GISD PD Resources
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Training Courses: Fundamentals, Advanced, First Day of Class, First Day on Forms, etc.
Certifications: Educator Level 1, Educator Level 2, Trainer, Innovator
Intel® Teach helps K–12 teachers of all subjects engage students with digital learning, including digital content, Web 2.0, social networking, and online tools and resources. Intel Teach professional development empowers teachers to integrate technology effectively into their existing curriculum, focusing on their students’ problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration, which are precisely the skills required in the high tech, networked society in which we live.
Intel® Teach Elements are free, just-in-time professional development courses that you can experience now, anytime, anywhere. This series of compelling courses provides deeper exploration of 21st century learning concepts.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/k12/teach-elements.html
NEA Micro-Credentials
Professional learning by educators, for educators. Free trainings that typically take 15 hours and has certifications.
https://nea.certificationbank.com/
EdX offers online education courses covering a broad range of topics from educational policy and history to curriculum design and teaching techniques. Explore case studies in teaching and learn about how technology is increasing access to quality education on an unprecedented scale.
Offers free self-paced courses. For an additional fee can get a certificate.
https://www.edx.org/course/subject/education-teacher-training
Frontline has a Resource Library available for PD. It is free and any teacher can access with their Frontline credentials. Just click on Resource Library and then Browse Library
ASCD offers free educator webinars over a variety of topics.
http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/webinars/ascd-webinar-archive.aspx
TeachersFirst’s “OK2Ask” series is extremely easy to access and user-friendly. Search through webinars by keywords, subject, and grade level to access the material you are looking for. OK2Ask gives you access to literally thousands of phenomenally facilitated archived webinars. A free membership can give you access to some other extremely useful features such as access to exclusive content and the ability to “favorite” sessions.
edWeb is great, as they look not only to provide PD webinars for those interested, but they also facilitate online PLC communities. These communities can request and create webinar sessions, learn from each other, trade ideas and strategies, and workshop new ideas. Although edWeb does not allow access to the webinar archives, the sessions are year-round, and members can join a number of the PLC communities organized around a variety of focus areas, from Blended Learning to Digital Citizenship to Teaching Students with Autism. All free. https://home.edweb.net/
Cisco Networking Academy: Free Online Self-Paced Courses Learners everywhere are invited to discover technology for the first time, or explore additional technology topics.
https://www.netacad.com/region/north-america/self-paced
TeachingChannel doesn’t follow the “webinar” format, but it does a great job of creating video-based PD sessions that get the camera in the classroom, allowing you to watch strategies in action with real students and real educators. An extremely practical resource. Your free membership gives you access to hundreds of videos, outlining the newest classroom strategies. The site also has a phenomenal blog, where educators in the field share their ideas and reflections on practice, and an online “Q & A” community. This is the PD resource for educators who need to hear it from other educators, and see it in the classroom to believe it. https://www.teachingchannel.com/
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads an online coursework selection called MITOpenCourseWare. Educators can select the “Teaching and Education” topic and refine their search by sub-topic and specialties to enroll in classes online.
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#
The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program provides primary source-based staff development to teachers across the country.
Sanford Inspire celebrates and develops inspirational educators through free on-demand courses and resources designed to support social emotional learning and inspirational instruction in the PK-12 classroom and at our partner universities.
Sophia’s site in general provides affordable online courses for college credit. However, Sophia for Teachers is completely free with registration. For example, Capella University’s “Professional Development Courses for Digital Age Classroom” section covers a wide range of 21st century topics, all live, full online courses, easy-to-access, and all directed toward practitioners in the field. Their webinars boast of “real teachers teaching teachers,” and seem to mostly center around EdTech resources and best practices, including year-round sessions from education superstars like Bill Nye. https://www.sophia.org/
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: WEBINARS
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Our Foundation is dedicated to transforming K-12 education so that all students can acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to thrive in their studies, careers, and adult lives. We take a strategic approach to improving K-12 education through two distinct areas of focus: Edutopia and Lucas Education Research.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
https://www.ted.com/playlists/125/tv_special_ted_talks_educatio
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