ISBE Clock Hours For Illinois Teachers

Register to Receive Access to 35 Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) Clock Hour Courses Provided in Partnership with Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU). These courses are designed for Illinois teacher re-licensing and professional development requirements.

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

This 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 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.

This course teaches you five main types of writing prompts: narrative, creative, expository, persuasive, and reading response as well as a simple structure to follow when designing each type of writing prompt.

Learn various strategies for increasing reading and writing fluency with an emphasis on implementing varied activities tailored to specific student levels including grouping, and station activities.

This course will teach participants how to establish a classroom culture that is conducive to learning and sharing as well as a variety of ways to check their students’ understanding of elementary math content.

In this course, you will learn new strategies for implementing assessments into the classroom and explore various topics to help you use assessments effectively throughout the student learning process.

This course will provide you with all the student templates, graphic organizers, rubrics, worksheets, and examples that you need to build a CER science lesson, and teach the CER process in your science classroom.

In this course, you will learn the 6 most common and low-prep models to plan and implement collaborative learning in your classroom and help you create a learning environment that promotes student discussion and success.

In this course, you will learn an approach to planning for targeted differentiation to support your special needs students in the classroom.

In this course, you will explore how to process, file, and analyze data for documentation as well as build a documentation action plan to help you document student academic and behavioral trends.

In this course, you will learn the six strategies to improve the learning environment, so your classroom is predictable, safe, orderly, and more conducive to student learning.

This course will explain the importance of writing practice for English Language Learners and provide strategies and methods you can incorporate throughout lessons and across content areas. You will learn 6 methods to supporting writing specific to improving literacy in English Language Learners and will plan for how to implement those strategies into your existing lesson plans.

This course will cover the values (both social-emotional and academic) of building strong home-to-school connections. Participants will learn strategies for building connections and keeping parents engaged, with a focus on clear, frequent, and positive communication.

In this course, you will learn how to utilize the explicit instruction model to select the correct reading behavior or skill for your student or groups, to build a plan aligned to student goals, and implement the lesson into your classroom.

In this course, you will learn methods for teaching writing skills for expository essays in the 4th – 8th-grade classroom and how to support your students in improving their essay writing.

This course is essential training for any teacher providing a combination of at-home (or out-of-class) online learning and in-school classroom instruction. Learn how to plan for and deliver online lessons reinforced with rigorous in-class activities.

Participants in this course will learn about foundational reading skills and how they build upon one another, as well as understanding their relationship to a student’s reading level. Learn the main components of guided reading, how to plan, and group.

Explore the strategies involved in planning and executing inquiry-based lesson plans. The components of an inquiry-led lesson will be outlined and discussed, and participants will learn to develop and plan an inquiry-led lesson.

In this course, you will learn how to implement literacy stations in your classroom as well as learn actionable steps for how to assess, group, and set up engaging literacy activities that will address the needs of all students, despite their individual reading levels.

In this course, you will learn actionable steps for how to plan, assess, group, and implement effective and engaging math station activities in your classroom, along with dozens of resources ready to be used with your own students.

Learn what typical writing looks like for kindergarten through third-grade students, as well as some common writing tasks they can be expected to accomplish and learn the purpose of both holistic and analytic rubrics for writing assessment.

This introductory-level course is an essential start for any teacher wishing to transition some or all of their lesson instruction into an online format. Learn what effective online learning looks like at any grade level and how to plan online lessons while ensuring security, community, effective communication, and equity for all students.

This course will explain the benefits of implementing peer tutoring strategies with ELLs and give participants several easy-to-implement strategies for pairing fluent English speakers with ELLs that they can implement at any grade level and in any content area.

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

Learn the importance of aligning your instructional strategies and activities with your learning objectives and assessments and how to build a lesson plan that supports engaging learning for all students.

This course will define the cyclical process of action research in a classroom setting and how it drives continuous improvement. Participants will learn the steps of the process, including identifying a problem, reviewing current literature, formulating a solution, testing the solution, analyzing data / making a conclusion, and sharing the results.

In this course, you will learn each component of the Project-Based Learning (PBL) Lesson Cycle and how to implement it effectively across your curriculum.

Learn the value of incorporating frequent checks for understanding into your lesson plans and learn when CFUs need to be incorporated into a lesson cycle as well as how to use data to inform future instructional decisions.

This course will provide you with a detailed overview of social-emotional learning (SEL) and the value of incorporating SEL into the classroom to help improve academic success and emotional intelligence.

This course provides participants with specific methods to implement strategies in the classroom that foster student independence while still building a strong classroom culture, expectations, and appropriate methods to manage misbehavior.

This course will demonstrate the importance of supporting the writing progress of ELL students. It will teach you several strategies that you can implement in your classroom to support your ELL students throughout the stages of the writing process (before, during, and after writing).

Teach students the importance of making thoughtful text annotations and how to use context clues to deepen understanding of a particular text. Also, learn how to instruct students at multiple grade levels, proper annotation techniques for reading assignments.

This course will teach you how to use the SAMR continuum of technology integration to take your current lesson plans and transition them into an online learning format.

In this course, you will learn how to use data to identify and hypothesize functions of behavior. Using this information, you will be able to design and implement an effective intervention plan that will address inappropriate behavior. This method will assist you in managing classroom behaviors in a manner that enhances the learning environment.

This course analyzes the six levels of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy and how graphic organizers can be applied to each cognitive process dimension, allowing for targeted scaffolding of student thinking.

This course examines what learning objectives should look like and how to construct an objective based on your classroom learning standards that aligns well with your assessments and learning activities.