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Fresno Pacific University Continuing Education offers a variety of independent study, non-degree graduate-level courses to help meet the ever-increasing demand for professional growth for K-14 educators. Our standards-based courses provide relevant, practical information, and dive deeply into each topic.
No matter your motivation for increasing your knowledge in a topic, FPU independent studies courses come to you through convenient online or correspondence learning. Teachers choose our unique courses because they are created and taught by veteran teachers with in depth classroom experience. As you move through a course, take up to one year to finish but implement your newfound knowledge in your classroom immediately. Spend time practicing, engaging and reflecting on your new skills.
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Teachers love our courses! From the 1 on 1 feedback received from instructors to innovative content immediately usable in the classroom, earning non-degree graduate-level professional development credits has never been so career-enhancing. Course projects are practical and have teachers create immediately useful pedagogical tools such as lessons, posters, bulletin boards, videos, presentations, slide shows, models, trip reports, and many more engaging activities.
“I absolutely loved this course! I especially enjoyed the fact that I was able to develop actual lessons that can be used right away in my classroom. Often during in-services, teachers do not have the opportunity to put what they have learned into practice. However, during this course, I now have lessons that will benefit my students' learning immediately."
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BIB-905 Unleashing God's Word to the Romans
This grade 6-12 online methods course is designed for Christian school educators, pastors, Bible and Sunday school teachers, and those interested in exploring the various teachings concerning the Apos...
CSED-904 Data Structures, Algorithms, & Software Engineering
The course aims to prepare educators to successfully teach advanced computer programming for high school students in all curricular areas. Students will continue to develop their background in compute...
ECE-913 Behavior Management in ECE Classrooms
Develop an understanding of the 'why' behind behavior problems in the early childhood classroom. Once you've understood the why, learn how to best apply practical behavior management strategies and so...
EDU-956 Performance Assessment Strategies
This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of performance assessment. It examines classroom-based assessment tasks, including visual representations, tasks using writing, oral presenta...
EDUC-940 Deepest Well: Book Application
Are you aware that experiences you had as a young child (some you may not even be able to remember) are still influencing you and your behaviors today, as an adult? Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, MD explor...
EDUC-942 Mindfulness Activities for the Classroom
Mindfulness is the awareness and acceptance of each present moment in time. Mindfulness can be cultivated by paying attention to thoughts, feelings, senses, and surroundings. Neuroscience research sho...
HED-915 Skills-Based Health Education
Skills-based approach to teaching K-14 health education prepares students for success in the 21st century. This practical course provides all you need in order to build, teach, and assess a health edu...
LIT-917 The Life & Works of Jane Austen (The Great Courses Series)
Embark on a journey into Jane Austen's world through an engaging exploration of her novels! You will discover more about Austen's lasting impact and her legacy and gain a deeper understanding of the e...
PED-925 Outdoor Fundamentals (The Great Courses Series)
People often feel intimidated by the wilderness. Unique training is required to successfully provide for our needs without the aid of modern conveniences. Yet, the wilderness invites us to enjoy a lif...
SCI-932 Practical Geology (The Great Courses Series)
Geology and the earth science have now become core curricular topics for the new generation of integrated science standards. Yet, the principles of the earth sciences-ideas that deal with vast stretch...
SCI-934 Zoology: Understand the Animal World (The Great Courses Series)
In this course, The Great Courses teams up with the Smithsonian, the acknowledged leader in animal research, conservation, and education, to bring you these visually rich video lectures that take you ...
SED-910 Understanding Individuals with Special Needs
This course will explore relationships and what individuals with special needs can teach us, the community. Course participants will learn the Categories of Disability along with a Biblical perspecti...
SED-911 Low Incidence Disabilities
This course provides an overview of four low-incidence disabilities, a severe disabling condition with an expected incidence rate of less than one percent of total statewide enrollment in special edu...
SOC-989 The Industrial Revolution (The Great Courses Series)
We owe so much of our modern world to the Industrial Revolution. The lights that illuminate our homes, the cars that carry us to work, the computers that help drive our economy, and the appliances tha...
SOC-993 Pirates: The Real History (The Great Courses Series)
In Pirates: The Real History, you'll find yourself looking at world history from a new point of view, realizing that much of what you've learned before could-and possibly should-be viewed through a mo...
STEM-911 Squishy Circuits
Combine sculpting, art, and electrical circuits for kinesthetic STEM learning! Squishy Circuits use LEDs, motors, switches, and buzzers to animate figures sculpted from dough that can be easily made w...
TECH-919 Show & Tell: Digital Artifacts of Student Learning
This fully online course introduces participants to playful apps and activities to get students excited about sharing what they know through digital artifacts. A digital artifact is a technology-enhan...
TECH-920 Mastering WeVideo for Classroom Creativity
Embark on an exhilarating journey with 'Mastering WeVideo for Classroom Creativity,' where educators are equipped with dynamic, enjoyable, and highly effective teaching tools. Discover the art of crea...
MAT-938 Desmos in the Math Classroom
In the digital age, web-based resources and tools for teaching in your classroom often come and go. It is challenging to keep up with new developments, and even more so to know which ones will truly m...
TECH-900 Video Editing for All Teachers
Have fun learning to create and edit new/existing video content. You will quickly discover how easy it is to record and edit video content that is engaging and exciting. We will primarily utilize th...
TECH-916 Canva for Education
Canva for Education is the world's largest free, online design platform that enables teachers and students to easily create beautiful and engaging designs. Bring your ideas to life with over 60,000 re...
EDUC-924 Mentoring New Teachers
According to educator Rick Smith, being a new teacher is like trying to fly a plane while building it. If you've ever been a first-year teacher, you know exactly what that means. There are times y...
EDU-969 QR Codes in the Classroom
Learn how to effectively incorporate QR codes into your teaching practice to enhance student learning and engagement. QR codes are two-dimensional barcodes that can be scanned using a smartphone or ta...
EDUC-943 The Mindful School
Mindfulness is a practice increasingly making its way into schools. Mindfulness can be defined as "the awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmental...
SOC-985 The American West (The Great Courses Series)
Designed to shine a light on truths about westward expansion and the American frontier (sometimes uncomfortable, always insightful), the course enables you to experience the grit and grandeur of an ep...
MAT-922 Patterns and Relationships (K-2)
Discover how to use hands-on materials, real-world problem-solving and playful activities to support number concepts while introducing students to the building blocks of Algebra. This ONLINE course...
STEM-907 STEAM-Propelled Learning
STEAM is an educational approach that integrates science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics through project-based, interdisciplinary learning. Drawing on design principles and art practic...
TECH-901 Online Formative Assessment
Formative! has now partnered with Google for Education, and is part of the G Suite Marketplace. It is one of the most powerful and free online tools available to classroom teachers. You will create cu...
MAT-933 Improving Fluency with Number Talks
Do your students struggle with math facts? Are you looking for practical methods that go beyond memorization? This online course will introduce you to number talks, a classroom routine that engage...
EDU-962 Playful Learning: Putting Play to Work In the Classroom
From first steps to alphabets, all children are born with a natural inclination to learn. Although most educators are familiar with the merits of play, many schools struggle to put play to work for cl...
EDU-972 Quizizz in the Classroom
Quizizz is a free online quiz platform that makes learning fun while enhancing engagement, providing instant feedback and assessment, and facilitating personalized learning. Educators should always se...
EDU-944 Creative Schools: Book Application
Creative Schools: Book Application is based on the book, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education. This is an inspiring book on how to meet the challenges of transform...
EDU-947 Hillbilly Elegy: Book Application
Read about the story of J.D. Vance, a self-proclaimed hillbilly from Appalachia. Like millions of others, his family left the hills in search of a better life. 'You can take a man out of the mountains...
MAT-934 Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching
Students bring a rich variety of cultural backgrounds and identities to classroom learning. Research suggests that teachers who value student culture and experience are better able to foster academic ...
MAT-936 Teaching Math Online
Remote technologies that connect people have expanded the ways we teach and learn. Many schools are embracing digitized education through blended and online offerings. With a higher prevalence of remo...
EDU-963 Making Thinking Visible
Discover a set of flexible teaching practices for making students' thinking visible. Developed through decades of research at Harvard's Project Zero, visible thinking establishes classroom routines th...
ATH-937 Winning in the Locker Room: Book Application
Winning in the Locker Room draws on the extraordinary experiences of coaches and consultants at the professional and college level. It explores the seven powerful principles that any sports team, scho...
SOC-992 Washington DC: History, Heritage, & Politics (The Great Courses Series)
As a political epicenter, Washington DC is a major national and international crossroads and featured daily in global news. Beyond the glamour and glare of high-profile politics, it is a city on par w...
ART-906 Drawing for Perceptual-Cognitive Development
Drawing, like reading or writing, is a learned skill that can be taught and developed. The practice of drawing develops one's perceptual-cognitive skills, the ability to accurately perceive, process a...
TECH-903 Quiz & Vocabulary Apps for Educators
Apps for Educators is a series of courses for tech-minded educators. Quiz and Vocabulary Apps for Educators is the first in this series. Compare Kahoot and Quizziz. Which review application works best...
ATH-926 Coaching Cross Country
Enhance your knowledge base related to coaching cross country at the middle school level and above. Course objectives are modeled after standards-based learning objectives for teachers and for coa...
SOC-986 America's Gilded Age & Progressive Era (The Great Courses Series)
America stands at a dramatic crossroads: Mega banks and corporations wield disturbing power; huge income gap between the top 1% and the other 99% grows visibly wider; astounding new technologies are c...
ATH-918 Advanced Nutrition for Sports
The best conditioning programs and technical instruction are beneficial only if the body's engine is properly fueled and ready to operate at peak efficiency. Far beyond the food pyramid, this cour...
ELA-929 Picture Book Power (PreK-3)
Picture books are amazing! Get ready to have some fun while you discover new picture books and authors, plan engaging activities, and build literacy skills in your classroom! This online, standard...
TEC-998 Photography for Teachers
ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY FOR TEACHERS Learn to easily make the most of your photography. Most modern cameras offer a wide range of possibilities beyond 'Auto' or 'Program' mode. This class will help you exp...
ART-910 Post-Impressionism: The Beginnings of Modern Art (The Great Courses Series)
Learning about art at a young age can have numerous benefits for students, fostering creativity and imagination, deepening students' cultural, societal and historical awareness, and fostering empathy ...
LIT-906 British Novels
British literature, classics from the 19th and 20th century will be the focus of this course. In this course you will have the opportunity to read and research two novels selected from a list of c...
MAT-913 Great Mathematicians After 1700
Explore the stories behind mathematical discoveries which are fascinating but rarely told. When students learn how people like themselves have discovered and shaped mathematics, their interest and...
EDU-954 Best Productivity Hacks for Educators
We live busy lives. Each person has 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week. So why do some people get more out of their time? This course hacks the experts on productivity. Each module offers brillian...
TECH-914 iMovie for Macs, iPads & iPhones
iMovie is Apple's free video editing program for Macs, iPads and iPhones. It is very easy to learn and integrates very well with all Apple devices, yet also has many advanced features for easily crea...
EDUC-941 Mindfulness for Teachers
Mindfulness is an approach that helps teachers and students navigate the social-emotional challenges of the classroom. For teachers, mindful awareness cultivates a compassionate 'noticing' of the inte...
TEC-990 iCloud: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
Learn how to create, update, share and collaborate documents with Apple's productivity suite - Pages (word processing), Numbers (spreadsheets), and Keynote (presentations). Using a Mac or Windows comp...
MAT-912 Great Mathematicians Before 1700
Surprise and excite students as they discover mathematics come from real human beings like themselves. Learn how to take the fear and apprehension out of mathematics. The stories behind mathematic...
PED-923 Teaching Lifetime Fitness
Teaching Lifetime Fitness covers applied information regarding components of physical fitness, exercise planning and behavioral changes to improve personal fitness and promote lifetime activity. You w...
ELA-931 Teaching Graphic Novels (5-12)
Graphic novels are growing in popularity across all grades as students discover engaging and exciting texts. Learn about graphic novels, visual literacy, and how to engage students with fun, accessibl...
EDUC-936 Teenage Addiction: What Educators Need To Know
Understanding teenage addictions is the first step to intervention and support of those in your classroom who may struggle with overcoming alcoholism, stealing, pornography, and a multitude of drug de...
EDU-919 Women in Mathematics and Science
Explore the significant contributions of women in math and science, and be inspired by those who made strides and conquered several obstacles. Women faced prejudice in the pursuit of excellence. I...
EDUC-927 Teacher Burnout: Prevention & Recovery
Over half of U.S. teachers report that their morale is low, and more teachers than ever are leaving the profession within the first five years in the classroom. This course provides you with some prac...
STEM-913 Inventions That Changed the World (The Great Courses Series)
History is made not only by kings, queens, presidents, and generals, but equally by inventors and the technological powers they unleash. This course explores the inventions that have changed the world...
LIT-912 African Folktales
Learn about the folktale genre, how to select appropriate, high-quality tales, how to incorporate them into the classroom and how to make the reading of these tales stimulating and relevant to stu...
STEM-910 Teaching With Tinkercad
Tinkercad is an amazingly easy-to-use, powerful program for creating 3D digital designs that are ready to be 3D printed, incorporated into projects or solve design challenges. This FREE collection of...
TECH-912 Paint and Draw for Teachers
The addition of computer graphics to your teaching materials will transform ordinary learning tasks into immersive, enjoyable FUN! Utilizing the free and easily accessed web-based programs: CloudPaint...
SCI-933 Botany: Understand the Plant World (The Great Courses Series)
You are invited into the uniquely satisfying world of plants, and the joy of celebrating and learning from the secrets of living nature. With almost 400,000 known species and thousands more identified...
ELA-921 Content Comprehension: Helping Students Read & Understand
This course will focus on understanding the struggling reader and implementing practical strategies in the classroom that will help students succeed with reading in their content area classes. The cla...
LIT-907 Short Stories from Around the World
Experience reading outstanding short stories from multiple cultures, including Europe, South America, and Africa. When one reads international authors, one is caught first by the universality of l...
STEM-912 School Gardening
Grow your students' love of learning with a school garden! School gardening cultivates patience, responsibility, and collaboration as students sow and nurture their crops. Students who grow their own ...
EDU-938 Teach Like a Pirate: Book Application
Some teachers are like pirates, sailing the seven seas in search of adventure and treasure. Their classrooms are places of intrigue and wonder, laughter and learning. Sound impossible? In his book, Te...
STEM-909 3D Printing for Teachers
The Good News: Your school district purchased a 3D printer for your classroom. The Bad News: Training wasn't included. 3D printing technology has great potential in educational environments as cour...
ATH-925 Coaching Track and Field
Learn the fundamentals of coaching the various events in track and field. Perform a detailed study on an event category of your choosing and create a detailed training program for an athlete compe...
MAT-915 Recreational Math for the Classroom
Discover how recreational mathematics is real mathematics presented in a context that makes it fun, interesting and challenging. The regular use of mathematical recreations throughout the year can...
CSED-901 Computational Thinking
This course is the second in a series of Computer Science Authorization courses that enable teachers to be credentialed to teach Computer Science and is designed to fulfill requirements for the Califo...
LIT-901 Short Stories from American Literature
Reading good stories is a wonderful way to learn! In this course, designed for teachers of grades 7 - 14, participants will read stories by classic and contemporary American authors. The materials als...
BIB-902 An Overview of the Bible
Obtain an overview of the Bible from Genesis through Revelation. Examine the composition of the biblical documents, and discover an overall analysis of the themes and storyline of the Bible. Be introd...
TECH-910 Technology Tools for Teaching Online
Quarantining will pass and schools will open their doors but the demand for online learning using technology will continue to be in high demand and that means teachers need to learn new skills and tea...
MAT-914 Patterns and Problem Solving
Many of us already know that problem solving can be an exciting, exhilarating adventure. Students who have caught this enthusiasm may simply be given a problem and ""turned loose"" to see what they ...
ART-905 Watercolor Sketching for Students
Take your students on an artistic adventure into the world of watercolor sketching on location. Learn techniques of seeing and capturing perspective, proportion, color, and mood, like the impressionis...
ATH-915 Advanced Strength Training for Sports
This course is designed to provide the high school coach or teacher with the tools to maximize the muscular strength and power of their student athletes by applying the latest breakthroughs in scienti...
MAT-929 Fostering Math Discussions
Discover powerful ways to engage students in mathematics discussion. This online course will explore principles of productive talk and specific techniques that will get your students talking about...
LIT-902 The American Novel
This course, designed for teachers of middle school, secondary school, and college level, provides the structure and incentive to read and think about some of the great novels from American fiction. T...
LIT-905 Folktales from Around the World
Experience an introduction to folk literature from many cultures. The provided texts include activities which establish context, introduce vocabulary, stimulate and assess comprehension and invite...
ART-907 Teaching Observational Drawing
Observational drawing is a foundational skill for both the student and the teacher in the field of visual arts. It is a learned skill that requires concentration, analytical thinking, problem solving,...
ATH-929 Concussion in Sports
This course is designed to provide an introduction to sport concussions. Included are an introduction to brain anatomy, causes of concussions and what happens to the brain when some one sustains a con...
LIT-908 Poetry for Children
Children naturally love poetry. This course is designed to help teachers gain confidence in teaching poetry--both reading and writing. It introduces rationale, techniques and strategies for sharin...
TEC-994 The Chromebook Classroom
A Chromebook is a laptop computer that utilizes web-based apps and cloud storage. Affordable yet powerful, a Chromebook offers students and teachers access to a wide range of productivity and curricul...
MAT-931 Mathematics for Social Justice
Social justice awareness can be utilized in lessons in the classroom. This online course will introduce you to specific strategies for engaging students in mathematics lessons and activities built...
LIT-909 Fantasy Literature
Fantasy literature has many unique uses for the classroom. Many teachers would like to capitalize on natural fascination young readers have with fantasy literature. This course will introduce you ...
TEC-923 Introduction to Computers for Teachers
Tailored for the computer novice, this newly updated course provides the background, concepts and basic skills needed to become a productive and confident computer user. Easy to understand explanation...
MAT-935 Art-Enhanced Mathematics
Integrating the arts into mathematics learning allows students to experiment with shape and form, investigate abstract concepts with concrete materials, and approach problems from multiple perspective...
EDU-939 Teach Like Finland: Book Application
Finland is well-known around the world for its excellence in education. In this best-seller, Timothy Walker shares 33 simple strategies for making your classroom a more joyful learning environment. Th...
ART-909 In the Footsteps of Vincent van Gogh (The Great Courses Series)
Discover the secrets behind the life and work of one of the most recognized, yet misunderstood, artists of the modern world, Vincent van Gogh. This 15-episode course by Professor Jean-Pierre Isbouts w...
SCI-930 Life in the World's Oceans (The Great Courses Series)
The Earth's ocean is its most significant feature. Taking up more than 70% of the Earth's surface, our ocean is essential for life on this planet. It provides approximately 2/3 of the oxygen we breath...
SOC-973 Ben Franklin's Philadelphia
This course examines the remarkable life of Benjamin Franklin with an emphasis upon his impact on the city of Philadelphia, PA. It is a Social Studies course that studies Franklin's relentless drive t...
SOC-981 Branches of U.S. Government
Explore the structure and functions of the United State government's three policymaking institutions: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Focus is placed on the role of each branch ...
HED-906 Stress Management
This course is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills needed to teach their students about the detrimental effects that are associated with excessive ...
EDU-920 Using Literature to Teach Mathematics
Have you wondered how to capture the excitement of children's literature for the purpose of teaching mathematics? A great story can become a springboard for teaching or reinforcing a mathematical ...
EDU-934 Sketchnotes for Comprehension
Visual note taking is one of the best ways to learn and process new information. Sketchnotes for Comprehension is not a course for artists or those who want to become artists. It is a course for t...
SOC-903 Los Angeles: Reflections on Its Heritage
This course explores various periods in the history of Los Angeles. Experts will discuss Mission San Gabriel, Southwest Indians, the Southwest Museum, George C. Page Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits, a...
ELA-930 Successful Independent Reading (4-12)
Independent reading can be a dynamic and powerful experience that will help your students become more proficient readers! In this class you will learn about engaging readers, building motivation, crea...
EDUC-938 Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators
'To help children build their emotional intelligence and resilience, we must simultaneously tend to our own emotional intelligence and resilience.' (Aguilar, 2018). This course is designed to empower ...
SOC-990 World War II: Battlefield Europe (The Great Courses Series)
In more ways that you can imagine, today's geopolitical climate is a product of World War II. The United States, France, Germany, Russia, and Britain-all of these world powers and their sense of place...
HED-907 Healthy Environments
Healthy Environments focuses on teaching good environmental stewardship, which promotes positive environmental health. Today's students live in a world where environmental issues -- global warming...
ELA-913 Teaching Writing
Teachers recognize that equipping students with the necessary tools for writing well shapes students into strong and effective communicators. This practical and enriching skill will always be valued, ...
STEM-903 SketchUp for Schools
SketchUp for Schools is a free version of SketchUp available to any primary or secondary school signed up with G Suite for Education or Microsoft Education. With SketchUp for Schools, students around ...
EDU-950 Whole-Brain Child: Book Application
When your student has an emotional outburst, what is really going on in his brain? What teacher responses could fuel the fire, and what can help your student think logically? In Siegel and Bryson's Th...
HED-914 Healthy Relationships
Healthy relationships can enhance the quality of life within our students and communities. Mutual respect, trust, honest communication, and shared goals are all essential for any relationship to b...
EDUC-926 Positive Discipline in the Classroom
Positive Discipline in the classroom empowers the teachers and administration with positive communication, examples of I messages and listening skills, the importance of respect, responsibility and lo...
LIT-903 Hispanic Literature: Gary Soto
Enrich your knowledge with the literary work of well known and gifted Latino author, Gary Soto. This course is designed to help teachers of grades K-12 teach literature and creative writing using ...
PED-900 Teaching Golf
Teaching golf is designed to make maximum use of your time. The readings, video tapes, magazine, rules book and workbook will give you a broad understanding of the rules and mechanics of golf in a sho...
EDU-921 Writing in the Mathematics Classroom
Learn how to teach K-12 students to reflect, share ideas and understand the meaning of math through writing. Teach students to explain and justify their thinking to others. Writing helps them orga...
MAT-930 Common Core Math Practices
Discover how to engage your students in the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice. In this course, you will explore specific strategies for developing mathematically proficient students w...
SED-907 Response to Intervention (RTI) / Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
This course introduces the practice of Response to Intervention (RTI), and how it identifies challenging behavior and students at risk for poor learning outcomes. Students will also learn about RTI's ...
TEC-964 iPads in the Classroom
The iPad has proven its tremendous potential to revolutionize the way students learn and teachers teach. This versatile teaching and learning tool becomes a textbook, calculator, drawing pad, interact...
STEM-902 Makerspace: Technology and Tinkering
Bring exciting engineering and design opportunities into the classroom. The maker revolution has opened the door for educators. Invention, tinkering and design can deeply engage learners in creati...
SOC-979 Comparing World Governments
Examine various government systems and political ideologies from around the world. The governments and political systems of six countries will be used as case studies: Great Britain, China, Iran, Ru...
LIT-904 Children's Literature
Learning how to bring children and books together in productive and satisfying experiences is the ultimate goal in this course. You will become more aware of the wealth of available children's lit...
TECH-913 The Interactive Class: Book Application
Technology has expanded the ways teachers design learning experiences for students, but the ever-growing list of educational tools and apps can be overwhelming for classroom teachers. This book applic...
HED-911 Healthy Eating
Help improve the lives and health of your students through balanced eating! This course provides practical advice and research-based strategies that address the root causes of unhealthy eating. Pa...
ELA-928 Close Reading Strategies (4-12)
Are you ready to learn more about close reading strategies and how to help your students become more active, thoughtful, engaged and independent readers? This online, standards-based course introd...
TEC-960 Internet: Classroom on Wire
Internet: Classroom on Wire is the perfect course for any teacher, technology coordinator, principal, or librarian who wants to use the Internet to enhance their classroom lessons and units. This hand...
EDUC-921 PBIS: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
This is a course for teachers, grades K-12, to encourage the integration of the PBIS principles into their classroom management. They will identify the behavioral issues addressed by PBIS at their gra...
EDUC-932 Brainstorm: the Power of the Teenage Brain: Book Application
Our teen years are filled with heightened emotions, the push and pull of independence, and excitement of applying abstract principles. Instead of giving readers a toolbox of how to "deal" with the str...
EDUC-937 Supporting Children of Divorce and Stepfamilies
This course is designed for K-12 teachers, administrators, counselors, and other educational professionals who seek to enhance their skills in meeting the needs of students who are experiencing family...
MAT-932 Use Rich Math Tasks in the Classroom
Discover new ways to engage your students in enjoyable, confident, and rigorous problem solving using rich mathematical tasks. Rich mathematical tasks provide students with opportunities to think like...
SOC-991 World War II: Pacific Theater (The Great Courses Series)
The Japanese attack on the United States Battle Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, socked most Americans. While the attack was a tactical success for Japan, it was also one of the mo...
STEM-908 Developing Data-Literate Students
Data compile every second of the day. These "big data" can be used to better understand and constructively shape the world around us. The top emerging jobs will require professionals to understand how...
MAT-927 Teach Math to English Language Learners
This fully online course provides teachers with effective techniques for engaging English language learners, also called multilingual learners, in rigorous mathematics learning. Participants will expl...
PED-904 Learning From the Legends
Whether you teach physical education, math, science, writing, history or any number of subjects, this course will help you to motivate your students to accomplish tasks as they are set before them...
TECH-917 Creating a Bitmoji Classroom
Creating a Bitmoji Classroom is a course where you build a personalized online site that makes learning come alive for your students as they connect to resources, get assignments, take quizzes, and mu...
EDU-935 Superpowers for Educators & Coaches
You don't have to be Superman, Batman, or Wonder Woman in this class. Instead, learn about your superpowers that simply need development. This course uncovers strategies to increase productivity a...
TEC-959 Google Drive for Educators
Do you want to change the way your work gets done? Do you want to enhance all your lessons with collaborative learning? Now, you and your students can use the free web-based collaborative producti...
ATH-932 Interval Training for Sports
The concept of interval training has exploded in recent years with the popularity of CrossFit, P90X, and other high-intensity training programs. However, interval training can also complement the ...
ATH-914 Nutrition for Sports
Proper nutrition is essential for performing well in sports, maintaining the benefits of fitness, reducing their risk of injury, and preventing nutrition-related diseases. Learn how easy it is for ath...
ATH-911 Cross-Training for Sports
Excelling in any sport requires the athlete to achieve and maintain high-level conditioning without overtraining. All athletes need strength, power, quickness and flexibility to compete successful...
HED-913 Financial Wellness
Do you want to help your students be millionaires by the age of 50? Using the practical advice of financial expert Dave Ramsey, this course is designed as a resource for teachers, school counselor...
ATH-909 Speed Training for Sports
Many athletes and coaches believe the myth that 'speed is a gift you're either born with or without.' They don't realize that there are effective methods to running faster. Easy-to-learn technique...
ELA-923 Teaching Literary Elements (6 - 12)
Are you interested in creative ideas for teaching literary elements in your classroom? Teaching Literary Elements (6-12) is an online, standards-based course, designed to introduce and explore new...
MAT-928 Technology-Enhanced Math Learning
The activities in this online course will provide you with multiple opportunities to deepen your understanding and apply insights to your own teaching. Designed to provide you with a foundation fo...
LIT-913 Teaching Shakespeare
Looking for a new approach to classic literature? Teaching Shakespeare offers you an opportunity to explore a variety of new, innovative teaching strategies for approaching Shakespeare in the clas...
ATH-933 Coaching Baseball
It has been said that to be an excellent coach, one has to be an excellent teacher. Learn to teach tactical and technical skills baseball so that you can be an excellent baseball coach. Effectivel...
HED-901 Teaching Elementary Health
Your classroom must be a place for the next generation of young Americans to develop appreciation for the joy of learning, as well as acquiring a solid foundation for a healthy lifestyle. The theme of...
ATH-920 Coaching Basketball
Learn how to teach the technical and tactical skills of basketball. An important focus is on skill demonstration and error detection as participants learn to develop practice plans and complete other ...
SCI-929 Virtual Science Labs
Laboratory exercises are a wonderful way to explore and experience science. Using a project based approach, students will learn about and experience the use of virtual science labs suitable for use in...
ATH-927 Coaching Swimming
Discover fundamental and advanced principles in a format that is appropriate for all levels of swimmers, from the beginner to the most seasoned veteran. Be exposed to a wide variety of coaching me...
LIT-910 The Young Adult Novel
Learn how to make the reading of young adult novels stimulating and relevant to students' lives. Discover refreshing and practical ways to integrate quality young adult novels into your curriculum...
HED-912 Health Education Technology
Addressing public health challenges in the 21st century requires that teachers, counselors, and students are familiar with current technology. There are many technical options available to engage stud...
PED-922 Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Through Sports & Physical Education
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) through Sports and Physical Education is a highly practical and theoretically sound course that will help you build a positive learning environment, teach valuable life...
MAT-926 Developing Algebraic Thinking (6-8)
Discover how to support deeper understanding of foundational algebraic concepts in grades 6-8. Teachers will explore growth patterns and functions, variables, linear relationships, and coordinate ...
EDUC-939 Self-Compassion for Teachers
Teachers face unprecedented stress and demands in the current educational landscape. But, as the WestEd Center for Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety reported, 'in order to support others...
SOC-967 The Scientific Revolution: 1500-1800
Explore the key discoveries, theories, personalities, and impact of the Scientific Revolution in Europe in the 16th through 18th centuries, including the conflict between scientific advances and t...
EDU-945 Gamification in the Classroom
Learn the strategies of gamification as you search for the Ruby Gale, a lost pirate ship laden with treasure. This course is designed like a game to give you the tools to take gamification into your c...
PED-902 Teaching Indoor Team Sports
By offering a quality curriculum with a spark of enthusiasm you can kindle an interest in almost any sport! Physical educators can make a critical impact on athletes and "non-athletes" alike. Physical...
MAT-924 Virtual Manipulatives
Investigate virtual pattern blocks, geoboards, function machines and more. This online course will introduce teachers K - 12 to the world of virtual manipulatives. You will compare and contrast vi...
ATH-910 Strength Training for Sports
This course is designed to explore the relationship between strength training and athletic performance. Participants will learn how to develop individualized strength training programs for both yo...
ELA-922 Media Literacy
From the morning news, to the afternoon talk shows, to the commercial-saturated evening sitcoms, daily we are bombarded with hundreds of media messages. The focus of this course is on critical thinkin...
CSED-900 Information Technology Basics for Schools
This course is the first in a series of Computer Science Authorization courses that enable teachers to be credentialed to teach Computer Science and is designed to fulfill requirements for the Califor...
PED-907 Teaching Outdoor Team Sports
This course will provide information and structure required to build quality outdoor team sports units to encourage participation in regular physical activity for lifelong fitness. Course work will in...
SOC-956 The Civil Rights Movement
Engage in an overview and details of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's that grew out of decades, if not centuries, of discrimination and humiliation exper...
MAT-921 Teaching First Year Algebra
Faced with teaching first year algebra? This course provides useful ideas, strategies and resources for teachers of first year algebra. The ideas, approaches and strategies in this course should m...
ATH-923 Sport First Aid
Fulfill the role of a competent first responder to athletic injuries and illness as you are introduced to sports first aid injury prevention. Many state high school associations, colleges and univ...
HED-908 Healthy Self-Esteem
Healthy self-esteem is essential for mental and physical well-being. Research on the origins of self-esteem has concluded that unconditional love is a key component. This course will present techn...
MAT-923 Assessing Students' Mathematics Learning
Do you find it challenging to develop assessment tasks that measure student thinking and understanding? If so, you're not alone. Authentic assessment--the kind that tells us what students know, what t...
SOC-917 California: Reflecting America
This course is designed primarily to introduce teachers to Dr. J.S. Holliday's study of past and present relationships which led him to conclude that California's present-day image as a "risk-taking s...
TEC-961 Computer Projects for the Classroom
Computer Projects for Your Classroom is designed for instructors and curriculum developers to explore multiple resources to assist them in the development of practical lessons that involve the use of ...
SOC-901 California Gold Rush: 49ers/Miners
Become more knowledgeable about California's Gold Rush and the impact it had on California's history. In this online course, you will learn about Native Americans and settlers in the Gold Rush areas. ...
HED-909 Personal Safety
Medical emergencies and natural disasters can occur at any time and place. Knowing what to do can save a person's life or unnecessary visits to the doctor or emergency department. This course is i...
MAT-925 Patterns and Relationships (3-5)
Discover captivating activities, use manipulatives and real-world problem-solving to support number concepts while introducing students to the building blocks of Algebra. This online course will p...
PED-903 Walking for Fitness
Walking for Fitness is designed to stress the importance of cardiovascular, muscular, and mental fitness development for maintaining a healthy lifestyle for you and your students. The course will hel...
ATH-917 Power Training for Sports
Optimal power-the ideal combination of speed and strength-is the difference between a good athlete and a great athlete. This course provides all the tools to build sport-specific power and allow you t...
TEC-911 Comprehensive Technology Use Planning
A Technology Use Plan is a powerful, dynamic tool that helps create and sustain a technology-rich educational environment. Technology planning provides direction and helps adopters clearly understand ...
TEC-978 Twitter for Educators
Learn how to create a Professional Learning Network (PLN) of other educators and experts in various fields in order to learn from and share ideas, activities, lesson plans, teaching strategies, the us...
ATH-936 Sports Biomechanics
Sports Biomechanics is an introductory course designed to introduce physical educators and coaches to the basic principles of biomechanics and their applications to human movement in sport and exercis...
ATH-916 Periodization Training for Sports
Periodization training is a year-round conditioning program structured into phases to meet sport-specific goals. By varying the timing and intensity of the workouts, the greatest gains in strength...
ATH-913 Plyometric Training for Sports
Plyometrics refers to exercise that enables a muscle to reach maximal strength in as short a time as possible. Such exercises usually involve some form of jumping, but other modes exist. This course i...
PED-920 Teaching Pickleball
Pickleball is an increasingly popular game for all ages from 8 to 80. Because it can be vigorous, is inexpensive, and easy to learn it is appearing in physical education curriculum as a life-long spor...
PED-908 Teaching Individual Sports
This course will provide information and structure required to build quality individual sports units to encourage participation in regular physical activity for lifelong fitness. Course work will incl...
SOC-970 Baseball As American Culture
The game of baseball is an integral part of American culture from its origins to the present day. Participants develop an understanding of our national past-time and discover how the game is a reflect...
HED-903 Weight: Effects on Health and Attitudes
This course is designed to help teachers and their students acquire an historic and consumer perspective of dieting. Different diet routines and their planned outcomes will be reviewed along with thei...
ATH-912 Stretching for Sports
Flexibility is essential for individuals who want to perform well in sports, maintain the benefits of fitness, and reduce their risk of injury. During this course, participants will learn why individu...
EDU-932 Kahoot! in the Classroom
Kahoot is a game-based learning platform that incorporates games that can be accessed via a web browser or the Kahoot app. Kahoot! was made to make learning fun, inclusive and engaging in all contexts...
TEC-938 Computers in the Classroom
The teacher's mastery of technology is the key to the successful future of our youth. Teachers have a responsibility to elevate their understanding of and expertise in computers, ultimately integratin...
EDU-903 Curriculum Games for the Intermediate Grades
Maximize your teaching/learning experience by making learning a pleasantly stimulating and exciting experience. One way to achieve this is to use games because they provide attractive frameworks f...
PED-911 History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education
Sports and physical activities have become a large and pervasive part of the everyday lives of most Americans. Historically, sports have been a significant cultural component of civilization and have ...
HED-900 Fit for You: A Guide to Wellness
This is the most important class you can take for your sake. Fit for You is designed to help you realize the importance of cardiovascular and muscular fitness, proper diet and sound mental health for ...
PED-912 Teaching Secondary Physical Education
This course is designed to be a balance between learning the content needed to be an effective Physical Education teacher at the secondary level and applying the pedagogy needed to teach the content. ...
EDU-933 Biblical Worldview Integration
Biblical Worldview Integration is teaching a lesson objective and teaching it from a Christian perspective. It is not a class devoid of God, nor is it solely about God. It is a melding of the two. It ...
EDUC-920 Student Mediator Training
Experience the power of restorative practices and learn how to build, restore, and rebuild a community of learners based on mutual respect and equity in your school. Discover how mediation training ad...
SCI-931 Science of Extreme Weather (The Great Courses Series)
No place on Earth is safe from severe storms. Tour the world's wildest weather-and learn how to protect yourself-with a storm-chasing, prize-winning meteorologist. By delving into Science of Extreme W...
ATH-904 Coaching: General Principles and Fundamentals
Being a successful coach is an enormous challenge. The expectations of today's coaches are higher than ever. This course prepares the modern coach by teaching the principles of coaching based on the s...
TEC-963 Digital Storytelling
Storytelling has been at the heart of all cultures through spoken word, artwork, and text but with the advent of technology you can take storytelling to a whole new level and our course, Digital Story...
STEM-900 Inspire STEM Learning
Discover an interdisciplinary approach to learning that engages students in relevant, rigorous, real-world problem solving. The emphasis on college and career readiness in Common Core Standards re...
PED-905 Teaching Tennis
Teaching Tennis is designed to build the skills and knowledge needed to effectively teach tennis is class or small group situation. The course consists of a textbook plus website reading assignments, ...
TEC-954 Interactive Boards
The course, Interactive Boards, is designed for any teacher, technology coordinator, principal, or librarian working with an interactive board or monitor. Students will learn different aspects of how ...
SOC-902 Monterey: Historic Capital of California
Monterey: Historic Capital of California is designed to help teachers become more knowledgeable about the history of California, enhance social science teaching skills, and learn to utilize technologi...
ATH-907 Coaching: Drugs in Sport
This course will encourage the high school coach to think about the issues and facts that surround the usages of performance-enhancing supplements typically encountered in our athletically competitive...
EDU-953 How We Learn (The Great Courses Series)
Discover how the minds of your students acquire, process, store, and retrieve information. This course includes a fascinating, 24-video lecture series from The Great Courses that covers topics on lear...
SCI-900 Physical Science Activities for Primary Grades
Engage students in the exploration of concepts covering water, air, energy, gravity, electricity and magnetism. Present lessons that encourage students to take a constructivist approach to learnin...
EDU-968 The Learning Brain (The Great Courses Series)
Dive into the neuroscience of learning and learn how to maximize the learning mechanisms in your brain and your students' brains! Explore the current brain research findings on psychological and neura...
STEM-904 Teaching Robotics: An Introduction
Today's app-enabled robots are more user-friendly than ever, geared towards learners of all ages and levels of experience. Robotics learning develops 21st century STEM skills including coding and ...
SOC-906 California Missions: 1769 - Secularization
California Missions 1769 - Secularization is designed to help teachers learn about the California Missions Period. Through oral interviews, videos, and readings, teachers will become more familiar wit...
EDUC-903 Peer Support, Mentoring and Student Leadership
This course is designed to strengthen participant's ability to develop and implement positive peer support, student leadership and adult mentoring programs for grades K-12. While the central mandate f...
ELA-917 Poetry in English Classroom (7 - 12)
Inspire and engage students with a love of poetry! This online, standards-based course explores a variety of methods for single-subject teachers to bring poetry into their classroom. Students are ...
EDU-937 Skills for Academic Success
As a teacher, counselor, or school administrator you know that being a successful student in today's society can be challenging. This course is designed to help educators create a curriculum and e...
HED-902 Health and Today's Teenager
Health is not limited to the physical side of mankind. It's the all-encompassing subject that deals with life itself in all of its glory, frustrations, disappointment, and triumphs. This course is des...
PED-901 Teaching Elementary Physical Education
Starting with physical education goals and objectives, the course will lead participants through such innovative topics as movement, learning, curriculum planning, class management, and equipment. The...
ATH-939 Pilates for Sports
Pilates is a popular low-impact exercise technique. It can be used to improve many aspects of physical fitness such as strength, flexibility, coordination, speed, agility, and endurance. Pilates also ...
SOC-984 Japanese Internment Camps: Pearl Harbor - Post Release
How were 120,000 Japanese Americans forcibly relocated simply for 'looking like the enemy?' In this course, students will gain a deeper understanding of the impact the attack on Pearl Harbor had on th...
SOC-987 History of the CIA (The Great Courses Series)
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is America's premier intelligence organization, charged with keeping constant watch in an increasingly dangerous and unstable world. Some critics have accused it ...
ATH-900 Successful Fundraising for Athletics
Learn and apply successful principles and ideas for athletic fundraising and promotions for all ages. Be provided with a large number of highly successful athletic fundraising and promotion ideas ...
EDUC-934 Enhancing Executive Function
Teachers and administrators will learn the types of executive skills that are essential for student learning, how to recognize strengths and weaknesses with students and how to practically improve stu...
ART-902 The Magic of Paper
Experience the fun of working with a variety of commonly available papers in exciting and surprising new ways! You'll see many opportunities for critical thinking, problem-solving, and integration...
ATH-931 Taping for Sports
Discover the purposes and methods of using various taping techniques to support and protect injuries to bones, ligaments, tendons, muscles, nerves, and joints of the body. Be introduced to basic a...
SED-903 Adaptive Physical Education: Inclusive Games and Sports
This course assists teachers to modify sports, games, and physical activities to make them appropriate for a person with a disability. There is a curriculum guide which evolved to assist teachers to e...
ART-904 Ideas to Draw From
Discover how easy and powerful art education can be. These lessons are easy to follow, easy to integrate with other subjects, and are immediately ready to use in your classroom. In addition to com...
ELA-918 Writing with Mentor Texts
Ready to help your students become more proficient writers? This online standards-based course is designed to help Grades 6-12 teachers gain an understanding of the nature of mentor texts and how ...
TEC-991 Create a Classroom Website
This course will step students through creating a web page in four free, online tools in order to choose the one that suits their needs best to use in creating the rest of their classroom website. Des...
TEC-940 Virtual Field Trips: Taking and Making
Field trips are a wonderful way to see and learn about the world around us. However, field trips can be difficult to organize, can be expensive, usually involve travel, and are often impractical. With...
EDU-952 Grit: Passion & Perseverance: Book Application
Why do some people overcome difficult circumstances and excel while others don't? What makes some people successful? In this class, you will discover what psychologist Angela Duckworth's research has ...
STEM-901 Coding in the Classroom
Coding: it's a word that's been getting a lot of media attention recently. Through computer coding experiences your students can develop logical thinking, persistence and enhanced communication sk...
PED-914 Technology in Physical Education
Technology has become an infusive and pervasive presence in most aspects of today's culture; at home, at work, in the classroom, and on the athletic field. Technology has provided teachers and coa...
TEC-996 Google Drive Expanding
Google Drive Expanding is an online course designed for adventurous educators who want to expand the capabilities of Google Drive Documents, Forms, and Slides. Google Drive Expanding features new and...
HED-910 Health and Wellness for Teachers and Students
Discover how to promote and enhance the health and well being of your students and staff by providing coordinated health and support services. This course is dedicated to helping the nation's scho...
HED-904 Childhood Obesity: Healthy Choices Rule
The biggest contributors to developing childhood obesity are soda consumption, junk food, television, video games and computers. This course focuses on the current legislation to combat the obesit...
ATH-935 Endurance Training for Sports
Train smarter, not harder. That's the ultimate goal of Endurance Training for Sports. This course is designed for sports coaches and physical educators who are seeking a thorough understanding of how ...
SOC-964 History of Mexico
Discover the rich political, cultural and social history of Mexico from ancient times to the present. Great pre-Columbian civilizations, the Spanich Conquest, the role of the Catholic Church, the ...
STEM-906 Teaching With Scratch
Scratch is a free, easy-to-learn computer programming platform that enables users of all ages and abilities to design creative projects. Using brightly colored drag-and-drop blocks, Scratchers can con...
TEC-921 Excel: The Ultimate Information Tool
We live in what is being described as the Information Age. As we are bombarded with data from all sides, each of us needs special tools to help make sense of all this information. Excel is a spreadshe...
TEC-993 CCSS Tech for Success
Learn how to prepare your students to be college and career ready by using the technology-infused Common Core State Standards. CCSS Tech for Success will take you beyond the standards to a place w...
SOC-963 A Nation of Immigrants
This course explores the multi-ethnic heritage of the United States from a multi-disciplinary, but primarily historic, perspective. Especially in light of ongoing controversy over American immigration...
PED-919 Teaching Disc Golf
This course is designed to build the skills and knowledge required to effectively teach disc golf in a class or a small group setting. Disc golf is a modern spin on traditional golf that is becoming m...
MAT-937 Routines for Mathematical Reasoning
Routines help us develop healthy daily habits, math classrooms establish routines for lectures and homework, fewer offer specific daily routines to help students think, communicate, and reason like ma...
EDUC-913 Engage Students to Achieve Results
Motivation, effort, interest and desire to learn are key to student success. Learn to maximize student potential using a variety of strategies designed to increase student engagement in relevant l...
ART-900 Drawing Magic
Explore exciting and unusual approaches to drawing using a variety of materials and techniques. In addition to enhancing creativity, this course is loaded with endless opportunities for critical think...
TEC-962 Google Earth and Maps in the Classroom
In this course, Using Google Maps and Earth, you will see the world as you have never seen it before. These interconnected applications enable you to explore and navigate around the world with program...
ATH-901 Coaching: Enhancing Motivation
Any coach or athlete who achieves success in the arena of competitive sport does so because of a level of mastery in the mental aspects of athletic performance. All learning, improvement,and successfu...
TEC-966 Project-Based Learning Using Technology
Project-Based Learning Using Technology, is designed to train educators to succeed in using project-based learning (PBL) infused with technology with their students. PBL is a teaching method in which ...
ECE-906 Early Literacy and Core Standards
English language arts and literacy are important in the Common Core Standards, and this course will help you understand the Core standards and address the standards without being constrained or li...
EDU-948 Helping Children Succeed: Book Application
Adverse childhood experiences, neglect, poverty, divorce, and other childhood stresses have radically changed school culture in the past ten years. In his most recent book, Paul Tough gives educators ...
SED-908 Inclusion to Belonging
This course provides students with the opportunity to reflect upon their own values of including children with disabilities in their schools and in their classrooms. The course provides discussion on ...
ELA-932 Multicultural Literature & Teaching
Multicultural literature and diversity are important concepts in education today and this class creates the opportunity to explore how multicultural literature can be an important component in develop...
EDU-951 Lost at School: Book Application
Lost at School: Book Study, based on the book, Lost at School, Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them challenges educators to reconsider the n...
SOC-951 Understanding Other Cultures
Stimulate your thinking about cultural differences and how we and our students can be enriched by them instead of seeing them as mysterious or problematic. In our increasingly diverse social envir...
ELA-919 Achieving English Language Learners' Fluency
Create a better understanding of the needs of your students who are English Language Learners. This online, standards-based course is designed to help teachers understand and use practical, effect...
ATH-905 Coaching: Building Character & Sportsmanship
This course provides very effective, practical ways in which the coach can teach strong character and sportsmanship to their athletes. The activities of this course will help the coach discover the s...
TEC-922 Powerpoint: Powerful Presentations
The design of this course is to teach the participant how to make powerful electronic presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. Whether making a classroom lecture, board presentation, committee up...
EDU-907 Research-Based Thinking Strategies
Just think about it! Our students must learn to problem solve, apply, critically evaluate, create and collaborate to be successful in the 21st Century. Explore a rich variety of thinking-to-learn ...
PED-909 Active Bodies, Healthy Minds
This course is for physical education and classroom teachers who want to help their students become physically fit and in turn, active learners. Teachers will be provided a wealth of information and p...
ATH-930 Applied Sport Psychology for Coaches
This course is designed to present practical, real-life, applied experiences to the coach or teacher that will be immediately helpful in inspiring and motivating themselves and their athletes and stud...
EDUC-916 Strategic Planning for Restorative Discipline
To plan effectively for change, leaders must know where they are, where they want to go and how they will get there. Strategic planning provides a framework to create, adjust, and align the organizati...
EDUC-910 Teacher Efficacy
Whether you are a new or a seasoned teacher, the nagging questions keep surfacing in our minds: How can I be a more effective teacher; how can I empower my students to achieve academically, behavi...
ELA-905 Make Meaning with Vocabulary Instruction
Learn to remember. Remember to learn. Learn to apply Sprenger's 7 stages of learning/memory and Marzano's strategies to develop academic language and retain information. Content is applicable, K-1...
TECH-902 Teaching With Canvas
Unleash the power of the fastest growing learning management system (LMS) in the world - Canvas! In this course, you will master the basics of Canvas and discover how it can improve your teaching - a...
LIT-915 Holocaust Literature
Connect with the Holocaust through adolescent fiction and apply strategies to engage the Middle and High School learner with history! One of the most effective pedagogical tools for educating young pe...
SCI-928 Bugs in the Classroom: Entomology For Teachers
Entomology is the study of insects, the most abundant form of animal life on earth. Many insects are easily maintained in the classroom and can thrive despite being handled and kept in captivity. ...
TEC-973 Data-Driven Decision Making for Teachers
Data-Driven Decision-Making for Educators is all about empowering educators to be able to make informed decisions to improve student learning. The resources, activities, and assignments are designed f...
EDU-958 Distance Learning Playbook: Book Application
Distance Learning Playbook is an essential hands-on book application course that assists in preparing and delivering distance learning or remote learning experiences that are truly effective and impac...
ATH-938 Foam Rolling for Sports
Foam rolling is a popular and cost-effective massage technique that can be utilized with student athletes. It can be used to lessen aches and pains, increase flexibility and range of motion, improve p...
TEC-999 Google Certified Educator Level 1
Google Certified Educator Level 1 (GCEL1) is for students who want to pass the GCEL1 exam to become certified and want to expand their skills and knowledge on using Google applications to improve inst...
SOC-900 History of the Mother Lode
Gain a deeper understanding of the importance the Mother Lode had in California's history. In this online course, you will learn about the Yokut Indians, the settlers to the Gold Rush area, Hornitos, ...
ATH-903 Coaching: Leadership and Team Cohesion
Any coach or athlete who achieves success in the arena of competitive sport understands that strong effective leadership and resilient team culture are essentials to successful achievement. This cour...
TEC-920 Word: The Ultimate Writing Tool
Word processing has come a long way since the early days of the line editor and now presents teachers, students, and administrators with a powerful tool. Word has become a multimedia, internet, and no...
SOC-905 Historic Sacramento: Through the Years
This online course is designed to help students become more knowledgeable about Sacramento, California's rich history. Through this course, students will not only learn about Sacramento's history, bu...
PED-906 Elementary Sports: Games From Around the World
This course is designed to enlighten elementary teachers to the vast world of children's activities. These games, activities and sports are not only enjoyable, but are chosen to be of maximum physical...
EDUC-935 Helping Students Cope with Grief & Loss
This course is designed for K-12 teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers, nurses, coaches, specialists and other educational professionals who seek to enhance their skills in meeting the ...
HED-905 Health and Fitness on the Web
Discover the newest ideas in health and fitness and research available. The World Wide Web offers a journey to diverse and creative approaches in teaching health and fitness. This Online course pr...
ECE-903 Differentiated Instruction for Young Learners
Discover how to meet the needs of all children in your classroom by implementing a differentiated curriculum. Include teaching strategies in all curricular areas to meet the diverse needs of all ...
ART-903 Building Self Esteem Through Elementary Art
The art experiences in Building Self-Esteem Through Elementary Art have been specifically designed to assist students in developing a concrete realization of their own uniqueness and worth, as well as...
TEC-942 Webquests: Implementing Technology Integration
This course is designed to assist participants in learning about, using, and creating the increasingly popular WebQuest. Individuals will work independently on a number of online assignments designed ...
ECE-905 Science for Young Learners
Discover how to plan and implement teaching strategies and content in the area of science into the early childhood curriculum. Explore the Guiding Documents to help align your science curriculum ...
ECE-911 Counting & Other Early Math Skills
Understand and make connections between counting as a foundational math concept and how it leads to and supports the development of later developing skills, including: number sequences, base ten numbe...
EDU-965 Latino American Plays
This class will guide you through a survey of plays by/about Latino Americans to gain an understanding and empathy for Latino American culture. These plays will expose you to an array of experiences w...
EDUC-923 Achievement Gap: Teacher's Role
Engage and motivate students to learn and achieve even when they are falling short of standards and achievement. This course will apply intentional teaching with high-yield learning strategies. Ex...
PED-917 Spectrum of Teaching Styles for Physical Education
Learn how to transition your teacher-focused classes to become student-centered by using Mosston's Spectrum of Teaching Styles. The Spectrum of Teaching Styles moves from the Command (Style A), wh...
PED-924 Teaching Across the Curriculum in PE
This course is designed to support teachers in the vast ways in which to integrate content standards into physical activities. The Physical Education classroom provides many opportunities to reinforce...
SOC-980 Comparing World Religions
Examine the major religions of the world, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Emphasis will be placed on each religion's origins, historical development, central doctrines,...
TECH-911 Teaching With Nearpod
Nearpod is an award-winning, interactive mobile-learning platform that engages students with images, videos, quizzes, polls, drawing boards, game-based quizzes, virtual field trips, VR and other colla...
TEC-968 YouTube for Teachers
YouTube is a powerhouse in digital world and this course will cover how you can apply that same level of power into your instruction. We'll begin at the very beginning on how to discover and share co...
EDU-905 Holidays, History and Values
Most everyone enjoys holidays, but few clearly understand the meanings, traditions, and values behind these special days. Holidays tell us much about the past and also about the values that those ...
EDUC-929 Trauma-Informed Teaching
Over half of public school students in the United States have experienced some form of trauma, which is associated with adverse effects on academic performance, behavior, and social emotional learning...
EDUC-904 Group Counseling in Schools
This course is designed to strengthen the student's ability to develop and provide group counseling in schools for grades K-12. The course is intended for counselors, school psychologists, and educato...
TECH-918 Google Certified Educator Level 2
Google Certified Educator Level 2 is for students who want to prove that they are advanced users with expertise in using Google classroom tools. Google for Education designed the GCEL2 to go deeper th...
STEM-905 Think Like an Engineer
Think like an Engineer is a hands-on course designed for educators to learn Engineering Practice and apply it in the classroom. STEM is a national program whose goal is to produce qualified students t...
ECE-902 Guidance in Social / Emotional Behavior
Explore the current research on the importance of social emotional learning (SEL) and development in young children. Design classroom application activities to support the social and emotional develop...
EDUC-902 Address Bullying & Aggression for SEL
This course is designed to strengthen participants' awareness and response to students who are victims of violence and aggression in our schools, as well as students who respond to conflicts and diffi...
SOC-982 American Electoral Process
Survey the structure and functions of the American electoral process with an emphasis on public opinion, citizen participation, ideology, interest groups, the media, political parties, campaigns, and ...
EDUC-922 Understanding Student Communication
This class will introduce some skill sets that can be acquired and used in becoming an effective communicator with students, parents, and colleagues, increasing a teacher's ability to make signifi...
SED-912 Bridging to the MMSN & ESN Credentials
This course is designed as a 'bridge' option for current Mild to Moderate Education Specialists or Moderate to Severe Education Specialists to demonstrate competence on Teacher Performance Expectation...
EDUC-928 Whole Student Education for Social Emotional Learning
Educators- teachers, administrators, counselors and coaches (K-12) -are often feeling pushed to their personal and professional limits as they strive to meet the complex demands of their roles. This c...
SCI-927 Astronomy: Our Universe
Discover the vastness of our universe as you learn about celestial objects such as galaxies, black holes, stars and nebula. Explore deep space and intergalactic activities through media and resour...
EDU-909 Build Character and Citizenship: Skills and Methods
This engaging and informative course on character education offers a close look at the National Guiding Documents, Classroom Lessons and Best Practices. Students will select a classroom based unit of ...
ATH-908 Coaching: The Female Athlete
Examine gender differences and stereotypes of the female athlete in our competitive world. The National Standards for Sport Coaches (NSSC) as part of the NASPE national standards calls for coaches...
ECE-907 Parents As Partners in Early Childhood
We all know how important it is to get parents on board when it comes to their children. Explore the issues of educating parents through the study of specific developmental assets that integrate f...
EDUC-919 Managing Students Without Coercion
This cognitive approach to managing human behavior can be taught to students and parents for life-long social and emotional learning, self-esteem development, and healthy lifestyle choices. Learning a...
EDU-930 Student-Centered Learning
This course is designed to capture students' attention with academic activities that motivate, inspire and encourage active student learning, collaboration and responsibility for learning. The what, w...
EDU-957 Creating Innovators: Book Application
How do we cultivate young people who are imaginative, inquisitive, innovative, and intrinsically motivated? In his inspirational book, Creating Innovators, education expert Tony Wagner explores practi...
MUS-904 Music Theory: Foundations for Great Music (The Great Courses Series)
Music has a phenomenal power to move, transport, and delight us. Across numerous styles and forms, great music expresses the inexpressible, speaks across time and cultures, and galvanizes audiences ac...
ECE-912 Teaching Patterns in the ECE Classroom
This course will help you improve early math learning in your preschool classroom by understanding practical strategies that can be used to support children's success in patterning, while gaining conf...
EDU-959 Curriculum Design & Differentiation
This is an introductory course that focuses on strategic methods of differentiating instruction for the success of all learners in curriculum design and implementation. Students will research some of ...
PED-910 Achievemnt-Based Curric for PE
Develop an understanding of Kelly and Melograno's Achievement Based Curriculum (ABC) for creating or revising physical education curriculum. The ABC model is used to develop, revise and implement ...
ART-901 Elementary Art: Bulletin Boards & Room Environments
Create 14 fabulous bulletin boards and room decorations, and learn four simple approaches to unique bulletin board lettering. Though templates are included, you are encouraged to customize your bo...
EDUC-930 Cultural Intelligence in Education
This course is designed to enhance your competencies with global diversity related to education delivery, both in the classroom and multiple capacities around campus for K-12. You will discover how cu...
EDU-924 Instructional Stategies to Inspire Learning
How can teachers inspire learning in the K-12 classroom? Enhance student achievement by pairing strategies with course content. Instructional Strategies to Inspire Learning is designed for teachers to...
EDU-955 Teaching Empathy: The Human Experience and Process Drama
How do you break through to students who have not been taught empathy or racial reconciliation at home? How can you prepare your students for adulthood by teaching them to cultivate an awareness of th...
TECH-909 Teach With Pecha Kucha Presentations
Pecha Kucha presentations are fast-paced presentation methods that can be used in a variety of class settings. Typical Pecha Kucha presentations are limited to 20 slides at a rate of 20 seconds per sl...
SED-909 Special Education Assessment Process
Students learn about the identification process under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act known as child find including the identification of children in private schools. Students learn ho...
EDU-908 Portfolios in the Classroom
Learn the terminology and methodology associated with the construction and use of portfolios in the classroom. Portfolios can serve as a tool to evaluate coursework quality, assess student progres...
EDUC-918 Peer Mediation and Conflict Resolution
This course is designed for teachers, administrators and other educational professionals at all grade levels. It provides basic conflict resolution and peer mediation instruction, skill development pr...
ART-908 Understanding Great Art (The Great Courses Series)
Creativity is one of the most sought-after skills in the world. For thousands of years, it has been the primary means by which humanity has thrived. This course explores the creative process through ...
ATH-934 Coaching Football
It has been said that to be an excellent coach, one has to be an excellent teacher. Learn to teach tactical and technical skills football so that you can be an excellent football coach. Effectivel...
BIB-903 Apologetics for the 21st Century
As citizens of the 21st Century, we are living in an age that is heavily influenced by a worldview that denies the reality of objective truth. The idea that the Bible represents absolute truths or h...
EDUC-931 Dealing With Difficult Parents
Dealing with parents is one of the most difficult tasks for teachers and administrators today. Yet it is essential to know how to handle difficult situations and to establish positive relationships wi...
MUS-903 Movement & Music (K-5)
Explore the National Core Arts Standards as a guide to provide quality arts education in your classroom! Go beyond the surface of dance and music to teach your students grade-appropriate theory in thi...
EDU-949 African American Plays
This class will guide high school teachers through a survey of plays by African Americans to gain an understanding and empathy for African American culture. These texts will expose the reader to an a...
CSED-902 Computing Practices & Programming
This course is the third in a series of Computer Science Authorization courses that enable teachers to be credentialed to teach Computer Science and is designed to fulfill requirements for the Califor...
EDU-960 Differentiate With Technology
This course provides an advanced look at the theory, design, and implementation of differentiated curriculum. Strategies and tools for responsive teaching are researched, used, and reflected upon. T...
ATH-940 Coaching Volleyball
This online course covers the tactical and technical skills necessary for the successful teaching and coaching of competitive volleyball. You will learn to effectively design practice, in-season, off...
EDU-941 Sprinkle Theatre Into Core Subjects (K-5)
Sprinkle some theatre games into your core subjects with EDU 941! This course gently introduces you to the National Common Core Arts Standards and guides you into integrating exciting activities into ...
ATH-941 Coaching: Work Effectively With Parents
Effectively working with parents is a very common issue for coaches. This course is designed to help the coach build strong positive relationships with their sport parents. The content of this course ...
EDU-943 Storytelling and More!
From picture books to chapter books, this class will teach you to take written text and present it in creative ways! With Storytelling, you will retell stories in your own words. The Oral Interpretati...
EDU-964 Asian American Plays
This class will guide you through a survey of Asian American plays, focusing on the Chinese and Japanese American experiences as represented through drama. The goals of this course will be to gain an ...
EDU-967 Shakespeare for Elementary Students
This course will take the teacher through the interactive book 'How to Teach your Children Shakespeare', by Ken Ludwig. You will learn the value of teaching students how to memorize Shakespeare's pass...
EDU-973 Principles of Learning
How do humans learn? How do the ways that humans learn affect you and those you teach and lead? This course will integrate theories from neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and other discipli...
EDUC-915 Classrm Restorative Discipline
Classroom Restorative Discipline, also known as Discipline that Restores (DTR) is a restorative discipline system for schools and classrooms. This course will show you how to resolve conflicts and ...