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If you have taken this course for graduate credit through ArmchairEd, you cannot take the same course for clock hours through ArmchairEdClockHours. Click Here to buy the book direct from the publisher. All children, not just those with challenging behaviors, need the social and emotional tools to grow and thrive on their own. This course provides everything you need to help all children build and use six essential life skills: attachment, belonging, self-regulation, collaboration, contribution, and adaptability. Developed and tested in the classroom, this strength-based approach includes strategies, examples of supportive interactions, and special activities to help you manage challenging behaviors and foster social and emotional development in all children. Educators will be able to teach children to exhibit more prosocial behaviors, work better as a classroom community, and become excited and active learners. Aimed at the early childhood level. Click Here to download the course syllabus.
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This course will be dropped on June 30, 2024 If you have taken this course for graduate credit through ArmchairEd, you cannot take the same course for clock hours through ArmchairEdClockHours. This course outlines brain-based educational theories and techniques that can be used to transform classrooms and help children learn better. It presents experiental learning techniques that teachers can use to create an environment and enriched curriculum that take into account the needs of the developing child’s brain and allow both boys and girls to gain maximum learning opportunities, increase academic opportunities, and improve behavior. It provides the latest scientific research on the differences between boys’ and girls’ brains, neurological development, hormonal effects, behavior, and learning needs. Click Here to Purchase Brain-Based Learning direct from the publisher Click Here to Purchase Made for Learning direct from the publisher. Click Here to download the syllabus.
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This course will be dropped on June 30, 2024 If you have taken this course for graduate credit through ArmchairEd, you cannot take the same course for clock hours through ArmchairEdClockHours. Unlike traditional grouping, which typically puts like with like or combines students without regard to the best way to promote their individual growth, flexible and learning-centered grouping is both purposeful and fluid, regularly combining and recombining different students in different ways to pursue a wide range of academic and affective goals. In this course, you will learn to: In this course, you will learn:
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What it means for teachers to honor themselves, each learner, and the content they teach.
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How to assemble a curriculum that ignites students' imaginations and drives discovery.
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How to guide classroom experiences that develop the mind of each learner in accordance with that learner's marvelous individuality.
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How to shape curriculum, assessment, and instruction to support both equity and excellence.
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If you have taken this course for graduate credit through ArmchairEd, you cannot take the same course for clock hours through ArmchairEdClockHours. Based on the diverse experiences of LGBTQ students and their allies, this essential course brings together the major issues that schools must address to improve the educational outcomes for gender and sexual minority students—as well as all students. The course highlights how educators can make their schools more supportive of LGBTQ students’ positive development and academic success. It covers emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum, fostering a whole-school climate that is support of LGBTQ students; and initiating effective community outreach programs. Click Here to Buy Safe Is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students Direct from the Publisher Click Here to Buy LGBTQ Youth and Education: Policies and Practices (Second Edition) Direct from the Publisher Click Here to preview the Syllabus
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If you have taken this course for graduate credit through ArmchairEd, you cannot take the same course for clock hours through ArmchairEdClockHours.
Based on the positive psychology of appreciative inquiry, this course builds on what is working with students to address what is not working. It provides a system of support that helps general education teachers partner with specialists and parents to learn new ways to enrich academic, social-emotional, and behavioral growth through structured conversations and a series of productive meetings of 30 minutes or less.
Using more than 25 video clips, the course walks you through the six basic steps of the appreciative inquiry problem-solving process:
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Connect with team members and stakeholders.
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Review the meeting focus/concern.
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Share a story that details when you successfully addressed the concern.
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Establish a goal using a concise "DATA" framework.
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Design an action plan.
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Commit to an action.
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If you have taken this course for graduate credit through ArmchairEd, you cannot take the same course for clock hours through ArmchairEdClockHours. This course prepares educators to initiate and facilitate meaningful, productive dialogues about race in the classroom. It provides practical strategies to engage with students. Educators will learn the following:
- How to recognize the difference between meaningful and inconsequential race conversations
- How to build conversational “safe spaces,” not merely declare them
- How to infuse race conversations with urgency and purpose
- Ho to thrive in the face of unexpected challenges
- How to administrators might equip teachers to thoughtfully engage in these conversations
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If you have taken this course for graduate credit through ArmchairEd, you cannot take the same course for clock hours through ArmchairEdClockHours. This course untangles scientific fact from pedagogical fiction, debunking dozens of widely held beliefs about the brain that have made their way into the education literature. In ten central themes on topics ranging from brain structure to classroom environments, the course traces the origins of common neuromyths—from categorizing individuals as "right-brained" or "left-brained" to prevailing beliefs about multitasking or the effects of video games—and corrects the record with the most current state of knowledge. Combining neuroscience research, educators learn to create equitable and inclusive classrooms through the following:
- Establish a school culture that champions equity and inclusion.
- Rethink the long-standing structure of least restrictive environment and the resulting service delivery.
- Leverage the strengths of all educators to provide appropriate support and challenge.
- Collaborate on the delivery of instruction and intervention.
- Honor the aspirations of each student and plan accordingly.