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. |
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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.
15 Hours
$120 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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Cognitive Skills -Understanding Learning Challenges
Discover methods for detecting weak cognitive skills in students and strategies to strengthen such skills.
5 Hours
$39
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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Formative Assessment
Respond to the needs of students and shape instruction through the use of formative assessments.
5 Hours
$39
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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
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Introduction to Technology for Teachers
Gain confidence in navigating the Internet and using technology in teaching and learning.
5 Hours
$39
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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
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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 |
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Partnering with Parents
Bridge communication gaps with useful strategies to employ while facing common challenging situations in working with parents.
5 Hours
$39
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Reading Across the Curriculum
Equips teachers to support student learning through better reading and comprehension across the curriculum and grade levels.
5 Hours
$39
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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
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Recognizing & Preventing Child Abuse
Recognize types, signs, characteristics, scenarios, and indicators of suspected child abuse.
5 Hours
$39
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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