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Bully Prevention In Schools
The aim of Bully Prevention in Schools is to create a classroom climate in which all students feel safe. One child in four is bullied at school. One in five admit bullying. Recently, a government report on school shootings showed that the only common trait among student shooters was that they all have a long history of being bullied. In schools where fear and anxiety are the norm, students can't learn and achieve. This course is taught in a traditional setting over two weekends in a variety of locations.
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Engaging the Gifted and Talented: Practical Methods and Strategies
Engaging the Gifted and Talented: Practical Methods and Strategies offers tested, practical approaches for challenging the most able students whether in the regular classroom, pull-out, or full-time accelerated or enrichment classes. The academic and affective approaches taught in this course and practiced in applied assignments will enable educators not only to meet the needs of their gifted and talented students but to better motivate average or at-risk students as well.
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Teachers and Parents: Winning and Keeping Parent Support
Teachers and Parents: Winning and Keeping Parent Support presents proven and innovative methods to gain and keep parent support. This model emphasizes interventions through a cooperative team approach between teachers and parents. Based on research endorsed by the National PTA, the skills and procedures taught in this course and practiced in applied assignments will enable educators to maintain supportive involvement from parents of even the most challenging students. This course is taught in a traditional setting over two weekends or five days in a variety of locations.
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Teaching and Learning With Groups: Keys to Success
Teaching and Learning With Groups: Keys to Success presents proven methods for teaching students through group projects. The skills and procedures taught in this course and practiced in applied assignments will enable educators to motivate students to develop important life skills for working in teams while learning subject matter more completely. This course is taught in a traditional setting over two weekends or five days in a variety of locations.
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Discipline with Dignity
This course is a flexible program for effective school and classroom management that teaches responsible thinking, cooperation, mutual respect, and shared decision-making. Discipline with Dignity equips educators with classroom skills, techniques and structure that enables them to spend less time dealing with behavioral problems and more time on positive interactions with students and on instruction. This course is taught in a traditional setting over two weekends in a variety of locations.
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Inclusion
This course is designed to focus on inclusion as it relates to children with disabilities and how to include them into public education. Current issues and trends, parent/professional relationships, legislation and legal rights, and other related topics will be covered.
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Preventing School Violence
Teachers will learn a comprehensive and proven theoretical model for explaining, predicting, and preventing violence. They will acquire the skills and methods necessary to effectively evaluate violence prevention strategies and programs. They will also design specific programs for preventing violence in their schools and classrooms.
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Reaching Today's Students
This course is an exciting synthesis of the most current theories, strategies, and practices to comprehensively address the needs of children and youth at risk within educational settings. Building upon traditional philosophy and educational commitment with current research and proven strategies, Reaching Today's Students strives to fulfill the promise that all children and teachers can succeed. This course is taught in a traditional setting over two weekends in a variety of locations.
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Resolving Conflicts in Schools and Classrooms
This course presents a proven and innovative approach to creating safer, more productive classroom environments based on creating "Peaceable Classrooms." This model emphasizes the classroom and the school as communities of caring and respect where six themes are emphasized: cooperation, communication, emotional expression, responsible decision-making, appreciation for diversity, and conflict resolution. This course is taught in a traditional setting over two weekends in a variety of locations.
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School Improvement and Site-Based Decision Making
This course aims to contribute to the training, support, and development of teachers in improving their schools. Whether new to or experienced in site-based decision making, the course provides teachers with: increased awareness of how they fit into the school improvement effort, learning of specific knowledge and skills that contribute to the process, opportunity to apply knowledge and skills learned to their school situations, the motivation to become advocates of site-based decision making. This course is taught in a traditional setting over two weekends in a variety of locations.
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Self-Esteem for Educators
Self-Esteem for Educators is the first program ever designed to assist teachers in integrating self-esteem principles and methods into curriculum content areas. Teachers learn specific techniques and skills for assessing and improving their own self-concepts, then collaboratively develop strategies and lesson plans to incorporate these concepts into their daily activities with students.
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Teacher Effectiveness Training
Teacher Effectiveness Training (TET) is the most successful program for classroom management, discipline, and communication skills ever designed for teachers. In TET, teachers learn specific skills of interpersonal communication and problem solving that they use to more effectively assist students with problems and to help get changes in unacceptable student behaviors. This course is taught in a traditional setting over two weekends in a variety of locations.
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Bully Prevention In Schools - Online
The aim of Bully Prevention in Schools is to create a classroom climate in which all students feel safe. One child in four is bullied at school. One in five admit bullying. Recently, a government report on school shootings showed that the only common trait among student shooters was that they all have a long history of being bullied. In schools where fear and anxiety are the norm, students can't learn and achieve. This course is fully online completed over 13 weeks allowing you to complete assignments at a time and place that is convenient for you.
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Discipline with Dignity - Online
This course is a flexible program for effective school and classroom management that teaches responsible thinking, cooperation, mutual respect, and shared decision-making. Discipline with Dignity equips educators with classroom skills, techniques and structure that enables them to spend less time dealing with behavioral problems and more time on positive interactions with students and on instruction. This course is fully online completed over 13 weeks allowing you to complete assignments at a time and place that is convenient for you.
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Integrating Technology into the Reading & Language Arts Curriculum K-8 - Online
This course is designed to provide teachers with a variety of ways that technology can promote the development of reading, writing, spelling, and mechanics of English language. The rationale for integration of technology into the reading and language arts classroom are explained and translated into actual classroom practice. This course is fully online completed over 13 weeks allowing you to complete assignments at a time and place that is convenient for you.
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Reaching Today's Students - Online
This course is an exciting synthesis of the most current theories, strategies, and practices to comprehensively address the needs of children and youth at risk within educational settings. Building upon traditional philosophy and educational commitment with current research and proven strategies, Reaching Today's Students strives to fulfill the promise that all children and teachers can succeed. This course is fully online completed over 13 weeks allowing you to complete assignments at a time and place that is convenient for you.
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Teachers and Parents: Winning and Keeping Parent Support - Online
Teachers and Parents: Winning and Keeping Parent Support presents proven and innovative methods to gain and keep parent support. This model emphasizes interventions through a cooperative team approach between teachers and parents. Based on research endorsed by the National PTA, the skills and procedures taught in this course and practiced in applied assignments will enable educators to maintain supportive involvement from parents of even the most challenging students. This course is fully online completed over 13 weeks.
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Teachers Discovering and Integrating Multimedia - Online
The Teachers Discovering and Integrating Multimedia (TDM) is an introduction to multimedia integration in educational settings. It is for teachers who wish to learn how to integrate multimedia content into their present teaching practices. Teachers will develop an understanding of the basic and advanced operations of the software program Microsoft PowerPoint. TDM is taught over a 13 week period.
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Teaching and Learning With Groups: Keys to Success - Online
Teaching and Learning With Groups: Keys to Success presents proven methods for teaching students through group projects. The skills and procedures taught in this course and practiced in applied assignments will enable educators to motivate students to develop important life skills for working in teams while learning subject matter more completely. This course is fully online completed over 13 weeks.
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Inclusion - Online
This course is designed to focus on inclusion as it relates to children with disabilities and how to include them into public education. Current issues and trends, parent/professional relationships, legislation and legal rights, and other related topics will be covered. In addition, current resources available on the World Wide Web will be explored and utilized.This course is fully online completed over 13 weeks.
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Preventing School Violence - Online
Teachers will learn a comprehensive and proven theoretical model for explaining, predicting, and preventing violence. They will acquire the skills and methods necessary to effectively evaluate violence prevention strategies and programs. They will also learn what baseline data to compile for predicting violence in their schools and classrooms. This course is fully online completed over 13 weeks.
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Self-Esteem for Educators - Online
The aim of Self-Esteem for Educators Online is for teachers to utilize the Internet to access course activities that will allow them to learn skills and principals for integrating a model to enhance student self-esteem and performance in the classroom. Teachers learn specific techniques and skills for assessing and improving their own self-concepts, then collaboratively develop strategies and lesson plans to incorporate these concepts into their daily activities with students. This course is fully online completed over 13 weeks.
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Teachers Discovering Computers - Online
The Teachers Discovering Computers course is an introductory course for teachers new to computers, as well as those who want to learn more about how computers can be integrated effectively into the classroom. This course is fully online allowing you to complete assignments at a time and place that is convenient for you.
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Teaching with WebQuests - Online
In this course, you will create a web-based lesson that engages your students in higher order thinking and cooperative learning. The WebQuest model that you will learn will be applicable to a wide range of topics, goals, classroom environments, and learners. This course is fully online allowing you to complete assignments at a time and place that is convenient for you.
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