Portland Community College

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Learn essential Spanish for teachers so that you can bridge the communication gap with your Spanish-speaking students and parents! By the end of this course, you will be well on your way to becoming a Spanish speaker and effectively communicating with the Spanish-speakers all around you.

Learn creative ways to bring differentiated instruction and guided reading to life in your classroom.

Enrich your teaching talents and encourage your students' creative thinking as you learn to turn your classroom into a creative classroom.

Explore common disabilities you'll encounter in the classroom and master techniques for promoting academic, behavioral, and social skills in students with special needs.

With the Speed Spanish course, you will immediately start creating sentences and conversations in Spanish. Each lesson will introduce new techniques to increase your fluency quickly and allow you to start speaking Spanish right away.

Gain a marketable new skill by learning the basics of double-entry bookkeeping, financial reporting, and more.

Learn to use QuickBooks Online to record income and expenses; enter checks and credit card payments; track your payables, inventory, and receivables; and much more.

Learn to master American Sign Language through immersive, silent instructional videos that emphasize proper sign techniques and facial expressions for effective communication. You will become skillful at fingerspelling and an array of signs to engage in conversations confidently.

Learn shortcuts to help you engage in conversational Spanish, as you build your language skills and develop fluency.

Learn how to make a mask in Photoshop and use the selections features to enhance your creative works.

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.