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Featured Courses

Survival Kit for New Teachers

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Learn the keys to success from an experienced educator so you can thrive as a classroom teacher. This course is designed to help teachers build motivational classrooms, reach diverse learners, write engaging lesson plans, communicate clearly, and keep stress at bay.

Click here to register.

Creating the Inclusive Classroom: Strategies for Success

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Understand how to reach the diverse mix of students you face every day with strategies that turn diversity into opportunity. This course provides creative, low-budget strategies for making your inclusive classroom a nurturing, supportive learning environment that helps every student.

Click here to register.

Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom

Click the register link to see available sessions
Discover 10 practical Differentiated Instruction strategies including interest centers, and flexible grouping that will meet the needs of the diverse learners in your class. This course packs real-world examples into every lesson that will help you put these strategies immediately to use in your own classroom.

Click here to register.

The Creative Classroom

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn how to use creativity as a powerful engagement tool in the classroom, regardless of what subject you teach. This course provides new approaches to field trips, learning labs, exercises, and evaluation methods that will challenge and motivate your students to become creative thinkers.

Click here to register.

Integrating Technology in the Classroom

Click the register link to see available sessions
Discover simple ways to integrate technology in your classroom to enhance subject material and meet Common Core standards and other course goals. This course provides ways to integrate technology across curriculum with tools that will engage auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners.

Click here to register.

Solving Classroom Discipline Problems

Click the register link to see available sessions
Enjoy a more peaceful, orderly classroom that is free of common discipline problems. This course provides a step-by-step approach to effective, positive classroom discipline, and it's continually rated by teachers as one of the most valuable they've ever taken.

Click here to register.

Creating a Classroom Website

Click the register link to see available sessions
Get a teaching tool that will help you become a more modern, effective and dynamic teacher. This easy-to-understand course will help build a published classroom website complete with content, images, animation, links, and a blog.

Click here to register.

Teaching Smarter With SMART Boards

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn the unique and varied teaching applications of SMART technology. This course will help you master the use of SMART Board and SMART Notebook technology to create powerful, interactive lessons.

Click here to register.

Guided Reading: Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom

Click the register link to see available sessions
Lead your students through new creative ways of approaching increasingly challenging texts. This course will help you discover how to build a balanced literary framework that gets results with even the most challenged learners.

Click here to register.

Response to Intervention: Reading Strategies That Work

Click the register link to see available sessions
Discover reading strategies that work without the need for special pull-outs or extra attention. This course will introduce you to the tools needed to creatively help your struggling readers and make steady progress throughout the school year.

Click here to register.

Teaching Math: Grades 4-6

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn how to reinvent math instruction for grades 4-6. This course will show you how to get the students in your classroom excited about math through hands-on learning, inexpensive manipulatives, and real-world connections.

Click here to register.

Teaching Science: Grades 4-6

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn how to increase your effectiveness as a science teacher for the middle grades. This course will equip you with engaging experiments, practical worksheets, winning lesson plans, and direct instruction methods you can use immediately in your own classroom.

Click here to register.

Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn how to meet the diverse needs of students with disabilities in your classroom through easy, practical, and creative strategies developed by an experienced special educator. This course explores the total special education process and help you understand and empower your special needs students.

Click here to register.

Teaching Students with Autism: Strategies for Success

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn how to help your students with high-functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome unlock their full learning potential. This course will help you develop the knowledge and strategies you will need to ensure your students with autism succeed in the classroom and beyond.

Click here to register.

Teaching Students with ADHD

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn the simple and practical steps you can take to help children with ADHD thrive in their school environment. This course will teach you how classroom space, structure, rules, and expectations can be adapted to suit the needs of students with ADHD and help them manage their own behavior.

Click here to register.

Spanish in the Classroom

Click the register link to see available sessions
Bridge the communication gap between you, your Spanish-speaking students and parents with essential Spanish for teachers. This course starts with Spanish basics and provides survival phrases for parent-teacher conferences so that you can discuss progress, deal with academic and behavior problems, and provide grades and homework.

Click here to register.

Counseling for College Prep

Click the register link to see available sessions
While the college-going experience may evolve, it is not going away. In this online course, you will prepare for a vital role where you support students' post-secondary aspirations as we also explore how critical your role is to the evolution of our communities.

Click here to register.

Creating Classroom Centers

Click the register link to see available sessions
Discover how easy and effective classroom centers can really be. This course introduces a simple system for creating a center schedule and shepherding students through the process. You will see what makes a truly successful center, what pitfalls to avoid, and gain tips for keeping your planning to a minimum. You will also learn strategies for managing students who finish early and discover how a regular center routine can increase your small-group instruction opportunities each day.

Click here to register.

Discover Sign Language

Click the register link to see available sessions
Gain confidence in your ability to sign with the Deaf community. This course immerses you in silence to help you gain an understanding of the perspective of the hearing impaired and uses videos to demonstrate not only how to make signs, but how to communicate with facial expression.

Click here to register.

Discover Sign Language II

Click the register link to see available sessions
Take your sign language skills to the next level with additional vocabulary, grammar lessons, and cultural information. Practice phrases and sentences by recording your own signing and uploading them for review. Not only that, but you will also continue to explore the world of Deaf culture by learning more about the history of Deaf culture in the United States, famous Deaf individuals, and the impact of recent laws and technology on the modern-day Deaf community. This course will help you build confidence in your ability to sign with the Deaf community.

Click here to register.

Teaching Methods for Solving Word Problems

Click the register link to see available sessions
In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course focuses on addressing challenges students encounter in math and offers solutions through two different methods for solving word problems. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. Participants will receive a downloadable PDF of the content, along with valuable graphic organizers and student resources to support implementation in the classroom.

Click here to register.

Understanding Adolescents

Click the register link to see available sessions
Uncover the secrets of the adolescent mind. This course provides valuable information on how adolescents feel, how their identities develop, and how you can best meet their needs.

Click here to register.

Featured Courses

Survival Kit for New Teachers

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn the keys to success from an experienced educator so you can thrive as a classroom teacher. This course is designed to help teachers build motivational classrooms, reach diverse learners, write engaging lesson plans, communicate clearly, and keep stress at bay.

Click here to register.

Creating the Inclusive Classroom: Strategies for Success

Click the register link to see available sessions
Understand how to reach the diverse mix of students you face every day with strategies that turn diversity into opportunity. This course provides creative, low-budget strategies for making your inclusive classroom a nurturing, supportive learning environment that helps every student.

Click here to register.

Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom

Click the register link to see available sessions
Discover 10 practical Differentiated Instruction strategies including interest centers, and flexible grouping that will meet the needs of the diverse learners in your class. This course packs real-world examples into every lesson that will help you put these strategies immediately to use in your own classroom.

Click here to register.

The Creative Classroom

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn how to use creativity as a powerful engagement tool in the classroom, regardless of what subject you teach. This course provides new approaches to field trips, learning labs, exercises, and evaluation methods that will challenge and motivate your students to become creative thinkers.

Click here to register.

Integrating Technology in the Classroom

Click the register link to see available sessions
Discover simple ways to integrate technology in your classroom to enhance subject material and meet Common Core standards and other course goals. This course provides ways to integrate technology across curriculum with tools that will engage auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners.

Click here to register.

Solving Classroom Discipline Problems

Click the register link to see available sessions
Enjoy a more peaceful, orderly classroom that is free of common discipline problems. This course provides a step-by-step approach to effective, positive classroom discipline, and it's continually rated by teachers as one of the most valuable they've ever taken.

Click here to register.

Creating a Classroom Website

Click the register link to see available sessions
Get a teaching tool that will help you become a more modern, effective and dynamic teacher. This easy-to-understand course will help build a published classroom website complete with content, images, animation, links, and a blog.

Click here to register.

Teaching Smarter With SMART Boards

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn the unique and varied teaching applications of SMART technology. This course will help you master the use of SMART Board and SMART Notebook technology to create powerful, interactive lessons.

Click here to register.

Guided Reading: Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom

Click the register link to see available sessions
Lead your students through new creative ways of approaching increasingly challenging texts. This course will help you discover how to build a balanced literary framework that gets results with even the most challenged learners.

Click here to register.

Response to Intervention: Reading Strategies That Work

Click the register link to see available sessions
Discover reading strategies that work without the need for special pull-outs or extra attention. This course will introduce you to the tools needed to creatively help your struggling readers and make steady progress throughout the school year.

Click here to register.

Teaching Math: Grades 4-6

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn how to reinvent math instruction for grades 4-6. This course will show you how to get the students in your classroom excited about math through hands-on learning, inexpensive manipulatives, and real-world connections.

Click here to register.

Teaching Science: Grades 4-6

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn how to increase your effectiveness as a science teacher for the middle grades. This course will equip you with engaging experiments, practical worksheets, winning lesson plans, and direct instruction methods you can use immediately in your own classroom.

Click here to register.

Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn how to meet the diverse needs of students with disabilities in your classroom through easy, practical, and creative strategies developed by an experienced special educator. This course explores the total special education process and help you understand and empower your special needs students.

Click here to register.

Teaching Students with Autism: Strategies for Success

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn how to help your students with high-functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome unlock their full learning potential. This course will help you develop the knowledge and strategies you will need to ensure your students with autism succeed in the classroom and beyond.

Click here to register.

Teaching Students with ADHD

Click the register link to see available sessions
Learn the simple and practical steps you can take to help children with ADHD thrive in their school environment. This course will teach you how classroom space, structure, rules, and expectations can be adapted to suit the needs of students with ADHD and help them manage their own behavior.

Click here to register.

Spanish in the Classroom

Click the register link to see available sessions
Bridge the communication gap between you, your Spanish-speaking students and parents with essential Spanish for teachers. This course starts with Spanish basics and provides survival phrases for parent-teacher conferences so that you can discuss progress, deal with academic and behavior problems, and provide grades and homework.

Click here to register.

Counseling for College Prep

Click the register link to see available sessions
While the college-going experience may evolve, it is not going away. In this online course, you will prepare for a vital role where you support students' post-secondary aspirations as we also explore how critical your role is to the evolution of our communities.

Click here to register.

Creating Classroom Centers

Click the register link to see available sessions
Discover how easy and effective classroom centers can really be. This course introduces a simple system for creating a center schedule and shepherding students through the process. You will see what makes a truly successful center, what pitfalls to avoid, and gain tips for keeping your planning to a minimum. You will also learn strategies for managing students who finish early and discover how a regular center routine can increase your small-group instruction opportunities each day.

Click here to register.

Discover Sign Language

Click the register link to see available sessions
Gain confidence in your ability to sign with the Deaf community. This course immerses you in silence to help you gain an understanding of the perspective of the hearing impaired and uses videos to demonstrate not only how to make signs, but how to communicate with facial expression.

Click here to register.

Discover Sign Language II

Click the register link to see available sessions
Take your sign language skills to the next level with additional vocabulary, grammar lessons, and cultural information. Practice phrases and sentences by recording your own signing and uploading them for review. Not only that, but you will also continue to explore the world of Deaf culture by learning more about the history of Deaf culture in the United States, famous Deaf individuals, and the impact of recent laws and technology on the modern-day Deaf community. This course will help you build confidence in your ability to sign with the Deaf community.

Click here to register.

Teaching Methods for Solving Word Problems

Click the register link to see available sessions
In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course focuses on addressing challenges students encounter in math and offers solutions through two different methods for solving word problems. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. Participants will receive a downloadable PDF of the content, along with valuable graphic organizers and student resources to support implementation in the classroom.

Click here to register.

Understanding Adolescents

Click the register link to see available sessions
Uncover the secrets of the adolescent mind. This course provides valuable information on how adolescents feel, how their identities develop, and how you can best meet their needs.

Click here to register.
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