This course is designed to improve relationships through communication skills that decrease stress and increase success. Based on the book, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, & Sheila Heen, this course will focus on interpreting what is said in conversations, managing emotions, and staying balanced and focused despite how the other person responds.

As educators, we are often involved in "difficult" conversations with students, parents, colleagues, or administrators. This course offers practical strategies to ensure all parties involved will resolve issues in an amicable manner.

Week 1 January 9th

Week 2 January 16th

Week 3 January 23rd

Week 4 January 30

Week 5 February 6th.  2022 Final Project Due

This online course is examines Ron Ritchhart's book, Creating Cultures of Thinking: 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools. It is designed to help teachers facilitate an environment where student develop critical thinking skill, listening skills, and questioning techniques that will shape meaningful learning.

I have structured the course to include weekly assignments and a final project due at the end of the course. Now, you can receive graduate credit from the convenience of your own home.

This course is set up through Schoology and all assignments will be submitted online. The required book for this is:

Creating Cultures of Thinking: 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools.

The book can be purchased through Barnes and Noble or Amazon. Once you send in a 50.00 deposit, I will send you:

a registration form from the University

When the balance of 450.00 is paid, I will send your the course code that will enable you to start the course. You will receive a transcript and receipt from Muskingum University.

Week 1 January 9th

Week 2 January 16th

Week 3 January 23rd

Week 4 January 30

Week 5 February 6th. 2022 Final Project Due

This course offers teachers a variety of topics to research and refine their skills to help motivate, engage, and increase student achievement. This course is designed to allow flexibility for teachers to choose a topic they wish to research, develop activities for the classroom, devise strategies to improve their teaching toolbox, and obtain content-related knowledge that will make a difference in their classrooms, based on their own areas they deem in need of improvement.

 * Choose from a list of selected topics or submit their own proposal, subject to approval

* Spend a minimum of 40 hours, researching and creating useful techniques and strategies to implement into their own classroom

* Contact the instructor at minimum of once per week to share progress via email and submit a time log with the portfolio

* Submit a final portfolio of the their research findings including all activities created by the teacher, and a final paper explaining how the strategies and techniques presented will have a significant impact in the classroom, both for teacher and student.

This course offers teachers a variety of practical strategies to create a cooperative and respectful classroom environment. Studies indicate that encouraging good behavior and discouraging misbehavior by offering rewards and punishments has very few benefits and rarely changes behavior. When teachers empower students to address and correct misbehavior, it has a lasting impact. Topics included in this online course are: restorative practices, structures that support restorative practices, creating a mindset for restorative practices, and concrete examples for all grade levels that bring out the best in all students.

Week 1 January 9th

Week 2 January 16th

Week 3 January 23rd

Week 4 January 30

Week 5 February 6th. 2022 Final Project Due

This course is set up through Schoology and all assignments will be submitted online. The required book for this is:Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management by Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, & Nancy Frey

• This experiential workshop focuses on what great teachers do differently in the classroom and school setting. The course focuses on the beliefs, behaviors, and strategies that set great teachers apart and is appropriate for educators at any level of teaching. Building student relationships is important but building relationships alone, is not enough. Focusing on consistency, creating an engaging student learning atmosphere, and improving classroom management issues can impact student learning in a positive manner.

Zoom

This alternative format class is designed to help participants learn various strategies to help students become resilient. These strategies focus on helping students become self-aware, compassionate, and self-regulating inside and outside of the classroom. The course addresses the need to teach resilience in the classroom using a practical guide to help students approach situations and achieve the best possible outcome. The benefits of teaching resilience in school is that students will learn healthy coping strategies that will enable them to thrive in school and life beyond.

ZOOM

This experientially oriented workshop examines the new OTES 2.0 rubric and offers practical and specific strategies to use in the classroom. Additionally, classroom examples all content levels will be given for each area of the rubric. Topics include: OTES 2.0 rubric, changes with the new rubric, creating project-based learning, gathering evidence to show performance, analyzing of current strategies and activities used in the classroom, and how to set up an OTES evidence binder.