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Paraprofessional Reading Skills |
1.00 |
This course covers Paraprofessional Reading Skills. It is just one out of two Paraprofessional Reading courses, and one out of eight ParaPro prep courses that will prepare you on K-12 topics. This course will help you understand, interpret, and analyze a wide range of text. After taking these prep courses, you should be prepared for the ETS ParaPro Assessment. This course can be taken as a stand-alone learning event, as part of a broader paraprofessional curriculum, or in preparation for the ParaPro Assessment. |
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Project Teams: Preparing Teams for Project Work (Instructor Guide) |
1.00 |
Building a project team is more complex than assigning employees to the team. Team members must feel a sense of dedication to other team members, as well as to the project itself. Members who are not dedicated to the project team often disregard meetings, deadlines, and commitments, causing the entire team to suffer. To avoid these problems, the team managers and supervisors need to encourage team building to benefit the project, the team members, and the organization.
In this course you will learn to: empower and motivate a project team and develop positive culture in a project team, identify the causes of change in a team and manage change, and improve existing project teams.
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. |
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Commotio Cordis |
1.00 |
Paramedic Instructor Peter Bonadonna discusses his thoughts on Commotio Cordis in an effort to orient EMTs that are not familiar with the phenomena. |
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Overview of Enforcement for Occupational Exposure to Tuberculosis (TB) |
0.50 |
This course covers a brief overview of OSHA’s enforcement policy for occupational exposure to tuberculosis. OSHA’s tuberculosis policy is found in CPL 02-00-106 – CPL 2.106 – Enforcement Procedures and Scheduling for Occupational Exposure to Tuberculosis. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Risk Analysis, Response, and Control |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to identify the goals and benefits of risk assessment and follow the qualitative risk analysis process and how to use the quantitative analysis techniques and draw a decision tree. You will also learn how to follow the risk response process and identify the categories for possible risk response plans and how to use the methods of monitoring and controlling project risks and identify the outcomes of monitoring and control. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Organizational Planning |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to identify the characteristics of a successful project manager, different types of power, and the different project organizational structures. You will also learn how to create a project team, and identify the many facets of organizational planning. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Staff Acquisition and Team Building |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to identify the right team members for a given project, negotiate for project staff, and identify categories of personnel problems. You will also learn how to develop a project team, overcome barriers to effective team development, and apply motivational techniques. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Planning and Distributing Information |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to plan for communication during a project, and identify factors that influence people’s perception of communication. You will also learn how to identify the most appropriate method for distributing information, determine the number of lines of communication in a given context, identify common barriers to effective communication, and facilitate trust and strong working relationships. |
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Paraprofessional Math Skills 2: Geometry and Measurement |
2.50 |
This course covers Paraprofessional Math Skills: Geometry and Measurement. It is just one out of three Paraprofessional Math Skills courses, and one out of eight ParaPro prep courses that will prepare you on K-12 topics. This course will help you develop your knowledge of these mathematical concepts and help you apply them to abstract and real-life situations. After taking these prep courses, you should be prepared for the ETS ParaPro Assessment. This course can be taken as a stand-alone learning event, as part of a broader paraprofessional curriculum, or in preparation for the ParaPro Assessment.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Understand and represent time and money in more than one way.
Convert between units or measures in the same system.
Identify basic geometrical shapes.
Perform computations related to area, volume, and perimeter for basic shapes.
Graph data on an xy-coordinate plane. |
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Constructing: FAST-ED Overview |
1.00 |
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Chief of the Division of Prehospital Medicine at the University of Rochester, Jeremy Cushman, brings his experienced team of prehospital providers together to discuss the benefits of Field Assessment Stroke Triage for Emergency Destination (FAST-ED). You will want to take notes and download your favorite smartphone app. This lesson is sure to spark an excellent discussion with your training officers and/or medical director(s).
Final Exam: This multiple choice exam is designed to test your knowledge of the material you just reviewed. You have two attempts to gain an 80% or higher on this exam. Please utilize the smartphone app of your choosing and take your time and answer each question carefully. |
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Correcting Performance Problems: Providing Feedback To Employees (Instructor Guide) |
0.84 |
By addressing employees who have performance problems, you can help them make positive changes, encourage career advancement, and promote personal and professional growth. Addressing an employee involves providing the feedback necessary to improve performance.
In this course you will learn to: prepare to conduct a feedback session in which you encourage communication with the employee, and conduct a constructive feedback session with an employee who has a performance problem.
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. |
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I Am: Supporting Self-Awareness and Self-Management |
2.00 |
Children and youth develop social-emotional skills and character over time and through a variety of experiences.
Expanded Learning Programs strongly support three foundational areas of Social-Emotional Learning and Character Building:
- I AM (Interpersonal Connections)
- I BELONG (Interpersonal Connections)
- I CAN (Belief and Mindset)
This course focuses on the I Am skills.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand how young people's responses affect personal emotion and behavior.
- Learn how group agreements can support self-awareness and self-management in children and youth.
- Learn strategies and resources to support I Am skill building with children and youth. |
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Project Management - Advanced: Project Integration and Plan Development |
0.50 |
This course will cover how to measure data during project integration and differentiate between project and product life cycles. You will also learn how to identify the importance of developing a project plan, the elements of a project plan, the key input required for project plan development, and methods used in project plan development. |
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Project Management - Advanced: Implementing Plans and Controlling Change |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to use a project management information system, implement a work authorization system, and conduct mid-project evaluation. You will also learn how to identify the information and supplies needed to control project change, implement a change control system, and identify control maintenance methods. |
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Project Management - Advanced: The Project Management Process |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to identify the project management process groups and variables and differentiate between product-oriented processes and project management processes. You will also learn how to initiate and plan a project. |
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Project Management - Advanced: Execution, Control, and Project Closeout |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to identify the steps in the executing process group, close out a project, identify the importance of writing closeout reports, and identify methods to terminate a project. You will also learn how to measure, monitor, and adjust aspects of a project to produce a desired outcome. |
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Paraprofessional Math Skills 1: Number Sense and Basic Algebra |
3.00 |
This course covers Paraprofessional Math Skills: Number Sense and Basic Algebra. It is just one out of three Paraprofessional Math Skills courses, and one out of eight ParaPro prep courses that will prepare you on K-12 topics. This course will help you develop your knowledge of these mathematical concepts and help you apply them to abstract and real-life situations. After taking these prep courses, you should be prepared for the ETS ParaPro Assessment. This course can be taken as a stand-alone learning event, as part of a broader paraprofessional curriculum, or in preparation for the ParaPro Assessment.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Evaluate basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division expressions with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
Recognize multiplication as repeated addition and division as repeated subtraction
Interpret mathematical symbols
Understand basic mathematical terms
Recognize the position of numbers in relation to each other
Understand equivalent forms of a number
Understand place value for whole numbers and decimal numbers
Compute percentages
Understand basic concepts of exponents
Use the order of operations to evaluate math expressions
Use mental math and solve problems by estimation
Solve word problems
Solve one-step, single-variable linear equations
Understand the sequence of numbers |
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Framing: Documentation-Proper and Complete |
1.00 |
Your local training director, operations officers, and medical direction have expectations that should be met for each and every documentation piece that you provide. It is our intention to provide you with knowledge on this subject that will spark good discussion and hopefully a better overall product for you and your service. |
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Infectious Diseases: Environmental Management |
1.00 |
This course is focused on reducing the risk of infectious diseases in early care and education environments.
Course Learning Objectives:
List environmental management strategies for reducing the spread of germs that cause infectious disease. |
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Project Teams: Decision-Making in a Project Team (Instructor Guide) |
1.00 |
Once a project team comes up with options for implementing a project, they must decide which option to use. There are various methods the team can use to make a decision, ranging from authority decision-making to consensus.
In this course you will learn to: use the various methods of decision-making available to project teams, and resolve conflicts and achieve consensus in a project team.
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. |
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Business Accounting: Stockholders' Equity |
1.50 |
This course will cover how to identify various types of stocks and calculate the value of a corporation’s stock as well as how to use financial ratios to calculate book value and market value per share. You will also learn how to identify the components of stockholders’ equity and report stockholders’ equity on financial statements. |
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Business Etiquette: Office Protocol |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to describe business etiquette, present a professional appearance, and identify appropriate business attire. You will also learn how to practice cubicle and office etiquette and how to develop positive coworker relationships and avoid rumors, gossip, and conflicts. |
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Business Etiquette: Professional Conduct |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to use the Internet appropriately and how to identify and handle ethical dilemmas and maintain loyalty and confidentiality in the workplace. You will also learn how to handle personal issues in the workplace, such as flirting, dating, office romances, and sexual harassment. |
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Business Etiquette: Communicating in the Workplace |
1.25 |
This course will cover how to introduce people properly and identify actions to take when being introduced as well as how to be an effective conversationalist and handle conversational faux pas. You will also learn how to follow meeting protocol and etiquette. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Communicating Across Cultures (Instructor Guide) |
1.00 |
When communicating across cultures, you could come across a number of barriers. In addition to language barriers, there might be more subtle obstacles, such as cultural biases and conflicting communication styles. Building relationships with people of other cultures will provide you with the incentive to work through those barriers and achieve effective communication.
In this course you will learn to: establish rapport and build trust, and listen well and provide positive and constructive feedback.
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. |
