We offer Teaching Channel Plus facilitators the ability to either build programs from scratch or personalize one of our nearly 60 existing learning cycles. Our learning cycles are built around our rich library of content to showcase current techniques, model best teaching practices, and provide actionable ideas to help students grow.
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Build your capacity to be culturally-responsive with both adults and children. Observe, reflect, and take risks to enhance your educational impact.
Investigate the components of project-based learning and design units that you can use with your students.
Learn and analyze effective exits so that you can use lesson closure as formative assessment.
Explore formative and summative assessments from a number of angles.
Scout out multiple strategies for implementing collaborative group experiences so that you can confidently manage the process.
Engage with other instructional leaders to share struggles, exchange promising practices, and partner in learning. Work together to be strong instructional leaders to help all students thrive.
This learning cycle provides videos that align to standards 4-20 in the Marzano Framework. Educators can use practice examples to learn about implementation.
Explore various ways to handle transitions so that you can move smoothly and effectively between activities in the classroom.
Explore UDL and put what you learn into practice.
Investigate the CCSS and other standards frameworks to make key shifts in your classroom practice.
Explore multiple strategies for getting students' attention so that you can move them forward without wasting time.
Learn techniques and ways of building relationships with all of your learners so that you can connect and create learning experiences that are responsive to student learning needs.
Examine various elements of classroom culture so that you can better establish routines and maintain a positive classroom environment.
Explore a number of vignettes illustrating student discourse and analyze the elements which exemplify students building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. After completion, you'll be ready to implement more effective discourse in the classroom. This group was co-created with Jenn Clark from Ontario-Montclair.
Dive deeper into the concept of differentiated instruction and how it provides access for all students.
Examine why partnering with families and building strong relationships enables you to garner more support for your classroom work.
Inspect the ways in which body language can impact classroom culture and learning.
Learn about Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) so that you can design learning experiences that are responsive to student learning needs for Kindergarten - second grade classrooms.
Learn about Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) so that you can design learning experiences that are responsive to student learning needs for grades 3-5 classrooms.
Learn about Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) so that you can design learning experiences that are responsive to student learning needs for grades 6-12 classrooms.
Learn about Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) in order to design learning experiences that are responsive to student learning needs.
Review various management and engagement techniques to try out with your students.
Add additional tools to your toolkit by investigating strategies to increase and organize student participation.
Gain a starting understanding of restorative justice and conflict resolution. You'll then be able to integrate these practices into your planning, instruction, and community.
Investigate the various aspects of social emotional learning.
Learn about strengthening your school culture and community partnerships and how to leverage this support in designing and engaging students in active learning.
Learn ways of engaging and addressing all involved in a bullying scenario to become prepared with the knowledge, tools, and skills to resolve situations at school.
Dive into video models to unpack teachers' instructional moves and students' thinking across foundational instructional practices - including anticipatory set, priming, establishing goals, sustaining group work, and more.
Dive into video models to unpack teachers' instructional moves and students' thinking across foundational instructional practices - including anticipatory set, priming, establishing goals, sustaining group work, and more.
Provides guidance and resources to support planning and implementation during the first weeks of school, beginning with the teacher in-service week.
Explore how you can honor and design equitable accommodations and modifications to provide students with entry points for learning.
Learn how to utilize assistive technology and how to best leverage these resources for supporting learners.
Learn from examples of co-planning and collaboration processes to prepare for co-planning instruction.
Learn how to best support and coach paraprofessionals to ensure that your paraprofessionals develop and thrive in their role.
Gain an understanding of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and integrate this design process into your planning and instruction.
Learn how to make use of multiple sources of data and utilize the information to address student needs.
Explore how to compose goals for an Individualized Education Program (IEP) so that you can provide targeted goals that meet the requirements and help students thrive.
Investigate what disciplinary arguments look like in various contexts so that you can analyze your implementation of opinion, persuasive, or argumentative writing.
Review and try out several approaches to writing instruction. You will analyze videos to see various approaches to implement with your own students.
Examine various prewriting strategies so that you can more effectively choose the strategy that best fits your students’ writing needs.
Investigate several approaches to reading instruction so that you can more effectively choose the strategy that best fits your students’ reading needs
Examine various approaches to teaching vocabulary to students.
Explore how to approach writing in a number of content areas so that all disciplines are working toward improving student writing skills.
Analyze revision strategies so that you can practice, implement, and analyze revision strategies with your students.
Analyze and try out new ways to do math with your students. Investigate methods that will invigorate your practice and make you a more thoughtful practitioner.
Engage young students in science and explore various approaches to STEM education related to NGSS. You will become more fully versed in how to solidly lead your students in inquiry across various dimensions.
Explore how STEM learning can advance student understanding, make connections between content, and engage with content that has meaning in their lives for Kindergarten-3rd grade.
Explore how STEM learning can advance student understanding, make connections between content, and engage with content that has meaning in their lives for grades 4-5.
Investigate the Next Generation Science Standards and three-dimensional learning to make key shifts in your classroom practice.
Investigate the Next Generation Science Standards and three-dimensional learning to make key shifts in your classroom practice.
Investigate the Next Generation Science Standards and three-dimensional learning to make key shifts in your classroom practice.
Explore how to use data to be more responsive to student needs.
Review the essentials of using Google Classroom.
Provides video content representative of the International Society for Technology in Education (ITSE) standards for Educators and Students.
Investigate how to personalize instruction through the use of technology to better serve all of your students.
