Professional Development Online Courses
For those successfully completing the online courses, a certificate of completion notating PGP points will be awarded. Courses are developed and/or endorsed by Purdue faculty. The courses can be completed 100% online and at your own pace.
Group registrations are encouraged for teachers in the same school wanting to collaborate and complete the course. Each participant will be awarded individual certificates if all requirements are met.
- Developing Students Strengths
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Cost: $500
The Developing Student Strengths and Talents: Professional Development by GERI online course contains ten total units:
- Unit 1: Nature and Needs of Gifted, Creative, and Talented Children and Youth
- Unit 2: Developing Talents in Underserved Populations
- Unit 3: Curriculum Compacting
- Unit 4: Schoolwide Enrichment Model-Reading
- Unit 5: Inquiry and Reflective Practice
- Unit 6: Differentiation in Language Arts and Mathematics
- Unit 7: Student Focused Differentiation
- Unit 8: Total School Cluster Grouping (TSCG)
- Unit 9: Making Sense of Gifted Kids, and Helping Them Make Sense of Themselves
- Unit 10: Assuring Challenge for All through Response to Intervention
- English Language Literacy
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Cost: $75 – Individual — $150 – Group
The four modules in this short course provide a basic introduction to the foundations of teaching English language learners for pre-service and in-service teachers, including mainstream PK-12 teachers, English as a second language (ESL), English as a foreign language (EFL), English as a new language (ENL), English as an Additional Language (EAL), and bilingual education teachers. Teachers of world languages will also find the content applicable. These modules cover what teachers need to know about language, developing communicative competence, second language acquisition theories, teaching methods and approaches, oral language and literacy development, and assessment.
- Understanding Grief of Children and Adolescents
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Cost: $75 – Individual — $150 – Group
5 PGP’s available
Grief and bereavement is such a unique experience and is unique to each individual. This course is designed to help those that work with children and parents help youth understand death and the morning process.
The objectives of the course are:
- Objective #1: Identify ways to discuss death with children.
- Objective #2: Differentiate between Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning
- Objective #3: Compare Mourning Theories
- Youth in Crisis: Suicide Prevention
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Cost: $50 for non-Purdue students and staff
As of July 1, 2013, all individuals applying for an initial teaching license (includes instructional, student services and administrative licenses) are required to show evidence of successfully completing education and training on the prevention of child suicide and the recognition of signs that a student may be considering suicide. A certificate of completion is available upon completion of the course.
- Best Practices for E-learning Days
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Cost: $75 – Individual — $150 – Group
7 PGP’s available
This online course will aid teachers in designing an e-learning day management plan identifying best practices and creating e-learning days expectations and procedures.
The exercises will help you design a template for use in different content areas and give students an introduction to online tools that can aid in successful implementation of e-learning days.
- Introduction video- The video will highlight innovative tools that educators have found to be useful for facilitating eLearning
- Case study- Participants will be asked to read a case study outlining a specific e-learning day. They will be asked to consider how specific tools could be useful to facilitate the planned content.
- Digital job aid- Participants will create a document that includes specific classes of tools and how they might be used to plan, facilitate, and evaluate e-learning days.
- K-12 Co-Curricular Career Education
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Cost: $75 – Individual — $150 – Group
15 PGP’s available
Through this online professional learning opportunity, you will explore three learning modules related to career navigation. Learn about career clusters in agriculture and consumer and family sciences. Completion of this online course will address the Professional Growth Points (PGP) requirements of HEA 1002. Teachers will also walk away with sample lessons plans practical for using in the classroom.
- PoRTAL: Purdue Repository for online Teaching and Learning
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The Purdue Repository for online Teaching and Learning (PoRTAL) digital repository is the go-to resource for anyone interested in online teaching and learning. Are you thinking about moving your courses to an online format? Are you already teaching online and looking for additional ways to engage your students? PoRTAL can help you improve your knowledge and skills as you seek to develop your online courses. Topics include: instructor strategies, course enhancement, pedagogy, active learning, sample tools, and policies to help make your job easier as an online instructor and your courses more engaging for your students.
Articles and research of interest
Few universities can match the depth and breadth of Purdue’s research capabilities and talent. As you explore our world-changing research, you’ll quickly see why Purdue College of Education is a national and global leader in discovery and innovation. This section links to leading published educational research articles from dedicated faculty.
**Publications may have fees associated with access to articles
Preschool teachers’ transition practices and parents’ perceptions as predictors of involvement and children’s school readiness.
Children and Youth Services Review, 109. Puccioni, J., Froiland, J. M., & Moeyaert, M. (2020).
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Preschool teachers can help support families and children successfully transition to kindergarten by utilizing transition practices that support parental involvement and create smooth linkages between early care settings and formal schooling. Additionally, parents’ perceptions of invitations for involvement may also play an important role in shaping parental involvement. Using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Birth cohort (N ≈ 4100) a structural equation model was estimated to examine the relationship among preschool teachers’ transition practices, parents’ perceptions of invitations for involvement, parental involvement, and measures of school readiness during the transition to kindergarten. Results indicate that parent’s perceptions of invitations for involvement are positively associated with home-based parental involvement. Additionally, home-based involvement was predictive of school readiness measures. More specifically, findings suggest that parents who have more positive perceptions about preschool teachers’ invitations for involvement report engaging in more home-based involvement activities, which in turn, was positively associated with children’s academic achievement and prosocial behaviors and negatively associated with conduct problems and hyperactivity/inattention. Results from this study have important practical implications for educators who aim to encourage parental involvement that supports children’s transition to elementary school.
Instructional Scaffolds in Mathematics Instruction for English Learners With Learning Disabilities: An Exploratory Case Study.
Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 18(1) Lei, Q., Xin, Y. P., Morita-Mullaney, T., & Tzur, R. (2020).
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As today’s classrooms become more and more diverse, there is a growing need to explore the intersection between English Learners (ELs) and students with learning disabilities (LD) in the content-specific instruction of mathematics problem solving. The aim of this study was to determine which types of instructional scaffolds may be used by math teachers to effectively support ELs with LD learning multiplicative reasoning. To this end, we employed an exploratory case study based on a frequency count analysis of four scaffold types used by the students and the teacher in their sessions. The results showed that kinesthetic and linguistic scaffolds were the most beneficial for helping ELs with LD to cultivate mathematical thinking with both concrete and abstract units, while also helping to increase the sophistication of their mathematical content-language usage. In combination with small-group interactions, these scaffolds provide an effective instructional method for improving multiplicative reasoning among ELs with LD.
Gauging Uncertainty I Test-to-Curriculum Alignment Indices,
Applied Measurement in Education, Traynor Anne, Tingxuan Li, and Shuqi Zhou, 2020.
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During the development of large-scale school achievement tests, panels of independent subject-matter experts use systematic judgmental methods to rate the correspondence between a given test’s items and performance objective statements. The individual experts’ ratings may then be used to compute summary indices to quantify the match between a given test and its target item domain. The magnitude of alignment index variability across experts within a panel, and randomly-sampled panels, is largely unknown, however. Using rater-by-item data from alignment reviews of 14 US states’ achievement tests, we examine observed distributions and estimate standard errors for three alignment indices developed by Webb. Our results suggest that alignment decisions based on the recommended criterion for the balance-of-representation index may often be uncertain, and that the criterion for the depth-of-knowledge consistency index should perhaps be reconsidered. We also examine current recommendations about the number of expert panelists required to compute these alignment indices.
Building a scalable STEM career development program for elementary school-aged children,
The Journal of STEM Outreach, Sandra Miguel-Lindley McDavid-Loran Parker-Micha Simons -– December 11, 2019
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This article describes an approach to designing a scalable career development curriculum for elementary school students using minimal-cost and readily available resources. Content experts, veterinary medical students, university staff, teachers, community partners, evaluation experts, and a children’s book illustrator developed a library of low-cost, culturally responsive, fun, and educationally engaging lessons to expose elementary school-aged students to scientific knowledge and careers in veterinary medicine. The home team piloted and evaluated the approach at a local community center. Teams in eight other states were provided materials to pilot and assess the program. Seven of those teams successfully piloted the program and provided evidence of child engagement. Although models, props, and other costly supplies enhance delivery of Science Technology Engineering and Math lessons, our experience with the delivery of this curriculum was proof of concept that a low-cost curricular model is one strategy to facilitate scaling and sustainability of an engaging veterinary science curriculum.
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- You will have a fully supported online learning environment.
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