Fundamental Courses

(9 Contact Hours) The connection between wellness and the environment, focusing on air and water safety, overpopulation, climate change, home health hazards, and action steps.

(10 contact hours) Foundations 2 explores Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine, spirituality, and meditation, blending ancient healing with modern practices.

(9.5 contact hours) Foundations 3 includes humor, music, sound, energy healing, and therapeutic massage, merging creative and energetic healing with conventional medicine.

(14.5 contact hours) Foundations 1 covers stress management, physical activity, nutrition, and healing environments, integrating traditional healing with modern healthcare.

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.

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.

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

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro, equipping you with the skills to create professional-quality videos. Learn essential techniques and workflows used in the video production industry, preparing you for a successful career in video editing and multimedia production.

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.