Cost-Effective Graduate-Level Credits from Valley City State University.

In this comprehensive course, you will learn the fundamentals of financial literacy, including money management, budgeting, debt reduction, investing, and planning for important financial goals in your life.

Helping Gifted & Talented (GT) students persevere through challenging content can be supported through Growth Mindset strategies. This VCSU-partnered course provides you with the tools to foster a Growth Mindset in your GT students.

This Quick Course will teach you what Bloom’s Taxonomy is, how it’s related to cognition, & how to use Bloom’s to more effectively design lessons around your standard or lesson objective.

This Quick Course will teach you what Webb’s DOK is and how it is related to rigor. You will learn about activities associated with each level of DOK, and how each level is related to a standard, lesson objective, and assessment or activities.

This Quick Course will provide you with a quick look and overview of what Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is, and the components that make up each UDL principle. You’ll learn about strategies that follow the UDL model so that you can create lessons that support every student in your classroom.

This course will teach you about the six co-teaching instructional models and how to implement co-teaching in the classroom successfully.

Learn the professional characteristics to consider as you work to establish boundaries and respect that meet the ethical requirements in your educator code of conduct. You will consider interactions with your colleagues, your students, and your students’ families.

In this course, you will learn about the components of effective academic discussion and will be provided with everything you need to build a complete plan to implement academic discussions in your classroom while ensuring students master content knowledge aligned with your lesson objectives.

This VCSU-partnered course, best for educators new to the RTI model, provides an overview of how instruction in the classroom can best support a response to intervention model.

This course provides an introductory look at how to actively monitor students throughout the instructional process and how to analyze data collected in order to better support students.

This course will provide a detailed overview of the benefits and limitations of student AI use in the classroom. It will review what AI is and how it is rapidly evolving, discuss ethical considerations, and describe a variety of student-focused AI tools commonly used today for various subjects.

This course is essential training for both new and experienced teachers who are interested in learning the basics of AI and how to incorporate AI tools in their lessons to help improve their instructional efficiency and quality.

This Quick Course will teach you how to design homework that is aligned to classroom instruction and effective in supporting student academic achievement.

This Quick Course will help you to understand common logical fallacies and consider how you might address fallacies within your lessons. You will learn about the structure of a sound logical argument, 12 fallacies that occur in flawed arguments, and examples for each fallacy.

This course will define developmental theories and how they drive teaching and learning practices. You will learn about various psychosocial, behavioral, and cognitive developmental theories, and why this knowledge is critical for educators.

This Quick Course shows how integrating visual arts boosts memory, reasoning, and creativity. With practical examples and the CREATE planning blueprint, you’ll leave with ready-to-use strategies to integrate art into your upcoming lessons.

This Quick Course provides you with a guide to designing a behavior contract for a student in your classroom. You will learn about choosing reinforcers for a desired student behavior, considering tracking methods and behavior contract design, and general ideas for effective behavior contract implementation.

This Quick Course will provide you with a guideline for teaching testing behaviors, testing strategies, and a process for students to justify their answer choices on assessments. You will learn specific behaviors or strategies to identify in students, and some simple methods to explicitly teach appropriate testing behaviors.

This course teaches you how to select from the five main blended learning models to structure your lessons. You’ll learn a process for designing activities and choosing online resources for easier blended learning integration into your classroom.