EDL 2900: VIR: Hybrid School Planning for Administrators

Seamlessly blend in-person and remote education to create dynamic learning environments through hybrid and hy-flex models. Master five domains: online teaching strategies, technology infrastructure, safety protocols, parent partnerships, and professional development.

February 1, 2025 to February 1, 2027

T&L 2900: ONL: Culture & Cuisine: World Food Patterns (2 Credits)

Explore the diverse cultures of the world through the universal language of food. This course examines global cultures through the lens of ethnic foods, culinary traditions, and food systems.

February 1, 2026 to November 1, 2027

T&L 2900: ONL: Exploring Implicit Bias and Talking About it Out Loud!

This course will talk about the impact of implicit bias on education, teaching, and general workplace practices while having participants explore their own personal bias.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: ONL: Improving Reading Comprehension Skills in Content Area Classes

The reading comprehension skills you will learn in this course are tools that good readers use, consciously or subconsciously, to help them make meaning from what they read. These strategies will not address decoding skills or the most basic of reading skills.

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T&L 2900: ONL: Poverty and the Brain

This course is designed to introduce you to the latest research on poverty and how it affects students' cognitive development and academic performance.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Advanced Classroom Management: Children as Change Agents

This course focuses on cognitive and cognitive-behavioral interventions (often lumped together under the rubric "social skills") with an emphasis on teaching students how to change and manage their own behavior.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Attention Deficit Disorder: Information & Interventions for Effective Teaching

The course helps you through the referral process when you feel a student needs services beyond what you are capable of or comfortable providing in your classroom environment. This course also lists resources for both teachers and parents who would like more help or information about ADD.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Autism Spectrum Disorder: Information & Effective Intervention Strategies

Welcome to Autism Spectrum Disorder, an interactive computer-based instruction course designed to help you achieve a better understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder, of intervention strategies to enhance communication and learning, and of methods for teaching more conventional behaviors.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Build School Communities: Brain Smart Classroom Management

This course helps teachers build genuine bonds between themselves and their students and between students and their classmates, to create "kindred classhomes" with a foundation of acceptance, respect, and shared purpose.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Drugs & Alcohol in Schools: Understanding Substance Use and Abuse

Drugs & Alcohol in Schools is an interactive computer-based instruction course, designed to give you a more comprehensive understanding of alcohol, drugs, and their influences in your classroom. Drugs & Alcohol in Schools provides a contextual framework for understanding what students may be experiencing through their own substance use or the impact of substance use around them.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Early Childhood, Infant & Toddler Mental Health: Issues & Information for Educators

This online course provides information that will help you to understand and identify your role as a child care provider, educator, and early childhood professional. Infant & Toddler Mental Health will provide you with research-based information on child development, attachment, temperament, and curriculum.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Early Childhood: Family-Centered Services

Early Childhood: Family-Centered Services seeks to promote the development of thoughtful, knowledgeable, effective educators for a diverse society. This online course provides conceptual frameworks for working with families of children from a variety of backgrounds.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Educational Assessment: Assessing Student Learning in the Classroom

This course is designed to further develop the attitudes, knowledge, and conceptual and technical skills required by teachers to help them identify the educational goals of students and to select or design and implement relevant, meaningful, and beneficial instructional strategies for effective learning by students with special needs.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Harassment, Bullying and Cyber-Intimidation in Schools

Harassment, Bullying & Cyber-Intimidation in Schools will discuss definitions and the personal, social, and legal ramifications associated with sexual harassment, bullying, and cyber-intimidation. This online course will address what we know about these troubling areas.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Inclusion: Working with Students with Special Needs in General Education Classrooms

Inclusion: Working with Students with Special Needs in General Education Classrooms was written to help teachers understand concepts and terms related to educating students in inclusive classrooms.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Reading & Writing in Content Area

This course offers instruction in teaching reading and writing in various subject matter fields at the secondary level.

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T&L 2900: VIR: Reading Fundamentals #1: An Introduction to Scientifically-Based Research

This course offers instruction in teaching reading and writing in various subject matter fields at the secondary level.

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T&L 2900: VIR: Reading Fundamentals #2: Laying the Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction

The purpose of this second course in this three-course series is to lay the foundation for effective reading instruction.

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T&L 2900: VIR: SCIENCE of READING: Systemic and Phonemic Reading Instruction

Reading requires proficiency in a range of skills from phonemic awareness, understanding context, asking questions, to analyzing types of text.

February 1, 2025 to February 1, 2027

T&L 2900: VIR: Six Traits of Writing Model: Teaching and Assessing

This course, Six Traits of Writing Model: Teaching & Assessing, will discuss why writing is important and why teachers should include writing as often as possible in all content areas.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Talented & Gifted: Working with High Achievers

Talented & Gifted is an interactive computer-based instruction course designed to help you achieve a better understanding of the talented and gifted student, methods used in identification, and strategies for instruction of these students in an inclusive classroom.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Diversity: Influences & Issues in the Classroom

This course will help you understand and identify differences in approaches to learning and performance, including different learning styles and ways in which students demonstrate learning.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Elementary Math Conceptually: A New Paradigm

Teaching Elementary Math Conceptually is an interactive computer-based instruction course designed to expand your methodology for teaching Mathematics. The course will explore an innovative teaching model that incorporates strategies for teaching concepts constructively and contextually.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Traumatized Child: The Effects of Stress, Trauma & Violence on Student Learning

Traumatized Child: The Effects of Stress, Trauma & Violence on Student Learning is an interactive computer-based instruction course designed to help you identify and effectively teach students affected by stress, trauma, and/or violence. This course teaches you to recognize the signs of stress, trauma or violence in students.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.

T&L 2900: VIR: Violence in Schools: Identification, Prevention & Intervention Strategies

Violence in Schools is an interactive computer-based instruction course designed to give you a better understanding of school violence and increase your interventions strategies. Violence in Schools provides a foundational understanding of violence and the motivational purposes behind aggression.

This offering is currently unavailable for registration.