This summer we reached out to North Carolina superintendents, administrators, and teachers, to ask them about their most pressing educational needs and to see if we could help.
Most districts responded with similar information, saying they needed the most support with remote and blended learning. With the uncertain future of education, everyone wants to be prepared.
To support districts in the quickly-shifting arenas of education, we’ve prepared a series of online courses to support teachers and other educators.
ONLINE COURSE: Blended and Remote Learning Foundations
In this course you will work through 3 self-paced chapters to learn the foundational knowledge and skills to teach successfully in a blended or remote learning environment. You will also have the option of joining others in this course and the course facilitator in a Zoom meeting to discuss how to implement what you are learning.
What You Will Learn
- The difference between blended and remote learning
- How blended learning strategies add value to your face-to-face classroom
- How to develop successful mindsets for blended and remote learning
- How to build community in blended and remote learning settings
What You’ll Receive
This course is worth 10 hours of learning and 1 continuing education unit (CEU)
ONLINE COURSE: Planning for Blended and Remote Learning
In this course you will take a deep dive into transitioning lessons from the classroom to the virtual classroom. Using backward design and alignment to standards, you will design lessons that get to the heart of learning and devise ways to get to know your students in a virtual classroom.
What You Will Learn
- How to get to know students in a remote environment
- How to use Backward Design to plan lessons
- How to align lessons to state standards
- Where to incorporate technology into lessons
What You’ll Receive
This course is worth 10 hours of learning and 1 continuing education unit (CEU).
ONLINE COURSE: Feedback for Blended and Remote Learning
In this course you will work through self-paced chapters to learn the principles of effective feedback and different ways to provide feedback to students successfully in a blended or remote learning environment. You will also have the option of joining others in this course and the course facilitator in a Zoom meeting to discuss how to implement what you are learning.
What You Will Learn
- The importance of feedback in student learning
- What effective feedback looks like
- How to give students effective feedback in a remote learning setting
- How to gain useful feedback from students in a remote learning setting
What You’ll Receive
This course is worth 10 hours of learning and 1 continuing education unit (CEU).
ONLINE COURSE: Teaching with Video
In this course you will work through self-paced chapters to learn how to create quality videos for instruction, feedback, and building community in your virtual classroom. You will receive feedback from the course facilitator on your videos in a safe learning environment. You can also sign up for virtual “office hours” to talk to your course facilitator as you improve your video production skills.
What You Will Learn
- How to plan for video instruction
- The different types of instructional videos
- How to create instructional videos for students
- How to incorporate video most effectively into your blended classroom
- How to use video to support instruction, feedback, and community-building in your blended classroom.
What You’ll Receive
This course is worth 10 hours of learning and 1 continuing education unit (CEU).
