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Online, self-paced graduate courses for teaching license renewal
For more than 25 years, Instructional Delivery Services (IDS) has been meeting the needs of teachers seeking courses to maintain their license. Ursuline has partnered with IDS to offer 3-credit graduate courses taken are online and self-paced to meet the needs of busy teachers.
Whether you are seeking to take a course or two, complete a certificate, or apply credits toward a degree, Ursuline College is here to support you on your journey.
Fall 2024 | October 26-December 7, 2024 |
Spring 2025 | February 22-April 5, 2025 |
Summer 1 2025 | June 2-15, 2025 |
Summer 2 2025 | June 16-29, 2025 |
Summer 3 2025 | July 7-21, 2025 |
Courses are $475 and student register directly with IDS.
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Learning Outcomes
• Students will demonstrate their skill in applying evidence-based principles of effective leadership.
• Students will design practices and structures that create and maintain an effective learning culture.
• Students will develop a shared vision for short- and long-term goals for ongoing school reform and continuous improvement.
• Students will create and build strategic relationships and partnerships to enhance student outcomes.
Courses
EDI 501: Collaborative Coaching
EDI 503: Ethics and Principles of Teacher Leadership
EDI 505: Measurement Based Decision Making in Professional Learning Communities
EDI 507: Practicum in Teacher Leadership
View Teacher Leader Course Descriptions
Learning Outcomes
• Students will create synchronous and asynchronous instructional activities.
• Students will be able to use trending interactive resources.
• Students will utilize technology to enhance collaboration both inside and outside of the classroom.
Courses
EDI 511: Diverse Technology Applications
EDI 513: Google Apps and More
EDI 515: Google in the Digital Classroom
EDI 517: Google Apps and More II
EDI 519: Google in the Digital Classroom II
View Educational Technology Course Descriptions
Learning Outcomes
• Students will become proficient in the use of technology – slides, forms, documents, learning management systems.
• Students will create a blended learning unit or lesson.
• Students will examine trending best practices for using a blended (digital) classroom.
Courses
EDI 521: AI for Educators
EDI 523: Google Slides
EDI 525: Google Fundamental Training
EDI 527: Google Advanced Training
EDI 529: Google Sites
View Advanced Educational Technology Course Descriptions
Learning Outcomes
• Students will apply knowledge of research based instructional delivery strategies to content, process, and products to meet the needs of all students.
• Students will expand their teaching repertoire to include multiple ways to assess students’ learning.
• Students will apply knowledge of how students learn best as they design lessons and instructional strategies.
Courses (Select four courses from the list below)
EDI 531: Science of Reading K-2
EDI 532: Science of Reading 3-5
EDI 533: Reading Comprehension: A Quest for Clarity
EDI 534: Bringing the Science of Reading to Life in Your Classroom
EDI 535: Differentiating Instruction
EDI 536: Reading Assessment: Best Practices for Teachers
EDI 537: Techniques to Check for Understanding
EDI 539: The Science of Dyslexia
View Instructional Delivery Course Descriptions
Learning Outcomes
• Students will use reflection to enhance their professional effectiveness.
• Students will be able to differentiate between growth and a fixed mindset.
• Students will explore tools to improve workplace well-being.
Courses
EDI 541: Mindset, Brain, and Education
EDI 543: Educator Journaling
EDI 545: Educator Wellness
View Enhancing Professional Mindset Course Descriptions
Learning Outcomes
• Students will be able to describe the effects of trauma and poverty on the brain and nervous system.
• Students will apply social and emotional learning concepts in the classroom.
• Students will design strategies to use in the classroom to improve classroom culture, communication, and responsiveness.
Courses
EDI 551: Creating a Trauma Sensitive K-12 Classroom
EDI 553: Teaching Students from Poverty
EDI 555: Social Emotional Learning
EDI 557: What We Say to Students Matters
EDI 559: Teaching After Critical Change
View Enhancing Student Mindset Course Descriptions
Learning Outcomes
• Students will adapt and/or create extension or replacement of the general education curricula.
• Students will apply knowledge of special needs learners’ characteristics to plans, classroom lessons, and assessments.
• Students will exam intervention strategies to determine best practice approaches.
Courses
EDI 561: Meeting the Needs of Gifted Learners
EDI 562: Co-Teaching in the K-12 Environment
EDI 563: Perfectionism: The Anxious Student
EDI 565: IEP’s, WEP’s, and 504’s Oh My!
EDI 567: What Works in K-12 Special and Inclusive Education
EDI 569: Diverse Learners in Your Classroom
View Special Needs Students Course Descriptions
Learning Outcomes
• Students will compare the theoretical and practical basis for methods, techniques, and approaches to classroom management.
• Students will demonstrate awareness of and empathy for individuals, their emotions, experiences, and perspectives through a cross cultural lens.
• Students will design a positive classroom culture that incorporates procedures and routines.
Courses
EDI 571: Student Mindset and Classroom Management
EDI 573: Managing Behaviors with SEL Strategies
EDI 575: Building a Classroom Culture
View Building Classroom Culture Course Descriptions
Learning Outcomes
• Students will analyze research and claims related to the brain and learning to differentiate between myths and facts.
• Students will design brain, mind, instructional design, and delivery simulations in order to expedite and enhance learning, automaticity, neuroplasticity and
intelligence.
• Students will use both diagrammatic representations or the use of video clips to demonstrate how the brain gives rise to the mind and therefore how learning occurs.
Courses
EDI 581: Project Based Learning
EDI 583: Connecting Brain, Mind, and Instructional Design: An Overview
EDI 585: How Brain Processes Give Rise to the Working Mind
EDI 587: How the Mind Generates Instructional Design and Learning
View Brain, Mind, & Instructional Design Course Descriptions
