Teaching High School Students
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Teaching High School Students
How can you reach students in the high school class? What can you do to motivate and teach so that your students are ready to succeed in life as well as school? In this course, you’ll learn about the latest teaching strategies and techniques that can help your secondary students achieve academically and behave responsibly. You will cover a broad range of topics, including differentiated instruction, classroom management and discipline, assessment strategies, and gaining parental support. You will discover tips for creating need-fulfilling lessons that engage students, suggestions for using simulations and games that make learning enjoyable, and how to teach your students the social-emotional skills they need to succeed both in school and in life. You will learn how to motivate students with recognition, rewards, and reinforcement, how to deal with discipline problems, and the value of varying your assessment strategies.
Throughout the course, you will view videos that illustrate the concepts you’re learning. You will hear from education experts and see actual classroom teachers demonstrating the techniques taught in this course. Guest experts appearing in the videos include Dr. William Glasser (Choice Theory), Dr. Carol Tomlinson (The Differentiated Classroom), Dr. Jane Bluestein (The Win-Win Classroom), and Jon Erwin (Inspiring the Best in Students). By the end of this course, you will have mastered proven ways to help your high school students succeed both in school and in life!
Syllabus
- Lesson 1 – Understanding High School Students
- Lesson 2 – Classroom Organization and Management
- Lesson 3 – Building Positive Relationships With Students
- Lesson 4 – Recognition, Rewards, and Reinforcement
- Lesson 5 – Differentiation in High School
- Lesson 6 – Social-Emotional Learning
- Lesson 7 – Learner-Centered Instruction
- Lesson 8 – Gaining Parental Support
- Lesson 9 – Varying Your Assessment Strategies
- Lesson 10 – Dealing With Common Discipline Problems
- Lesson 11 – Dealing With Serious Discipline Problems
- Lesson 12 – Making Learning Fun
Requirements:
Hardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 8 or later.
- Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
- Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
Other:
Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites to take this course.
Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.
<ul><li>6 Weeks Access</li>
<li>Course Code: ths</li>
<li>Start Dates* Jan 12 | Feb 09 | Mar 16 | Apr 13 </li>
<li>$187.00 USD</li></ul>
Annemarie Thompson is an award winning learning designer with over 15 years of experience in the distance learning industry. She produces courses on key teacher development topics including Differentiated Instruction, Classroom Discipline, and Classroom Management. Her courses have been offered by more than 100 colleges and universities and were the basis of an accredited online master's program.