Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Identify current trends, challenges, and issues in secondary education.
- Analyze how external factors may influence changes in the field of education.
- Identify strategies for building cultural competency in secondary classrooms.
- Identify the characteristics of a 21st century classroom.
- Examine the role of national and state standards in guiding instructional planning.
- Distinguish between goals and objectives.
- Demonstrate the components of instructional planning.
- Integrate technology into instructional planning.
- Analyze how learning styles and modalities influence instructional design.
- Differentiate between student-centered and teacher-centered instruction.
- Develop questioning techniques that deepen students’ content knowledge and check for students’ understanding.
- Identify ways to foster learners’ engagement through collaboration and critical thinking.
- Critique the effectiveness of different lesson delivery scenarios.
- Examine ways to create opportunities for diverse secondary students to demonstrate their learning in various ways.
- Explain the purpose of assessment and the principles that guide this process.
- Examine how data is used to identify students’ prior knowledge and diverse needs and to enhance instruction.
- Illustrate different types of assessment items that are linked to instructional objectives.