Diverse Strategies for Teaching Second Language Learners. Join us for a beneficial exploration of strategies for teaching second language learners. With a repertoire of these ideas, you can use approp...

This course is designed as an overview of motivational research in psychology and education. The course focuses specifically on different theories of motivation, and how classroom, school, work, and s...

This course is designed as an overview of motivational research in psychology and education. It focuses specifically on definitions of motivation because each individual defines motivation differently...

Introducing more creativity into your classroom and assignments does not have to make your job harder. It can make it a lot more interesting. Having to go home to a stack of dull papers to grade was n...

Are you often unable to remember an important fact or figure? Do your students struggle with retrieval? Do you forget people's names at the worst moments? These are common instances where a good memor...

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the single most significant factor influencing teaching/learning/leadership effectiveness. Research studies confirm that EQ is more important than IQ. Leaders and teach...

Most classrooms are widely diverse in areas such as gender, culture, ethnicity, abilities, religion, languages and attitudes. The objective of this course is to provide participants with a broad persp...

This online course is an introduction to the important classical treatments of the nature of learning. As such, it covers some of the most influential psychological thinking of the 20th and 21st Centu...

This course is designed to help people manage and improve their communication skills in reading comprehension. This course will provide you with research-based,classroom-tested, practical ideas to in...

Class evaluations and observations provide excellent feedback about student satisfaction and teaching style, but they do not provide the important details of how much your students are learning and ho...

What does it mean to be successful? Many answers have been proposed. Most commonly it simply refers to having things turn out the way they were hoped for or planned. As simple as that seems; in realit...

According to the latest research, classroom management is a major assembly of the learning environment, including the individuals within the classroom setting. A teacher's classroom management system ...

Over the past three decades author Steven Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has led teachers to effectiveness in their lives and in their classroom. Now, the 8th habit ramps that effectivene...

Brain based learning and teaching is a cutting-edge educational discipline that optimizes the learning and teaching process by teaming together neuroscience, psychology, and education. This course wil...

Today's leaders/teachers must have an ability not only to analyze thoughtfully but also to communicate clearly and persuasively. According to researchers at Harvard Business school "No matter where yo...

A primary goal in this stress management independent study course is to determine the aspects of a situation to which an individual is stress target specific. This goal is most easily realized by iden...

Optimism can profoundly impact students, teachers, and those in business, empowering them to grow and flourish. Research has shown that salespeople who are optimistic sell 47% more, optimistic student...

Everyone wants to be happy, or at least we all think we do. But what is happiness? Why do advertisements, pharmaceutical companies, doctors, parents, and teachers all think they know the big answer? W...

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where you are and what you're doing, and not being overly reactive or overwhelmed by what's going on around you. Everyday teachers ...

This workshop is designed with the latest information about Neuroplasticity, how it happens in the brain and how to tie it to Common Core. You may have heard that the brain is plastic. Our brain is ...

In this course, participants learn how to create "cultures of visual thinking," communities where a group's collective as well as individual visual thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted e...

The focus of this course will be on developing an understanding of dyslexia and the various remediation approaches. You will come away with not only the definition and characteristics of dyslexia but ...

You may have at some time, asked yourself the question, "Should I multitask to get more done? Or just focus on one thing at a time? Can we really multitask effectively?" Many studies have shed light o...

Words matter, words have a dramatic effect on our neuronal pathway, they play with our psyche and, in retrospect with how we interact with each other and how decisions are made. These are the reasons ...

It is well established that growing up in poverty correlates with disparities in educational achievement, health, and employment. Now an emerging branch of neuroscience asks how poverty affects the de...