TeacherLine Course Catalog
Facilitating Oral Language Development
Blending both theoretical and practical information about oral language development for students PreK 3, this course will introduce you to proven ways to assess students' oral language skills and will give you the opportunity to practice strategies for teaching vocabulary to young students. The course also covers tactics for differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse students.
Subject: Reading/Language Arts
Fostering Collaboration, Discussion, and Critical Thinking in Middle School Math
Explore and develop math lessons that encourage higher-level thinking and discussion. Use proven Internet resources to incorporate critical thinking and cooperative learning into your mathematics curriculum.
Subject: Mathematics
Fostering Collaboration, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Middle School Science
Science can engage and encourage students to think critically and logically. In this course, you will learn to integrate technology into the classroom to encourage students to ask questions, collaborate with others, and explore and evaluate data. Discover software and Web activities designed to help your students organize and consolidate their thinking and analyze ideas clearly.
Subject: Science
Fostering Cooperative Learning, Discussion, and Critical Thinking in Elementary Math
Highly developed collaborative and critical thinking skills are what your students need to meet standards and perform in high-stakes testing. Expand your collection of strategies for sharpening these skills using classroom technology.
Subject: Mathematics
Fostering Cooperative Learning, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Elementary Science
Learn to meet national science standards by helping students develop the skills necessary to analyze ideas, think critically, and communicate clearly. Create lessons and activities that support collaboration, inquiry, and critical thinking.
Subject: Science
Gender Equity in the Mathematics Classroom
Does your learning environment support math success for boys and girls? This course introduces techniques to evaluate your teaching style for gender bias while exploring strategies to increase gender equity in a standards-driven instructional setting. To complete the course, you'll develop a project that creates or maintains gender-equitable mathematics curricula.
Subject: Mathematics
Heredity and Adaptation - Special Collection: Teachers’ Domain, produced by WGBH Boston
A topic immersion course on Teaching Elementary Life Science. Go beyond the topics typically taught in elementary life science to provide your students with a foundation for the larger K-12 science scope and sequence. As you review the difference between inherited and environmental traits and examine the processes of heredity and natural selection, you will focus on ways to prepare your students for future study in genetics and evolution.
Subject: Science
HQT Patterns and Relations
Understand better how to represent, analyze, and generalize a variety of patterns by exploring lesson plans and solving problems. Discover and develop new plans to use manipulatives and technologies in the classroom.
Subject: Mathematics
HQT Scientific Inquiry and Fieldwork
Current technology can empower students to improve their problem solving skills and raise their opportunities for inquiry. Educators can now use the Internet to locate technological equipment available to enable students to collect and analyze "real time, real world" data in the field. In this course, learners will design an action plan for an ecosystem fieldtrip, which incorporates current technologies for gathering, analyzing and sharing data.
Subject: Science
HQT Teaching Reading in the Content Areas
This course will focus on elements of reading, premises that guide reading, an array of strategies for reading in the content areas, and information on how to use reading strategies for all students. The information in the course is designed to help reading teachers meet the HQT requirement by answering questions such as: What are specific skills or knowledge that students need in order to read content area material effectively? What learning environments promote effective reading and learning? What strategies can be used with students to help them become more effective readers and independent learners?
Subject: Reading/Language Arts
