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Project Management - Basic: Characteristics of a Project |
2.25 |
This course will help you identify characteristics of a project’s internal and external environments, the influence stakeholders have on a project, and different organizational structures. You will also learn how to identify the critical functions, necessary skills, responsibilities, and challenges of a project manager. This course will also cover how to staff a project team, create a skills inventory, and identify the benefits of team building and of establishing a project office. |
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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. |
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Individuals with Disabilities for Paraprofessionals |
2.00 |
This course will help you develop new knowledge about students with disabilities by taking you through the Special Education referral process for school-age and preschool-age children. It will also cover the referral process for early childhood programs. This course will help you understand your role as a paraprofessional in supporting these students and their teachers. It is just one out of many paraprofessional courses we offer.
Note: Please be aware that this course covers the complete process from Birth to 12th grade, which makes it quite lengthy. While your primary focus might be on Pre-K to 12th grade, it's important to understand how this process develops in the early years. |
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Customer Service Skills |
1.00 |
This course will help you develop customer service skills by teaching you how to develop and maintain a positive attitude. You will learn how to use motivation to improve customer service skills, and will go through the seven steps in the customer service process. Finally, you will discover how to react to customers’ problems and learn from them. |
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Bloodborne Pathogens and HIV (Short) |
0.33 |
This course will help you define Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP), identify common types, identify how BBP are transmitted and contracted, determine reasonable anticipation for encountering BBP, define an Exposure Control Plan, and define PPE, its effectiveness, and decontamination when BBP are encountered. |
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A Student Guide to Sexual Violence Prevention and Response |
0.50 |
This course will help students understand what they can do to prevent sexual violence, as well as how they can respond to survivors of sexual violence. Students will also examine the definition of bystander intervention, as well as explore how to define and identify consent.
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Animal Behavior 4: Reliability and Validity |
1.00 |
This course will help ensure that the data you collect in animal behavior research is repeatable, consistent, and actually measures the features of a target behavior. This is called reliability and validity. |
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English Language Learners |
1.00 |
This course will give you a greater understanding of the circumstances under which some English language learners came to the U.S. and the challenges they may face. Strategies for teaching language acquisition skills will be provided, and you will learn the importance of collaborating with families and communities. |
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Healthy Bodies: Promoting Good Nutrition and Physical Activity in Child Care |
1.00 |
This course will give you a broad overview of how to instill healthy habits at an early age. It will provide you with information about the nutritional needs of children and the benefits and risks associated with physical activity levels. Strategies will be given to use this knowledge in the classroom. |
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SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Keeping Babies Safe |
1.50 |
This course will give participants a brief overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related deaths. Participants will learn about recent research and statistics, the importance of child care providers, AAP SIDS Task Force recommendations, and how to implement polices in child care. |
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Understanding the Basic Concepts of HIPAA |
0.75 |
This course will give participants a basic understanding of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Participants will learn what HIPAA is, how it changes the way we do our work, federal vs. state standards, patient rights, the purposes of HIPAA compliance and more. |
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Animal Behavior 3: Experimenter, Observer, and Sampling Bias |
1.00 |
This course will give an overview of different types of bias that can impact a study on animal behavior. Information contained in this course will help ensure observers are aware of how experimenter, observer, and sampling bias can impact data collection and analysis, and of precautions to consider and take before starting a study. |
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Virtual Teams: Fundamentals of Virtual Teams |
0.50 |
This course will focuse on how to identify the purpose and types of virtual teams, identify the benefits of serving in virtual teams and types of work and meetings carried out by virtual teams, and identify the schedule of a session, and the agenda of a session. |
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Sales Skills: Advanced: Studying the Market |
0.75 |
This course will focus on using sales strategies, analyzing markets and competitors, and researching clients. |
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Sales Management: Effective Sales Performance |
1.50 |
This course will focus on training sales professionals, setting performance standards, evaluating performance, and conducting a sales meeting. |
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Effective Presentations: Fundamentals of Persuasion |
1.00 |
This course will focus on persuasion and the goals of persuasion. You will also learn how to organize a persuasive presentation and use the methods of persuasion. |
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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. |
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Sales Management: Managing Sales Territories |
0.50 |
This course will focus on identifying the steps for choosing the best territory strategy and identifying the factors to consider when conducting territory reviews. |
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Sales Management: Effective Sales Teams |
1.50 |
This course will focus on identifying the skills and daily tasks of a sales manager, interviewing sales professionals, identifying relationship-building processes, and identifying trust-building processes. |
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Sales Management: Forecasting Sales Revenue |
0.50 |
This course will focus on identifying sales forecast factors and types of sales forecasts as well as discussing various types of forecasting approaches. |
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Sales Skills: Basic: The Sales Presentation |
1.00 |
This course will focus on identifying any client objections, creating a sales presentation to influence clients’ perceptions, and responding to objections effectively. |
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Business Writing: Understanding Proposals |
0.75 |
This course will focus on how to write various types of proposals. You will also learn how to focus on the client when writing proposals. |
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Business Writing: Writing Specific Messages |
0.75 |
This course will focus on how to write effective business messages, including reports, letters, and e-mail. You will also learn how to write opinionated messages, including apologies, negative messages, and persuasive messages. |
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Paraprofessional Math Skills Applied to Classroom Instruction |
2.00 |
This course will focus on how to use the information learned in our Math Skills and Knowledge courses. If you haven't taken them, we recommend you take the three skills courses before completing this one:
Paraprofessional Math Skills 1: Number Sense and Basic Algebra
Paraprofessional Math Skills 2: Geometry and Measurement
Paraprofessional Math Skills 3: Data Analysis
This course will help you build on all those skills, teach you a few more skills, and show you what using these skills might look like in the classroom with students.
The math application questions in this course will assess your ability to apply the three categories of math skills listed in a classroom setting or support classroom instruction. The questions focus on testing the mathematical competencies needed to assist the teacher with instruction. |
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Microsoft Word - Basic: Getting Started |
1.25 |
This course will focus on how to use the elements of the Word window, create and save documents, and navigate a document and select text by using the keyboard and the mouse. |
