Explore successful strategies to make interventions in teaching practices, including effective ways to evaluate and examine students’ performances, with the ultimate goal of enhancing students’ mastery of the Common Core Standards.

Equip teachers with essential tools and successful strategies to integrate standards and student portfolios to enhance instruction and benefit students’ learning.

A teacher’s day is full of tasks including guiding students, organizing classroom activities, monitoring behavior, maximizing learning outcomes, designing lesson plans and assessing student work. It can be overwhelming and challenging. This course provides teachers with practical tips to manage their stress, organize assessments, arrange classroom environments, plan activities and coordinate events. The section on rubrics helps make assessment effective, individualized and easy. Printable templates, web tools, sample rubrics and ready-to-use resources help teachers bring effectivity and organization into daily schedules.

Successfully address a range of mathematics and STEM learning needs with strategies designed to benefit teachers at various levels of expertise, in the successful integration of STEM and CCSS into classroom learning.

Transform teaching practice through Inquiry-based, Collaborative learning climate within classrooms. Building on a strong research base, teachers are empowered to understand and implement effective practices of investigative learning and collaboration, incorporating technology to reach the 21st century learner most effectively.

Reading and writing are crucial skills, not just within the confines of a classroom, but in life. The ability to read helps children communicate, comprehend their course curricula, become independent learners, and have access to career opportunities.

Empower students by implementing novel ideas in curriculum development, within classrooms. With this framework, teachers are equipped to integrate research-based instructional strategies with successful curriculum development practices, that cater to teachers’ own professional development as well as students’ learning needs.

Untangle what turns out to be the not-so-mysterious language of today’s teaching and learning and put successful strategies, including the Common Core, into practice.