Teacher Professional Development

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

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

This course will provide you with an overview of what student discourse looks like in the classroom and how to plan for it.

This course will teach you about the benefits of outdoor education and how you can implement it into any classroom.

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

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

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

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

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