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STEM and Supportive Practices |
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STEM is an intentional, integrative approach to teaching and learning that can occur across all knowledge areas; it is not a specific curriculum. The STEM approach focuses on providing opportunities for students to explore and develop a comprehensive set of concepts, competencies, and thinking skills.
In this course, we’ll see how the Supportive Practices found in Learning Standards for early childhood promote the development of STEM concepts, competencies, and thinking skills.
Course Learning Objective:
- Use the supportive practices to promote the development of STEM concepts, competencies, and thinking skills. |
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STEM and Learning Standards |
1.00 |
STEM is an intentional, integrative approach to teaching and learning that can occur across all knowledge areas; it is not a specific curriculum.
The STEM approach focuses on providing opportunities for students to explore and develop a comprehensive set of concepts, competencies, and thinking skills.
STEM competencies include a vocabulary rich in the language of science, technology, engineering and math—words like hypothesis, gravity, buoyant, balance, temperature, and battery. STEM competencies also include basic principles of engineering, like problem-solving and planning; of science, like experimentation and observation; of technology, like using tools to complete both a task and solve real world problems; and of math by recognizing that basic principles of math are part of everyday activities, like comparing and contrasting, counting, and dividing a whole to create equal parts.
Course Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate how learning standards for early childhood promote the development of STEM concepts, competencies, and thinking skills. |
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Organizational Communication: Context, Stress, and Managerial Tools (Instructor Guide) |
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Good communication and listening skills are vital in any exchange. Organizations need employees to communicate in different environments. You can communicate your ideas more effectively by adapting your communication to a specific context.
Different contexts can create stress in individuals. Stress is the perception of pressure, anxiety, or urgency that individuals relate to a goal or responsibility. Stress can influence people positively or negatively. Different people have different capacities for handling stress. Stress can help motivate, drive, and focus an individual. However, when stress exceeds an individual’s capacity, it can cause physical and mental problems.
In this course you will learn to: select an environmental context, and manage stress and anger, and mediate conflict.
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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PPE Care and Maintenance |
1.00 |
This course describes the required care and maintenance necessary to keep your personal protective equipment in service and able to afford you the highest level of protection. The objective is to promote competency in personal protective equipment inspection procedures based on NFPA 1851 standards. Students should also familiarize themselves with agency guidelines, policies, procedures, and best practices for documenting and reporting concerns with issued personal protective equipment. |
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Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) |
1.00 |
This course covers Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) as a school-wide initiative. It explains the philosophy behind using PBIS, the levels of support at three different tiers, and how PBIS may be implemented in schools. This course will offer insight into how PBIS can create positive outcomes in school. It is just one of the many K-12 paraprofessional and teacher courses we offer. |
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Dance for Joy: Confident, Calm, and Compassionate |
1.00 |
This module from Dance for Joy will provide teachers with resources and activities that can be used and modified to support physical, mental, social, and emotional development in young children.
This course covers 5 activities: Tickle the Sky, Tapping, Every Little Cell, We are One, Scoop up the Universe. |
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Development and Characteristics of Learners for Teachers |
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Development and Characteristics of Learners will assist you in fostering a solid understanding of how children develop and the disability categories that may impact their learning. This course will also help you gain invaluable insight into ways you can support children and meet their needs. |
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Dance for Joy: Movement, Music, and Rhyme |
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This module from Dance for Joy will provide teachers with resources and activities that can be used and modified to support physical, mental, social, and emotional development in young children.
This course covers 5 activities: I Touch My Nose, I Touch My Toes, Hold Yourself Tight, Wake Up Right, Reach One Way, Reach the Other, Locomotor Freeze Dance, Salt and Pepper Dance. |
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The Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) for Administrators |
1.50 |
Welcome to The Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) course. This course is designed for anyone who works in a school. It is just one of the many K-12 courses we offer. This course will help you develop new knowledge about students and will help you understand how DASA is implemented within schools. |
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Autism Spectrum Disorder |
1.50 |
This course covers autism spectrum disorder (ASD), focusing on how it is diagnosed, how it presents in the classroom, and school supports. This content will help you increase your knowledge about students with ASD and will help you understand how you might support these students. |
