American Samoa

Easy steps for renewing a teaching certificate in American Samoa:

1. Get information about state renewal requirements and the staff professional development process for teachers in AS.
   
   
2. Find and take classes online for teachers:
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Get an official transcript from a regionally accredited university


3. Record hours
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4. Save or submit your total hours for renewal.

• 21st Century Learning Package (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: Collaboration Skills, Organized Classrooms, Flipped Classrooms, Inquiry-based Learning, STEM, Standards-based Instruction. Through this online course package, teachers are introduced to school-wide policy reforms as ways to promote collaboration, along with strategies to accommodate varying learning needs. Acknowledging that the key to “doing it all” and “doing it all well” is organization, this package presents effective ways for teachers to organize their many responsibilities and take practical steps to manage stressful teaching situations.

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Accommodating All Students Package (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: Accommodations, Adaptations, Differentiation, IEPs, Cognitive Skills Testing, Training, Documentation, Learning Challenges, Universal Design for Learning and more. In this online course package, teachers are provided with a range of strategies for accommodation, modification, and adaptation of curriculum, materials, and instruction, to appropriately meet the varied needs of students in the classroom. The frameworks provided build on research findings that show how a learner’s level of recognition, strategic, and affective networks can all be taken into account to determine the best way to teach and reach learners Teachers will be shown effective methods to detect students who may have weak cognitive skills, identify tools to strengthen cognition, and implement a Universal Design of Learning (UDL) within the classroom.

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Aligning to Standards Package (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: Alignment to Standards, Lesson Planning, Curriculum Development, Assessments and Evaluation, Technology, Rubrics, Student Portfolios, Math, and Testing. Understanding and breaking down standards can be a challenging process for any teacher. This online PD course has DIY classroom tools, instructional strategies and educator resources to help teachers identify standards relevant to any grade or subject area. Examine curriculum design, consider lesson plans and make activities for classrooms that improve grades. Ideas and simple templates for assessments, rubrics and student portfolios help teachers evaluate and grade student work while meeting standards.

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Assessments & Evaluation Package (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: Rubrics, Student Portfolios, Objectives, Goals, Student-centered, Achievement, Standards-based, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment, and more. Strong assessments and continuous evaluation are features of the best curriculum. Teachers get help to create and communicate goals and objectives in lesson planning and understand how to use formative assessments, while exploring a range of test and evaluation strategies that translate to better learning.

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Assessments Across Curriculum Package (50 Hours)

  

  Topics: Assessment, Rubrics, Portfolios, Plan Lesson & Curriculum, Academic Achievement, Individual Learning Plans, Best Lesson Plan Ideas, Help with Rubrics, Student Portfolios, Standards in Education and more.

  $300 for 50 Hours
  SAVE $90!
  10 Courses (5 hours each)
• Beyond Pedagogy Package (50 Hours)

  

  Topics: Grant Writing Templates, Fundraising Leads, Classroom Research Ideas, Peer Assessments, Parent Conference Templates, Public Speaking Exercises and more. While we are changing one student's life at a time, a teacher can also take learning beyond their classroom and influence and impact other classrooms in schools, our country and even the world? Learn to do research and evaluate what really works? Write effective proposals for sustainable funds and grants to innovate. Lead your school towards better practices in education, technology, assessments, instruction and research. Identify ways to stretch classroom budgets with budgeting tips, tools and templates. Create and build professional learning communities at school and online.
  

  $300 for 50 Hours
  SAVE $90!
  10 Courses (5 hours each)
• Child Abuse Prevention Package (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: Recognizing and Preventing Child Abuse, Signs of Abuse, Internet Safety, Bullying Prevention, Bullying Policies, Ethics for Educators, Introduction to Trafficking, Grooming Process in Abuse, Professional Boundaries for Teachers, Ethics Teams, Safe Environment Teams, Internet Filters, Monitoring and more. The online course package Child Abuse Prevention helps teachers expand knowledge regarding the dangers of child abuse and helps ensure a secure and safe environment for students.

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Essential Teaching Package #1 (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: Ethics, Classroom Trauma Sensitive Teaching, Reading Comprehension, Phonemics, Formative Assessment, Technology in Education, Mental Health, Evaluation, the Science of Reading, and more. The Essential Teaching Package #1 provides a foundation in skills applicable to teachers across the curriculum.

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Essential Teaching Package #2 (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: Cognitive skills, Ethics, Brain in Learning, Reading, Phonemics, Classroom Management, Testing, Autism, Technology in Education, Online Teaching, Hybrid Teaching, Integrating Technology, Science of Reading, Reading Comprehension and more. The Essential Teaching Package #2 provides a foundation in skills applicable to teachers across the curriculum .

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Essential Teaching Package #3 (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: Accommodations, Classroom Management, Standards, Reading, Technology in Education, Reaching all Learners, Online Teaching, Behavior Strategies, Flipping Classrooms, and more. The Essential Teaching Package #3 provides a foundation in skills applicable to teachers across the curriculum and grade levels.

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Hybrid Teaching Package (30 Hours)

  

  TOPICS: How to Teach Online for the Classroom Teacher, Apps in Education, Flipped Classrooms, Partnering with Parents, Internet Safety, Technology Basics, Technology for Teaching Online, Virtual Classrooms, Distance Learning, Blended Learning

  $180 for 30 Hours
  SAVE $54!
  6 Courses (5 hours each)
• Mental Health Package (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: ADHD, Trauma-informed Teaching, Autism, Emotional Health, Suicide Prevention, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum, Stress, PTSD, Mental Health Disorders. This online course package, has been designed to provide an extensive coverage of the most common of these situations, and give teachers a strong working understanding of each, as well as practical strategies to deal with the spectrum of challenges within the Mental Health umbrella. Teachers will be presented with a basic understanding of the warning signs of early-onset mental illnesses in children and adolescents, ways to strengthen teacher-parent communications and strategies to teach effectively.

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Online Teaching Package (30 Hours)

  

  How to Teach Online for the Classroom Teacher, Apps in Education, Technology Basics, Reading through Technology, Technology for Teaching Online, Virtual Classrooms, Distance Education, How to Create a Video, Virtual Field Trips

  $180 for 30 Hours
  SAVE $54!
  6 Courses (5 hours each)
• Reading and Phonemics Package (50 Hours)

  

  Topics: The Art and Science of Reading, Phonemic Instruction, ELL, English Language Learners, Brain Training, Literacy, Reading, Writing, Dyslexia, and more.

  $300 for 50 Hours
  SAVE $71!
  9 Courses (5 hours each)
• Reading Instruction Techniques Package (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: Reading Assessments, Leveled Readers, Guided Reading, Fluency, Phonics, Technology, Cognitive Skills, Visual-spatial Skills and more. When students struggle with completing homework or doing well on tests, poor reading skills are often blamed. In this online professional development course package, teachers in all subject areas learn to assess reading skills, plan reading interventions and identify ways in which they can help students improve reading comprehension and fluency. Tools include reading assessments, guided reading protocols, instructions for leveling a teaching library, reading practice ideas, cognitive skill building activities, and technology tools that can support reading instruction for students in the classroom.

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Special Needs Package (50 Hours)

  

  Topics: Autism, ADHD, Gifted Learners, Accommodations, Adaptations, Differentiation, IEPs, Documentation, Learning Challenges, and more.

  $300 for 50 Hours
  SAVE $90!
  10 Courses (5 hours each)
• Technology in Education Package (50 Hours)

  

  Topics: Online and Hybrid Teaching, Videos, ipads, Apps, Mobile Technology, Virtual Field Trips, Internet Safety, Technology in Education, and more!

  $300 for 50 Hours
  SAVE $90!
  10 Courses (5 hours each)
• Technology in Education Package #1 (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: App Review Tools, Internet Use Agreements, Technology Tips, Outline Lesson, Smartphones, Smartwatches, Clickers, Tablets, iPads, iPhones, Mobile Devices, Digital Cameras, Projectors, Digital Printers, Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Cyber-Saftey, Cyber-Bullying, Infographics in the Classroom and more. When technology is used in the classroom, teachers have legitimate considerations related to appropriateness, discipline, effectiveness, and safety. How can teachers use the right apps to align with classroom objectives and standards? How do teachers communicate about educational technology with parents? Learn how to choose and use recommended classroom apps and devices for learning with smartphones, tablets, ipads, and digital cameras at school. Implement templates for Technology Use Agreements, determine the best apps, evaluate engagement with technology and explore expert tips for classroom management.

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Technology in Education Package #2 (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: Online Quizzes and Polls, Design Tools, Presentations, Infographics, Google Docs, Flipped Classrooms, Videos in the Classroom, Assistive Communication, Special Needs, Special Education and more. Teachers navigate questions and make decisions about using technology at school and in the classroom everyday. This online PD course package helps teachers get familiar with educational technology and build skills for teaching in the classroom and using technology in instruction. Create online quizzes and polls, design better PowerPoint presentations, illustrate with cartoons and charts, make classroom videos and flip lessons for students.

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Workforce Readiness Package (25 Hours)

  

  Topics: Preparing College Ready and Career Bound Students, Student Portfolios, Project Management for Students through Project-based Learning, Reading Across the Curriculum, Literacy, and Mathematics for All Teachers, STEM

  $155 for 25 Hours
  SAVE $40!
  5 Courses (5 hours each)
• Accommodating All Learners (5 Hours)

  

  Addressing accommodation, modification, and adaptation of curriculum, materials, and instruction to appropriately meet the needs of teachers and a variety of students. This online course for teachers may meet state requirements to renew a teaching license. Check with your state department of education.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Accommodations through UDL (5 Hours)

  

  Make teaching ALL students a very real possibility with the Universal Design of Learning (UDL) framework. This structure builds on research findings that show how a single teaching approach has very limited results on student learning and highlights the need for a new curricular approach in which a learner’s level of recognition, strategic, and affective networks are all taken into account to determine the best means of teaching.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Action Research for School Improvement (5 Hours)

  

  This course is designed to equip teachers to initiate action research for potential areas of improvement in a classroom or at the school level. Through this course, teachers will be able to learn how to go about each step of the action research process from selecting the area of focus, gathering and interpreting data, setting up an action plan, and finally presenting the findings in order to help others.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Apps for Education (5 Hours)

  

  Teachers will be equipped to go beyond using an app merely because someone else has recommended it and fully examine the true learning potential. The integration of apps into education, may seem like a natural product of the times. However, successfully impacting students’ learning, requires a whole new level of teachers’ engagement and effort.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Assessment Strategies (5 Hours)

  

  Assessment is an essential part of learning. It helps teachers and students determine to what extent education goals are being met. This course familiarizes teachers with the strategies and methods that are available to help make assessments meaningful and useful tools.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Assistive Communication for Every Classroom (5 Hours)

  

  This course also shows teachers how to improve learning using various low-tech and high-tech Assistive Communication devices. It instructs teachers on how to identify and choose suitable devices and how to explore the laws promoting and supporting the use of these devices in the classroom. Teachers will also gain a clear understanding of their role in the evaluation and implementation of Assistive Communication technology in the classroom. The suggestions, ideas and templates provided in the course will help teachers confidently apply these strategies in the classroom.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Building School-wide Initiatives (5 Hours)

  

  Enhance students’ learning experiences by developing strategies and initiatives that benefit entire schools. Teachers will be introduced to a range of successful strategies to collaborate at a wider level to address learning issues faced by schools, and implement corresponding, well-designed interventions.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Bulletin Boards - Ideas for Every Classroom (5 Hours)

  

  Providing a new and fresh direction that helps teachers understand the basic principles of art and design while applying these in planning and creating bulletin boards that reinforce learning in the classroom.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Bullying: Prevention and Policies for Schools (5 Hours)

  

  The goal of this course is to help teachers understand the different aspects of bullying and to provide recommended strategies and techniques to deal with both victims and bullies.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Bullying - The Golden Rule Approach (5 Hours)

  

  Enables teachers to help students respond effectively to verbal comments. Includes video role plays that model and demonstrate methodologies.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Child Abuse Prevention (5 Hours)

  

  Teachers will be introduced to the basics and fundamental facts of child abuse and neglect, its types, indicators and risk factors. The course primarily aims at educating teachers on the abuse, its legal implications and the legislative statutes addressing them in their role as mandatory reporters.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Classroom Collaboration (5 Hours)

  

  Explore the benefits of using teamwork as a key element in K-12 classrooms, along with successful strategies to involve students in the various aspects of collaborative instruction. Building on a strong research base, this course empowers teachers to understand and implement effective practices of collaboration in their own classrooms.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Classroom Management for Positive Behaviors (5 Hours)

  

  Students from all backgrounds, temperaments, and abilities should have access to a classroom ambience that is conducive to their learning. Positive Behavior Management helps educators transform challenging behavior, systemically and individually, to create such an environment. Learn evidence‐based Positive Behavior Intervention Solutions (PBIS) practices to identify and eliminate triggers in the classroom, encourage positive behaviors, and give students individualized care and support. This proactive PBIS approach, with three tiers of interventions, can strengthen students’ relationships, improve their communication skill, and circumvent conflict.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Classroom Organization for the 21st Century (5 Hours)

  

  Effective classroom organization aids teachers as they strive to make their lives and classrooms more structured and a lot less stressful. The ideas in this course present effective ways for teachers to be organized with practical steps in planning enabling teachers to avoid last minute time crunches.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Cognitive Skills - Understanding Learning Challenges (5 Hours)

  

  Discover methods for detecting students with weak cognitive skills and tools to strengthen those skills. Teachers will receive understanding, as well as ways to apply development techniques in the classroom. The online class is fun and interactive and includes information about new brain research and how it can impact today’s classrooms.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Cultural Competency and Responsive Teaching (5 Hours)

  

  This cultural competency and responsiveness training helps teachers assess their own cultural lens and examine potential bias that impacts the classroom framework with equitable sensitivity to all learners across languages, genders, religions, races, cultural backgrounds, and special needs.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Curriculum Development (5 Hours)

  

  Empower students to face the dynamic world around them with confidence, by implementing novel ideas in curriculum development, within classrooms. With this framework, teachers are equipped to create powerful, yet practical plans that enable students to learn more effectively.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Differentiation for Gifted Learners in the Classroom (5 Hours)

  

  Better understand gifted and talented education by learning how to identify, instruct and assess these students. Explore related topics, issues, and resources geared towards our gifted population.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Early Reading Skills (5 Hours)

  

  The development of early literary and reading skills are foundation for every student’s education. Gain a comprehensive understanding of challenges that hold potential readers back, including phonological impairments and reading disorders. Adopt best science-research-based reading strategies to tackle these including use of explicit, systematic and sequential approaches to reading instruction, developing phonemic awareness, and implementing multisensory intervention strategies. An incredibly useful tool for teachers looking to unlock their students’ reading potential, the course is a must-have for teachers.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• English Language Learners in the Classroom (5 Hours)

  

  Create a welcoming environment that ensures English Language Learners thrive educationally through the integration of useful research based strategies that promote student engagement with the lessons and curriculum.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Enhancing Instruction through Standards (5 Hours)

  

  For students graduating from high school to be fully equipped and college and career ready, they must possess high standards of academic and behavioral skills. Learn the scheme of implementing the standards as a successful strategy to address what students are expected to know and be able to do when they have graduated from high school and prepares them for life outside the classroom.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Ethical Conduct in Education (5 Hours)

  

  Ethics may seem like an abstract concept, and yet it’s practical, relevant and a critical part of a teacher’s professional life. Explore how you can grow in ethics in the areas of academic excellence, boundaries and academic integrity. From protocols for social media, reporting abuse, transference and plagiarism, this course explores issues where ethics and education meet. It is full of practical strategies, resources and guidelines for teachers to reflect on and implement in their particular teaching situations.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Ethical Decision Making (5 Hours)

  

  Making ethical decisions in the classroom can be challenging and strenuous. It is not always easy to determine what is right or wrong, especially since ethics and morality are based on more than what is socially acceptable or personally preferred. This Ethical Decision Making course includes a consistent framework for educators to use for determining the best ethical decision. By following the process for making ethical decisions, teachers have guidance and structure even when a matter seems conflicting.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Ethics for Education Professionals (5 Hours)

  

  Bring and maintain high standards of ethics into our schools. Includes a variety of topics to explore practical ways of addressing ethical decisions in our lives.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Examining and Evaluating Student Work (5 Hours)

  

  Understand effective and dynamic methods by which teachers can assess student work. Learn to examine student work through a process of intentional reflection with other teachers. Engage with other teachers on improving educational practices through critical evaluation of student work samples.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Flipping Classrooms (5 Hours)

  

  Move students beyond becoming ‘proficient’ in a subject to ‘mastering’ its intricacies. Explore making students’ learning needs the driving force behind classroom instruction. Identify effective tools and strategies, such as video, digital simulations, and computer games to personalize lessons.This approach empowers student ownership over their learning and promotes the classroom as a collaborative educational environment.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Formative Assessment (5 Hours)

  

  Respond to the needs of students and shape instruction through the use of formative assessments. Learn about and implement formative assessments in your school to discover and demonstrate for yourself, your students and your community what happens when a school moves in this direction and you know students are truly learning.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Fundraising Basics for Teachers (5 Hours)

  

  Teachers learn the basics of fundraising for the classroom. It helps teachers understand the fundraising process by going through key aspects like sources of funding and effective ways to budget and plan.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Grant Writing (5 Hours)

  

  Secure the best-suited funds to enrich the classroom or develop the skill of grant writing. Teachers can rise above budget constraints and think outside the box, developing students and growing professionally.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Guided Reading (5 Hours)

  

  Develop students’ independent reading skills in the classroom, through the process of guided reading, while also promoting comprehension, critical thinking, problem solving, intellectual skills and interpersonal communication.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access