Professional Learning Resources and Courses
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Grab-and-Go Professional Learning Sessions
Support colleagues in your department who want to incorporate more active learning strategies. These session guides help make the strategy a reality with tangible examples. Try one in your next professional development session or team meeting.
Dare to Differentiate
Discover helpful resources and strategies to implement differentiation in your classroom.
Get on Your Feet
Help your colleagues understand active learning better and incorporate a menu of practices into their lessons.
How-Tos and Overviews
When you only have a few moments for independent professional learning, these are the guides for you. Learn more about practices that can make a big difference, along with the practical tips and first small steps you need to try new strategies in a busy classroom.
Active Learning Menu
Gain pages of inspiration for how to incorporate more active learning into your classroom activities.
Learning Skills Guides
Use these to help guide your students to practice and develop important Learning Skills.
Professional Learning Courses
Flexible courses to help teachers discover new strategies and level-up their game through planning, practice, and reflection. Complete independently and at your own pace, or join the next scheduled cohort to earn graduate credits and/or continuing education hours.”
Active Learning for Student Engagement
Explore active learning that prioritizes planning, practical implementation and reflection. Build a toolbox of strategies for any content area and demonstrate mastery through one of two final projects: leadership or instructional design.
DESIGNED FOR
Classroom teachers or teacher leaders with at least 1-2 years experience.
DURATION
Self-paced, ~10 hours.
LEARN MORE
Contact us to register and to learn more about how you can earn 1 graduate credit from Midland University.
Effective Feedback for Supporting Active Learning
Examine the characteristics of effective feedback and establish its importance for student engagement and growth. Develop and apply diverse feedback strategies and learn how to incorporate them into your existing curricular plans.
DESIGNED FOR
Classroom teachers or teacher leaders with at least 1-2 years experience.
DURATION
Self-paced, ~10 hours.
LEARN MORE
Contact us to register and to learn more about how you can earn 1 graduate credit from Midland University.
Skills-Forward Teaching and Learning
Learn how to select, adapt or create a skills forward focus within your existing curriculum. Design activities and units from any content area and make skills the central focus for your students.
Course Guide available in late June 2023
DESIGNED FOR
Classroom teachers or teacher leaders with at least 1-2 years experience.
DURATION
Self-paced, ~10 hours.
LEARN MORE
Contact us to register and to learn more about how you can earn 1 graduate credit from Midland University.
New Teacher Intensive
Launch your career as a high school teacher with a foundational course that emphasizes practical planning for active and engaged learning and gives you the tools you need to establish the norms and routines necessary for a healthy, growth-oriented classroom. Learn about the mindsets and habits that are crucial for healthy teacher-student relationships and enabling proactive, not reactive, teaching practices.
Course Guide available in late June 2023
DESIGNED FOR
Classroom teachers or teacher leaders with at least 1-2 years experience.
DURATION
Self-paced, ~10 hours.
LEARN MORE
Contact us to register and to learn more.
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Lesson Planning
Explore thoughtfully-designed activities that are infused with active learning practices, as well as lesson plans that help your students develop valuable executive functioning skills alongside their academic work.
Online Teaching Tools
Opportunity Education offers online tools to make it easier for you to enable more active learning, add targeted skills practice, and more. Incorporate a small tool into your routine to level-up your students’ learning, or try the entire suite to replace your current LMS.
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