University of Massachusetts Global
An Approved Model Teaching University Partner
University of Massachusetts Global (UMass Global), a regionally accredited university provides graduate-level development credits in partnership with Model Teaching generally used for license renewal or salary advancement. These courses provide you with a transcript and letter grade from UMass Global, ready to submit to your district or state department of education.
*These credits are for the purpose of salary advancement and teacher re-licensure.
Cost-Effective Graduate-Level Credits from UMass Global
Continuing Education credits through UMass Global are offered as graduate-level professional development courses and indicated as Graduate Professional development on University transcripts. These are non-degree granting credits intended for recertification, salary advancement or lane changes, and continuing education for teachers and educators. These credits can not be applied toward a degree program.
UMass Global is regionally accredited by the WSCUC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC).
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UMass Global-Partnered Graduate-Level Courses & Bundles
This course, best for educators new to the RTI model, provides an overview for how instruction in the classroom can best support a response to intervention model.
Learn how to actively monitor students throughout the instructional process and to analyze data collected in order to better support your students.
This UMG-partnered 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 UMG-partnered 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 UMG-partnered 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 UMG-partnered 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 UMG-partnered 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 BU-partnered 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.
Learn the importance of writing practice for English Language Learners (ELLs) and six specific strategies and methods you can incorporate into your lessons, regardless of content area, to improve the literacy and writing skills of your ELLs.
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 to implement the lesson into your classroom.
In this UMG-partnered course, you will learn methods for teaching writing skills for expository essays in the 4th through the 8th-grade classroom. With a well-planned and structured lesson design, you can 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.
Helping Gifted & Talented (GT) students persevere through challenging content can be supported through Growth Mindset strategies. This UMG-patnered course provides you with the resources and strategies to foster a Growth Mindset in your GT students.
Participants in this UMG-partnered 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.