Professional Development For Illinois Teachers
Earn Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) Clock Hours For Professional Development & Teaching License Renewal Through Northeastern Illinois University
Hundreds of Illinois teachers take Model Teaching courses to help them meet their ISBE clock hours requirements. Learn more about how our professional development and continuing education courses can help. We partner with Northeastern Illinois University, an ISBE pre-approved provider, to give you cost-effective options for ISBE hours.
ISBE Clock Hours For Illinois Teachers
High-quality, straightforward, and cost-effective online courses for Illinois Teachers. Let us show you have we can help you improve your teaching effectiveness or maintain your teaching license. Northeastern Illinois University is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. It is recognized as an approved provider of ISBE clock hours by the state of Illinois.
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- Illinois Teacher License Renewal & Professional Development Requirements
The state of Illinois requires that professional development and license renewal must be gained through an in-state institution.
Illinois teachers can utilize Model Teaching university- partnered courses to earn ISBE hours for their license renewal and professional development needs.
Northeastern Illinois University has partnered with Model Teaching to provide ISBE- approved professional development clock hours to Illinois teachers.
The Illinois State Board of Education requires 120 clock- hours of professional development for teachers, or 60 clock hours for teachers that also hold a current National Board for Professional Teaching Standards master teacher designation. Administrators are required to complete 100 clock hours of professional development plus one administrator academy per fiscal year that you are employed. These hours requirements apply regardless of the number of degrees or the types of agrees that you hold. Teaching licenses must be renewed every 5 years.
Model Teaching provides you with the content, resources, and support you need to meet Illinois State Board of Education Requirements. Model Teaching courses allow you to complete all your ISBE clock hours requirements at your own pace, fully online. When you are complete, you receive a certificate directly from Northeastern Illinois University to document your earned hours. You can then add your professional development hours into the ISBE ELIS system by selecting Northeastern Illinois University as the PD provider.
PLEASE NOTE: Please check with your state certification agency for up-to-date policies on your specific teacher certification renewal/continuing education requirements. The content provided on this page does not exempt users from their responsibility to ensure that our courses meet their state’s continuing education requirements.
REFERENCE: Illinois State Department of Education.
*The information on this page was last updated 02/2021. Please refer to the Illinois State Board of Education web page for the most accurate and current information on Illinois teacher recertification requirements.
NEIU-Partnered Online Courses for ISBE Clock Hours
ISBE Clock Hour Bundle Pack
Register to Receive Access to over 30 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. Read More >
Academic Intervention for Students with Disabilities & Special Needs-NEIU
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.
Active Monitoring & Data Collection in the Classroom-NEIU
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.
Blended Learning: Integrating Technology Into The Classroom-NEIU
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.
Building Effective Writing Prompts for All Students-NEIU
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.
Building Reading & Writing Fluency-NEIU
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.
Checking For Understanding & Correcting Misconceptions in Elementary Math-NEIU
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.
Choosing the Right Assessments for Your Students-NEIU
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.
Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) In The Science Classroom-NEIU
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.
Collaborative Learning Models In The Classroom-NEIU
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.
Differentiation for Students with Disabilities-NEIU
In this course, you will learn an approach to planning for targeted differentiation to support your special needs students in the classroom.
Documentation in the Classroom-NEIU
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.
Efficient Classroom Processes-NEIU
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.
Explicit Instruction in Elementary Reading-NEIU
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.
Expository Writing & Embedded Grammar Instruction (Gr 4-8)-NEIU
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.
Flipped Learning-An Effective At-Home & In-Class Instructional Model-NEIU
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.
Growth Mindset in the Gifted Classroom-NEIU
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.
Guided Reading: A Guide to Small Group Literacy Instruction-NEIU
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.
Inquiry Based Learning: Using Inquiry as a Teaching Strategy-NEIU
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.
Literacy Stations for PreK-2nd Grade-NEIU
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.
Math Stations for PreK – 2nd Grade-NEIU
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.
Measuring Growth in Writing Using Rubrics For Grades K-3-NEIU
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.
Online Learning: Introductions in Online Lesson Design & Delivery-NEIU
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.
Planning for Co-Teaching-NEIU
This course will teach you about the six co-teaching instructional models and how to implement co-teaching in the classroom successfully.
Planning for Instructional Strategies & Learning Activities-NEIU
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.
Project Based Learning-NEIU
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.
Strategies to Check for Understanding-NEIU
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.
Strategies to Support Social-Emotional Learning-NEIU
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.
Student Led Classroom Management-NEIU
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.
Teaching Students To Use Text Annotation & Text Evidence-NEIU
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.
Transforming Traditional Lessons to Online Learning-NEIU
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.
Using Graphic Organizers to Target Bloom’s Cognitive Levels-NEIU
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.
Writing Effective Learning Objectives-NEIU
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.