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Why do some teachers enjoy peaceful, orderly classrooms while others face daily discipline battles? The answer is that some teachers know the secrets to solving discipline problems. This course reveals those secrets and presents a step-by-step approach to effective, positive classroom discipline.

The instructor for this course will be James Thompson.

Dr. James Thompson holds a Ph.D in Instructional Communications and has over 25 years of experience as a teacher. His distance learning courses, workbooks, and videotapes have been used to train more than 250,000 educators in the art of student discipline. His works include: Teaching Students Responsibility, Dealing With Discipline Problems, Human Relations and School Discipline, Assertive Discipline and Beyond, and Deal With Difficult Students.

If you're a teacher, this course will show you how to create an exciting and enriching experience for your students. You'll learn a wide variety of simple, field-tested, and easy to apply techniques that will make the most of the computer in your classroom.

In this course, your instructor will work with you to assess your knowledge of computer use and to help you set goals for yourself so that you achieve the highest level of personal benefit from this course.

Simple classroom management ideas will help you maximize your classroom time for learning. You'll also discover powerful ideas and interesting web sites that you can immediately use to enhance your language arts, math, science, and social studies curriculum. You will discover pointers on using email and the Internet effectively to increase your students' understanding and learning in all content areas.

The instructor for this course will be Stacy Colwell.

Stacy Colwell has excelled as an elementary classroom teacher and school administrator. With a Master's Degree in Educational Administration, she has mentored and instructed teachers in classroom management, literacy and computer integration. Working as a public school elementary principal, she led her school through the technology adoption process and assisted teachers in integrating computers into their daily life.

Harness the power of the Internet to make your textbooks and lessons come alive! Teach your students how to locate and evaluate Internet resources. Improve the caliber and amount of discussion through the use of e-mail and discussion boards. Learn how to safeguard your students and their personal information while they are using the Internet. The Internet can make teaching easier--this course will show you how.

The instructor for this course will be Robin Sellers.

Robin Sellers holds a Master of Arts degree in English with a concentration in technical and professional communication and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a certification in secondary education. Since 1995, she has taught at the secondary and post-secondary level. She teaches traditional curriculum classes in a computer lab and incorporates Internet-related activities in her lessons. She also develops and teaches online curriculum.

Need help motivating students and boosting interest in your lessons? This course will help you create captivating and attention-grabbing classroom presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. You'll learn basic PowerPoint skills such as creating slides, using templates, inserting text, changing background colors, creating WordArt titles, and adding slide transitions. You'll also develop advanced skills such as inserting graphics, sound, and video, custom animations, timed transitions, and hyperlinks.

You'll be able to publish your presentation on a school Web site or even take your PowerPoint shows on the road. You'll also be able to create presentations filled with scanned drawings created by your students or digital photograph slide shows. This class will assist you in learning these skills.

Your instructor will walk you step-by-step through several different types of classroom presentations. You'll be able to create lectures, interactive presentations that viewers can use independently, and impressive presentations complete with narration for your students' independent use on computer stations or enrichment activities.

Each lesson also includes a wealth of ideas and suggestions you can apply in the classroom--as well as ideas you can use to help your students develop their PowerPoint and presentation skills.

Using PowerPoint in the classroom addresses different learning styles, heightens student interest, and engages learners. PowerPoint is a fun and motivational tool for teachers as well as students. This class will give you the knowledge you need to add appeal to any classroom subject!

The instructor for this course will be Tracy Loffer.

Tracy Loffer holds a Master’s degree in Education in Curriculum and Instruction. She has been involved in education for twenty years, as a music educator and technology trainer of students and teachers. She has also worked in the private sector as a trainer of domestic and international technology franchisees as well as a writer and developmental editor of educational technology materials using Office, Publisher, and FrontPage.

Follow your child's lead and have fun while enhancing language development! In this fun and user-friendly course for parents, teachers, and caregivers, you will discover how children learn to process language and how they become proficient speakers and thinkers. This course will help you enrich your child's life by stimulating his or her continued speech, brain, and language development in an enjoyable, age-appropriate, and natural way.

The instructor for this course will be Kris Wilson.

Since earning her Master¹s Degree in Speech Pathology & Audiology, Kris Wilson has used her passion for teaching to help children in public schools, private schools, and private practice. She taught at the Graduate Early Intervention and Teacher Training programs at the University of Oregon, and has also presented research to members of the California Speech, Language & Hearing Association. A publisher of research on assessment of children¹s language production, Kris has coordinated services for preschoolers with language delays at one of the nation¹s largest non-profit speech and language centers.

Yesterday, she was a sweet young girl. Today, you swear aliens have abducted her and put an evil twin in her place.

To know your kids is to love them. In this course, an experienced social worker will help you gain a deep understanding and appreciation of your adolescent's development and behavior. You'll uncover the secrets of the adolescent mind and gain valuable information on how they think, how they feel, and how their identities develop.

Parents, family members, child and youth workers, counselors and the like will all benefit from the information shared in this course.

You'll learn about the many physical, emotional, and cognitive changes that affect the teens in your life, and you'll understand the significance of these changes both for you and the adolescent. You'll look into relationships both in and outside of the home and the development of a teen's identity. You'll explore personality, moral development and the role of faith.

Finally, you'll gain an understanding as to how teens are affected by stress, including common defense mechanisms, coping techniques, and common mental health issues.

By the time you finish this course, you should be very well-prepared to understand, appreciate, and meet the needs of the teens in your life.

The instructor for this course will be Sonya Jodoin.

Sonya Jodoin has been involved in social work and youth work for over eighteen years. She holds a diploma in Social Service Work and has had continual education in psychology. She brings to the course both professional and personal experience in the field of adolescence, along with training in a multitude of treatment modalities, approaches, and therapies. She has worked on the front line in mental health settings with individuals and their families, primarily with teenagers. Ms. Jodoin has developed and implemented a specialized joint educational/mental health treatment program for children whose behavior has resulted in school expulsion.

Work the Web with your kids! This essential course for teachers, leaders, and parents will give you the confidence you need for helping children get the best from Internet access. Step-by-step instructions will lead you in discovering various kid-friendly Internet features. These include web page creation with easy-to-use templates and examples, kid-safe searches, fun resources for kids; and the many communication possibilities for schools, clubs, teacher networks, and even extended families. This course includes lessons for you, the adult, but also features printable instruction sheets that can be used directly with the young people you work with. The activities are informative, interactive, and fun; and, most importantly, will help you and your kids use the Internet to its fullest potential.

The instructor for this course will be Christine Gee and Katherine Emmons.

Katherine Emmons has a Ph.D. in Education and has lived and worked in several countries. She has taught graduate and undergraduate online courses since 1999, and mentors Ph.D. candidates from all over the United States in a distance learning program. Katherine is also a writer, and is author of several articles and a book.

Christine Gee has a Bachelor's of Science in Business Economics. She was the recipient of a California Governor's Teaching Fellowship and is a high school math teacher. Her interests in educational technology continue to grow as she explores uses of the Internet and handheld devices in the classroom.

Understanding and Managing Stress  15 hours Act 48

Stress and control are inversely proportional. The more control you have, the less stress you experience. The key to managing stress is to learn what you can control. In this highly experiential course, you'll learn to recognize how your mind and body react when you are under stress. You'll then learn a variety of fun and easy-to-learn exercises you can use to regain control of your mind and body so that you can shift from worry and anxiety into joy and peace.

The instructor for this course will be Denise Shaw Coryea.

Denise Shaw Coryea, who holds a Master's degree in Health Education, teaches stress management, self-esteem, and wellness courses to corporate and community audiences. Denise received the Lifesaver Award from the American Cancer Society for her work in cancer education.

Learn the secrets of high impact presentations from an author in the field, and an experienced consultant who has taught professionals to get more out of PowerPoint. This PowerPoint 2002 (also known as PowerPoint XP) course will get you comfortable using PowerPoint -- and up and running with polished presentations. Work smarter -- and use the full potential of the world’s leading presentation program. Discover the key concepts you need to use graphics, animation and video to set your PowerPoint presentations apart from conventional, boring title and bullets slideshows.

PowerPoint is a standard for business and academic presenters, but it is often greeted with a silent groan from an audience already familiar with its stale title and bullet slides. In this course we will create exciting PowerPoint projects that will keep any audience interested as they help you tell your story, whatever it may be. Maybe you’ve seen presentations with compelling slides using diagrams, photographs and even video to dramatize important elements of a speech and engage the audience, and you’ve wondered, How did they do that?
In this exciting six-week course, you’ll learn to integrate digital cameras, scanners, VCRs, camcorders and other media tools, as well as use the full potential of PowerPoint and other programs to punch up your presentations. You’ll leave this course with a wide variety of tips and tricks that will make you leverage all of your visual assets and actually look forward to showing your work to a live audience, on video, or on the Internet.

The instructor for this course will be Tom Bunzel.

As technology coach for many professional speakers, Tom Bunzel has first-hand, practical knowledge of what PowerPoint users need and want. He is the published author of several works, including Digital Video on the PC and the PowerPoint Visual Quickstart Guide. Bunzel has also been a contributing editor for several magazines, including PC Graphics and Video and the Laptop Buyers Guide.