Instructional Practices

 This course will explore the importance of providing constant and effective feedback to students. Participants will characterize the critical nature of feedback in the learning process and identify key strategies for improving their current practices. The components of effective feedback, tools for providing feedback, and potential barriers to implementation will also be discussed. 

Instructor: David Beyers

This course offers inspiration, practical techniques and innovative ideas that will help teachers increase student engagement and boost their creativity. You will develop creative lessons throughout this course that capture their students’ attention and interests as well as transform their lessons into meaningful experiences for students.

Instructor: Kelli Varley

Book Study Course: Teach Like a Pirate by Dave Burgess

The Highly Effective Teacher unlocks the secrets to what teachers can do to get better at helping students develop deep understanding of content, attain higher-order thinking skills and become secure, confident and capable learners.

This book will introduce a framework for supporting and measuring effective teaching.

Instructor: Kelli Varley

Book Study Course: The Highly Effective Teacher: 7 Classroom Tested Practices That Foster Student Success by Jeff C. Marshall

 This course will explore what it means to be “at-risk” and the strategies, programs, and services that exist to support at-risk students. Participants will define the term at-risk, identify strategies for motivating and encouraging at-risk students in the classroom, research available community programs and services, and create a detailed individual student profile and plan. 

Instructor: David Beyers

What are the beliefs and behaviors that set great teachers apart? In this course teachers will learn 19 keys to becoming more effective in the classroom. Teachers will focus on why it’s about more than relationships, how to focus on a consistent, engaging learning environment, and the importance of choosing the right mode—business, parent, child—to improve classroom management. 

Instructor: Kelli Varley

Book Study Course: What Great Teachers Do Differently: 19 Things That Matter Most by Todd Whitaker

What are the beliefs and behaviors that set great teachers apart? In this course teachers will learn 19 keys to becoming more effective in the classroom. Teachers will focus on why it’s about more than relationships, how to focus on a consistent, engaging learning environment, and the importance of choosing the right mode—business, parent, child—to improve classroom management. 

Instructor: Lisa Nordick

Book Study Course: What Great Teachers Do Differently: 17 Things That Matter Most by Todd Whitaker

In this course, teachers will analyze their beliefs about what sets great teachers apart. They will learn 19 ways to become more effective in the classroom by focusing on not only relationships, but on a consistent, engaging learning environment and the importance of choosing the mode to improve classroom management. 

Instructor: Kelli Varley

Book Study Course: When the Adults Change Everything Changes by Paul Dix