Participant Engagement
Overview
Develop practical skills for engaging learners through online and blended teaching, using tools like Zoom and interactive technologies to enhance instruction.
Beginner Courses:
Uncommon Sense Teaching
Are your students spending too much (or too little) time learning, with disappointing results? Do they procrastinate because they find their studies boring and are easily distracted? Are you working to make your teaching even more integrative? Uncommon Sense Teaching will provide you with new, practical insights to help you address these goals and challenges, and many more.
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Part 2, Building Community and Habits of Learning
In the second part of Teaching with Common Sense: Creating Community and Learning Habits, you will explore the following areas in greater depth, helping you connect with the latest research and have fun while doing it!
Motivating today's students: What parents and teachers need to know
The aim of this course is to equip parents and educators with knowledge of motivation theories and their application in real-world contexts. Using the story of two children, Bob and Sarah, participants are presented with a series of problem situations. These represent common motivational challenges that participants can address using the motivational principles outlined in the course.
Foundations of Trauma Informed Pedagogy
This course is aimed at anyone who is interested in trauma and education. The MOOC includes four units that cover an introduction to trauma, the trauma-informed framework, issues of equity, and ways to shift your everyday teaching and learning practice to be trauma-informed.
Intermediate Courses:
Orchestrating Whole Classroom Discussion
This course offers strategies that can lead to richer, more productive, whole-class discussions in their classrooms. Focusing on how to prepare for discussion, this course is for anyone who leads, wants to lead, or is interested in how teachers lead discussion.
Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Developing Relationships
The Foundations of Teaching for Learning program is designed for anyone who teaches, or aspires to teach, in any subject and context, whether at school, at home, or in the workplace.
Foundations of Virtual Instructionn
Welcome to Virtual Teaching Essentials! This course will help you take your teaching to the next level and develop advanced skills and techniques that elude even some of the most experienced virtual teachers in the K-12 space.
The Teacher's Social and Emotional Learning
Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs have flourished in schools over the past decade. While this growth has been impressive, insufficient attention has been paid to teachers’ social and emotional learning.
Advanced Courses:
Coaching Practices
In order for coaching to be most effective, it’s important that there is strong culture of coaching and accountability which you will learn how to incorporate into your one-on-one meetings in this course.
Resilient Teaching Through Times of Crisis and Change
Resilient teaching is the ability to facilitate learning experiences designed to adapt to fluctuating conditions and disruptions. This teaching capacity can be seen as the result of a design approach that considers the relationship between learning objectives and activities and the environments in which they are situated.
Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classrooms
Positive psychology meets K-12 pedagogy. This course explores key ideas of positive psychology and shows how great teachers apply those lessons to maximize student engagement and accomplishment. Through lectures, discussions, interviews and footage of great educators in action, you’ll learn how to integrate character-based objectives into your own teaching.
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Participant Engagement
Skills and Outcomes
Design and implement blended learning models that personalize education for students, incorporating technology and innovative teaching practices.
Create and organize engaging remote learning environments that support educators, learners, and parents, focusing on communication and well-being.
Utilize Zoom's features effectively to conduct engaging virtual classes, including class management tools, breakout rooms, and interactive activities.
