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Whether you're a new or veteran teacher or an Education Support Professional, the NEA Academy will meet your needs for improving your knowledge and skills. All professional development courses offered through the NEA Academy are carefully screened against a set of quality standards developed by NEA members in consultation with the National Staff Development Council. Only the best courses of the highest quality make it through the screening process.
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How To "Read and Write" in Math: Improving Problem Solving and Communications in Mathematics
This course explores a wide range of instructional strategies for math problem solving and math communication.
Rights and Responsibilities in the Disciplinary Process
This course is designed to help educators understand their school's discipline policies and to better manage violent and disruptive behaviors.
Conducting the Parent Conference
This course provides a seven-step interview process for working with parents who may be defensive or difficult.
Curriculum Mapping I
This course focuses on curriculum mapping, an educational tool aimed at fine-tuning the scope and sequence of the curriculum that students encounter through their 13 years of schooling.
Teaching Reading in the Content Areas
This course includes differentiated instructional practices to help teachers incorporate research-based reading strategies in the content areas and into specific content lessons. The goal is to build student reading skills in all instructional activity.
Using Multimedia to Develop Understanding
The overall goal of this course is for the participant to develop skills in using multimedia that promote student learning and high-level thinking skills.
Differentiated Instruction for Successful Inclusion
This course has a broad-based pedagogical focus and covers the topics of classroom management, assessment, curriculum mapping, instructional design, and intervention models.
The 5 Practices of Highly Effective Classrooms
This program presents instructional research focused on instructional strategies, literacy skills (including reading, reflection, note taking, vocabulary, compare and contrast), learning styles, curriculum design, and instructional learning teams.
Teaching the ESL Learner
This course provides strategies for all classroom teachers and paraprofessionals to use in working effectively with students of limited English proficiency.
I Can Do It!
This course identifies and demonstrates the elements for effective classroom management.
Effective Teaching in Diverse Classrooms
This course explores strategies that will work with all learners with a focus on language acquisition.
Visiting Scholars Series
These presentations feature nationally renowned scholars who focus on a variety of teacher quality and public education issues including teacher preparation, national board certification, English language Learners, and Closing the Achievement Gap.
What’s Your IEQ? A Roadmap to School Indoor Environmental Quality
This course explores indoor environmental quality (IEQ) for schools and educator workplaces.
NEA Academy On Demand
Presentations focus on a variety of public education issues including: response to intervention; teacher quality; teacher preparation; national board certification; English language learners; and closing the achievement gap.
Teaching in a Mixed Ability Classroom
This course addresses different needs and learning styles of students and strategies for accommodating many styles in one classroom.
Introduction to Differentiated Instruction
This course develops strategies to differentiate instruction based on variance in student readiness, interest, and learning approach.
Online Professional Development for Teachers Grades 3-5
This course provides grades 3-5 math content knowledge through interactive video presentations, hands-on activities and problems solving.
Online Professional Development for Teachers Grades 6-8
This course provides grades 6-8 math content knowledge through interactive video presentations, hands-on activities and problems solving.
Online Professional Development for Pre-Algebra Teachers
This course is designed to help teachers build a solid base of math content knowledge and provide methodologies and strategies for introducing concepts and teaching math objectives.
Accommodating All Learners
Participants in this course will be introduced to learning styles for both adults and students and reflect on how instructor learning styles impact teaching styles.
Reading Across the Curriculum
This course focuses on strategies for reading instruction in all content areas and includes research on reading and learning, student learning ranges, and the Cloze system.
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