Teacher Professional Development   

This course will teach you how to recognize potential signs of trauma in adolescents and give you specific strategies to help support students within a trauma-informed classroom.

This course will teach you how to recognize potential signs of trauma in elementary students and give you specific strategies to help support students within a trauma-informed classroom.

This course will help you better understand your students who been diagnosed with ADHD. You will learn about the various types of ADHD, common symptoms, and general classroom strategies you can choose from to foster student success.

This course will help you better understand your students who have been diagnosed with dyslexia. You will learn about the common challenges for students with dyslexia, common symptoms you may observe in class, and general classroom strategies you can choose from to foster student success.

This course will help you better understand your students who may be at risk of dropping out. You will learn about the early warning indicators, their root causes, and strategies you can choose from to foster student success.

This quick course provides an overview of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and strategies to help you create inclusive classroom lessons.

This course will help you apply various graphic organizers to each level of the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy to scaffold student thinking and support academic progress.

This course will teach you how to collect data on student behavior to identify their functions. You will use the information to help you design an effective intervention plan to address inappropriate behaviors.

Discover how you can use the Internet to make teaching easier for you and more relevant to your students.

Explore the three main types of assessments—pre-assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessment—and learn how to design assessments to measure the growth and progress of your gifted students. You will also learn how to use the data from assessments to inform your instruction and adjust the level of rigor for more effective learning and growth in your classroom.

This course teaches you how to analyze your state or district standards to construct effective learning objectives as the first step in the Backwards Design Model of lesson planning.

You will learn about the importance of writing practice for your English Language Learners (ELL) and analyze six effective strategies you can integrate into any lesson, regardless of content area.

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.

This course will teach you about Bloom's Taxonomy and provide specific methods you can use to guide students in mastering the essential cognitive skills for your lessons.

This course will teach you about Webb's DOK (Depth of Knowledge) and provide you with specific methods you can use to guide students in mastering activities at the appropriate cognitive level for your lessons.

This teacher professional development course will provide you with an overview of the benefits and limitations of allowing students access to artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom, covering the tools that can be used for enhancing student achievement while addressing issues like academic dishonesty.

This course will teach you how to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) in your planning by focusing on concepts like lesson planning, assessment, differentiation, and communication to enhance your instructional efficiency and quality.

This course will teach you how to design homework assignments that align with classroom instruction to support your students' academic achievement.

This course provides you with an overview of common logical fallacies that students may encounter in the classroom and in their everyday lives. You will learn examples and techniques to address these fallacies as a natural extension of your classroom instruction.

Durante este curso, mejorarás tu inglés y aprenderás valiosas habilidades profesionales en la carrera de Asociado en Desarrollo Infantil. Aprende los principios del desarrollo infantil desde el nacimiento hasta los cinco años y su relación con las ocho competencias del CDA, así como los estándares profesionales de la Asociación Nacional para la Educación de Niños Pequeños.

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.

This course will introduce you to some specific assessment tools and strategies to support you in evaluating student learning in an online environment.

This course will provide you with guidance on how to create a behavior contract for students, including choosing reinforcers, tracking methods, and implementation strategies.

This course will provide you with a method for analyzing, supporting, and teaching testing behaviors so that students can perform their best on assessments.

This course will provide you with an overview of how to establish boundaries in your classroom, communicate properly with parents, students, and colleagues, and maintain professionalism in the classroom and on campus.

This course will teach you how to design five types of writing prompts (narrative, creative, expository, persuasive, and reading response) using a structured approach and grade-level-aligned examples.

This rewarding course will teach you how to support your students' reading and writing fluency through specific grouping strategies and station activities, focused on key areas of effective literacy instruction.

This course will teach you how to create a positive classroom culture, check student understanding, and identify and address common math misconceptions for K-6th grade math concepts.

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.

Learn the principles of child growth and development from birth through age five and how they align with the eight Child Development Associate® (CDA) competencies and National Association of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) professional standards. The Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Associate Certification Training course will prepare you to take the Microsoft Office Specialist certification exams for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

This comprehensive course will teach you about different types of assessments you can administer to your students, how to design assessment items that are well-aligned with your lesson objectives, and how to build a detailed plan to help you measure student progress.

Help your students think like scientists by teaching them the claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) writing process. This course will provide you with a step-by-step plan for designing a CER writing lesson specific to your science classes.

This rewarding course will teach you about six efficient classroom processes that you can implement as part of your classroom management plan to help you create a more predictable and positive learning environment.

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By the end of the course bundle, you will have a plan that will give you the confidence to leverage technology and step out on your own to achieve your dreams!

This course will teach you how to support your English Language Learners throughout the pre-writing, drafting, and post-writing process.

This course will teach you six common collaborative learning models that you can implement immediately into your classroom to increase student engagement and discourse.

Counseling for College Prep is an insightful course for high school counselors and professionals looking for ways to help students of all backgrounds graduate. It goes beyond graduation to post-secondary planning and tools and resources to support student success.

Counseling for College Prep is an insightful course for high school counselors and professionals looking for ways to help students of all backgrounds graduate. It goes beyond graduation to post-secondary planning and tools and resources to support student success.

Learn how to create a classroom website and how having one can make you a more effective and dynamic teacher.

Learn how to create a classroom website and how having one can make you a more effective and dynamic teacher.

This course will teach you about the importance of creating a predictable and structured environment for students with Autism and offers strategies to help you reduce their anxiety and improve behavior.

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

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

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 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.

This course will teach you about the characteristics of giftedness and how fostering creativity should be an important component in your classroom. It will also help you acquire simple activities you can incorporate into your lessons to support creativity in your gifted students.

This important course will assist you in designing a robust substitute teacher folder for effective lesson delivery during your absence, with a checklist tool to ensure that all the important components of your substitute folder are available.

This brief course offers guidance in both understanding and designing effective IEP (Individualized Education Plan) goals for your students with special needs. The course covers key components of effective IEP goals and provides insights into implementing these ideas in your classroom.

This quick course will teach you why diagnostic assessments are important and how you can utilize them in your classroom to improve student performance.

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

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

Learn effective strategies for differentiating your assessments and empowering every student in your class to succeed.

This course will define the term diverse student populations and focus on the categories of educationally disadvantaged students and at-risk students. You will learn specific strategies and a method for planning to support their diverse needs in your classroom.

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Whether you're a new teacher or seasoned veteran, these fundamental courses will help you gain control of your classroom and more effectively teach all learner types.

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

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

Enrich the lives of your children by learning fun and natural ways to help them become proficient speakers and thinkers.

Enrich the lives of your children by learning fun and natural ways to help them become proficient speakers and thinkers.

This course teaches you the process for explicit instruction in elementary reading, including choosing the skills to focus on, selecting a goal, choosing appropriate strategies, and planning for implementation.

Learn the entire expository writing process to teach and support your 4th- 8th-grade classroom successfully. The course offers a structure for teaching writing, strategies to support learning, and guidance on lesson planning.

This course will teach you how to design lesson plans that combine at-home online learning with in-class activities that will enhance student learning and progress.

This course will help you explore divergent thinking's role in creativity and provide ready-to-use activities and resources to help you foster creativity in your students.

In this course, you will learn about English Language Learners (ELLs) and their proficiency levels to explore how to properly group students using flexible grouping methods.

This course will teach you the benefits of having a growth mindset and how important it is to teach your Gifted and Talented students. The course will provide you with the tools and resources to support your students in developing and enhancing a growth mindset outlook.

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

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

This course will teach you how to deliver a guided reading lesson by helping you understand various reading levels, implement strategies to support students at their appropriate level, and assess progress using a variety of tools.

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

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.

Discover how to homeschool your children in a way that ensures they get what they need both academically and socially.

This course will teach you how to support students in developing critical thinking skills through a specific inquiry-based lesson structure that increases the rigor of your lesson activities.

This course will teach you how to foster home-to-school connections with your students' families by offering various insights, tools, and strategies for parent engagement.

This course will teach you about five different methods you can choose for your classroom based on your planned objectives and assessments for your content standards.

This course will teach you components of the planning process, methods for content integration, and ideas for engagement when designing and planning for an impactful field trip.

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.

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.

This course will teach you how to select from the five main blended learning models so that you can build a structured lesson that integrates technology into your classroom through a blended learning approach.

This course will provide you with an introduction into how to actively monitor your students during instruction, and how you can collect and analyze data to inform you about student progress for future lessons.

This introductory course will teach you simple methods for documenting academic and social behaviors in your classroom to set up a plan for student success.

This introductory course will teach you how to transition your lessons to online instruction, covering lesson planning, security, community, communication, equity, and choosing suitable online platforms.

This course provides you with an introductory look at how to structure a successful response to intervention (RTI) to support your students academically. It also offers an overview of how classroom instruction can support RTI, delving into the process, its benefits for academic performance, and the role of differentiated instruction.

This course will teach you everything you need to know to get started implementing literacy stations in your classroom. You will learn methods for grouping students, ideas for activities to include in each station, and actionable steps for assessment in this course.

This course will introduce you to eight components of professionalism in teaching and guide you in self-reflection on your areas of strength and areas for improvement so you can work to enhance professionalism and teaching performance in your classroom.

This course stresses the importance of maintaining professional boundaries with students, providing key insights for fostering healthy teacher-student relationships.

This course will provide you with specific strategies to effectively streamline your daily tasks and optimize your planning time.

This course will teach you everything you need to know to get started implementing math stations in your classroom. You will learn methods for grouping students, ideas for activities to include in each station, and actionable steps for assessment in this course.

This course will teach you about typical writing expectations for your K-3students, introduce common writing tasks, and teach you how to design holistic and analytic rubrics to track student progress over time.

This quick course teaches you the memory palace technique for memorizing details and facts. You will learn a method for teaching this strategy to your students as they learn to master the Memory Palace technique.

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

Acclaimed speed reading expert teaches you how to save yourself time by reading faster with better comprehension.

Learn about the benefits of incorporating movement into your classroom lessons to support student learning and management. You will explore the benefits that physical activity can have on your students' academic and emotional well-being and acquire specific ideas for incorporating movement into your lessons.

This course will teach you everything you need to know to implement peer tutoring as a strategy to support your English Language Learners.

This course will teach you effective methods of differentiation by analyzing your grade-level expectations, applying Bloom's Taxonomy and Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) to ensure rigor, and using various assessment methods as a tool in your lesson planning.

This course will provide you with a close look at the scientific investigation process as you work to plan for lab activities in your classroom. You will learn how to construct pre- and post-lab activities that align well with a lab experiment that follows the scientific method.

This course teaches you about the cyclical action research process that you can implement within your classroom, outlining the steps for empowering you to confidently apply these ideas for continuous instructional improvement.

This course will focus on the benefits of productive struggle and teach you some methods for designing effective activities to support students through challenging tasks.

This quick course will teach you how specific personality traits contribute to aspects of your professionalism and provide you with a personality reflection and SWOT analysis for personal and professional growth.

This course will provide you with a thorough understanding of how to implement a full Project-Based Learning (PBL) cycle into your classroom, from selecting your standards and project ideas to supporting and scaffolding student work.

Learn how to deliver structured, specific, and actionable feedback to your students. Understand how to design criteria for observing and collecting evidence, write positive feedback, write feedback for improvement, and when to provide feedback to your students via formal or informal conferencing methods.

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Learn creative ways to improve student literacy, turn guided reading strategies into opportunities, and bring differentiated instruction to life in your classroom.

A learning specialist shows you how to raise a successful reader and writer.

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

This course will teach you about the significance of rote memorization and recitation in your classroom and provide you with specific tools to implement it.

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

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

This course will highlight the significance of retrieval practice in the math classroom and guide you in a specific format for teaching retrieval techniques to your students.

This course provides you with straightforward strategies you can provide in your regular classroom instruction to aid English Language Learner (ELL) students in improving their vocabulary skills at Tier 1, 2, and 3 levels.

In this course you will learn about some strategies you can implement to foster three types of student engagement (behavioral, cognitive, and emotional) at various levels.

This course will teach you about characteristics of your gifted students and provide you with simple social-emotional strategies you can use to support your students in your classroom.

Veteran teacher reveals the secrets to an orderly classroom. A step-by-step approach to effective, positive discipline.

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

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 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.

You will learn about six co-teaching instructional models and build a specific plan for implementing co-teaching into your classroom, including utilizing curriculum planning, goal setting, assessment, and self-reflection strategies.

This course teaches you how to check for student understanding before, during, and after a lesson. You will encounter a variety of strategies that you can choose from during all parts of your lessons.

This course will provide you with an overview of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and teach you specific tools and strategies to integrate SEL best practices into any classroom.

This course will teach you specific strategies for managing student behaviors through a student-led approach by implementing ideas like natural consequences and clear expectations.

This course will introduce you to practical tools and strategies for supporting reading instruction for your middle school students. You will learn about reading behaviors, how to build mini-lessons, and various classroom activities to support your students.

This course will introduce you to practical tools and strategies for supporting reading instruction for your elementary learners. You will learn about reading behaviors, how to build mini-lessons, and various classroom activities to help your students.

Learn the secrets for success in your first years of teaching.

Learn the secrets for success in your first years of teaching.

Learn to empower your students and boost classroom productivity! This course will teach you what brain breaks are, the various types of brain breaks, and strategies for implementing them into your classroom.

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.

This course will introduce numerous ways to motivate and teach adult students. You'll learn dozens of powerful teaching techniques that will keep your adult learners excited and help them absorb your material effortlessly. By the end of the course, you'll know all the tricks and techniques for winning over this fun, exciting, and very demanding group of students.

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

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. The lab report structure you learn will guide and enhance scientific investigations in your lessons while improving your students' scientific thinking.

Master the latest teaching strategies to help you reach high school students, including differentiated instruction and classroom management.

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

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

This course will provide you with two specific word problem techniques that you can teach your students depending on their level, and a variety of ideas and challenges to consider as students tackle word problems in your classroom.

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 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.

This course focuses on instructing you in teaching text annotation, context clue usage, and fostering purposeful reading across grade levels. You will also learn how to assess student understanding through well-crafted writing prompts and assessment questions.

Increase your effectiveness as a science teacher for children in fourth through sixth grades.

Increase your effectiveness as a science teacher for children in fourth through sixth grades.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This course will teach you how to integrate some simple study skills into your lesson using a method called the notecard system.

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

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.

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

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

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—Differentiated Instruction and Response to Intervention—so you can enable every student in your classroom to succeed.

This course will provide you with insights into the gradual release model of instruction and teach you strategies for instruction as you work towards supporting collaborative and independent student activities.

This quick course will teach you how to utilize poster presentations in your gifted and talented science classroom to support critical reasoning.

This course will teach you how to adapt your traditional lessons to an online learning format, focusing on the SAMR model (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition) to enhance your instruction to incorporate online components in a meaningful way.

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.

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.

Discover how you can use the Internet to make teaching easier for you and more relevant to your students.