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Caring for Children (Ed2Go) If you're a parent or child care professional (or want to become one), this course will teach you how to care for the children in your life with confidence and ease. You'll learn how to keep children safe, how to create an effective learning environment in your home, how to encourage healthy habits, and how to promote physical activity. You will discover techniques to help children communicate, solve problems, develop social skills, and build self-esteem. You'll also learn quick and easy ways to give yourself time to re-connect and meet your own needs. Hours: 24 Fee: $89 Available Monthly Starts "The course is easy to understand, interesting, and challenging. I liked to be able to discuss the lessons with the instructor and classmates. I would like to take another course like this one." I would like to thank Instructor Theresa for all the time and all the great ideas….I've been practicing with my kids each and every one of the suggestions you made and I've noticed many changes in my kids, my spouse, myself and the way we interact as a family. Once again thank you very much." Ready, Set, Read! (Ed2Go) Take this opportunity to find out how children really learn to read and write. Explore current research that cuts through the media messages about reading wars and the right way to teach children. Learn by reading stories about children, doing interactive assignments, and exploring the latest in parent and childcare information. You will see everyday children’s play with a new eye as you understand how play can connect to literacy. You'll learn how a child becomes literate from the moment of birth. First, you’ll investigate the many things a child’s growing mind must do to make sense of the written word and create writing. From there, you’ll explore the development of reading and writing from infancy to the early school years. You’ll know what problems to look for and how to assist a struggling reader. You will see how you can boost literacy growth during daily routines and child’s play. Gain confidence in your ability to guide a child’s literacy development, and take pleasure in seeing how even the littlest events can lead to really big steps in reading and writing success. Hours: 24 Fee: $89 Available Monthly Starts "This is a wonderful class for parents to understand how reading and writing skills develop during early childhood and early school age. I especially appreciate the practical skills I have learned throughout the course which I can use daily when I interact with my child. This course also gave me more confidence on how to work with child care professionals and school teachers together to help my child's language development. Thank you so much." "This has been a wonderful learning experience for me. I enjoyed the course and the best part is that I can pass this knowledge on to my kids and my students. It will be easier to recognize the stage of learning that a particular child is in since those don't always correlate with a child’s age. Thank you for teaching this class." "It was a very informative course. I will find all of the information very useful in my career in elementary ed. The instructor was very knowledgeable and presented the material in an interesting manner." Enhancing Language Development in Childhood (Ed2Go) 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. Hours: 24 Fee: $89 Available Monthly Starts "I thought that this was one of the best continuing education classes that I have taken in a long time. I felt like all that I was exposed to was useful to me as an educator, as well as a mother. The instructor has a very thorough knowledge of her subject and a great sense of humor that makes her lessons enjoyable to read. I hope that I come across lessons by this same instructor in the future. I thank the school for offering such worthwhile courses!" "As a parent of a child with a speech delay and a child care provider I thought the course was terrific! The instructor provided excellent material to use for all levels of speech development. She provided the development "basics" as well as information to enhance speech from infancy on." Guiding Kids on the Internet (Ed2Go) 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. Hours: 24 Fee: $89 Available Monthly Starts "I really enjoyed the lessons and the assignments. I learned a great deal about the internet that I did not know. I feel that I am more knowledgeable and more capable to teach my students and my own kids about using the internet, and some of my worries about my kids using the internet have been relieved. Thanks for a great insight on how to use computers not only in the classroom but in the home as well." "I really enjoyed this course. It helped me with my knowledge of computers and safety for chilldren. Thank you for offering it."
Big Ideas in Little Books (Ed2Go) Do you have an idea for an instructional aid? The instructor--a former K-12 teacher who is also the author and developer of over 50 products for the educational market, will help you develop instructional aids that align with standards important to your district. Hours: 24 Fee: $89 Available Monthly Starts "Thanks for all of your suggestions, Mike. I've got several ideas for booklets I'd like to create, and ideas for others our department could use. I was also thinking as I read the final chapter that, if I get my own act together on these projects, I'd like to share these ideas with the teachers at my children's elementary school. It's an inner-city magnet school with lots of very creative teachers and much in need of positive publicity. Thanks for all of your very concrete suggestions. There is a wealth of information here for me to sift through as I try to put some of my own ideas down in writing. It's really a wonderful course." "Thanks, Mike for an informative and engaging course! I'll definitely make use of the principles learned here to guide the development of targeted learning aids for the benefit of my students." Solving Classroom Discipline Issues (Ed2Go) 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. Hours: 24 Fee: $89 Available Monthly Starts "Thanks for making a difference in my life! This course has been terrific, enlightening, entertaining, educational, and tonight - emotional. So many memories welled up inside me as I read through this last lesson. Memories of the wonderful teachers and role models that I have had, memories of inspiring words that challenged me, memories of students and situations that have impacted my life. This lesson has left me pensive as I reflect back and also has motivated me to try even harder to make a difference in the life of another child - because I can, because we all can! I am leaving with an entirely different perspective on 'discipline' and am anxious to teach my students to be otherwise. Your lessons have energized me once again and I am anxious to get back into the classroom and try many of the new approaches you have shared. Thank you for sharing of yourself and your experiences with us." "This course really challenged my ideas and practices in classroom behavior management. I feel that I can use what I have learned to benefit my students and myself in the upcoming school year." "I found this class to be very interesting and informative. It helped me to look at behavior in a different way and understand the needs that we all have. I enjoyed looking at the various kinds of student behavior and gleaned some good strategies for dealing with them. It was a wonderful course and I hope to take more classes over the internet." The Creative Classroom (Ed2Go) Creativity will abound in your classroom as you tap your students' hidden talents. Learn how to use creativity to teach reading, writing, visual arts, performing arts, social studies, science, mathematics, and physical and health education. Develop creative new approaches to field trips, learning labs, activities, exercises, assignments, and evaluation methods. Think beyond the textbook and challenge your students by making your classroom a creative classroom! Hours: 24 Fee: $89 Available Monthly Starts "Thank you for putting this course together. I found many many ideas to implement into my classroom. It also just makes your mind think differently and notice new ideas as they come up in the year." "This is my 36th year of teaching and I have taken lots of continuing education classes. I was very impressed with the content and presentation of the material in this course. I am certified in math and art and consider myself to be a creative teacher, but I found some very interesting and useful ideas to add to my preparation. I particularly liked the math field day concept and believe that my school would be very supportive of the idea." "I found this class to be interesting and informative. It covered a wide range of subjects and offered many ideas I had not heard about previously. I will try many of the ideas when I return to my classroom in August. This course has motivated and inspired me to be more creative as I start my 23rd year of teaching! The instructor was well prepared and responded in a positive way. Thanks for some wonderful ideas!" "I can't thank you enough for your class. I have learned so, very much and have used many of your ideas in my classroom this year. Your class is like a Vitamin B-12 shot and it encourages us to pass our energy on to our students. The students love it and so do the teachers. Thank you, again." Handling Medical Emergencies (Ed2Go) Every second counts during a medical emergency. Recognizing the early signs and symptoms of common medical conditions and providing appropriate treatment can mean a better outcome for the patient. Early recognition and intervention can greatly reduce the seriousness of the illness, which means a shorter hospital stay and lower medical costs. It's also very satisfying to know how to help someone in a time of need. Hours: 24 Fee: $89 Available Monthly Starts "This course was awesome! ALL of the lessons were informative and designed for a student of any level. The chapters and lessons flowed smoothly in order to aid a student in both knowledge and success of learning the information supplied. After reading a lesson I was so confident in how the instructor taught me that I didn't have to refer back to the lesson prior to taking a quiz. I feel much more confident in being able to assist someone in a medical emergency after taking this course!!! The instructor is unbelievable. He has a great sense of humor and I am sorry this course has ended. He is efficient with his responses to any questions and made me want to take another course with him. Thank you very much professor. I give you the grade of A+." "I learned a lot of new things that I think will help me in the future. I even learned things that you're supposed to do when I thought you were supposed to do something else. I am very happy that I took this course." Speed Spanish (Ed2Go) Imagine yourself speaking, reading and writing Spanish. Now you can with Speed Spanish! This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn Spanish pronto. You'll learn six easy recipes for gluing Spanish words together to form sentences. In no time at all, you'll be able to go into any Spanish speaking situation and converse in Spanish. ¡Qué Bueno! Hours: 24 Fee: $89 Available Monthly Starts "Dan: Great course & approach with the recipes. I've had several 'traditional' classes, which certainly gave me a good base, but my ability to put sentences together has improved by leaps & bounds. Muchas gracias!" I have taken several Spanish classes, but they always stressed grammar and a lot of verb conjugation, and I have never felt comfortable trying to string words together to make real conversation. This course immediately gave me the feeling that I was learning a very practical approach to combining all of the vocabulary that I know into conversational sentences. I learned new things with every lesson that had been oblivious to me in my other Spanish classes. I have recommended this course to several people already. This was a great class, and since there are probably additional recipes that could be taught and learned, I hope there is a followup class to this one. "Speed Spanish" is a very appropriate name for this class, and I believe I learned more useable Spanish in the 6 weeks of this course than I have ever learned in the past. Thanks." "Just a comment to let you know that Speed Spanish was an excellent course. Well written, great examples that built on our previous lessons, and good real-life situations. I have never gotten such a lot from an on-line course as I have from this one. Thank you!" Speed Spanish II (Ed2Go) Have you ever seen a non-native speaking Spanish fluently? Were you impressed? Would you like to become more conversational and more comfortable in Spanish-speaking situations? Now you can. Our Speed Spanish courses are unlike any other Spanish classes you may have ever taken. You'll see words, hear them pronounced properly, and be granted plenty of opportunities to practice your pronunciation. Then, you'll learn several clever recipes that you can use to glue the words together into sentences. Enroll in Speed Spanish II, and you'll see an immediate improvement in your Spanish fluency from the very first lesson. Hours: 24 Fee: $89 Available Monthly Starts “Outstanding continuation course to the equally outstanding Speed Spanish course. I can't believe how much Spanish I've learned in a total of only 12 weeks! Dan's recipes are a great teaching method to immediately begin gluing words together into sentences, and having the sound clips this time was especially helpful in learning correct pronunciation. The extensive resource list has steered me to many useful web sites to enhance and practice what I've learned in class. An altogether superb learning experience, and I can't wait to take Speed Spanish III."
Speed Spanish III (NEW) (Ed2Go) Master your ability to speak, understand, and read Spanish by taking the final installment in our unique three-part Speed Spanish learning series. In this advanced-level course, you'll learn the final six recipes that will serve as templates to help you create any Spanish sentence you want. Guided practice will include lots of new vocabulary, pronunciation, and speed drills, as well as in-depth study of Spanish parts of speech to help you speak and understand Spanish in a snap. The goal of this course is not just learning the recipes—it’s also to help you use them spontaneously so that you’ll never be at a loss for words! Hours: 24 Fee: $89 Available Monthly Starts
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