Course 1041
Taming the Classroom: Solutions for Educators
Apply this towards your professional development requirements
Tuition: $575 for all 3 modules complete
This new course was created with one goal: help educators battle the forces that compromise the classroom. One of our most popular courses, it helps educators take back their classes from disruptive students (and stop bad behavior before it starts), tackle the ever growing complexities of technology misconduct, and create and deliver RTI strategies that get real results.
Led by three of the nation’s foremost experts on classroom management, this convenient, online course lets you earn Professional Development credits, hours or certificates of completion whenever and where ever you like. It combines the following three learning modules, to give you practical learnings you can put in place immediately at your school:
(1013) Response to Intervention: Academic and Behavioral Strategies that Work
(1010) Preventing Disruptive Student Behavior: Techniques Every Educator Should Know
(1003) Cyberbullying, Cell Phone Abuse, Technology Misconduct and More: What Educators Can and Can't Do Now
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Module 1 (1013)
Response to Intervention: Academic and Behavioral Strategies that Work
What You'll Learn
The success of Response to Intervention (RTI) depends heavily on whether it is appropriately implemented. This module goes beyond the basics of RTI and delivers implementation strategies and actual interventions that lead to improved learning for all students at all levels. This module will show you:
Proven ways to implement an effective intervention model at your school
How to best overcome the challenges and pitfalls of RTI
Direct skill measures and warnings signs that help you identify students at-risk
Scientifically-proven intervention methods that are matched to your specific needs
Monitoring and evaluation methods based on benchmarks and decision rules
Simplified ways to understand the connections between IDEA and NCLB
The Multi-tiered approach to RTI and why it works
Highlights
Direct Instruction: What Is and Isn't Working
What the research shows: RTI instruction/intervention that has worked
Examples of scientifically-based, explicit instruction for educators
Systematic intervention approaches that help students make progress
Implementing an Effective Multi-Tiered Intervention Model
How do you find the kids who need academic and behavioral support ?
What roles do regular and special education services play for all students?
How can you help parents overcome resistance and increase plan commitment?
Which Positive support strategies create lasting results - and adhere to the law?
RTI Progress Monitoring and Evaluation - Overcoming Challenges
Establish effective progress monitoring of students' outcomes
How do you set goals that specifically match your students' needs?
Decision rules: What to do after RTI is put to action
How should you handle the "Can't do" and "Won't do" students?
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Module 2 (1010)
Preventing Disruptive Student Behavior: Techniques Every Educator Should Know
What You'll Learn
One of the greatest challenges educators face is dealing with difficult and disruptive students who interfere with the learning environment. Understanding how to prevent this behavior is critical to the academic success of every child. This module offers straightforward guidance on how to handle these challenging situations and tools that increase teaching and learning in the classroom and decrease teacher stress levels. In this module, you'll learn:
Proven actions that prevent and decrease disruptive behavior
Effective ways to increase positive and productive behavior
How to eliminate the causes of unacceptable student behavior
The most common discipline pitfalls that actually intensify the problem
Highlights
Strategies To Prevent, Not Just Handle, Discipline Problems
What are the most reliable ways to identify discipline problems and avoid miscalls?
How can you create rapport with your students to promote positive behavior?
How to plan congruent warnings in steps - with follow-thru consequences
Identify The Most Common Sources of Challenging Behavior
Why do kids act out in one class and behave in another?
How can you best evaluate the key causes of discipline problems?
Which types of teacher/student relationships build trust in today's classrooms?
Create Effective Rules and Early Warning Systems
The most reliable guidelines for designing effective classroom rules
Which reward and discipline alternatives work?
The must-do keys to making classroom rules and procedures stick
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Module 3 (1003)
Cyberbullying, Cell Phone Abuse, Technology Misconduct and More: What Educators Can and Can't Do Now
What You'll Learn
Technology misconduct and abuse, including cyberbullying and cell phones in the classroom, are widespread across the country, starting with students in elementary school. Understanding what students are doing, where they're doing it, how they're doing it and the legal aspects of their conduct is critical to preventing this growing problem.
Cyberbullying: What you need to know
Legally disciplining technology misconduct: What's working and what's not; What's legal and what's not
Best practices to proactively combat cyberbullying, cell phones in the classroom, cheating and other forms of misconduct
How to communicate with parents about dangerous online activities
Highlights
The Realities of Cyberbullying and What You Can and Can’t do
How far can you go in regulating student speech online?
Abuses of social networking sites and what’s really going on
Suggestions for protecting yourself from potential liability
Inappropriate and offensive student-created Internet Web sites
Legal Update on Technology Abuse and Discipline
Fourth Amendment issues & due process requirements you need to know
What are the laws against cyberbullying and other technology abuses?
How are the courts weighing in on technology abuse cases?
Other Internet Issues
The statistics and trends: How does the use and abuse of technology at your school compare?
How online predators are threatening your students now
How does cyberpornography, privacy and the liability of ISPs impact your school?
Disguised plagiarism and inventive cheating: What students are doing now
What other forms of abuse and harassment are rampant today?
The Virtual Teachers Lounge™
Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:
Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7
All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!
Materials & Assessment
Lectures
Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on
this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your
progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your
computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD.
Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park;
and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on
weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources
Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment
To receive your Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Attendance and earn Professional Development/Continuing Education units/credits/hours, you will need to complete all assessments and submit all final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge
To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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Taming the Classroom: Solutions for Educators
Tuition: $575 for all 3 modules complete