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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: $245
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: $245
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: $245
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: $360
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: $245
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: $245
Course Code: PEDP 9008
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: $245
Course Code: PEDP 9023
Functional Analysis: Introduction in Completing Behavioral Assessment
2 graduate-level professional development units
This course will help you achieve a better understanding of functional behavior assessment and positive behavior support strategies that can be used to facilitate positive student behavior. It will include an overview of the hierarchy of assessment procedures used to conduct FBA’s and detail the procedures and treatment packages.
Instructor: Mick Jackson, M.A.
Fee: $245
Course Code: PEDP 9013
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: $245
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: $360
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: $245
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: $245
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: $245
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: $360
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: $245
Course Code: PEDP 9006
Infant and Toddler Mental Health
2 graduate-level professional development units
Instructor: Melissa Bandy. M.A.
Fee: $245
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: $245
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: $245
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: $360
Course Code: PEDP 9103
Pre-requisite: You must have completed PEDP 9101 and PEDP 9102
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