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Course 1089

Making Your Mark: Lessons that Prepare Your Students for the Real World

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Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $575 for all 3 modules complete

Making sure your students master the core curriculum content is tough enough. But in a quickly-evolving world, it's more important than ever to make sure your students are positioned for real-world success. This course will equip you the tools, techniques and resources you need to guide your students into life after high school. You'll examine multiple intelligences and how they can help students discover their strengths and talents. You will discover proven college-readiness strategies to ensure your students can gain acceptance into -- and succeed in -- the school of their choice. Finally, you'll learn how to help students make the transition from school into life in the 21st Century.

What You'll Learn

The challenge for today’s high school teachers is two-fold: teach students the necessary academic principles and also prepare them for the real world. Some students may have their plan in order, while others struggle to define their future. Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences can support students as they begin their journey into adulthood. By identifying their strengths and weaknesses, students will be able to position themselves where they know they can succeed.

In this module, you will learn how to identify your students’ strengths using Multiple Intelligences so that they can position themselves for success in the future. You will discover:

• The way our brains develop and grow
• Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
• The strengths that each of your students has
• How your students’ strengths can support them in the real world

Highlights

Understand Brain Development and Growth in Children and Adults

• Identify the factors that influence brain development
• Discover new research about brain growth and development
• Understand the process of “pruning” the brain

Identify Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences in Your Students

• Discover how strengths are maintained in our brain
• Review Howard Gardner’s Eight Multiple Intelligences
• Understand the theories behind Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

Guide Your Students to Use Their Strengths to Position Themselves for the Future

• Identify students’ specific strengths
• Focus on how strengths can benefit students in the real world
• Identify weaknesses and turn them into strengths

What You'll Learn

Preparing students for college is a process that is constantly evolving. From the misleading myths about what colleges look for to the nightmare application process, there are many pitfalls that can hinder your students from enrolling and succeeding at the right college for them.

In this module, you will learn ways to help students get accepted into the college of their choice, and what they need to know in order to be successful undergraduate students. Our speaker, Donna Walker Tileston, Ed.D, will help you understand:

• What colleges are looking for in prospective students
• What students must do during each year of high school to prepare for college
• How to help students realize what they want

Highlights

Debunk the College Requirement and Acceptance Myths

• Do colleges really care about class rank, GPA and SATs?
• Should students ace easy classes or challenge themselves in advanced ones?
• Which year of high school do colleges weigh most heavily?

Easing the Application Process

• Help students uncover college requirements on a school-to-school basis
• Which entrance exams students should take and when
• Critical application mistakes to avoid

Help them Choose the Right College

• Essential questions students should ask themselves about the college they want to attend
• Creating a checklist of the things the student requires of the college

What You'll Learn

You’ve probably heard again and again that ‘the world is flattening.’ But what does this mean for you and your students? What do you need to know to ensure that they will succeed in this new world? This module will provide you with the knowledge you need to prepare your students for success in the 21st Century. You’ll gain insight into the learning styles of today’s students, and you will examine how technology has influenced education today. You will also learn how to help your students get ahead in a world that has become increasingly globalized.

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Reach students raised in the digital age
• Help students succeed in a world that has become increasingly ‘flat’
• Teach students the essential life skills they’ll need in the 21st Century
• Develop curriculum that reflects a rapidly-changing world

Highlights

Life Skills for the 21st Century

• Enhancing students’ global awareness
• Cultivating ‘big picture’ thinking skills
• Understanding how literacy will change in the years to come
• Methods for evaluating the plethora of available information and resources

Differences in Student Learning Styles

• Understanding the visual nature of today’s students
• Transitioning to a more interactive teaching style
• Getting through to students with decreasing attention spans
• Utilizing technology to enhance curriculum

Critical Skills for the Modern Age

• Increasing collaboration skills
• Building people skills and social responsibility
• Cultivating creativity and adaptability
• Predicting and preparing for the jobs of the future

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!

Connect with, hear from and get help from you peers.

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.