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15 HOUR SELF-STUDY COURSES FOR ALL TEACHERS
These 15 hour self-paced seminar replacement courses are designed for all teachers, including South Dakota teachers holding a Bachelors degree in which you study the course content and complete a quiz in order to earn a certificate of completion.
	Child Abuse Prevention Protecting children is the role and responsibility of every adult. Be it in or outside of school, educators need to be aware of all red flags indicating a child is being abused.The course Child Abuse Prevention tackles this very sensitive issue and aims to equip teachers with the essentials of recognizing and preventing abuse to maintain safe and secure learning environments. Addressing accommodation, modification, and adaptation of curriculum, materials, and instruction to appropriately meet the needs of teachers and a variety of students. 15 Hours $120
	Cognitive Skills: Understanding Learning Challenges We all know the brain plays a major role in learning, but few are aware of how. In a class where each child differs in ability to learn, it is essential that educators know how the brain is related to the process of learning, in order to help facilitate student performance. Such knowledge will also give the educator an advantage when faced with the challenge of teaching a child with special needs. This course equips educators with extensive knowledge about the process of learning. 15 Hours $119
	Common Core Implementation for All Classrooms Schools and educators all over the country are engaged in implementing the Common Core State Standards. This can be a challenge. This course is designed to provide teachers the support and confidence they need to implement the standards in their classrooms. 15 Hours $119
	Common Core Intervention Across the Curriculum The implementation of Common Core State Standards across the curriculum provides a real-world approach to learning and teaching. It is increasingly essential for educators to develop students who not only are critical thinkers but innovators as well. This course helps teachers to build up such students. 15 Hours $119
	Pedagogy Essentials Pedagogy is both the science and art of education. As comprehensive as it may seem, this definition remains a predominantly theoretical understanding. In teaching practice, there is often a disconnect, between the theory we read about, and the realities in the classroom. This course is designed to target and bridge that gap while helping teachers to pinpoint practical ways of harnessing research and pedagogical guidelines that directly benefit teaching. 15 Hours $119
	Reaching Diverse Learners Diversity is becoming a very real issue in our classrooms today. We have an increasing number of students requiring various learning styles, coming from different cultural backgrounds, and demonstrating ever-maturing attitudes. Reaching Diverse Learners is a course brimming with ideas and strategies to help educators maximize abilities and cater to the individual needs of every student. 15 Hours $119
	Reading Across the Curriculum Reading should be a meaningful activity that is focused on comprehension and that results in understanding. When students struggle with a specific subject matter the underlying reason is nearly also identified as under developed reading skills. The strategies in this course are imperative for all educators to help their students become proficient readers. The Reading Across the Curriculum lesson helps teachers understand how to assess reading skills in the classroom and plan instruction accordingly. When every day teaching is carefully designed around this type of data it means that all students can learn and grow. 15 Hours $119
	Standards and Communications in Teaching In an age where there are multiple approaches to teaching and educating students, it becomes important to ensure that a particular standard is maintained. This class helps educators achieve goals, while empowering you with skills and tools to deliver the best of quality education. Standards and Communications in Teaching is a three part integrated course that highlights various strategies for facilitating student learning and improving academic achievement. It also focuses on positive communication, both with students and parents, in order to achieve excellence in education. 15 Hours $119
	Technology Today Technology plays a central role in the lives of teachers, students and virtually everyone these days. As educators we must know about computer and web technology, how it works in the 21st century classroom and how to protect children and ourselves on the constantly changing internet. 15 Hours $119
	Understanding Special Learning Populations As educators, we all face situations where we accommodate students with special needs in our classrooms. In such situations, how can we modulate our teaching to ensure that we reach each and every child? This course is designed to help educators encourage and maximize each child’s potential.Terms like Autism, ADHD, learning disability and gifted learners are being constantly used. What do they mean? What makes these children unique? And most importantly, how as an educator can you enhance these students’ learning ability? These are questions that are answered in this course. 15 Hours $119

SELF-STUDY COURSE PACKAGES
Course packages combine multiple self-paced seminar replacement courses in which you study the course content and complete a quiz in order to earn a certificate of completion. Course packages typically offer a savings of 20% or greater compared to enrolling in the courses individually.
	The Everything Package The ultimate collection of online courses to enhance teacher education and student learning across all grade levels and subject areas. 90 Hours $450
	Essential Teaching Package #1 This package includes the following online teacher classes – Accommodating all Learners, Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies, Reading across the Curriculum, Recognizing Early-onset Mental Health Disorders in Children and Adolescents and Introduction to Technology for Teachers. 25 Hours $150
	Essential Teaching Package #2 The following online classes for teachers are included in this package – Cognitive Skills: Understanding Learning Challenges, Introduction to Autism, Tackling Tough Text, Technology in the 21st Century Classroom and Transformative Classroom Management. 25 Hours $150
	21st Century Learning Package This package is made up of 5 five-hour online courses covering Classroom Collaboration, Classroom Organization in the 2st Century, Flipping Classrooms, Inquiry-based Learning and Standards-based Instruction through STEM. 25 Hours $150
	Accommodating All Students Package This package is made up of 5 five-hour online courses including the following topics, cognitive skills, accommodations, UDL, differentiation for gifted learners and IEPs. 25 Hours $150
	Common Core Package This package is made up of eight five-hour online courses addressing standards, assessment, evaluation and covers the Common Core, a great addition to your teaching tool kit whether your school is implementing Common Core or simply looking to improve student performance. 40 Hours $235
	Child Abuse Prevention Package for Educators This package is made up of online courses in the following areas: Recognizing and Preventing Child Abuse, Internet Safety, Bullying-The Golden Rule and Ethics for Education Professionals. 20 Hours $119
	Mental Health Package This package is made up of 5 five-hour online courses addressing recognizing early-onset mental health disorders, autism, ADHD, bullying and suicide prevention. 25 Hours $150
	Technology in Education Package This package is made up of 5 five-hour online courses ranging from an introduction to technology to technology in the 21st century classroom including internet safety, iPads in the classroom and apps in education. 25 Hours $150

SELF-STUDY COURSES FOR ADVANCED DEGREE HOLDERS
Self-paced seminar replacement courses in which you study the course content and complete a quiz in order to earn a certificate of completion.
	Accommodating All Learners Addressing accommodation, modification, and adaptation of curriculum, materials, and instruction to appropriately meet the needs of teachers and a variety of students. 5 Hours $39
	Accommodations through UDL Make teaching ALL students a very real possibility with the Universal Design of Learning (UDL) framework. This structure builds on research findings that show how a single teaching approach has very limited results on student learning and highlights the need for a new curricular approach in which a learner’s level of recognition, strategic, and affective networks are all taken into account to determine the best means of teaching. 5 Hours $39
	Action Research for School Improvement This course is designed to equip teachers to initiate action research for potential areas of improvement in a classroom or at the school level. Through this course, teachers will be able to learn how to go about each step of the action research process from selecting the area of focus, gathering and interpreting data, setting up an action plan, and finally presenting the findings in order to help others. 5 Hours $39
	Apps in Education Teachers will be equipped to go beyond using an app merely because someone else has recommended it and fully examine the true learning potential. The integration of apps into education, may seem like a natural product of the times. However, successfully impacting students’ learning, requires a whole new level of teachers’ engagement and effort. 5 Hours $39
	Bulletin Boards -Ideas for Every Classroom Providing a new and fresh direction that helps teachers understand the basic principles of art and design while applying these in planning and creating bulletin boards that reinforce learning in the classroom. 5 Hours $39
	Bullying: The Golden Rule Solution Enables teachers to help students respond effectively to verbal comments. Includes video role plays that model and demonstrate methodologies. 5 Hours $39
	Classroom Collaboration Explore the benefits of using teamwork as a key element in K-12 classrooms, along with successful strategies to involve students in the various aspects of collaborative instruction. Building on a strong research base, this course empowers teachers to understand and implement effective practices of collaboration in their own classrooms. 5 Hours $39
	Classroom Organization for the 21st Century Effective classroom organization aids teachers as they strive to make their lives and classrooms more structured and a lot less stressful. The ideas in this course present effective ways for teachers to be organized with practical steps in planning enabling teachers to avoid last minute time crunches. 5 Hours $39
	Cognitive Skills -Understanding Learning Challenges Discover methods for detecting weak cognitive skills in students and strategies to strengthen such skills. 5 Hours $39
	Common Core Academic Interventions Supporting struggling students and those with diverse learning needs is often a challenge in classrooms. This course provides you with intervention strategies that align with the Common Core State Standards to help students perform better. 5 Hours $39
	Common Core Assessment and Evaluation Address issues for students who struggle in class through assessment and evaluation. With this framework, teachers find it easy to identify student problems and set appropriate intervention goals and targets for successful student learning. 5 Hours $39
	Common Core Curriculum-Based Measures Keep the focus on students’ learning through Curriculum-Based Measures (CBM) – a powerful tool-kit to help teachers plan interventions in specific academic areas such as letter knowledge and fluency, early math and computation fluency, written expression, reading, and spelling. 5 Hours $39
	Common Core Instruction Practices Manage core behavioral issues in the classroom, by encouraging students to actively engage in monitoring their own behaviors. By exploring useful practices aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), teachers better nurture students who are academically successful and motivated. 5 Hours $39
	Common Core Mathematics for All Teachers Successfully address a range of mathematics learning needs with strategies designed to benefit veteran math teachers, as well as teachers who have ever thought or said, “I’m not good at math.” 5 Hours $39
	Common Core: Raising Academic Achievement Teachers play a critical role in identifying those who are struggling to learn and succeed in academics and intervening with help. This is even more critical as students are exposed to higher standards with the adoption of Common Core by states and school districts. 5 Hours $39
	Curriculum Development Empower students to face the dynamic world around them with confidence, by implementing novel ideas in curriculum development, within classrooms. With this framework, teachers are equipped to create powerful, yet practical plans that enable students to learn more effectively. 5 Hours $39
	Differentiation for Gifted Learners in the Classroom Better understand gifted and talented education by learning how to identify, instruct and assess these students. 5 Hours $39
	English Language Learners in the Classroom Create a welcoming environment that ensures English Language Learners thrive educationally through the integration of useful research based strategies that promote student engagement with the lessons and curriculum. 5 Hours $39
	Ethics for Education Professionals Bring and maintain high standards of ethics into our schools. Includes a variety of topics to explore practical ways of addressing ethical decisions in our lives. 5 Hours $39
	Examining and Evaluating Student Work Understand effective and dynamic methods by which teachers can assess student work. Learn to examine student work through a process of intentional reflection with other teachers. Engage with other teachers on improving educational practices through critical evaluation of student work samples. 5 Hours $39
	Flipping Classrooms Explore how you can use technology to effectively ‘flip’ your classroom and enhance your students’ learning experience. The resources, examples and templates presented in this course help teachers to plan and create efficient flipped classrooms. Educators are shown how to integrate content while collaborating effectively with students, co-workers and school leaders. 5 Hours $39
	Formative Assessment Respond to the needs of students and shape instruction through the use of formative assessments. 5 Hours $39
	Guided Reading Develop students’ independent reading skills in the classroom, through the process of guided reading, while also promoting comprehension, critical thinking, problem solving, intellectual skills and interpersonal communication. 5 Hours $39
	IEPs: Documentation and Implementation for Teachers The goal of this course is to help teachers understand the IEP process and build the teachers comfort level in developing, aligning with and carrying out the IEP through rich examples and templates to help teachers understand and practically use the recommended strategies in a classroom setting. 5 Hours $39
	Inquiry-based Learning The Inquiry-based Learning course details some models that teachers can adapt to meet specific needs of their class, as well as to monitor and enhance the learning of their students. Teachers learn practical and dynamic ways of evaluating their students’ progress while also incorporating technology for better results. 5 Hours $39
	Integrating Standards in Teaching Untangle what turns out to be the not-so-mysterious language of today’s teaching and learning and put successful strategies, including the Common Core, into practice. 5 Hours $39
	Internet Safety – Protecting Children in an Online World Discover ways in which the Internet is being used by teens and how they can be at risk. Learn strategies that can help keep students safe. 5 Hours $39
	Introduction to Autism Understand what learning and interactions are like for a student with Autism while also learning to accommodate and teach students with Autism in the classroom. 5 Hours $39
	Introduction to Technology for Teachers Gain confidence in navigating the Internet and using technology in teaching and learning. 5 Hours $39
	iPads in the Classroom You have iPads in the classroom. Now, what do you do with them. This course will introduce you to the pedagogy of using iPads to improve student learning in your classroom. 5 Hours $39
	Language Acquisition This course provides an in-depth understanding of the language acquisition process to enable educators to successfully teach English Language Learners. 5 Hours $39
	Partnering with Parents Bridge communication gaps with useful strategies to employ while facing common challenging situations in working with parents. 5 Hours $39
	Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies Focuses on strategies that can be used to encourage and motivate students to behave appropriately in the classroom. Covers group and classroom management, non-compliance, defiance, impulsiveness, hyperactivity, attention and motivation. 5 Hours $39
	Preparing College & Career Ready Students Teachers are the strongest and most influential link between high school and college for every student, and are often the best people to guide students in the endeavor to become college and career ready. This course will examine the details of mastering the current needs of students to be college and career ready. 5 Hours $39
	Project Management for Students through Project-based Learning For students to be truly equipped to succeed in the 21st century college scenario or workplace, they must possess a level of mastery in essential project management skills. This course presents project-based learning as a successful strategy to promote project management skill development in students. 5 Hours $39
	Public Speaking for Teachers Examine how to manage fears and perfect your public speaking skills. Identify and work on specific problem areas and consequently improve your communication skills. Learn to structure your speeches and harness technology to deliver effective speeches. 5 Hours $39
	Reading Across the Curriculum Equips teachers to support student learning through better reading and comprehension across the curriculum and grade levels. 5 Hours $39
	Reading through Technology in the Classroom Transform teaching practice, and enhance students’ reading levels, by incorporating technology into classroom reading activities. This approach enables teachers to successfully assess available technology, employ it successfully, and help students read with higher accuracy and better comprehension. 5 Hours $39
	Recognizing & Preventing Child Abuse Recognize types, signs, characteristics, scenarios, and indicators of suspected child abuse. 5 Hours $39
	Recognizing Early-onset Mental Health Disorders in Children and Adolescents Provides a basic understanding of warning signs of early-onset mental illness in children and adolescents as well as ideas and strategies that help teachers work with students. 5 Hours $39
	Reflective Teaching Practice Embark on a sustainable professional development journey by integrating successful reflective practices into your teaching. Strategies build on research findings to present reflective teaching as a crucial component in professional development, empowering teachers to make informed decisions about their own learning and every day instruction. 5 Hours $39
	Research-based Instructional Strategies Enhance teacher effectiveness by integrating research-based instructional strategies into teaching practices and addressing specific learning areas to improve student achievement. Approaches equip teachers to use recent educational research and developments to cater to their own professional development as well as students’ learning needs. 5 Hours $39
	Spanish for Educators Build essential communication skills by learning general vocabulary and phrases that assist teachers with understanding Spanish in the classroom and school environment. Through this ‘primer’ for non-Spanish speaking teachers, educators develop the ability to communicate with students and families who speak Spanish as a first language. 5 Hours $39
	Standards Based Instruction through STEM STEM integration doesn’t need a huge budget, lots of technology, or a ready-to-use curriculum. It’s something any teacher, any school and any classroom can integrate. This course teaches you how. 5 Hours $39
	Suicide Prevention Teachers will learn to identify possible early signs of suicide and be introduced to tools that may be helpful to students. Creative activities and strategies can help promote safe classroom environments. The course also encourages teachers to work together with their school in initiating and implementing school-wide policies and programs on suicide prevention. 5 Hours $39
	Tackling Tough Text Help students to tackle difficult text and understand it better. The strategies in this course help improve learning comprehension and are applicable to all subjects. 5 Hours $39
	Teaching English Language Learners Improve cross-cultural understanding and examine cultural influences on school practices while coming away with greater insight on how second languages are acquired. 10 Hours $79
	Technology in the 21st Century Classroom Concepts and ideas behind using technology in the classroom help teachers to understand the various skills that students need to develop in order to use technology in the most effective way. 5 Hours $39
	Transformative Classroom Management Smart teachers struggle with classroom management. Skilled teachers elect to use strategies that create more problems than they solve. This course focuses on proven ideas that when used, work. 5 Hours $39
	Understanding ADHD Gain confidence in not only accommodating students with ADHD, but also other students who are energetic, hyperactive or have difficulty paying attention. 5 Hours $39

Welcome South Dakota Teachers

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Professional Learning Board has been a provider of online continuing education, professional development and licensure courses for educators for years. Recognized as a solid resource and recommended by school districts and teachers for teachers seeking to stay current and maintain their teaching license, Professional Learning Board offers courses in one of two online formats to best meet your learning needs:

Self-Study Courses
Self-paced seminar replacement courses in which you study the course content and complete a quiz in order to earn a certificate of completion.

Graduate Credit Courses
Self-paced Graduaate Credit classes incorporate online content, quizzes, interactivities, instructor involvement and a Course Action Plan you can put to use in your work environment. Receive 1 Graduate Credit through your choice of a regionally and/or nationally accredited university. Learning takes place asynchronously, at your convenience, and may be completed over a period of 4 weeks. Note, teachers looking for graduate credits, please check with your issuing authority about whether it will accept these online teacher courses for graduate credit.

Teachers use Professional Learning Board online professional development and continuing education courses to renew their teaching licenses.

Click on the course name(s) below to enroll or see the descriptions to the left.

The information and courses listed on this page are presented based on the information available at the time of publication. Please note that state licensing requirements and school district approval processes may change and it is the responsibility of each teacher to know their licensing requirements and the process for submission and approval of all professional development and licensing work. Professional Learning Board does not guarantee acceptance by your school, district or licensing authority.

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GRADUATE CREDIT COURSES

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PLB Graduate Credit Courses Professional Learning Board offers self-paced Graduate Credit classes that incorporate online content, quizzes, interactivities, instructor involvement and a Course Action Plan you can put to use in your work environment.

Learning takes place asynchronously, at your convenience.
May be completed over a period of 4 weeks.
Receive either 1 Semester Graduate Credit or 1 Quarter Graduate Credit through your choice of our regionally and nationally accredited university partners.

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Adam’s State University in Colorado prides itself in delivering quality programs while providing a high level of access. Teachers across the country can take graduate credit courses through partnership with Adam’s State University.

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Ashland University’s Professional Development Services is the number one provider of professional development classes for credit in the state of Ohio. Teachers across the country can take graduate credit courses through partnership with Ashland University.

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The Center for Professional Education at Seattle Pacific University’s School of Education offers courses for certified teachers and education professionals to enhance their abilities and/or maintain certification requirements. Teachers across the country can take graduate credit courses through partnership with Seattle Pacific University.

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Child Abuse Prevention

Protecting children is the role and responsibility of every adult. Be it in or outside of school, educators need to be aware of all red flags indicating a child is being abused.The course Child Abuse Prevention tackles this very sensitive issue and aims to equip teachers with the essentials of recognizing and preventing abuse to maintain safe and secure learning environments. Addressing accommodation, modification, and adaptation of curriculum, materials, and instruction to appropriately meet the needs of teachers and a variety of students.

Cognitive Skills – Understanding Learning Challenges

We all know the brain plays a major role in learning, but few are aware of how. In a class where each child differs in ability to learn, it is essential that educators know how the brain is related to the process of learning, in order to help facilitate student performance. Such knowledge will also give the educator an advantage when faced with the challenge of teaching a child with special needs. This course equips educators with extensive knowledge about the process of learning.

Cohesive Classroom Communities

Teachers are equipped to transform their classrooms into cohesive learning communities, through this three part online PD course package. The course begins with Classroom Collaboration where educators come to understand the importance of the teacher’s role in creating an environment where young people are willing and able to work collaboratively. Teachers are taught to recognize, appropriately handle and make accommodations, for diagnosable mental health issues among students. The course helps teachers understand that they play a valuable role, and can help save a life, by learning about the prevalence of suicide; understanding suicide and how it may be prevented.

Common Core Implementation for All Classroom

Schools and educators all over the country are engaged in implementing the Common Core State Standards. This can be a challenge. This three part course is designed to provide teachers the support and confidence they need to implement the standards in their classrooms. The course focuses on practices teachers can use to promote student motivation and self-learning while decreasing and eliminating behavior issues. Teachers learn to assess basic academic skills and identify areas in which students need support. Teachers also learn to develop a process of reflective thinking and becoming sensitive and responsive to the needs and issues of students. The practical examples and techniques explained in this section provide an understanding of the phrase ‘learning while teaching.’

Common Core Intervention Across the Curriculum

TThe implementation of Common Core State Standards across the curriculum provides a real-world approach to learning and teaching. It is increasingly essential for educators to develop students who not only are critical thinkers but innovators as well. This course helps teachers to build up such students. Educators learn about implementing Standard-Based Instruction through STEM, bringing together the benefits and opportunities associated with this new education paradigm and guides teachers to customize classroom instruction so that students develop the skills they need to survive in today’s knowledge-based world. This is extended in teaching educators how they can apply mathematical principles to everyday life. This course also helps teachers evaluate and monitor basic academic skills based on Common Core principles. By completing this course teachers gain the needed confidence to implement common state standards across the curriculum.

Pedagogy Essentials

Teaching amongst the technological advances of the 21st century, brings with it unique challenges of combining education and theory with classroom practice. This three part course is designed to provide teachers the background knowledge and resources they require to use research findings to enhance their students’ learning. The course covers Research Based Instructional Strategies, which focuses on strategies teachers can use to channel research findings to improve their quality of instruction. Curriculum Development equips teachers to create effective, yet practical unit and lesson plans that equip students to learn more efficiently. The course also focuses on enabling teachers organize their teaching plans, work-life balance and the various aspects of their classroom.

Reaching Diverse Learners

Diversity is becoming a very real issue in our classrooms today. We have an increasing number of students requiring various learning styles, coming from different cultural backgrounds, and demonstrating ever-maturing attitudes. Reaching Diverse Learners is an integrated course that is brimming with ideas and strategies to help educators maximize abilities and cater to the individual needs of every student. Teachers learn about teaching English Language Learners and prepares you for your multicultural classroom. The course is also full of practical ideas and techniques that will help you as an educator learn to manage your classroom more effectively. Educators with learn concrete ideas and strategies to reach and teach every student in the diverse classroom.

Reading Across the Curriculum

Reading should be a meaningful activity that is focused on comprehension and that results in understanding. When students struggle with a specific subject matter the underlying reason is usually also identified as under developed reading skills. The strategies in this course are imperative for all educators to help their students become proficient readers. This course helps teachers understand how to assess reading skills in the classroom and plan instruction accordingly. It also equips educators to empower their students with confidence when handling tough text. Teachers also learn how to act as a facilitator for small groups for guided reading.

Standards and Communications in Teaching

In an age where there are multiple approaches to teaching and educating students, it becomes important to ensure that a particular standard is maintained. This class helps educators achieve goals, while empowering you with skills and tools to deliver the best of quality education. Standards and Communications in Teaching is a three part integrated course that highlights various strategies for facilitating student learning and improving academic achievement. It also focuses on positive communication, both with students and parents, in order to achieve excellence in education.

Technology Today

Gone are the days when the word classroom brought to mind an image of a dusty blackboard, chalk or the dim light from an overhead projector machine. Instead we think of smart boards, computers, tablets and other technology. Libraries and books as reference material are supplemented by the internet, blogs and Google; all of which are available at our (and our students!) fingertips. This three part integrated course helps to bridge the gap, enabling safe implementation of technology in classrooms and preventing misuse by either students or adults while promoting effective learning. The course enhances professional development by presenting tools, techniques and resources to advance skills in using technology. Teachers learn to integrate technology in a way that promotes learning without being a distraction. The course is also filled with practical ideas and steps that educators can take to ensure safety of the students who have access to the internet whether through classroom technology, at home or via their cell phones.

Understanding Special Learning Populations

As educators, we all face situations where we accommodate students with special needs in our classrooms. In such situations, how can we modulate our teaching to ensure that we reach each and every child? This course is designed to help educators encourage and maximize each child’s potential.Terms like Autism, ADHD, learning disability and gifted learners are being constantly used. What do they mean? What makes these children unique? And most importantly, how as an educator can you enhance these students’ learning ability? These are questions that are answered in this course.

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