Teacher Professional Development Courses and Certifications

Commonwealth Education Trust

Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Being a Professional

224 ratings at Coursera

Develop a personal philosophy of teaching, apply professional ethics and codes of conduct, weigh duty of care and legal responsibilities, and build collaborative professional learning communities.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Teaching Popular Music in the Classroom

105 ratings at Coursera

Learn to teach popular music in secondary classrooms: guide student improvisation, songwriting, arranging with interactive media tools, and small contemporary ensembles aligned to core music standards.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Whole Class with PhET for STEM Education

24 ratings at Coursera

Learn whole-class teaching strategies with PhET simulations on a projector or shared screen: Whole Class Inquiry, Interactive Lecture Demonstrations, and Concept Questions for peer instruction.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Teaching in University Science Laboratories (Developing Best Practice)

151 ratings at Coursera

Learn to design and run university science lab sessions: engage students, apply learning theories, give instructions and questions, and assess with rubrics and constructive alignment.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Teaching Electricity and Magnetism with PhET Simulations

Teach introductory electricity and magnetism with 16 PhET simulations: explore charge, fields, circuits and induction, apply questioning and modeling strategies, and design a sim-based unit plan.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

This course will give participants methods for creating, presenting and evaluating effective teacher training workshops in their local contexts.

• Canvas Network
• 6 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Certificate

Outcome Based Education (OBE) & Academic Quality Assurance

1954 ratings at Udemy

Designing Teaching, Learning, and Assessment for Measurable Learning Outcomes and Academic Quality

• Udemy
• 8 hours 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

School gardens for future citizens

Design and maintain school gardens as cross-curricular teaching resources, plan garden-based learning activities, and apply digital tools and Internet of Things technologies with students.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Exploratorium

Exploring Light: Hands-on Activities and Strategies for Teachers

57 ratings at Coursera

Explore light through hands-on "Science Snacks": investigate visual perception, historical models of light, optics and image making, and wave behavior, then design your own classroom lesson.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Exploratorium

Tinkering Fundamentals: Circuits

48 ratings at Coursera

Develop a tinkering practice through circuit activities — circuit boards, Scribbling Machines, paper and sewn circuits — plus facilitation strategies, activity design, and learning indicators for STEM classrooms.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Alexander Technique Teacher Workshop: Integrating the Voice in an Alexander Lesson (Live Online)

29 ratings at CourseHorse

Discover how integrating the voice into your teaching can enhance the practice of the Alexander Technique.

• CourseHorse
• 1 hour 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• $55.00

Disability Inclusion in Education: Building Systems of Support

15 ratings

Learn to support learners who are D/deaf, blind or have severe intellectual disabilities: models of disability, systemic support structures, and universal design for learning plans.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Tutoring and Teaching Math for Understanding

Learn to teach math for conceptual understanding: spot and modify tasks that need more than procedural fluency, assess student thinking, and use guiding questions and multiple representations.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Becoming a Language Friendly Teacher

Learn to teach in linguistically diverse classrooms: support home languages and language identity, apply language friendly strategies, involve multilingual caregivers, and use multilingual digital storytelling tools.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Praxis English to Speakers of Other Languages (5362) Prep

Prepare for the Praxis ESOL (5362) exam through focused study of linguistics, second-language learning, ESL instruction, and assessment.

• Study.com
• 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course