This New York State Standards-based course will explore current issues in nutrition, including the latest research on obesity in America 's youth. Teachers will utilize the Internet to enhance and expand lessons on healthy eating habits and physical activity. Finally, the course will delve into the online information database through the USDA regarding the new food pyramid and develop a nutrition unit to use in the classroom.
6-8
The Four Literacies for Classrooms of Today and Tomorrow
Literacy has taken on many dimensions in recent years. Along with reading comprehension, literacy has crossed the curriculum with today's instruction coupled with today's technology. While the tenants remain the same, their application must be modeled in newer formats. This course will introduce textual literacy, numeric literacy, visual literacy, research literacy and their application for the emerging cross curricular multimedia classrooms.
K - 6
Sloan Course
Grantwriting for Educators: Effective Proposal Writing
The purpose of this online course is to demystify the proposal writing process by providing educators with a basic overview of how to write a proposal. It will examine the components of the standard proposal format as well as provide examples and feedback that will familiarize the writer with successful, narrative techniques. Although each individual grant may pose different requirements, the proposal itself contains the same basic components. The need statement, program design, timeline, budget, assessment, and executive summary will all be explained and exemplars will be evaluated. Each participant should have a class-critiqued, effective proposal completed by the end of the course.
K-12
MarcoPolo Field Trainer Training
This course will provide participants with the requisite knowledge and training skills necessary to use the New York State Education Department Virtual Learning System (VLS) and MarcoPoloNY resources aligned to the NYS standards, key ideas, and performance indicators. Participants will explore the MarcoPolo national website, the ArtsEdge, EconEdLinks, and Edsitement partner sites with their high quality lessons and resources.
K-12
The Mindful Classroom
With the increased standards and demands of our education system, as well as a faster-paced lifestyle, teachers and students are incurring greater stress. Stress has been proven to negatively affect concentration, behavior, performance and overall health. Therefore, it grows increasingly important for teachers to practice and model effective ways to prioritize and deal with stressors. In this course, teachers will learn mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques which will prevent stress, promote a calming atmosphere in the classroom and improve students' concentration. Students who are relaxed have been shown in studies to earn higher grades, get sick less, and have better behavior. Using mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques will enhance teachers' own job satisfaction and greatly improve their ability to manage the classroom and promote academic success.
K-12
On-Line Child Exploitation and Child Protection: Online and Offline
This course will provide a basic understanding of the problem, the signs of sexual exploitation, and a profile of the sexual predators as well as suggest ways to protect children.
K-12
Putting Character in Your Content: Integrating Character Education into Secondary Content Areas Using Internet Content for Classrooms
Participants will learn to effectively integrate character education into the content area curriculum, design and develop appropriate Internet-based instructional activities in their content areas, use the Internet to locate exemplary online resources and evaluate the validity/accuracy of these resources for a web-based project, apply technology resources to develop students' higher-order thinking skills, identify and use technology resources that affirm diversity, connect their classroom activities with situations and experiences in the outside world, think critically about character education issues and utilize Internet-based resources for addressing real world problems, and participate in meaningful communication within and outside of an electronic learning community.
K-12
The Co-Teaching Experience
This online course is for teachers who are interested in learning how to successfully co-teach in the classroom and understand co-teaching practices that lead to a successful collaboration. This course will teach you how to develop meaningful and appropriate lessons to help enhance and implement an effective co-teaching experience. This is a basic course and it is designed for teachers who want to have a more meaningful experience when working with their colleagues. During this course, we will also explore how technology can assist in promoting successful co-teaching experiences and how technology can be integrated into the co-teaching experience. The course will review the main concepts of co-teaching with reference to technology as a means of facilitating the co-teaching process.
