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Title	Duration (hours)	Description
GED: Science - Unit 1: Science Practices	1.00	Welcome to Unit 1: Science Practices. Science practices describe the ways we collect, process, and analyze information. Each question on the science test will incorporate science practice within the content area being tested. In this unit, we'll explore some of those science practices. We'll define scientific method, describe variables, and learn about sampling techniques. We'll also explore some of the ways scientists represent and analyze the data they collect.
Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Communication Styles and Methods (Instructor Guide)	0.75	To be successful in the workplace, you must be able to effectively communicate and cooperate with clients and co-workers. Learning about the four types of communication styles helps a listener understand a speaker’s perspective. It also helps a speaker understand how their communication affects the listener. In this course you will learn: to identify primary and secondary communication styles, and to communicate using various verbal and nonverbal modes of communication. This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course.
Hose Competency (Instructor Guide)	1.00	This is the Instructor Guide for Hose Competency. This competency evaluates the ability of assigned companies to perform hose tasks including stretching, advancing, and operating fire hose streams. This competency may also be conducted as an independent drill or evolution.
Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls: A Training Program for Small Business	0.67	The Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls course focuses on helping small business owners and their employees identify, evaluate and control the hazards in their workplaces that may cause slips, trips and falls. Designed to increase and improve participants' knowledge, skills and access to valuable resources, this course will assist them in establishing systems that can help them prevent slips, trips and falls. Participants will learn how to prevent, recognize, evaluate, and control slip, trip and fall hazards, as well as develop their own learning goals and action plans.
Cultural Competence for Paraprofessionals	0.75	Culture and cultural elements are essential components of people's identities. Understanding the cultural elements as paraprofessionals allows for a greater appreciation for students and can improve relationships. Cultural elements may include race and ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic status. These elements of culture are not separate from the larger cultural context in which we live and work, especially as paraprofessionals. It is important to recognize that many culturally and linguistically diverse families have specific customs and traditions that may not necessarily be connected to a particular cultural group. By understanding cultural competence, paraprofessionals can provide responsive instruction and support to students from all backgrounds.
Conflict and Communication: Why Can't We Be Friends?	1.00	Conflict occurs when we are in relationship with others. In fact, the hallmark of a healthy relationship is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to successfully resolve it. Unfortunately, resolving conflict is not a skill many of us were taught. We'll explore the fundamental causes of conflict and the dynamics that can escalate conflict. Finally, we’ll cover the tools necessary to navigate conflict successfully, including effective communication strategies.
Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Customers and Vendors	0.50	Your customers include anyone who uses your company or organization to obtain goods and services. Customers might be internal or external. An internal customer is a member of your organization and can be a supervisor, colleague, or subordinate. An external customer is someone from outside your organization. Each customer is of equal importance, regardless of the amount of business that customer provides to your organization. You should provide the same level of quality goods and services all your customers, and all are equally deserving of efficient and effective communication. In this course you will learn: to respond to customers’ complaints, and to reject a vendor’s contract without rejecting the vendor, and address a complaint to a vendor.
GED: Math - Unit 5: Coordinate Plane	1.00	Welcome to Unit 5: Coordinate Plane. If you've ever graphed points, or read a graph, you've worked with the coordinate plane. In this unit, we'll learn about points, the lines that connect them, and the equations used to create them.
GED: Math - Unit 6: Polynomials	1.00	Welcome to Unit 6: Polynomials. We first learned about polynomials in Unit 3 when we learned how to simplify expressions. We'll work with them again in this unit, where we'll learn how to perform more complex operations with them.
Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Colleagues and Subordinates (Instructor Guide)	0.50	Colleagues might include people in your office, team, department, or division. They do not hold a supervisory position over you, nor do you hold a supervisory position over them. Instead, you are all in a similar place on the corporate ladder. Learning how to communicate effectively with your colleagues helps maintain a friendly and effective workplace, and enables you to better promote your ideas and respond to those of others. In this course you will learn: to identify the guidelines for communicating with colleagues, and how to take appropriate steps to apologize to subordinates; use appropriate tactics to refuse a subordinate’s request; and dismiss a subordinate. This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course.
Fundamental Tools to Monitor Child Development (CDA 7)	2.00	This course immerses early care and education professionals in the powerful trio of observation, documentation, and assessment. Discover how these tools allow you to closely monitor each child's progress, identify individual needs and interests, and tailor support accordingly. Dive deeper into using assessment activities to refine and elevate the quality of preschool care, ensuring every child reaches their full potential.
NIEHS Driving Hazard Awareness	0.17	This course covers the hazards of driving and what you can do as a driver to avoid these hazards. When you are on the road, there are a variety of factors that go into your overall safety. Being aware of other drivers and being conscious of your own driving increases your overall safety.
Sales Management: Motivating Sales Teams	1.00	This course will focus on motivating sales professionals, monitoring and increasing motivation levels, and addressing substandard sales performance.
Managerial Leadership: Employing Motivational Strategies	0.50	You need to use motivational strategies in your leadership to help your employees perform optimally, and to make them feel as though they are helping meet a need. When you motivate your employees to accomplish their goals, and give them the necessary feedback to optimize their performance, they feel they are helping meet the organization’s needs. You, your employees, and your organization all benefit when you use motivation in leadership. You benefit because, through motivation, your work group will perform optimally. Your employees benefit because they experience job satisfaction and success in accomplishing their goals. Your organization benefits because its members are more committed to helping it be successful and grow. In this course you will learn to: motivate employees and overcome employee apathy.
Call Center Management: Communicating Information to Executives	0.75	This course will cover how to identify the information that executives need and communicate with executives.
GED: Social Studies - Unit 5: Post-Test	0.25	Welcome to Unit 5: Post-Test. This post-test covers civics and government, US history, economics, and world geography. At the end of this post-test is a table that matches each test question to the content it covers. Use it to review and content you haven't mastered.
GED: Reasoning Through Language Arts - Unit 8: Post-Test	0.25	Welcome to Unit 8: Post-Test. This post-test covers reading comprehension, writing, and editing. At the end of this post-test is a table that matches each question to the content it covers. Use it to review any content that you haven't mastered.
Customer Service: Using What You've Learned (Corrections)	0.25	This course will provide you with the information and—we hope—the inspiration to improve your customer service skills and work toward personal success. The final two steps are up to you: You must implement what you have learned, and continue to work on improving your skills.
Observation and Assessment of the Learning Environment (CDA 7)	2.00	Research finds that the quality of a child’s early learning environment has a significant impact on his well-being and ability to learn. This course focuses on two significant aspects of environmental quality: the relationships and rich interactions that happen in the classroom, and the physical setting and learning materials. Special emphasis is placed on observation and assessment of the learning environment to make improvements and support positive outcomes for children. The course covers how professionals who work with young children can use observation and assessment as a way to support children’s development (social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and approaches to learning), inform teaching practices, enhance interactions with children, and plan activities for young children. This course is designed to be part of a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential™ curriculum, and covers CDA subject area 7: Observation and Assessment. It can also be taken as a stand-alone learning event or as part of a broader early childhood education curriculum.
Creating Community Collaborations	2.00	Across the country, more and more communities are forming community collaborations to address the out-of-school needs of children and youth of all ages. When different segments of the community join together, share ideas, and pool their resources and efforts to create out-of-school time initiatives, children and youth benefit. What one organization or program may not be able to accomplish alone is often achievable when partnerships and collaborations among diverse groups and individuals are formed. When school-age care professionals are knowledgeable about what it takes to create and sustain successful collaborations, they can play an important leadership role in creating out-of-school time initiatives and programs that will meet the needs of children and youth in their communities now and in the future.
Benefits of Connecting Seniors and Young Children (CDA 3)	2.00	This course equips you with the knowledge and tools to integrate senior adults into childcare and education programs. Discover how this approach benefits children, seniors, your program, and you, enriching lives across generations.
Sales: Qualifying	0.50	In this course, you will learn how to improve your listening skills to better understand customers’ needs and decision-making criteria. You will also learn how to use questioning techniques to help customers recognize the benefits of your products and services.
A Student Guide to Fire Safety	0.50	Between January 2000 and May 2015, 85 fatal fires in dorms, fraternities, sororities, and off-campus housing took the lives of 118 people. This course offers students a refresher about fire safety, including the main causes of campus fires, the actions students can take to prevent fires, and the importance of working smoke alarms and knowing two ways out.
Helping Children with ADD Succeed In School-Age Programs: Characteristics and Needs of Children	1.00	Children with ADD regularly experience struggles and challenges at home, in school, and in the community. Without the help of knowledgeable, understanding, and supportive people, they often experience multiple failures and frustrations on a daily basis. In this course, we will explore characteristics and needs of children with ADD.
Providing Homework Support: Types of Homework Support	1.00	Research indicates there are many different ways to provide effective homework support in school-age programs. When planning a homework support program, it is important for school-age programs to develop a homework philosophy that is consistent with the program’s overall philosophy, and reflects current research on best practices for providing homework help. The homework philosophy should also reflect the needs of parents and children in the program, and strike a balance between homework needs and other experiences that help children grow and learn out-of-school. In this course, we will explore the various types of homework support.