Social emotional learning (SEL) comprises life skills that are foundational to motivation in the classroom and classroom management. Students who have strong social and emotional skill sets will be more successful in the classroom and in life. In this course, students will first examine what SEL is, including the research foundational to SEL. Then students will examine the five SEL competencies—self awareness, self management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making—and how each of these can be developed first in the classrooms and then in the schools to optimize learning environments. While examining the five SEL competencies, students will also investigate how these skill sets can affect families and communities.

This course is designed to help Early Childhood Educators gain strategies to reach and teach young children who are at risk of not meeting their potential. Participants will learn the internal and external factors that place a child at risk, how heredity and environment affect a child’s development, the characteristics of various risk factors, and interventions for each risk factor. A major emphasis will be on the family’s influence on the child’s development and how Early Childhood Educators can work with families to support their child’s growth in all areas of development.

This course is designed to help Early Childhood Educators gain strategies to reach and teach young children who are at risk of not meeting their potential. Participants will learn the internal and external factors that place a child at risk, how heredity and environment affect a child’s development, the characteristics of various risk factors, and interventions for each risk factor. A major emphasis will be on the family’s influence on the child’s development and how Early Childhood Educators can work with families to support their child’s growth in all areas of development.

Includes identification, referral, assessment, and major program models and methods of differentiating instruction to meet the rate and level of learning of those students in the regular classroom. Also includes current law, the history of the exceptional in education, and resources for teachers and parents who would like more information about the talented and gifted.

Includes identification, referral, assessment, and major program models and methods of differentiating instruction to meet the rate and level of learning of those students in the regular classroom. Also includes current law, the history of the exceptional in education, and resources for teachers and parents who would like more information about the talented and gifted.

Understand how learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, disabilities, gender, language, culture, family, and community values, and identify differences in approaches to learning and performance, including diverse learning styles and ways in which students demonstrate learning.

Understand how learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, disabilities, gender, language, culture, family, and community values, and identify differences in approaches to learning and performance, including diverse learning styles and ways in which students demonstrate learning.

This course is designed to expand your methodology for teaching Mathematics. The course will explore an innovative teaching model that incorporates strategies for teaching concepts constructively and contextually. The goal is for you to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying concepts of various math topics and to explore the principles of teaching those concepts to learners. This course will focus on the topics of number sense, basic operations, and fractions