Professional Development

• Google for Education offers free training for teachers! Use your @bialik.ca email address to log on and get started with courses like Google fundamental training, digital citizenship, and even Google certified educator programs. Click here to view all the courses Google offers.
• Edtechteam Online offers a variety of Google-centric courses specific to educators! Popular courses include their Zero to Ninja Classroom Dojos (click here), Teacher Leadership, and their “Just in Time” courses (click here), which take you through better implementing technology into your classrooms.
• Are you interested in expanding your STE(A)M knowledge? Abbey highly recommends attending the Summer ARTS INTEGRATION & STEAM ONLINE CONFERENCE (click here to learn more). It’s an all-day, online conference in July. You’ll have access to all resources forever and was really fantastic to learn and speak to other educators.
• Education Closet, which hosts the above conference, also has online & self-paced courses focuses on STEAM integration. Click here to view their list of courses.
• ASCD offers online PD (click here for link) focusing on a wide variety of relevant topics, such as blended learning, STEM, differentiation, etc.
• Intel Teach Elements offers “Engaging eLearning Courses for K-12 Educators” (click here for link), which include online courses such as “Thinking Critically with Data” and “Collaboration in the Digital Classroom”.
• PBS.org offers very highly-rated online courses (click here for access). Many of these are legit PD, like 30 hours, but the topics seem really interesting.

Edweb offers almost daily webinars on a wide variety of topics, such as Working with Students with Autism, Developing a Visual Learning and Teaching Toolbox, Supporting the Grieving Student, and lots more. Click here to view their summer schedule.