Investigate action research to gain the knowledge and skills to plan, implement, and report an action research study. This course is a foundational course. (12 credit hours)
Conduct an action research to gain insight into your teaching practices as well as the learning of your students. This course is a follow-up course to Action Research for Classroom Teachers. (6 credit hours)
Learn to build relationships with parents in order to enhance students' academic growth. Explore a variety of techniques to increase parent involvement. Create a classroom Website with the potential to increase communication with parents. (12 credit hours)
Learn practical skills for understanding and resolving conflict in today’s changing workplace. Become familiar with how conflicts emerge and learn how to use proven conflict management techniques and styles. Discover strategies for handling difficult people and alternative dispute methods. (20 credit hours)
Review the research behind the Continuous Improvement Model (CIM) and explore the administrator’s role in creating and implementing a school-wide CIM plan. (12 credit hours)
Identify explicit, systematic, instructional plans for implementing the Continuous Improvement Model in the classroom. Develop strategies for planning school-wide CIM efforts. (12 credit hours)
Learn to organize, operate, sustain, and evaluate teaching teams. Explore team building strategies that are critical as educators confront the struggles and triumphs that accompany the team teaching endeavor. Note: This course addresses the team-teaching training requirement of Florida’s Class Size Reduction Amendment. A Follow-Up course is available. (10 credit hours)
Analyze strategies learned in Foundations of Team Teaching. Then, reflect on how the team teaching strategies have been implemented in your professional experiences. (2 credit hours)
Learn about the various exceptionalities included in the ESE program, including characteristics of and educational implications for each exceptionality. (3 credit hours)
This course helps prepare the veteran teacher to become a mentor by sharing the basic concepts and models that make mentoring a successful strategy for new teacher induction. These basic concepts can be adapted for use by reading coaches and mentors for struggling teachers. (12 credit hours)