Delivered through an accredited institution, this course equips learners with practical strategies for designing effective lessons, assessing student progress, and maintaining high expectations. The course emphasizes purposeful planning, meaningful assessment, learner engagement, and professional practices that foster achievement and accountability in today’s classrooms.
Module 1: Learning Goals and Assessment
Explores the use of learning goals, rubrics, and both formal and informal assessments to monitor progress and guide instructional decisions.
Module 2: Lesson Planning Strategies
Focuses on designing effective lessons through structured practice, knowledge application, cognitively complex tasks, and instructional strategies that support learning across lesson types.
Module 3: Engagement Strategies, Rules, and Procedures
Examines strategies for increasing student engagement, motivation, and enthusiasm while establishing clear classroom rules and procedures.
Module 4: High Expectations and Professional Practice
Emphasizes building relationships, communicating high expectations, maintaining objectivity, implementing system-level changes, and supporting ongoing teacher development.
After completing this course, the learner will be able to:
Apply learning goals, scales, and rubrics to monitor and support student progress
Distinguish between and implement formal and informal assessment strategies
Design effective lesson plans that incorporate structured practice, application, and cognitively complex tasks
Apply engagement strategies, rules, and procedures to support motivation and academic focus
Demonstrate professional practices that communicate and sustain high expectations for all students
Certificate of completion.
This class is an independent-study course. Students will have all the resources needed to successfully complete the course within the online material. A student helpdesk is available for technical support during the course enrollment.