This teacher professional development course will provide you with a starting point for understanding Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how its principles can help impact student learning. Throughout the course, you will analyze the core principles of UDL and how crafting student learning experiences with each idea in mind can benefit your students and provide them with more choices and opportunities to learn in a way that is right for them.

You will learn how engagement, representation, and action and expression can be utilized at both the elementary and the secondary level so that you have a starting point for integrating these ideas into your lesson planning.

The course comes with a downloadable PDF of the content and a planning resource for you to utilize as you work to integrate these concepts into your future lessons.

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This teacher professional development course teaches you about cognitive thinking by analyzing each level of the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. You will explore how to support student cognition through various graphic organizers that can help scaffold student thinking. You will learn about appropriate support methods aligned with the correct cognitive level of your lesson objective. You will be able to better evaluate student thinking through provided or self-generated graphic organizers. By the end of the course, you will have a plan for support in an upcoming lesson and access to downloadable graphic organizers that can support each Bloom's Taxonomy level, ready to be used in your classroom.

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This teacher professional development course prepares you to better understand and support student behaviors using the ABC Method. You will learn how to identify the antecedent to a behavior, the behavior itself, and the consequences of the student exhibiting a particular behavior. You will learn to record data, track and evaluate behaviors, and identify the function of a student's behavior in your classroom. Using the data you have collected and the identified student function, you will generate a hypothesis and an intervention plan to help address and improve your student's behavior.

You will leave the course with an action plan for a particular student that includes a function-based intervention, desired replacement behaviors, and a plan for improvement. You will also leave the course with numerous resources that will help you track behaviors and plan for your intervention using the provided templates.

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The hidden power of everyday positive experiences can change your brain and change your life. Everyone wants to be happy and healthy. By focusing on becoming happier and creating positive experiences, research suggests that we will experience increased energy, improved immune function, increased creativity, improved relationships, and increased productivity. Happiness results in a healthier brain, a more vibrant body, and a longer life.

The outcome of this course is for the learner to describe how happiness, positive experiences, and emotions affect the brain. The relationship between happiness and neuroplasticity, determinants of happiness, happiness assessment tools, and practices to increase happiness will be examined.

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Wireless networking is one of the fastest growing segments of the computer industry. Every electronic device seems capable of wireless connections these days: computers, handhelds, cell phones, and even digital cameras are all capable of transmitting without a tether. To many people, those wireless connections are nothing short of technical wizardry. This course will remove the mystery and give you a thorough understanding of this fascinating and lucrative technology.

Becoming knowledgeable about wireless networking is easier than ever. With a practical and thoughtful approach to teaching and an emphasis on giving you a practical, hands-on understanding of how wireless works, this course will teach you everything you want to know about the world of wireless connectivity.

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This teacher professional development course will teach you what a well-structured learning objective is and how to create one. You will learn about different types of lesson planning and explore the benefits of the Backward Design Model. You will analyze the behavior, condition, and criterion of a lesson objective and explore how to write objectives using those components. You will build your lesson objectives by analyzing and "unpacking" your state standards so that you can be assured that every lesson plan you create starts with an objective well-aligned with expectations for your content area and grade level.

You will receive planning documents to help you create your objectives and leave the course with a unit plan of objectives you have built for upcoming lessons.

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Discover what you need to know to write for children. If you are a beginning writer, this course will help you transform your book idea into a finished product. If you are an already successful writer, this course will help you explore new opportunities and markets for your work.

You will explore the changing world of children's literature and understand the various formats, including picture books, chapter books, middle grade or young adult novels. You will get insights from publishing professionals to gain a better understanding of the needs of today's market. You will receive valuable tips about creating your manuscript, and even practice writing a query letter to submit to a publisher. By the time you finish this course, you will have all the tools and resources you will need to begin navigation the world of children's publishing and to continue growing as a writer for children.

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This teacher professional development course will teach you about English Language Learner (ELL) proficiency and how you can support it throughout various content areas. You will learn six strategies to support your students: buddy writing, daily writing, interactive writing, using mentor texts, sentence stems, and vocabulary development. You will also learn how to evaluate your ELL's progress over time.

The course comes with many tools, resources, and templates ready to be used in your classroom as you work to teach writing to ELLs and implement the writing plan you developed throughout this course.

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