how to teach a person with dyslexia using a systematic, multisensory approach.

IND-1382A: The Science of Monotasking

You may have at some time, asked yourself the question, "Should I multitask to get more done? Or just focus on one thing at a time? Can we really multitask effectively?" Many studies have shed light on the downside of multitasking--trying to juggle multiple tasks at one time.

IND-1383: Change Your Words, Change Your Brain

Words matter, words have the dramatic effect on your neuronal pathway, it plays with our psyche and in retrospect how we interact with each other and how decisions are made. After this workshop, you will be able to demonstrate a deep knowledge of the power of words on the brain.

IND-1383A: Change Your Words, Change Your Brain

Words matter, words have a dramatic effect on our neuronal pathway, they play with our psyche and, in retrospect with how we interact with each other and how decisions are made. These are the reasons why words are powerful. However, many educators fail to use productive words or communicate wisely. Words have power.

IND-1385A: Poverty and the Brain

It is well established that growing up in poverty correlates with disparities in educational achievement, health, and employment. Now an emerging branch of neuroscience asks how poverty affects the developing brain. Over the past 15 years, dozens of studies from Harvard University and Stanford University have found that children raised in meager circumstances have subtle brain differences compared with children from families of higher means.

IND-1407: Neuroscience of Anxiety

This zoom course is an introduction to the importance of anxiety in our everyday lives & how to overcome the anxious mind in our classroom. We need to teach teachers about anxiety, so they can teach it to their students!

IND-1407A: Neuroscience of Anxiety

This online course is an introduction to the importance of anxiety in our everyday lives and how to overcome the anxious mind in our classroom. As researchers explain, some anxiety is warranted in our lives, but when it becomes persistent & relentless, it becomes a problem and disorder. According to Stanford University 'Anxiety is a pattern that develops over time, and it is something we have a degree of control over.

IND-1414: Neuroscience of ADHD & OCD

The focus of this zoom course will be on developing an understanding of ADHD & OCD and the effective approaches. I want to share with Participants the definition and characteristics of ADHD & OCD and how to teach a person with these super powers using a systematic, multisensory approach.

IND-1414A: Neuroscience of ADHD & OCD

The focus of this online course will be on developing an understanding of ADHD & OCD and effective approaches. I want to share with Participants the definition and characteristics of ADHD & OCD and how to teach a person with these superpowers using a systematic, multisensory approach.