Teacher Professional Development   

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will provide you with insights into understanding your adolescent students who have experienced trauma, offering examples in the 6th-12th grade classrooms. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. During the Trauma-Informed Teaching for Grades 6-12 course, you will explore three types of traumas (acute, chronic, and complex) and learn about the fresh START formula for trauma-informed pedagogy to help you support your students.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will provide you with insights into understanding your elementary students who have experienced trauma, offering examples in the PreK-5th-grade classrooms. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. During the Trauma-Informed Teaching for PreK-5th Grade course, you will explore three types of traumas and learn about the four C's (comfort, consistency, compassion, and connection) of trauma-informed pedagogy to help you support your students.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will help you learn about the definition of ADHD, types of ADHD, and signs and symptoms of ADHD you may observe in your classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will be provided with various strategies to support your students using the CALM (Culture, Accommodations, Learner-Centered, and Mindfulness) approach in this course.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will enable you to learn about the definition of dyslexia, common challenges dyslexic students may experience, and signs and symptoms of dyslexia that you may observe in your classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources.

You will be provided with various strategies to support your students using the AIM Method, a series of strategies used to work with students diagnosed with dyslexia, in this course.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, you will learn about the definition of a drop-out, early warning indicators for children at risk of dropping out, and the root causes of those indicators. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will be taught various strategies to support your students using the REACH OUT Method, a helpful tool teachers can use to ensure they are providing the right support to their students as a safety net within their classroom and place them on a path to success.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this Universal Design for Learning (UDL) course will help you understand how UDL's three components of engagement, representation, and action and expression are important in providing a differentiated learning environment where student choice and individuality are taken into account. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will acquire knowledge of UDL-aligned strategies and learn examples in various classrooms to help you build engaging UDL lesson plans for your students.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course helps you understand student cognitive thinking by examining the levels of the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to provide students with different graphic organizers for each level of Bloom's Taxonomy to scaffold thinking and support student cognition throughout your lessons.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you about the ABC method and how it can be used to identify the antecedent, behavior, and consequences you identify in your students. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to track behaviors and design a behavioral intervention plan to help improve student behaviors.

Learn how to use the Internet to make teaching easier for you and more relevant to your students. This course will teach you how to help your students locate valuable resources, improve classroom discussions, and safeguard personal information online.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will help you explore the three main types of assessments—pre-assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessment—and learn how to differentiate them for gifted students. Model Teaching's Mission is to Improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources.

The course covers the importance of different methods of assessment in education, how to use diverse assessment methods to effectively gauge and support the growth of gifted students, and the importance of differentiating the product of instruction in your class. You will also develop a plan for implementing and designing assessments, incorporating these strategies in your classroom, and ensuring that assessments foster higher-order thinking and continuously inform your instruction about your gifted students.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course teaches you how to create well-structured learning objectives, emphasizing the benefits of the Backward Design Model. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. It covers the components of objectives and provides tools and planning documents to help you align your objectives with state standards, leaving you with a unit plan of objectives for upcoming lessons.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course teaches you about the different levels of English Language Learner (ELL) proficiency and how you can support your students across any content area, regardless of their current proficiency levels. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn specific strategies and progress monitoring techniques to incorporate into your lessons for ELL support.

With an estimated 1.5 billion English language learners around the world, the demand for TEFL certified teachers is sky high. Earn your internationally recognized TEFL certificate in this online course, so you can teach English online, abroad or wherever the need arises. Once qualified, you will be able to confidently walk into a classroom and deliver a lesson to English language learners.

Worldwide, millions of learners work with TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) instructors to learn and better understand the English language. Earn your internationally recognized TEFL certificate in this online course, so you can teach English online, abroad, or wherever the need arises. You will also learn how to teach English to different audiences, including Business English Users and Young Learners. Once you have completed this course, you will be eligible to apply for TEFL teaching posts.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this quick teacher professional development course will provide you with an understanding of Bloom's Taxonomy and its connection to cognitive processes. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will explore the cognitive abilities linked to each level of Bloom's Taxonomy and discover how they align with your educational objectives or lesson goals. Gaining a thorough grasp of your lesson's standards will enable you to guide students in achieving or surpassing the cognitive thinking skills necessary for your instructional activities.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will provide you with an understanding of Webb's DOK (Depth of Knowledge) and its relevance to academic rigor. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources.

Your course will provide insights into the various activities corresponding to each DOK level and how each level aligns with educational standards, lesson objectives, assessments, and instructional activities. The course will also help you ensure that the activities that you design for your lessons challenge your students at the appropriate level of rigor.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course covers the uses of AI for education advancement. You will learn about popular AI tools that can be used to support your students in the classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. During this teacher professional development course, you will understand what AI is, how it is rapidly advancing, and learn about various student-focused AI tools that can be used in the classroom. You will consider ways in which to incorporate these AI tools into your specific content area and learn about how it can support students in content knowledge, writing skills, creativity, and assessments.

You will also explore the limitations of AI and how to ensure that students are utilizing technology in appropriate ways. The course will come with a planning document to help you organize what you learned and an AI tool guide that will discuss the features of nine popular AI tools you can use in your classroom now.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this teacher professional development course will provide you with an understanding of how artificial intelligence (AI) can be utilized to help improve your instruction and streamline your planning. Model Teaching's Mission is to Improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. Learn about the benefits of using AI for education with this training, which covers six currently available AI tools that can be utilized for lesson planning, assessment, differentiation, and communication with students and parents.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, in this course, you will learn how to create homework that aligns with classroom instruction to promote academic success in your classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. The course will cover the four purposes of homework and specific steps for building assignments so that students can successfully learn your classroom content.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course aims to enhance your comprehension of prevalent logical fallacies, also called argument fallacies, you may see within the classroom and help provide ideas to address them in your classroom activities. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will explore what makes a sound argument and then identify 12 common fallacies students might encounter or use as part of a flawed argument.

En este curso CDA en línea, mejorarás tus habilidades de inglés y aprenderás vocabulario académico y conceptos que te prepararán para el entrenamiento y la carrera de Asociado en Desarrollo Infantil® (CDA).

Como parte de este curso CDA, tendrás acceso a una biblioteca de contenido para todas las áreas profesionales, además de cursos creados específicamente para la certificación de Asociado en Desarrollo Infantil los cuales están acordes con los conocimientos de inglés que necesitarás a medida que avanzas en tu programa de capacitación.

Para comenzar tu programa, deberás tomar la Evaluación de Competencia, también conocida como el PA. El PA es una evaluación de nivelación, y nos ayuda a saber el nivel de inglés que tienes actualmente. Si tu puntuación en el PA fue Beginner, High Beginner, Low Intermediate o Intermediate, empezarás tu programa EnGen trabajando primero en tus habilidades de inglés.

Cuando alcances el nivel High Intermediate, podrás inscribirte en tu curso CDA. Volverás a realizar el PA cada 60 días.

Para que puedas comenzar tu programa de formación de CDA en inglés, necesitarás alcanzar al menos el nivel High Intermediate en la evaluación de competencia dentro de los seis meses posteriores a la inscripción.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you about specific assessments you can provide in an online learning environment. Model Teaching's mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn methods for evaluating and tracking student progress to provide feedback to your students virtually.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you a step-by-step guide for crafting behavior contracts tailored to the needs of a student in your classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will be introduced to methods for choosing reinforcers, methods for tracking student progress, and strategies for successfully designing and implementing a behavior contract into your classroom.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this Quick Course will teach you how to analyze common testing behaviors in students. Model Teaching's Mission is to Improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will then learn methods for tracking and supporting student behaviors and how to teach an answer justification process to assist students in selecting the correct answer choices on assessments.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this teacher professionalism-focused course will teach you about the common ethical standards you can uphold to ensure that you are maintaining boundaries, communicating appropriately, and presenting yourself professionally in your classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to Improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources.

You will reflect on your own educator code of conduct utilized by your school or district and consider areas of strength and areas for improvement in your daily practices. The course comes with a downloadable PDF of the content, videos, quizzes, and a self-reflection checklist to help you plan for personal improvement.

Well-written student essays begin with a carefully crafted writing prompt, the first step in providing effective support for each of your students. In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course teaches you five types of writing prompts you can introduce to your students: narrative, creative, expository, persuasive, and reading response. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn a structure for developing each writing prompt and be provided examples aligned with expectations across grade levels, from kindergarten through twelfth grade.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this teacher professional development course will provide you with station activities and strategies to boost reading and writing fluency for various student levels. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn about various methods to improve fluency, including support for phonics, word work, sight words, reading fluency, and writing fluency. By the end of the course, you will have an activity plan for various stations to support each of your student groups.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you how to set up your classroom for success to effectively check for and then correct any student misunderstandings in math concepts from kindergarten through sixth grade. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to foster a positive classroom environment, evaluate student understanding of math concepts, identify math misconceptions, and then design specific instructional strategies to address any student misunderstandings.

This exciting course is designed to provide you with a working knowledge of early childhood education and prepare you for the Child Development Associate® (CDA) certification process of the Council for Professional Recognition with content review, assessment practice, and portfolio preparation.

The course will include a thorough introduction to early childhood education. Topics covered include how children learn and grow, safe and healthy environments, physical and cognitive growth, social and emotional development, guidance, relationships with families, creativity and the young child, play, research-based planning of developmentally and culturally appropriate curriculums, and activities, program management, and professionalism. With an integrated approach to child development, students will learn the principles of child growth and development from birth through age five and how they align with the eight CDA competencies and National Association of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) professional standards.

In a guided step-by-step process, you will culminate your learning experience by gathering all your assignments to build a portfolio and receiving instructor feedback from a certified CDA Professional Development (PD) Specialist™ to be well prepared for the CDA Verification Visit. Upon course completion, you will be ready for your early childhood education certification.

Our Child Development Associate course offers a unique opportunity to learn two pathways for the price of one, teaching both infant/toddler and preschool-age topics and techniques. Moreover, within two years of completing this comprehensive online course, you are eligible to receive assistance in preparing for your second pathway certification, including portfolio preparation and exam practice questions. This provides you with greater flexibility and opportunity for your career—all without any additional out-of-pocket expenses.

This exciting course is designed to provide you with a working knowledge of early childhood education and prepare you for the Child Development Associate® (CDA) certification process of the Council for Professional Recognition with content review, assessment practice, and portfolio preparation.

The course will include a thorough introduction to early childhood education. Topics covered include how children learn and grow, safe and healthy environments, physical and cognitive growth, social and emotional development, guidance, relationships with families, creativity and the young child, play, research-based planning of developmentally and culturally appropriate curriculums, and activities, program management, and professionalism. With an integrated approach to child development, students will learn the principles of child growth and development from birth through age five and how they align with the eight CDA competencies and National Association of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) professional standards.

In a guided step-by-step process, you will culminate your learning experience by gathering all your assignments to build a portfolio and receiving instructor feedback from a certified CDA Professional Development (PD) Specialist™ to be well prepared for the CDA Verification Visit. Upon course completion, you will be ready for your early childhood education certification. This course offers enrollment with or without a voucher. The voucher covers the fee/cost to sit for the certifying exam upon eligibility.

Our Child Development Associate course offers a unique opportunity to learn two pathways for the price of one, teaching both infant/toddler and preschool-age topics and techniques. Moreover, within two years of completing this comprehensive online course, you are eligible to receive assistance in preparing for your second pathway certification, including portfolio preparation and exam practice questions. This provides you with greater flexibility and opportunity for your career—all without any additional out-of-pocket expenses.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, you will learn how to design effective assessments that are well-aligned with your learning objectives in this comprehensive course. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn to design four different types of assessments, evaluate specific assessment items that can be crafted to check for student learning, and build a detailed assessment plan ready for implementation in your classroom.

The claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) writing strategy is an important concept to teach your budding scientists because it helps students analyze scientific experiments, correctly make a claim, and generate a conclusion.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this teacher professional development course provides a comprehensive guide to designing effective CER lessons and includes templates, rubrics, worksheets, and examples to ensure successful implementation into your upcoming science lessons. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources.

Creating predictable and consistent systems in your classroom helps to reinforce class expectations and fosters a more positive classroom culture, resulting in more student learning. In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course provides specific strategies over six different processes that can be implemented and established in your classroom as part of your classroom management plan. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to create a more predictable environment that supports you in minimizing distractions and maximizing instructional time.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course provides a detailed look into how you can support your English Language Learners (ELLs) as they work to improve their writing skills. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to teach and support ELL students in each part of the writing process, from pre-writing and drafting to post-writing. You will also learn how to monitor and evaluate writing progress over time, ensuring that all students can be academically successful in your classroom.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this teacher professional development course teaches you how to incorporate collaborative learning in the classroom and provides you with guidance and resources for implementation. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn six common collaborative learning models that you can incorporate into various lessons in your classroom. Collaborative learning can be a valuable tool to support engagement and discourse, but proper planning is essential to implement strong lesson activities.

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.

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.

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, links, and a blog.

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, links, and a blog.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course allows you to explore the needs of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to thrive in a structured and predictable environment. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will identify improvements in your classroom and analyze strategies that can support your students.

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.

Learn how to create engaging, easy-to-maintain classroom center activities that boost independent learning while increasing small-group instruction time.

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.

In this professional development course for teachers, you'll get the training you need to reach the diverse mix of students you face every day by learning proven strategies that turn diversity into opportunity.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will guide you in understanding the characteristics of giftedness and the importance of fostering creativity in your classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to Improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn creative strategies like brainstorming, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) challenges, and passion projects.

You will also learn how to establish a classroom environment that promotes creative activities for students. The course comes with a PDF of the content and a strategy plan template to help you prepare for implementing creativity into your classroom activities.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this teacher professional development course has been designed to provide you with the necessary tools and strategies to create a well-rounded substitute teacher folder. Model Teaching's mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. In the event of your absence, the substitute folder you create will serve as a seamless transition for your students so that learning is uninterrupted and your substitute teacher can successfully guide your students.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course provides you with insights into Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and their importance in generating clear and explicit goals for your students to ensure their academic and behavioral growth. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn about the main components of an IEP and then analyze what makes effective goals. You will also learn the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound) goal process for generating clear goals for your students that are measurable over time.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this quick course will help you understand the common diagnostic assessments you can provide to your students. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn about the components that make up a strong diagnostic assessment and then receive guidance on what you can do with the results. The course will help you purposefully plan for how you will utilize diagnostic assessments in your classroom.

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 immediately put these strategies to use in your own classroom.

Improve your ability to teach diverse learners with real-world examples from elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.

Learn effective strategies for differentiating assessments and empowering every student in your class to feel success. This course explores strategies and real-life examples of how differentiated assessment provides direction for improvement, promotes confidence, and motivates your learners to do their best.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this one-hour course will teach you about diverse student populations, including educationally disadvantaged and at-risk students. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how understanding Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs will assist you in providing the right support strategies to students who need it most.

Discover the tools you need to help any student who comes through your door. This course provides tips for fostering the reading, writing, and math skills of students with special needs and techniques for helping these learners behave appropriately and make friends in your classroom.

Explore common disabilities you will encounter in the classroom and master techniques for promoting academic, behavioral, and social skills in students with special needs.

Help your children become proficient speakers and thinkers. This course provides ways to stimulate your child's continued speech, brain, and language development in enjoyable, age-appropriate, and natural ways.

Help your children become proficient speakers and thinkers. This course provides ways to stimulate your child's continued speech, brain, and language development in enjoyable, age-appropriate, and natural ways.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you how to implement the model of explicit instruction in your classroom for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. During your training, you will learn how to utilize the explicit instruction model in your classroom by planning for a skill and goal to focus on within your lesson and using support strategies to improve reading in your student groups.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course guides you through the entire expository writing process, covering topics like expository vs. narrative writing, planning, drafting, grammar, editing, and assessment. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. It will equip you with all the knowledge and strategies to effectively teach writing skills to your 4th-8th-grade students.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will provide you with the guidance and structure to implement effective Flipped Learning lessons into your classroom by teaching you how to provide at-home online learning and in-class rigorous activities to students. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. Utilizing Flipped Learning can be an effective approach to promoting deeper thinking and rigor during your in-class activities.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this quick course highlights the importance of divergent thinking and how it relates to creativity. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to support creativity through divergent thinking using the strategies, activities, and resources provided within this course.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will provide you with an understanding of English Language Learners (ELLs) by evaluating their proficiency levels. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will use that information to help you understand flexible grouping methods that you can utilize with your students to support them in your lessons.

A growth mindset is an important characteristic when attempting to pursue and tackle challenging tasks. For your Gifted and Talented (GT) students, having a growth mindset can set them up for success in your class and the future. In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this GT course will teach you how to implement a growth mindset and support your students throughout your lesson activities. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources.

Gain a classroom full of students who can negotiate increasingly challenging texts with unprecedented fluency. This class provides differentiated instruction tactics to better understand how your students learn and how to apply those tactics within the guided reading framework.

Get the professional development training you need to improve student literacy.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course teaches you how to effectively group students based on their reading levels. It provides you with specific strategies for various reading levels and guides you on how to collect and analyze reading assessment data. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. The course will help you create a personalized guided reading plan for your student or group of students in an upcoming lesson.

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.

Learn creative ways to bring differentiated instruction and guided reading to life in your classroom.

Discover how to homeschool your children in a way that ensures they get what they need both academically and socially. This course offers a lot of information and guidance to plot your homeschooling course for years to come.

Discover how to homeschool your children in a way that ensures they get what they need both academically and socially. This course offers a lot of information and guidance to plot your homeschooling course for years to come.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you about inquiry-based learning, how it can be used in the classroom, and how to plan for rigorous lessons. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn the roles of the teacher and the student in a true inquiry-based classroom and then plan for rigorous questions and lesson activities to support inquiry.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will help you explore how to build a strong home-to-school connection using both social-emotional and academic strategies to connect with your students' families. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to clearly, frequently, and positively communicate with families and navigate potential challenges.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this comprehensive course covers specific instructional strategies and learning activities, guiding you to select the most suitable ones for your unit, aligning with your assessments and objectives. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. During your course, you will learn five instructional strategies and explore active versus passive learning to build a unit plan for your classroom.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you the four components of planning for an effective field trip, the methods to ensure your content standards are integrated into the field trip, and ideas for engagement through the experience. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will know exactly what you need to do before, during, and after the field trip to ensure it is effective, impactful, and aligned with your class lessons.

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

In this professional development course for teachers, you will learn about technology integration in the classroom and gain the skills needed to use tools like apps, assistive technology, and blogs effectively.

Integrating technology in the classroom is valuable but can also be challenging as you plan your lessons. In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course teaches you five blended learning models that support a broad audience of teachers, from novices to experienced educators. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. During your training, you will learn how to effectively design a lesson with purposeful technology integration in mind so that you can improve content delivery and student learning in your classroom.

Monitoring your students regularly can help you track student progress and address misunderstandings. In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you how to monitor students, utilize data trackers during instruction, and analyze data to support your students. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, in this course, you will learn some introductory methods to document student social and academic behaviors in the classroom and why documentation is important to student success. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will analyze documentation methods and then select from multiple provided templates to build your documentation plan.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you the basics of building online lessons for your class, including how to build your online community, support collaboration and feedback, and communicate with your students. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. The course will teach you about the tools you may need and the structure you should consider building effective online lessons.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course offers an overview of how classroom instruction can support response to intervention, delving into the process of building your Response to Intervention (RTI) tiers and providing insight into progress monitoring as you implement the RTI model into your classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will leave this course better able to plan academic interventions and improve your students' academic performance through the use of regular progress monitoring.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will help you learn how to begin utilizing literacy stations in your classroom, covering all aspects of implementation, like establishing expectations, grouping students, selecting appropriate activities, assessing progress, and providing differentiated tasks to each of your student groups. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources.

As you progress through this course, the curriculum guides you in creating a literacy station action plan and provides a set of ready-to-use printable activities for immediate station implementation.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will introduce you to eight components of professionalism that you can analyze to help prepare you to improve in areas of professionalism. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will be able to evaluate the benefits of modeling professionalism on campus and be guided through a self-assessment to help you identify an action plan for improvement.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course emphasizes the significance of upholding professional boundaries with your students. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources.

You will learn about four different types of boundaries and plan for specific ways that you can always maintain professional boundaries in the classroom.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will review with you the varied responsibilities you have as a teacher and provide strategies for improving efficiency to tackle those tasks during your planning time. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn about time-saving tools and effective team collaboration methods, among other important strategies you can implement.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will help you learn how to begin utilizing math stations in your classroom, covering all aspects of implementation, like establishing expectations, grouping students, selecting appropriate activities, assessing progress, and providing differentiated tasks to each of your student groups. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. The course guides you in creating a math stations action plan and provides a set of ready-to-use printable activities for immediate station implementation.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course guides you in measuring students' writing growth through holistic and analytic rubrics so that you can effectively monitor student growth in a standardized manner. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will explore writing expectations for each grade level, from K-3, and learn how to create your own holistic and analytic rubrics that match your expectations of your student's writing.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course explores the memory palace mnemonic tool and how it can assist you in memorizing complex topics using vivid imagery. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn about how to implement this idea in your classroom and support your students in improving their memorization strategies.

This course will teach you how to save time by reading faster and with better comprehension.

Save yourself hours of time and increase your productivity by learning to read faster and with better comprehension. This course will help you master the skills and techniques to quickly read through the daily flood of emails, articles and reports by becoming a proficient speed-reader.

Incorporating physical activity into the classroom has been shown to improve academics, reduce stress, and improve mood, among other positive characteristics.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this teacher professional development course will teach you specific ideas for incorporating movement into your classroom by choosing from activities in the provided GETUP guide: games, energy breaks, team building, utilization of space, and physical challenges. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. This course also includes a downloadable PDF of the course content and the GETUP guide of activities and ideas to choose from for your upcoming lesson implementation.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course teaches you the advantages of implementing peer tutoring strategies for English Language Learners (ELLs) in various subjects, focusing on literacy and math skills to address academic challenges and promote peer support. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn the step-by-step process of how to design a peer tutoring program and how to implement it in your classroom or on campus.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will provide you with a step-by-step plan of how to differentiate instruction in your classroom, covering the analysis of content standards, differentiation strategies, and methods for assessing and documenting student progress. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. By the end of the course, you will have a customized differentiation plan and valuable classroom resources at your disposal.

Scientific investigations allow students to more deeply connect with science concepts in a lab setting. In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you how to design a question aligned with your content goals, select and modify lab activities, and design pre- and post-lab activities to reinforce learning. Model Teaching's Mission is to Improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to plan for student and teacher actions within each activity and design a lab that follows the scientific method.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course equips you with a plan for implementing action research in your classroom through a six-step process. Model Teaching's mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn to identify classroom problems, craft research questions, conduct literature reviews, and employ qualitative and quantitative research methods for data collection and analysis, concluding with how to share results and future steps.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course teaches you how to design activities that foster productive struggle in students. Model Teaching's mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will also learn about specific strategies you can use to help students overcome challenges and practice their skills for success.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will support you in assessing your professionalism by examining seven personality traits. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will be guided through a self-analysis to help you identify areas for improvement and work on specific strategies to improve your professionalism in an area of identified need.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course is a step-by-step guide to Project-Based Learning (PBL) that covers its definition, common misconceptions, and critical steps in designing a PBL cycle. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. By the end of the course, you will have a PBL cycle plan ready for implementation, along with valuable templates and resources for use in your classroom.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this teacher professional development course provides a formula for giving positive and improvement feedback derived from specific evidence observed in the classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. During this student feedback course, you will practice collecting evidence aligned with specific performance criteria, generating feedback, and planning student conferences to help your students improve their performance over time in your classroom.

Learn how a child becomes literate from the moment of birth. This course allows you to explore the development of reading and writing from infancy to early school years as you discover what problems to look for and how to assist struggling young readers.

Learn how to support reading and writing skills in young learners.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course emphasizes the value that rote memorization can play in a well-rounded education. Model Teaching's mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to teach the rote memorization strategy, support students in recitation, and monitor the progress of your students' oral presentations.

Discover reading strategies that work without the need for special pull-outs or extra attention. This course will introduce you to some creative tools that will help your struggling readers make steady progress throughout the school year.

Learn response to intervention (RTI) strategies that ensure the struggling readers in your classroom get the help and education they need.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course explains retrieval practice and its relevance in math education. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to implement retrieval practice, add on modifications to retrieval practice, and structure specific activities to support retrieval practice in your math classroom.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will address the challenges English Language Learners (ELLs) face with unfamiliar vocabulary and offer methods for support in your classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn a variety of vocabulary strategies that can be implemented immediately in your classroom using the provided vocabulary templates in this course.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course explains the five levels of student engagement and offers strategies for promoting higher-level behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources.

The comprehensive course package includes a downloadable PDF, quizzes and videos to test your knowledge, and a student engagement planning resource for immediate classroom implementation.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will help you examine some common characteristics of gifted students—and how those traits can influence social-emotional development. Model Teaching's mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn specific strategies you can easily implement into your classroom to help support your gifted student.

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.

Learn the step-by-step approach to an orderly classroom in this course designed by a veteran teacher.

Gain the teacher training you need to deal effectively with serious discipline problems and help even the most challenging students make more responsible choices. This course offers a step-by-step approach to discipline and numerous real-life examples clearly showing you how to put the ideas into action.

In this professional development course, you'll get the teacher training you need to deal effectively with serious discipline problems and help even the most challenging students you're teaching make more responsible choices.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course equips you with the knowledge to select and apply co-teaching models effectively in your classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. The course will cover the six instructional models of co-teaching and the eight components of successful co-teaching. Your learning journey will guide you through comprehensive planning, culminating in an action plan for a co-teaching lesson supported by valuable planning resources.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course teaches you the importance of regular checks for understanding (CFUs) throughout your lesson. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn about verbal, written, and demonstration CFUs and specific strategies you can choose from throughout the day.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will enable you to explore the five components of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and gain insights into how to support your students with various strategies. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. By the end of the course, you will have a personalized SEL plan and access to resources ready to be used in your classroom.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course teaches you classroom management through a student-led approach by addressing the designing of expectations and natural consequences in your classroom. Model Teaching's mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will also learn how to track behaviors, hold students accountable, and communicate behavioral issues and progress to families and campus specialists.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will help you understand your middle school students' reading behaviors and how to assess their reading levels and progress. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. It will provide you with practical strategies and activities to teach "within the text" and "beyond the text" reading behaviors.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will help you understand your elementary students' reading behaviors and how to assess their reading levels and progress. Model Teaching's mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. The course will provide you with practical strategies and activities to teach "within the text" and "beyond the text" reading behaviors.

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.

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.

Brain breaks are intentional, short pauses from academic content when a mental break may be needed. Brain breaks can be effective for re-engaging students in the lesson content and provide a momentary mental respite from complex tasks.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you about the different types of brain breaks you can introduce to your students and help you build an implementation plan for brain breaks in classroom. Model Teaching's Mission is to Improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. Our teacher professional development course comes with a downloadable PDF of the content and a BOOST planning template that helps you plan for implementation by keeping in mind the break activity type, your course objective, optimal scheduling, set-up and support, and time.

Schools need paraprofessionals! This course will prepare you for the ETS ParaPro Assessment exam, so you can work as a teacher's aide. You'll learn how these paraprofessional educators assist with classroom instruction and build a foundation in educational principles like classroom management. Most importantly, you'll develop strategies to support students of different learning abilities in reading, writing, and math.

Learn the most powerful techniques for reaching and motivating adult learners. This course will teach you the latest and greatest educational methods to create the perfect student-centered classroom.

Learn powerful techniques for reaching and motivating adult learners in today's student-centered classroom.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, in this course, you will analyze problem-based learning (PBL) science activities and how you can support students in creating a lab report that follows a scientific method. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. The lab report structure you help your students follow will help guide and enhance scientific investigations in your lessons and will improve scientific thinking in your students.

Learn the latest teaching strategies and techniques for helping secondary students achieve their dreams. This course will teach you how to differentiate instruction, manage a classroom, develop assessment strategies, gain parental support, and teach social-emotional skills that will help your students succeed in school and in life.

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.

Reinvent math instruction for grades 4-6 by bringing hands-on learning, inexpensive manipulatives, and real-world connections into your classroom.

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.

Learn how to develop creative and balanced preschool lesson plans for every month of the school year. This course will equip you with a solid lesson plan template, plus over 100 engaging and interchangeable activities for circle-discussion, art, literacy, motor skills, science, and music.

In this course on teaching preschoolers, you will learn how to come up with creative and balanced preschool lesson plans for every month of the school year.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will help you learn about the importance of teaching students text annotation strategies to assist them in a variety of ways- from close reading and text analysis to answering questions for assessments. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will be provided with strategies, tools, and resources to support your students in improving their annotation skills to better interact with texts.

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.

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.

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.

Master the use of SMART Board and SMART Notebook technology so you can create powerful interactive lessons that capture your students' attention.

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.

Learn practical strategies for helping children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) succeed in school.

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.

Help your students with high-functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome unlock their potential in the classroom.

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.

Learn how to successfully meet the diverse needs of students with learning disabilities in your classroom.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will teach you how to integrate some simple study skills into your lesson using a method called the notecard system. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to create objective-aligned questions that can be organized into a set of notecards for students to study. You will also learn some support strategies to help students practice their studying skills.

Learn how to motivate and facilitate developing writers from an experienced educator. This course provides an overview of the writing basics and demonstrate how to organize materials and lessons to establish an inviting and supportive writing environment for middle grade students.

In this teacher-training course, you'll learn from an experienced educator how to motivate and assist developing writers.

Learn how to nurture student writers in the early elementary classroom and teach them skills that will be useful for a lifetime. This course examines the developmental stages of writing and show you how to foster your students' skills and growth as young authors.

Learn how to nurture student writers in the early elementary classroom.

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.

Enrich your teaching talents and encourage your students' creative thinking as you learn to turn your classroom into a creative classroom.

Learn how to combine two powerful educational approaches so you can enable every student in your classroom to succeed. This course shows you how to use Differentiated Instruction and Response to Intervention in your day-to-day classroom teaching and lesson planning.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, his course will help you become more familiar with the Gradual Release of Responsibility—an instructional model that gradually moves the responsibility of learning from the teacher to the student. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will analyze each component of this model and explore the roles of the teacher and the students in interacting with the lesson content.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this quick course will teach you how to utilize poster presentations in your gifted and talented science classroom to support critical reasoning. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn how to construct your lab activities to guide students toward data collection, how to teach data analysis, and how to construct gallery walk presentations of individual student groups' scientific conclusions.

The course also comes with a poster template and planning guide to provide to your students as resources in this activity.

In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course will assist you in a plan for transitioning traditional teaching to an online format, whether for a few lessons in a blended learning approach or within a complete shift to virtual instruction. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. The course will cover lesson and assessment adaptation, differentiation, and administrative streamlining by introducing the SAMR model for effective technology integration.

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.

Uncover the secrets of the adolescent mind. This course helps you gain valuable information on how adolescents feel, how their identities develop, and how you can best meet their needs.

Learn how to use the Internet to make teaching easier for you and more relevant to your students. This course will teach you how to help your students locate valuable resources, improve classroom discussions, and safeguard personal information online.