Center for Professional and Continuing Education

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Advanced Classroom Management

2 graduate-level professional development units

Focuses on cognitive and cognitive-behavioral interventions (often lumped toegether under the rubric “social skills”) with an emphasis on teaching students how to change and manage their own behavior. NOTE:  It is strongly recommended that you take an introductory behavior management course to learn the basic terms and concepts of behavior management prior to taking this “Advanced” course.

Instructor: Joseph Kaplan, Ph.D.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9019

Attention Deficit Disorder: Information & Interventions for Effective Teaching

2 graduate-level professional development units

This course is designed to help you achieve a better understanding of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and intervention strategies to facilitate positive student change. Course focuses on history of the disorder, accepted methods to assess and identify ADD and various treatment methods that are currently being used.

Instructor: Mick Jackson, M.A.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9004

Autism & Asperger’s Disorder: Information & Effective Intervention Strategies

2 graduate-level professional development units

This course describes Autism and Asperger’s Disorder including characteristics, associated learning styles, communication weaknesses, and various intervention strategies.

Instructor: Marrea Winnega, Ph.D.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9012

Behavior is Language: Strategies for Managing Disruptive Behaviors

3 graduate-level professional development units

This course is designed to give you a new perspective on student behavior and effective tools for facilitating positive student change. The course teaches behavioral techniques and intervention strategies that remediate disruptive behaviors, reduce power struggles while increasing classroom control, and reduce your workloads and burnout.

Instructor: Mick Jackson, M.A.
Fee: $369
Course Code: PEDP 9020

Child Abuse: Working with Abused and Neglected Children

2 graduate-level professional development units

This course teaches you to recognize the signs of physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect in students. Factors that exist in families who abuse or neglect their children and helping the participant understand the special learning needs of the abused or neglected child.

Instructor: Joan Halverstadt
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEPD 9017

Drugs & Alcohol in School: Understanding Substance Use & Abuse

2 graduate-level professional development units

This course is designed to give you a more comprehensive understanding of alcohol, drugs, and their influences in your classroom. You will learn about a basic historical perspective of substance use along with biological, psychological, and social factors that comprise the disease of addiction.

Instructor: Casey Jackson, M.S.W.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9008

Early Childhood: Program Planning

3 graduate-level professional development units

 This interactive course is designed to give you a new perspective on planning and implementing developmentally appropriate programs for young children from birth through age eight. Learn what is meant by curriculum, assessment, evaluation, and program planning as these terms apply to early childhood education. We will discuss several historical perspectives and theories of child development, and examine best practices for early childhood education. We will also examine key concepts and specific activities for teaching various curricular content areas including language and literacy, mathematics and science, and the expressive arts.

Instructor: Aumony Dahl, M.Ed.
Fee: $369
Course Code: PEDP 9027

Early Childhood: Observation & Assessment

3 graduate-level professional development units

 This interactive course explores observation and assessment instruments, as well as recommended practices and available resources for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Content includes an emphasis on observing young children and assessing their early childhood learning environments.

Instructor: Darcie Donegan, MA/HD
Fee: $369
Course Code: PEDP 9028

Early Childhood: Family-Centered Services

2 graduate-level professional development units.

This course is designed to give you a new perspective on serving the needs of young children and their families. Learn what is meant by familycentered services as it applies to diverse systems of care, gain an understanding of family diversity, and explore the major stress factors facing families today. We will discuss the theoretical basis for family-centered services, as well as reflect on current research and best practices. We will also examine the role of early childhood educators and explore ways to build partnerships with parents and create communities of care-for the benefit of our children and ultimately society as a whole. This course is designed for anyone working with young children and their families: child-care providers, early childhood educators, and health care or social services providers to name a few.

Instructor: Aumony Dahl, M.Ed.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9026

Educational Assessment: Assessing Student Learning in the Classroom

2 graduate-level professional development units

The course will outline procedures for designing or selecting, administering and interpreting, a variety of informal assessment measures typically used in schools. The presentation of assessment information in an acceptable format will also be addressed

Instructor: A.N. (Bob) Pillay, Ed.D.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9023

Early Childhood: Typical & Atypical Development

3 graduate-level professional development units

 This interactive course explores contemporary best practices and perspectives on early childhood development. Content includes patterns and sequences of typical development for children from birth to six years. Emphasis is on individual differences, cultural influences, and the impact of developmental delay and disability during infancy, toddlerhood, and the preschool years. Discussion will also include instructional technology (IT) and assistive technology (AT) applications for this population.

Instructor: Darcie Donegan, MA/HD
Fee: $369
Course Code: PEDP 9029

Inclusion: Working with Special Needs Students in Mainstream Classrooms

2 graduate-level professional development units

This course is designed to help special and general educators gain a better understanding of Inclusion.  It will also help you identify the roles and responsibilities of educators in providing special services to students educated in Inclusive classrooms.

Instructor: Florah Luseno, Ph.D.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9011

Learning Disabilities: Practical Information for Classroom Teachers

3 graduate-level professional development units

The course provides direction for program planning and implementation. It indicates the importance of and the need for a close and positive partnership with parents (or alternative caregivers) for ensuring effective and meaningful home-school axis.

Instructor: A.N. (Bob) Pillay, Ed.D.
Fee: $369
Course Code: PEDP 9009

Talented and Gifted: Working with High Achievers

2 graduate-level professional development units

The course  covers major program models and methods of differentiating instruction to meet the rate and level of learning of those students identified. The course also gives you an understanding of ways to meet the affective needs of the gifted and talented student in the regular classroom.

Instructor: Mick Jackson, M.A.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9016

Teaching Diversity: Influences & Issues in the Classroom

2 graduate-level professional development units

This course will help your understand and identify differences in approaches to learning and performance, including different learning styles and ways in which students demonstrate learning. An emphasis in this course will be on understanding how a student's learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, disabilities, gender language, culture, family, and community values.  The strategies were designed to be used to aid in teaching students in a diverse classroom ranging from K-12. Instructor: Karen A. Lea, Ph.D.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9024

Traumatized Child: The Effects of Stress, Trauma & Violence on Student Learning

2 graduate-level professional development units

This course is designed to help classroom teachers, school counselors, and other educational personnel gain strategies to reach and teach students who have been affected by stress, trauma, and/or violence.

Instructor: Joan Halverstadt
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9022

Understanding Aggression: Coping with Aggressive Behavior in the Classroom

3 graduate-level professional development units

This course is about violence in America and the aggression in our schools, classrooms, streets, homes, and elsewhere. The course will consider: the many forms of aggression, both criminal and otherwise; its costs and motivation; its impact on our schools and children; and, most especially, its several causes and promising solutions.

Instructor: Mick Jackson, M.A.
Fee: $369
Course Code: PEDP 9015

Violence in Schools: Identification, Prevention & Intervention Strategies

2 graduate-level professional development units

 You will learn identification and intervention approaches in working with control behaviors. In addition, each student will receive information on national resources available for both parents and teachers.

Instructor: Michael Sedler
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9006

Infant and Toddler Mental Health

2 graduate-level professional development units

An interactive computer-based instruction (CBI) course designed to help you achieve a better understanding of infant and toddler mental health, child development and strategies you can use to promote positive relationships with children and their families.  This course provides information that will help you to understand and identify your role as a child care provider, educator and early childhood professional.  Infant and Toddler Mental Health will provide you with research-based information on child development, attachment, temperament, and curriculum

Instructor: Melissa Bandy. M.A.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9025

Reading Fundamentals Series

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 mandates the use of scientifically-based research in programs receiving federal funding that deal with remedial readers (Fleishman, Kohlmoos, & Rotherham, 2003). The purpose of these courses is to help improve your knowledge of science and the scientific process. This knowledge will make you a more informed consumer and an even better advocate for students. Three courses are offered in this series. You do not have to take all three, but you must take each course sequentially.

Reading Fundamentals 1: An Introduction to Scientifically-Based Research

2 graduate-level professional development units

Instructor: Mick Jackson, M.A.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9101

Reading Fundamentals 2: Laying the Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction

2 graduate-level professional development units

Instructor: Mick Jackson, M.A.
Fee: $259
Course Code: PEDP 9102
Pre-requisite: You must have completed PEDP 9101

Reading Fundamentals 3: the Elements of Effective Reading Instruction & Assessment

3 graduate-level professional development units

Instructor: Mick Jackson, M.A.
Fee: $369
Course Code: PEDP 9103
Pre-requisite: You must have completed PEDP 9101 and PEDP 9102

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