Teaching & Education Courses


Single Courses
A Parent's Guide to Adolescents
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Why do they act that way? That is the question all parents of teenagers have asked themselves at one time or another. Understanding those not children, but not yet adult humans that take over the house is no easy feat. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for elders, and spend all their time sleeping and playing video games.
$140.00
Algebra Helper
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Our Algebra Helper course will prepare our students to study Algebra II by helping them build a solid foundation of Algebra. Focusing on topics that Algebra students traditionally struggle with, our course aims to build the confidence necessary to further our students’ education in mathematics. Particular emphasis is placed on breaking down word problems and systematic problem-solving using everyday language. 
$140.00
Become Confident & Assertive
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Do you feel like people walk all over you? Do you want to learn to be a more confident, assertive individual? If so, this course is for you. The class will teach you the necessary skills to be decisive and in control of your life.  The course will teach you to improve your relationships, move your career forward, and earn the respect of your friends, family, spouse, co-workers, even your boss.
$140.00
Beginning Conversational Spanish
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and the number of Spanish speakers is growing every day. If you are trying to learn Spanish, this course will give you the opportunity to learn basic conversational Spanish. The goal of our program is to teach basic Spanish vocabulary, grammar, literacy, and conversation skills to students with little or no knowledge of the Spanish language.
$140.00
Building Student Resiliency
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Adverse childhood experiences describe traumatic events that occur before the age of 18 and are categorized into three groups: abuse, family/household challenges, and neglect.
$140.00
Bullying in Schools
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Over the last three decades, school shootings have become increasing more frequent. Why is this happening? Our Bullying in Schools course discusses the connections between school shootings, bullying, and gender and social demands placed on children in our schools. Bullying has reached disturbing levels across the country and no one is immune.
$140.00
Childhood Language Development
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Children with speech, language, or listening problems can look forward to less frustration, self-doubt, and misplaced blame for their limitations if they are properly diagnosed and treated and if their family is informed and supportive.  If you suspect or have been told that your child has as a speech, language, or listening problem, our course will give you a deeper understanding of the diagnoses and how to offer help for your child.  Armed with knowledge, you are in a better position to hel
$140.00
Children & Challenging Behaviors
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
 Our Children and Challenging Behaviors course presents a new way of looking at behaviors in children and common mistakes we tend to make in treating and managing them.
$140.00
Classroom Management Secrets
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Taking our Classroom Management Secrets course will give participants practical advice and step-by-step instructions for devising a classroom management plan that motivates their students to want to behave in the classroom.  Among many things, topics will cover important information on how to handle difficult students, how to fuel intrinsic motivation, how to teach routines, and how to be a calmer, more effective teacher.
$140.00
Creating Safe Classroom Environments
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
As an educator, you work to make sure your students are in a physically safe classroom environment, but what about socially and emotionally? It is extremely important for students to feel valued, that their social identity and cultures are accepted, and that they are welcomed members of the classroom.
$140.00
Differentiation for the Elementary Classroom
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
The elementary classroom today, is more diverse, inclusive, and plugged in to technology than ever before and although schools today are changing so rapidly, the power of differentiation remains the same and the need is ever growing!
$140.00
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Our Discover a Career as a Teaching Assistant courses provides a comprehensive overview of this rewarding career in the education field. Our course covers the various ways paraprofessionals support the overall development of the child and it also introduces effective instructional strategies and behavior management techniques. Understanding ways paraprofessionals support the classroom, academically and emotionally, will help define how vital this profession is.  
$140.00
Flipped Learning for Elementary Instruction
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Are you looking for guidance for incorporating flipped techniques in your classroom? The basic principle of flipped learning involves providing direct instruction for the individual outside of class so that there is more strategic use of in-class time for group work.
$140.00
Fueling Creativity in the Classroom
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
All teachers want children to fulfill their creative potential, but teachers and other adults often unintentionally stifle creativity.  Fueling Creativity in the Classroom is designed to help teachers know and understand the skills that children need to thrive in the future: knowing how to learn, passion and curiosity, people skills, and creativity.  Teachers need to ensure that every single early childhood setting is a place where ideas can grow and our course will help new and seasoned teac
$140.00
GED® Math Test Preparation
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Get ready to create your own path to GED Math success!  Our course will prepare you take the Mathematics portion of the GED exam with a study plan to fit your needs.  This GED math review course will provide several resources from strategies, review of materials, test-taking tips, practice exercises, and exams. 
$140.00
GED Test Preparation
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
This course will prepare you take the GED (General Education Development) test.  The GED test is broken into five-test sections.  The sections included in this course are Language Arts, Writing, Language Arts, Reading, Social Studies, Science, and Math.  This online course provides many resources from test-taking tips and strategies, exercises, assignments, and practice test with explanation of answers.  The testing format will be explained and broken down to highlight the current testing are
$140.00
Homeschooling Gifted Children
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Are you interested in homeschooling your gifted child? Does homeschooling seem like a daunting task? Unsure of where to begin or what style of learning to follow? Our Homeschooling Gifted Children course dives into every aspect of learning and what it takes to help your child succeed. We discuss how to choose appropriate curriculum, how to individualize instruction, how to properly integrate technology, and how to foster socialization.
$140.00
Homeschooling Starter Guide
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Our Homeschooling Starter Guide course outlines steps for creating a positive and effective home learning environment and how to develop a solid teaching philosophy. We will explore various homeschooling models, rules, and requirements, as well as ways to develop proper goals and implement lesson plans. Many families who homeschool have discovered its vast benefits and homeschooling has grown tremendously in the last few years.
$140.00
IEPs for English Language Learners
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
An Individualized Education Plan serves as a blueprint for learners who are eligible for special education services. English Language Leaners who also qualify for an IEP are a unique group of students who require specialized instruction and highly trained educators who understand their diverse needs.
$140.00
Improve Your Grammar and Punctuation
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Feel a little rusty with your grammar skills? Take our Improve Your Grammar and Punctuation course! Students taking this course will benefit from a review of English grammar, punctuation, and capitalization rules. Other topics covered include how to construct sentences and paragraphs that flow gracefully and we will provide clarification to some of the English language's most confusing and confounding words.
$140.00
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
This course will focus on the belief that all classrooms are heterogeneous on many levels, as are the students in them. This course will assist teachers seeking to create learning environments that address the variability that is typical of academically diverse classrooms.
$140.00
Instructional Strategies for Academic Success
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
No single strategy can guarantee that a child will learn. Instructional strategies work in collaboration with other educational methods to influence student learning. Our Instructional Strategies for Academic Success course explores over 330 specific instructional strategies.
$140.00
K-12 Moving to Virtual Learning
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Online education is changing the way that students access and receive high-quality instructional experiences around the world. With online instruction, teachers have a vast array of technology at their fingertips. Our K-12 Moving to Virtual Learning course provides real world tools and techniques for the design and implementation of quality, engaging, and interactive learning experiences for students.
$140.00
K-12 Virtual Student Engagement
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Education and the way things are taught have changed dramatically in recent years. Students are now expected to learn from a distance to a certain degree. It might be fully virtual or a blend of brick-and-mortar learning and distance learning. Whichever mode, the main goal remains the same: to ensure that students are learning. Our K-12 Virtual Student Engagement course provides steps for fostering teacher-student relationships, increasing clarity and engagement in a virtual setting.
$140.00
Language Based Learning Disabilities
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
How children learn, especially ones with disabilities, depends upon their relationship and connection with their parents and teachers. Our Language Based Learning Disabilities course provides support for parents, teachers, and caregivers by discussing how to foster positive relationships, how to accurately assess disabilities, and how to support children both at home and at school.
$140.00
Learning Disabilities: Practical Information for the Special Education Teacher
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
This course will take special education teachers through the tasks that are necessary for meeting needs of the students with disabilities successfully.
$140.00
Math Helper
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Our Math Helper course will prepare our students to successfully learn Algebra by helping them build a solid mathematical foundation. Our course aims to build the confidence necessary to further our students’ education in mathematics, with particular emphasis placed on problem-solving skills and good habits. 
$140.00
Preschool Fun Ideas!
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Preschool Fun Ideas is an overview of age appropriate practices for early childhood educators. This course covers the fundamentals of creating engaging and nurturing learning centers, discusses the importance of each learning domain, gives examples of activities to incorporate into your daily schedule, and gives you a hands on experience creating your own lesson plan.
$140.00
Project Based Learning Techniques
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
One challenge for teachers trying to incorporate Project Based Learning (PBL) strategies into their classroom is having the knowledge to implement effectively. Our Project Based Learning Techniques course will help guide you through the process of setting up beneficial learning environments.
$140.00
Raising Healthy Children
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
There are real forces in our lives that trigger our bodies into putting on fat.  Stresses cause our bodies to act like human fat storage machines.  Turning off our FAT switch is the key to weight loss.  This course will examine the basic steps in turning off this switch, allowing our bodies to lose weight easily and automatically.
$140.00
Rookie Teacher Survival Guide
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
New teachers in the world of early childhood education can easily become overwhelmed by lesson plans, behavior management, and children's individual needs. This course provides an overview of proper reflective teaching practices, tools to reflect on lesson plan activities, and suggestions for monitoring and encouraging student achievement. Having the right tools as a new teacher provides valuable insight into the world of early education and its many challenges and rewards!
$140.00
Security and Strategies for Counteracting the Mass Shooter Threat
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Sadly, mass shootings are affecting our country more and more every day. Violence isn't limited to any specific economic area, state or building. Our most sacred places such as schools, churches, and the workplace are targets of violence that we are hearing about too often.
$140.00
SMARTBoard Training
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
This course is intended to teach educators or business professionals how to use the SMART Board interactive whiteboard.  SMART Board is designed to engage students and deliver unique presentations. Our course will allow participants to explore SMART Board software and learn how to create interactive lessons or presentations for the classroom and business world.
$140.00
Start Your Own Day Care Business
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Do you love working with children? Have you ever thought about starting your own home day care business? This course provides the steps you will need to plan for, market, and maintain your very own home day care business. Topics include writing your policies and procedures, setting your fees, developing a daily schedule, ways to solve common problems, and more. This comprehensive course covers everything you will need to succeed in this exciting career opportunity.
$140.00
STEM for Teachers in Grades 4 - 8
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Are you an educator in grades 4-8 who is struggling with STEM concepts and techniques for incorporating them into your classroom? Or are you new in the STEM field?
$140.00
STEM in the Elementary Classroom
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Are you looking for new ways to foster communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity skills for your students? Are you interested in STEM concepts but aren’t sure how to incorporate them into your elementary classroom?
$140.00
Student Engagement and Learning
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Are you looking for ways to enhance your practice of teaching? Do you need to find new and exciting ways to engage your students? Our Student Engagement and Learning course explores the potential of formative assessment and techniques for improving student learning.
$140.00
Student Mental Health
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Mental health disorders can manifest early in life. Disorders should be identified, correctly diagnosed, and successfully treated to ensure success of children who have mental health disorders. Our Student Mental Health course is geared towards all types of professionals in educational settings such as teachers, district staff, school psychologists, school nurses, social workers, and counselors. We provide information and resources required to advocate for children’s needs in school.
$140.00
Substitute Teaching Grades K-12
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Many people choose substitute teaching to further their career or to gain experience working in classrooms and with students. Our Substitute Teaching course breaks down each grade level in sections that discuss what students are learning and possible activities to implement for each curricular area. We also describe ways to create smooth day to day routines, behavior management techniques, and tips for having success as a substitute teacher.
$140.00
Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
In order to adequately meet the needs of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, professionals need to understand the characteristics of this disorder and how to properly implement assessment tools.
$140.00
Surviving an Active Shooter in School
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Unfortunately, gun violence within our schools has become an epidemic that needs to be addressed by communities, law enforcement, and school districts. Our Surviving an Active Shooter in School course presents ideas for parents, children, and school administrators on how to mitigate, prepare for, and fight back against an active shooter.
$140.00
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Unfortunately, shooting situations are becoming commonplace in communities throughout the country. An active shooter situation can occur anywhere – in schools, public/private businesses, and places of worship. Are you prepared to defend yourself and your family against a shooter?
$140.00
Teaching Adults
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
The way you teach is as important as what you teach. If you are interested in working with adult learners, our course will provide you with a better understanding of what it takes to aid in the education of working professional adult students.  Today, teaching requires more creativity and understanding. Instructors need to be aware of the diversity of adult learners and instructors must retain a greater depth of skills than ever before.
$140.00
Teaching Children with ADHD
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Children are all different, with unique strengths and weaknesses. Educators and parents must remember that when working with children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Our Teaching Children with ADHD course discusses the basic structure of ADHD and various executive functions. We describe how to properly communicate with children and how to address challenging behaviors. We also explore how to help children set achievable goals and gain perseverance.
$140.00
Teaching Gifted Learners
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
To meet the needs of every gifted student, differentiating curriculum is not an option, it’s a necessity! Our Teaching Gifted Learners course demystifies challenges that teachers may face when creating curriculum for the gifted learner.
$140.00
Teaching the Struggling Reader
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Everyone who reads written language employs reading strategies. When teaching students to read, you are showing learners the kinds of reading decisions that proficient readers make rapidly and automatically to understand the text. When readers use these strategies often enough in a conscious and deliberate way, at some point, the practices become unconscious skills that they apply automatically whenever they read.
$140.00
Threat Assessment in Schools
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Our Threat Assessment in Schools course provides guidance on a wide spectrum of issues related to the threat-assessment process. We’ll discuss how to develop, operate, and manage a threat-assessment strategy by using the Salem-Keizer System Threat Assessment as a model.
$140.00
Using Technology in Your Classroom
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
Technology and content area curriculum should be partnered in such a way to enhance not just learning for the students, but also increase enthusiasm for the teachers. Students today have at their fingertips access to a variety of information and communications that did not exist when their teachers were children. Students seamlessly integrate new technologies into their lives in ways that mystify many adults. Our classrooms must capture and keep students’ attention and focus.
$140.00
Zoom 101
Course Hours: 25
Course Type:
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
The way we communicate as a society has undergone massive changes throughout the years. Zoom allows us to reach out and collaborate easily, affordably, and reliability no matter where others are. It can be used in both a professional and personal setting. Our Zoom 101 course provides a thorough look at Zoom’s suite of communication tools and services and provides steps for setting up, connecting, making calls, and hosting meetings.
$140.00