Fundamental Courses

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.

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.

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.

This course will teach you how to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) in your planning by focusing on concepts like lesson planning, assessment, differentiation, and communication to enhance your instructional efficiency and quality.

This teacher professional development course will provide you with an overview of the benefits and limitations of allowing students access to artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom, covering the tools that can be used for enhancing student achievement while addressing issues like academic dishonesty.

This course focuses on instructing you in teaching text annotation, context clue usage, and fostering purposeful reading across grade levels. You will also learn how to assess student understanding through well-crafted writing prompts and assessment questions.

This course will provide you with two specific word problem techniques that you can teach your students depending on their level, and a variety of ideas and challenges to consider as students tackle word problems in your classroom.