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Explore what it means to be a teacher, how to understand who your students are and the needs they have, and how to choose the most appropriate materials and activities for your ESL classroom.

Learn new methods for teaching English grammar that will both engage and challenge ESL/EFL students.

Discover practical techniques and methods for teaching reading in any ESL or EFL environment that will help you become a more confident and effective reading teacher.

Discover what makes a well-balanced vocabulary course when you're teaching ESL and how to plan one that truly meets your students' needs.

Ignite the passion of STEM inquiry and interest with elementary and middle school girls through after school programs, STEM integration, Makerspace, and STEAM camp programs through a project based learning Girls Going Green challenge.

The course offers a review of (at least) the business, legal, pedagogical and technical aspects of MOOCs, destined to higher education professionals who might feel threatened by them in terms of job security.

Master the latest teaching strategies to help you reach high school students, including differentiated instruction and classroom management.

How can you help your students to see history as a living, breathing record of the past? How can you motivate students to ask probing questions and seek complex answers? How can you bridge their historical knowledge with a lifelong commitment to civic action?

With this self-paced course, middle and high school teachers will find new ways to engage students in and out of the classroom. Co-taught by Dr. Kathy Swan, Professor of Education at the University of Kentucky, and Naomi Coquillon, Manager of Youth and Teacher Programs at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, this self-paced course will offer teachers useful and readily applicable strategies and tactics to incorporate inquiry-based learning methods into their existing history lessons.

The self-paced course brings together the new College, Career and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies with the Smithsonian’s hands-on, museum-based educational techniques that bring historical artifacts to life for millions of visitors each year. Through explanation, demonstration, and dynamic examples, the course offers teachers practical ideas for how to entice students to craft complex and incisive questions; think critically about primary and secondary historical sources; form and support their opinions with evidence; and communicate their conclusions in ways that will prepare them to be engaged citizens of the world. Demonstrations will feature the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s exhibitions and vast collection of historical artifacts and will offer ideas and resources to help teachers everywhere incorporate object- and inquiry-based teaching techniques and Smithsonian online resources into their own classrooms.

Put educational technology to work!

In this course, an experienced academic librarian will share his strategies for getting students engaged in the art of library research.

This course provides current and aspiring K–12 teachers with research-based practical guidelines and strategies to effectively teach mathematics to English language learners (ELLs).

Reinvent math instruction for grades 4-6 by bringing hands-on learning, inexpensive manipulatives, and real-world connections into your classroom.

This course invites your critical reflection on the methods of online instruction; beliefs and potential bias of the online learner; policies and rules and how they align with course objectives; tone and the purpose of communication.

In this course on teaching preschoolers, you'll learn how to come up with creative and balanced preschool lesson plans for every month of the school year.

Increase your effectiveness as a science teacher for children in fourth through sixth grades.

This education and teacher training course will help you blend secondary math instruction with real-world discussion topics such as inequity, poverty, and privilege. Throughout this course, we will also have the opportunity to explore multiple math activities and resources including how to leverage real-world data for classroom instruction.

Master the use of SMART Board and SMART Notebook technology so you can create powerful interactive lessons that capture your students’ attention.

This course is for all K-12 teachers in all subjects looking to add effective speaking and listening lessons to their repertoire.

We prepare high school teachers for teaching descriptive statistics. Teachers will learn basic principles for summarizing data in meaningful ways. Satellite videos will discuss pedagogy and teach statistical software via examples spanning pop culture, sports, health and other topics suitable for high school classrooms.

Learn practical strategies for helping children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) succeed in school.