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Title	Duration (hours)	Description
Behavior Management for Teachers	1.50	In an educational setting, behavior management involves teaching and reinforcing positive behaviors while reducing negative ones. This course covers how to incorporate behavior management in the classroom. This is just one of many educational courses we offer. This course will help you expand your knowledge about student behavior and will help you implement behavior management techniques.
Making Your Home A Safer Place	0.75	This course covers household safety. This includes fire and kitchen safety, emergencies, infant safety, and more. This course will help you learn about the best practices for everyone inside the house, from infants to pets. It is just one of the many health and safety courses we offer.
Safety Communication and Training Techniques	1.50	This course covers certain safety and logistics measures for the workplace. This includes topics like different types of safety training, creating safety programs with different learners in mind, and how to use various types of media to communicate objectives.
Quality Management: Causes Of Problems (Instructor Guide)	0.67	In this course you will learn to: create and interpret a cause-and-effect diagram, create and analyze a Pareto chart, create and interpret a scatter diagram, and create an interrelationship diagram and use it to identify root causes. 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.
A K-12 Student Guide to Implicit Bias	1.00	Welcome to A K-12 Student Guide to Implicit Bias. In this course geared towards K-12 students, you'll examine implicit bias, why it matters, and what can be done to address it.
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) in K-12	1.50	This course provides comprehensive training on STEM education in the K-12 setting. This course will discuss the key standards for students to find success in the four domains of STEM: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. You will then learn about supportive strategies to help students to excel in those standard areas within each domain. It is just one out of many educational courses we offer. This course will help you develop new knowledge about students and will help you understand your role as an educator.
Presentation Methods and Debriefing Activities	2.00	There is no "one size fits all" approach to working with children and youth, and this is especially true when it comes to how we present and debrief activities. During this course, participants will understand the importance of the delivery and debriefing of an activity to help children and youth make meaning, as well as some specific methods that can be incorporated into the program right away.
Understanding the Behavior of Children and Youth	2.00	The development of children and youth can cause them to behave in ways that can be trying for even the most knowledgeable and experienced staff. When staff understands what is driving the behavior, they can help to guide and encourage acceptable behaviors. This course will provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent unwanted behavior by meeting the needs of children and youth before they act out.
Preventing Sexual Harassment and Understanding California Law	0.50	This course will teach California employees how to recognize sexual harassment, defines the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees, and provides an overview of the legal remedies available in sexual harassment lawsuits.
Conducting Meetings: Conflicts, Climates, and Difficult Personalities (Instructor Guide)	0.50	In this course you will learn to: identify the main causes of conflict, the ways to resolve conflict in meetings, and the common difficult personality types in meetings, and identify the characteristics of a positive and negative climate, and the steps to build a positive climate when communicating. 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.
Call Center Management: Managing for Excellent Service	1.00	This course will cover how to set service levels, achieve service levels, and use reports.
Budgeting: Reviewing Budgets	1.00	A typical budget contains information for a single year and is updated and revised periodically. Each company creates a budget that fits its unique needs. A budget can be used for many purposes, but its primary functions should be to support strategic goals and to help identify when actual results deviate from what was predicted.
Searching Online	0.75	This course covers the fundamentals of searching online. From using basic features, such as the homepage and address bar, to using "advanced search" to find very specific information, this course will cover it all.
Zoonotic Disease and Biosecurity	2.00	Every year, zoological organizations are faced by new challenges in maintaining the health of their animal collections. Zoonosis, or disease that can be spread between species, forms one of the greatest threats to the safety of animals, guests, and keepers. Using a case study from a zoonotic disease concern at the San Diego Zoo, you will learn the basics of zoonotic disease identification and prevention, including standard record keeping, best practices, health and safety protocols for keepers, and the understanding of how disease can be spread.
School-Age Care as a Family Service: Emphasis on Planning Opportunities for Family Involvement	2.00	The foundation for getting parents involved in school-age programs is to keep parents well informed about what is happening in the program. Quality programs also provide parents with opportunities to make suggestions and give feedback on program services through suggestion boxes, feedback forms, and surveys. When parents are encouraged to have input in the program, they develop trust and confidence in the program, and feel a sense of pride and ownership. They are more likely to participate as resourceful partners with program staff when they know their ideas are welcome and valued. Finally, because parents are all different from each other, it's important to provide many different opportunities for them to connect with the program. Staff in quality school-age programs recognize that all parents don't have to be involved in the same way.
Creativity and Innovation: Personal Creativity	1.34	Creativity is often considered a talent that some people have. Actually, creativity's a skill that everyone can nurture through exercise and practice. You can prepare yourself both mentally and physically to be creative. In this course you will learn to: prepare yourself mentally and physically to be creative, and use your experiences, innocence, intuition, and sense of adventure to increase your creativity.
Supporting Social-Emotional Learning and Character Development for Teachers	1.00	This course is designed to empower teachers with the knowledge and practical strategies needed to effectively support social-emotional learning (SEL) and character development in their classrooms. Participants will explore the importance of SEL and character development, learn about key concepts, and gain actionable techniques to create a positive and inclusive learning environment that fosters emotional well-being and ethical growth in students.
Guiding School-Age Children in Groups: Supervision and Boundaries	1.00	When large numbers of children are involved in the program, it is challenging to create and deliver school-age program activities that can meet the needs of all children. The key to success is taking a systematic approach to program planning. It is important for staff to understand how to select appropriate activity options and use effective management strategies that make it possible to offer a balanced variety of simultaneous activity options. This understanding will help staff plan and implement a program that effectively supports, nurtures, and guides individual differences and fosters positive interaction among children in groups.
Hazard Communication Basic	1.00	This course covers the basics when it comes to hazard communication. The topics will range from the Hazard Communication Standard to the labeling of hazardous materials.
Engaging English Learner Families and Communities	1.00	This course will help you go deeper and gain more examples and strategies related to some of the five tips for engaging English learners' families and communities introduced in the training. Through this online course, you will learn more tips and strategies to better engage the English learner (EL) families in your school or classroom.
Construction Hazards	0.50	This course covers the basics when discussing construction hazards you may see daily when working on a construction site. Preventative measures for falls and falling objects, electrical work, as well as excavations will be discussed throughout.
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.
Sharing Information with Parents and Other Professionals	2.00	School-age children work on many important developmental tasks during their out-of-school hours. One of the important responsibilities of OST staff is to help parents stay in touch with how their children are growing and developing during program hours. In addition to parents, professionals who work with children in other settings are often interested in learning how children spend their time when they are not at home or school. Portfolios are excellent tools for bringing children’s experiences in OST programs to life for parents during planned parent conferences. They are also valuable tools for sharing helpful information about children with other professionals.
Environmental Systems	2.00	Many of the animals exhibited in zoos and aquariums have very specific environmental requirements that must be met in order to support the life form and better ensure its welfare. This course will explore the unique biological, physiological, and welfare requirements of several varied types of animals; their unique requirements; and the implications for the provision of these requirements.
Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM)	1.00	Many students with disabilities have difficulty with standard materials, seeing them, manipulating them, or decoding or comprehending them. These students need accessible instructional materials (AIM) in order to access the general education curriculum. This course is all about accessible instructional materials. This course will help you develop new knowledge about students and will help you understand your role in assisting students that need to use these materials.