This teacher professional development course will teach you about inquiry-based learning, also known as inquiry-driven learning, and how you can use it to transform your lessons using more dynamic and rigorous activities. You will learn how to generate questions to enhance inquiry in your classroom and ensure that all your activities increase rigor and critical thinking. You will analyze what inquiry looks like in the classroom and then develop a plan ready for implementation. The course also comes with several resources to support you in your inquiry-based lesson planning.

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Foster family involvement in education with this teacher professional development course that teaches you how to support your students academically and their social-emotional wellbeing by building strong home-to-school connections. You will learn specific strategies for building connections with students' families and keeping your students and their parents engaged in their child's learning path. The course will focus on providing you with explicit examples of support strategies that you can implement to strengthen the classroom community and your relationship with each child's family. The course will help you build a plan for student engagement that is ready to be implemented in the classroom by providing you with action plans, strategy guides, and other resources ready for use.

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This is a comprehensive teacher professional development course that will teach you about specific instructional strategies and learning activities that you can select for an upcoming unit planned, well-aligned with your chosen assessments and lesson objectives. You will learn five instructional strategies and how to choose the best one based on the lesson content, your student's needs, and available resources. Next, you will delve into the difference between active and passive learning and evaluate areas for improvement in your own lesson activities. Lastly, you will complete the course with a ready-to-implement unit plan you have created and use that alongside the various resources provided to you in this class to enable success in your classroom.

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This teacher professional development course will teach you how to design an impactful field trip for your students that is purposeful and well-aligned with specific classroom concepts. You will learn about the essential components required to plan a field trip and how to ensure you provide meaningful activities for your students. The course provides practical examples and ideas across grade levels, and you will leave with a field trip planning template to assist you in building an excellent, rigorous, and instructionally appropriate field trip experience.

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In this teacher professional development course, you will learn the secrets of technology integration in the classroom, gaining the skills educators need to use tools such as wikis, podcasts, and blogs effectively. You will discover simple ways to integrate technology to enhance your subject material and meet your Common Core standards and other course goals.

You will learn how to design presentations for auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning styles, how to teach keyboarding and word processing, how to develop standards-based lesson plans, and more. Whether you're new to the integration process or already use technology in the classroom, learning about emerging educational technologies is vital to your students' success. By the time you finish this online teacher training course, you will know how to integrate technology across the curriculum.

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Authentic integration of technology into classroom lessons can help enhance the effectiveness of content delivery when designed appropriately. This teacher professional development course will introduce you to five blended learning models and guide you on how to design the correct blended learning lesson to maximize learning in your classroom. You will be able to view the use of technology in the classroom as an integral component of lesson planning rather than an add-on you consider later.

The course will teach you to design a structured lesson using thoughtful technology resources and is an ideal course for individuals considering how they might support differentiated learning in the classroom. The course curriculum also covers how to design a plan of action for your classroom and comes with nine templates/resources to support you in creating a blended classroom.

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Microsoft Access is one of the most widely used information management systems. This course will teach you advanced techniques in this powerful database program, including importing Excel spreadsheets as tables, creating query calculations to crunch numbers, and using Visual Basic to automate common tasks. From building reports to using conditional formatting, this course will teach you how to best present your data. This course is appropriate for Access versions 2019, 2021 and 365.

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Learn to manage the financial aspects of your small business quickly and efficiently using QuickBooks Online. With this online version, you get all the advantages of computing in the cloud, which means that your accounting files will be available to you virtually anytime, anywhere. This course dives deeper into the software's intermediate features, such as tracking product and service items, managing inventory, and customizing sales forms.

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