Provider: PBS TeacherLine (Graduate credit options available)

Connecting with authors often motivates students to do more reading and writing. By exploring websites dedicated to published authors, students begin to see authors as real people with both ordinary and amazing life experiences and writing as an exciting adventure as well as a structured process. This course is designed to help teachers advance their student’s skills in reading, writing, and communicating in different forms.  Participants will explore and evaluate online author studies and the websites created by and for children’s authors. This fully facilitated, online course allows teachers to share ideas about children’s authors and have discussions about working online with elementary-aged students. Participants also create an author study related to their curriculum that is enhanced by the use of Internet resources.

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Provider: PBS TeacherLine

Graduate credit options available from participating universities for an additional fee.
Contact teacherline@mpt.org for more information.

Meet the needs of all your middle school students with techniques to differentiate content, process and products. Discover methods for pre-assessment and strategies for tiered activities. Your final project is an instructional unit that aligns with MD standards of learning.

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Provider: PBS TeacherLine

Graduate credit options available from participating universities for an additional fee.
Contact teacherline@mpt.org for more information.

This course will explore ways that teachers can incorporate real-world math into the elementary school classroom. Participants will learn exciting and effective ways to enrich their math curriculum while meeting national educational standards.

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Provider: Johns Hopkins CTE

Graduate Credit NOT available for this course

What happens when teachers become more immersed in using technology effectively to promote thinking? Will they become less didactic and more constructivist? Will they lecture less and coach more? Will they be open to individual differences rather than expecting all students to learn the same information?

When used with project-based learning, technology can be powerful tool in the delivery and assessment of student learning and higher-level thinking. Teachers who transform the learning process with real-world topics and technology tools worthy of students' attention and effort make the shift from a teacher-centered to a student-centered learning environment. When students are excited about what they are learning, they are more likely to engage in a deeper search for ideas and solutions, expanding their interests in a wider array of subjects and making connections to apply their knowledge to new situations. In fact, research suggests that project-based learning has a positive correlation with increases in test scores, decreases in absenteeism, and reduced disciplinary problems.

Course Refund Policy

Provider: PBS TeacherLine

Graduate credit options available from participating universities for an additional fee.
Contact teacherline@mpt.org for more information.

Discover the tools and background needed to successfully use the Internet as a research tool in the K-12 classroom. Explore methods of Internet research and learn to use them effectively and efficiently. You will also gain an awareness of some of the ethical and legal issues that may arise when using these new tools in the classroom. As a course assignment, you will practice using your new skills and knowledge by searching through the Internet for appropriate lesson materials to build an enriching resource library.

Course Refund Policy

Provider: PBS TeacherLine

Graduate credit options available from participating universities for an additional fee.
Contact teacherline@mpt.org for more information.

ATTENTION TEACHERS: THIS IS AN 8 WEEK COURSE APPROVED FOR 3 MSDE CPD CREDITS
Enhance your understanding and teaching of physical science by exploring the concepts of motion, force and matter that are part of daily life. Learn to incorporate observation, discourse and experimentation into classroom lessons.

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Provider PBS TeacherLine

Graduate credit options available for an additional fee from participating universities.  Contact teacherline@mpt.org for more information.

Discover the advantages of teaching methods that engage multiple intelligences and explore ways to implement them. You will also learn to teach and assess students differently based on their individual intellectual styles.

Provider: Johns Hopkins Center for Technology in Education (CTE)

Graduate credit NOT available for this course

The information and activities in this self-paced course provide a systematic way for you to develop the habits of a reflective practitioner. Throughout the course you will read materials in print and online that support research related to the role of reflection in teacher learning. You will participate in activities that clarify and emphasize the steps to becoming a reflective practitioner, in be able to connect educational theory and your own classroom practice. You will also reflect upon your own practice and areas of growth, and use a rubric for assessing your personal level of reflection to track your progress toward becoming a reflective practitioner.

This is a self-paced course in which participants work at their own time and pace. You may finish the course at any time in the 8 weeks. The enrollment for the course is rolling so you may register even after the course start date has passed.

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