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Exploring Four Areas of Development of Children K-6 for Paraprofessionals |
1.00 |
One of the most helpful ways to gain an understanding of the needs and interests of students ages 5-12 is to examine their development from four different perspectives: physical, cognitive, social, and emotional. It is important for paraprofessionals to keep all four of these areas in mind when helping educators implement classroom activities and experiences. Keeping the four areas of development in mind helps staff to better understand the development of the whole child. |
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Suicide Prevention |
1.25 |
This course covers suicide prevention measures and suicide prevention organizations as well as the disparities found in suicide data.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Distinguish the disparities in suicide statistics
Identify the risk factors that can lead to suicide
Apply techniques to help prevent suicide
Describe the work that suicide prevention programs are doing |
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Organizational Communication: Power, Politics, and Diversity |
0.75 |
Power is the ability to influence someone to do something that they would not do without encouragement. Various types of power and power strategies depend on the level of influence. The existence of different levels of power in an organization gives rise to organizational politics.
Politics can arise between individuals who differ from each another. To avoid confrontation arising from differences, it is important for people to recognize the benefits of diversity within their organization.
In this course you will learn to: identify different levels and types of power, identify strategies to manage diversity and to communicate in different cultures, and identify the steps and guidelines for empowerment. |
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E-Mail Etiquette: E-Mail Messages |
0.50 |
In this course, you will learn how to take advantage of the headers in e-mail messages. You will learn about the “To” field, in which you should type the recipient’s e-mail address. You will also learn when to send carbon copies and blind carbon copies of messages. You will learn the importance of writing a proper subject field for e-mail messages and that the header also includes the date and time of sending messages. Finally, you will learn how to construct the body of an e-mail message, add a personal touch to your messages by including a proper greeting, relay information by placing it in the appropriate order, and use different types of lists effectively. You learned the correct way to write long e-mail messages to keep recipients interested in the information and how to effectively close e-mail messages. |
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GED: Social Studies - Unit 3: Economics |
1.00 |
Welcome to Unit 3: Economics. Economics accounts for about 15% of the questions you'll see on the test. In this unit, we'll cover the basics of both micro and macroeconomics. We'll work with graphs, and we'll explore consumer economics. |
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Basic Spanish Skills |
1.00 |
This course covers the basic conventions of the Spanish language. This course will help you learn how to use Spanish conversationally and in everyday life. In addition, you will learn how to use Spanish in times of emergency or specific situations. |
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Project Management Essentials: Activities and Dependencies |
0.75 |
This course will focus on how to identify project activities and recognize the types of project activities and the categories of dependencies and dependency relationships, analyze activities by creating an activity analysis form, and estimate the time duration and cost of project activities. |
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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. |
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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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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. |
