Arkansas

Easy steps for renewing a teaching license in AR:

1. Get information about state renewal requirements and the staff professional development process for teachers in AR. Professional Learning Board is an approved ADE PD Provider in Arkansas.
   
   
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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• How to Teach Online for the Classroom Teacher (5 Hours)

  

  In this course, teachers go through the process of preparing to teach online while also being introduced to tools and resources that can be useful when teaching online. Classroom teachers can quickly transition to becoming effective online teachers.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• IEPs: Documentation and Implementation for Teachers (5 Hours)

  

  The goal of this course is to help teachers understand the IEP process and build the teachers comfort level in developing, aligning with and carrying out the IEP through rich examples and templates to help teachers understand and practically use the recommended strategies in a classroom setting.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Inquiry-based Learning (5 Hours)

  

  The Inquiry-based Learning course details some models that teachers can adapt to meet specific needs of their class, as well as to monitor and enhance the learning of their students. Teachers learn practical and dynamic ways of evaluating their students’ progress while also incorporating technology for better results.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Integrating Standards in Teaching (5 Hours)

  

  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.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Internet Safety in a Connected World (5 Hours)

  

  There are multiple ways in which we are responsible for protecting children. Today’s online world magnifies those opportunities as well as complicates them in ways in which we must be aware. The goal of this course is to increase your awareness of how students today are using technology, as well as helping you understand the risks of the online world. Teachers will be equipped with strategies and ideas to talk about internet safety to students in their classrooms.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Introduction to Autism (5 Hours)

  

  Autism impacts a student’s ability to communicate, form social skills, and manage sensory challenges often affecting their academic potential and learning style in the classroom. A person with autism may experience thinking, remembering events, reacting and communicating in a unique way. In this course, educators will find tried and tested strategies, tips, real-life examples and insights to create more inclusive classroom and help students on the autism spectrum thrive.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Introduction to Technology (5 Hours)

  

  This course introduces and examines technology for educators teaching in online, hybrid, and face-to-face classrooms. You will develop a better understanding of how to use technology tools and resources to increase engagement in learning and enhance your instructional practices. Tutorials and tips demonstrate applications and guide teachers in improving tech skills and gaining confidence in use.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• iPads in the Classroom (5 Hours)

  

  You have iPads in the classroom. Now, what do you do with them. This course will introduce you to the pedagogy of using iPads to improve student learning in your classroom.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Mobile Technology in the Classroom (5 Hours)

  

  Teachers integrate smartphones, tablets, iPads, Kindle and more into everyday classroom activities while achieving learning targets. In this course, teachers learn to create technology-based lesson plans, activities and assessments that incorporate mobile devices.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Partnering with Parents (5 Hours)

  

  Bridge communication gaps with useful strategies to employ while facing common challenging situations in working with parents.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Peer Review of Teaching (5 Hours)

  

  Aimed at propelling teachers toward growth and improvement, this course presents peer review as an easy-to-apply model of wholesome teacher evaluation. Teachers will be equipped with practical strategies and tools so they can engage in systematic assessment of teaching performance.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Preparing College and Career Ready Students (5 Hours)

  

  Teachers are the strongest and most influential link between high school and college for every student, and are often the best people to guide students in the endeavor to become college and career ready. This course will examine the details of mastering the current needs of students to be college and career ready.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Preparing for Teacher Evaluations (5 Hours)

  

  This course will take teachers through the process of evaluation, elaborate on its guiding principles and criterion, and include strategies and factual information to clearly link teaching quality with student learning. Further, teachers will be shown how to be “participants” in the process rather than being “subjects”. Tips to deal positively with negative feedback are also provided.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Project Management for Students through Project-based Learning (5 Hours)

  

  For students to be truly equipped to succeed in the 21st century college scenario or workplace, they must possess a level of mastery in essential project management skills. This course presents project-based learning as a successful strategy to promote project management skill development in students.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Public Speaking for Teachers (5 Hours)

  

  Examine how to manage fears and perfect your public speaking skills. Identify and work on specific problem areas and consequently improve your communication skills. Learn to structure your speeches and harness technology to deliver effective speeches.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Raising Academic Achievement through Standards (5 Hours)

  

  This course provides educators with information about academic interventions that can be incorporated in the classroom, through frameworks such as the RTI or even in the absence of such structures.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Recognition of Early-onset Mental Health Illness in Children & Adolescents (5 Ho…

  

  Provides a basic understanding of warning signs of early-onset mental illness in children and adolescents as well as ideas and strategies that help teachers work with students.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Reflective Teaching Practice (5 Hours)

  

  Embark on a sustainable professional development journey by integrating successful reflective practices into your teaching. Strategies build on research findings to present reflective teaching as a crucial component in professional development, empowering teachers to make informed decisions about their own learning and every day instruction.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access
• Research-based Instructional Strategies (5 Hours)

  

  To help students improve in academic achievement, develop an attitude of learning and acquire the skills needed for the demands of the work place and real life situations, educators must continually review, reflect on and work to improve their instructional skills.

  $39 for 5 Hours
  1 Certificate
  5 Year Access