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  • A Guide to Blooms Taxonomy and Cognitive Thinking
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • A Guide to Webb's DOK: Understanding Rigor
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Aligning Homework to Instruction
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • An Introduction to Logical Fallacies
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Assessment Tools to Support Online Learning
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Behavior Contract Design
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Behavior Strategies for Improved Testing Performance
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Boundaries, Communication, and Professionalism in the Classroom
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Building Effective Writing Prompts for All Students
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Building Reading and Writing Fluency
  • Fee: $83.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Checking for Understanding in Elementary Math
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Choosing The Right Assessments For Your Students
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) in the Science Classroom
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Classroom Management Processes
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Classroom Writing Strategies for ELL Students
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Collaborative Learning in the Classroom
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Counseling for College Prep
  • Fee: $129.00

    While the college-going experience may evolve, it is not going away. In this online course, you will prepare for a vital role where you support students' post-secondary aspirations as we also explore how critical your role is to the evolution of our communities.

 

  • Counseling for College Prep (Self-Guided)
  • Fee: $129.00
    Times: Self-Paced

    While the college-going experience may evolve, it is not going away. In this online course, you will prepare for a vital role where you support students' post-secondary aspirations as we also explore how critical your role is to the evolution of our communities.

 

  • Creating a Structured Classroom for Students with Autism
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Creating Classroom Centers
  • Fee: $129.00

    Discover how easy and effective classroom centers can really be. This course introduces a simple system for creating a center schedule and shepherding students through the process. You will see what makes a truly successful center, what pitfalls to avoid, and gain tips for keeping your planning to a minimum. You will also learn strategies for managing students who finish early and discover how a regular center routine can increase your small-group instruction opportunities each day.

 

 

  • Creating the Inclusive Classroom: Strategies for Success
  • Fee: $129.00

    Understand how to reach the diverse mix of students you face every day with strategies that turn diversity into opportunity. This course provides creative, low-budget strategies for making your inclusive classroom a nurturing, supportive learning environment that helps every student.

 

 

  • Creativity in your Gifted Students
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Designing a Quality Sub Folder
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Designing IEP Goals
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Diagnostic Assessments: An Overview
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom
  • Fee: $129.00

    Discover 10 practical Differentiated Instruction strategies, including interest centers, and flexible grouping that will meet the needs of the diverse learners in your class. This course packs real-world examples into every lesson that will help you immediately put these strategies to use in your own classroom.

 

 

  • Educating Diverse Populations in Your Classroom
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 


  • Explicit Instruction in Elementary Reading
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Expository Writing & Embedded Grammar Instruction
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Flipped Learning in the Classroom
  • Fee: $83.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Fostering Divergent Thinking for Student Creativity
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Grouping English Language Learners
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Growth Mindset in the Gifted Classroom
  • Fee: $98.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Guided Reading in Small Group Instruction
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning
  • Fee: $83.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Inspire Family Engagement with Positive Communication
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Instructional Strategies and Learning Activities
  • Fee: $119.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Instructionally-Aligned Field Trips
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Integrating Technology with Blended Learning
  • Fee: $83.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Intro to Active Monitoring and Data Collection
  • Fee: $68.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Intro to Classroom Documentation
  • Fee: $68.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Intro to Online Learning
  • Fee: $83.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Introduction to Response to Intervention (RTI)
  • Fee: $68.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Literacy Stations for PreK-2nd Grade
  • Fee: $83.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Maintaining and Improving Professionalism on Campus
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Maintaining Appropriate Teacher–Student Boundaries
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Making the Most of your Limited Planning Time
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Math Stations for PreK – 2nd Grade
  • Fee: $83.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Measuring Growth in Writing Using Rubrics
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Memorization Using the Memory Palace Technique
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Move to Learn: Incorporating Movement in the Classroom
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Peer Tutoring for English Language Learners
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Planning for Differentiation in Every Classroom
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Planning for Lab Investigations in the Science Classroom
  • Fee: $98.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Practical Action Research in the Classroom
  • Fee: $98.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Productive Methods of Struggle for Students
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Professionalism Through Positive Personality
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Project-Based Learning
  • Fee: $98.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Providing Actionable Feedback to Students
  • Fee: $98.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Recitation Through Rote Memorization of Text
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Retrieval Practice for Understanding Math
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Simple ELL Vocabulary Strategies
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Simple Ideas to Promote Student Engagement
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Social-Emotional Support for Gifted Students
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Strategies and Tools for Co-Teaching
  • Fee: $98.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Strategies to Check for Understanding
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Strategies to Support Social-Emotional Learning
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Student-Led Classroom Management
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Supporting Reading for Middle School Learners
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Supporting Reading Instruction for K-5 Students
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Survival Kit for New Teachers
  • Fee: $129.00

    Learn the keys to success from an experienced educator so you can thrive as a classroom teacher. This course is designed to help teachers build motivational classrooms, reach diverse learners, write engaging lesson plans, communicate clearly, and keep stress at bay.

 

  • Survival Kit for New Teachers (Self-Guided)
  • Fee: $129.00
    Times: Self-Paced

    Learn the keys to success from an experienced educator so you can thrive as a classroom teacher. This course is designed to help teachers build motivational classrooms, reach diverse learners, write engaging lesson plans, communicate clearly, and keep stress at bay.

 

  • Taking Brain Breaks During Rigorous Classwork
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Teaching Adult Learners
  • Fee: $129.00

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

 

 

  • Teaching Effective Problem-Based Lab Reports
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Teaching High School Students
  • Fee: $129.00

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

 

  • Teaching Methods for Solving Word Problems
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

    In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course focuses on addressing challenges students encounter in math and offers solutions through two different methods for solving word problems. Model Teaching's Mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. Participants will receive a downloadable PDF of the content, along with valuable graphic organizers and student resources to support implementation in the classroom.

 

  • Teaching Preschool: A Year of Inspiring Lessons
  • Fee: $129.00

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

 

 

  • Teaching Proper Text Annotations & Evidence
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Teaching Students With ADHD
  • Fee: $129.00

    Learn the simple and practical steps you can take to help children with ADHD thrive in their school environment. This course will teach you how classroom space, structure, rules, and expectations can be adapted to suit the needs of students with ADHD and help them manage their own behavior.

 

  • Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities
  • Fee: $129.00

    Learn how to meet the diverse needs of students with disabilities in your classroom through easy, practical, and creative strategies developed by an experienced special educator. This course explores the total special education process and help you understand and empower your special needs students.

 

 

  • Teaching the Notecard System
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Teaching Writing: Grades K-3
  • Fee: $129.00

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

 

 

  • The Creative Classroom
  • Fee: $129.00

    Learn how to use creativity as a powerful engagement tool in the classroom, regardless of what subject you teach. This course provides new approaches to field trips, learning labs, exercises, and evaluation methods that will challenge and motivate your students to become creative thinkers.

 

 

  • The Gradual Release of Responsibility Model
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • The Science Poster For the GT Student
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Transforming Traditional Lessons to Online Learning
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Trauma-Informed Teaching Strategies for Grades 6-12
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Trauma-Informed Teaching Strategies for PreK-5th Grade
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Understanding Adolescents
  • Fee: $129.00

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

 

  • Understanding Adolescents (Self-Guided)
  • Fee: $129.00
    Times: Self-Paced

    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.

 

  • Understanding and Supporting Students with ADHD
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Understanding and Supporting Students with Dyslexia
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Understanding Students At Risk of Dropping Out
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Principles
  • Fee: $44.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Using Graphic Organizers with Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Using the ABC Method for Appropriate Student Behavior
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Varied Assessment Methods for Gifted Students
  • Fee: $83.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

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

 

  • Writing Effective Learning Objectives
  • Fee: $89.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

  • Writing Support for English Language Learners
  • Fee: $74.00
    Times: Self-Paced

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

 

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