Education (Act 48)

Easy Classroom Podcasting

Have you ever felt like you just can't reach your students? They speak the language of technology while you speak the language of, well, teachers. But what if there was a bridge between the two? In this professional training course for teachers, you'll learn how to make a podcast that creates a memorable learning experience for your students. You'll find their interest reignited when you start using their favorite formats: audio, images, and video. You won't even need an iPod or a big budget to harness the power of podcasting in your classroom.

ECPED 0038
$89
Approved Hours: 24 (Act 48)

Become a Reading Teacher . . . (Learn How to Teach Like One)

Learn the strategies that reading teachers use to help students master content material across disciplines. Discover ways to build vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. Practice techniques to enhance critical-thinking skills through predicting, inferring, analyzing and synthesizing text. Explore how to help students connect and respond to text in ways that will make text meaningful and encourage lifelong learning.

Alice Urbanski
Newtown Campus
$59
OCPED 0565 C01
Sa, 10/10, 9 am-4 pm
Approved Hours: 6 (Act 48)

Attachment Parenting: A Teachers Guide

Discover how Attachment Parenting promotes the brain development of babies and decreases a baby’s crying while increasing closeness. Find out how it lays the groundwork for less disciplinary need for a child in the future. You will be introduced to the tools of “AP”, learn how to implement them into your class and pass this important information on to parents.

Brandi Davis, B.S.
Lower Bucks Campus
$19/OCPED 0600 C50
Tu, 10/6, 7-9 pm
Approved Hours: 2 (Act 48, CDA)

Big Feelings Can Come in Small Packages

How do we hear and respond to children’s feelings? Learn to understand these feelings, and to give children the tools that they need to constructively express their feelings, which will result in a more peaceful and cooperative classroom environment.

Brandi Davis, B.S.
Lower Bucks Campus
$19/OCPED 0601 C50
Tu, 10/27, 7-9 pm
Approved Hours: 2 (Act 48, CDA)

I Asked For a Bike, Not a Baby: A Childs View of a New Family Member

Regression, strong feelings, and sibling preparation activities are just a few things that will be covered in this class. After stories, book recommendations, role playing and class discussions, you will leave with a new outlook on what to expect and how to work with your students to make bringing home baby as positive a experience as possible.

Brandi Davis, B.S.
Lower Bucks Campus
$19/OCPED 0602 C50
Tu, 11/10, 7-9 pm
Approved Hours: 2 (Act 48,CDA)

Working Together Works - Bringing Teamwork to Your Classroom

A lively, interactive 2-hour seminar where you will explore new ways of bringing calm and cooperation to your relationship with the children in your classroom. Learn a new perspective on how to engage children in the daily activities and routines of the classroom without raised voices.

Brandi Davis, B.S.
Lower Bucks Campus
$19/OCPED 0603 C50
Tu, 11/17, 7-9 pm
Approved Hours: 2 (Act 48, CDA)

Enhancing Language Development; in Childhood

Follow your child's lead and have fun while enhancing language development! In this fun and user-friendly course for parents, teachers, and caregivers, you will discover how children learn to process language and how they become proficient speakers and thinkers. This course will help you enrich your child's life by stimulating his or her continued speech, brain, and language development in an enjoyable, age-appropriate, and natural way.

Kt Paxton, B.A.
Online
$89/ECPED 0021
Approved Hours: 24 (Act 48, CDA)

Ready, Set, Read!

Take this opportunity to find out how children really learn to read and write. Explore current research that cuts through the media messages about reading wars and the right way to teach children. Learn by reading stories about children, doing interactive assignments, and exploring the latest in parent and childcare information. You will see everyday children’s play with a new eye as you understand how play can connect to literacy.

Kt Paxton, B.A.
Online
$89/ECPED 0020
Approved Hours: 24 (Act 48, CDA)