Online Courses for Teachers

Moving Beyond Remediation to Empower Sustainable Learning

(Grades K-12) / Flex Course

PDI Course Number: 154T02 / UCSD Course Number: EDUC42546

Course Description

Do you often find yourself feeling frustrated because despite your best efforts, students appear to be slipping backwards instead of steadily moving forward? Are you finding it difficult to move past remediation so that your teaching practices can become more sustainable? The pandemic turned the educational landscape upside down, with many teachers finding themselves reteaching skills and standards from prior years before launching into their grade-level content. This online course for teachers is designed to equip K-12 educators with the tools they need to target students with varying academic needs who are at different readiness levels so that they can successfully take on their grade-level content. The course begins by outlining the steps to properly identify the essential standards and pre-requisite skills required to make learning more sustainable. From there, teachers will learn how to prioritize critical skills and adjust their year-long scope and sequence accordingly. Teachers will explore how to utilize pre-assessment, as well as formative and summative assessments to monitor student progress. Guided by an MTSS framework, teachers will learn to tailor their instruction of essential standards into Tiers 1, 2, and 3. Teachers will explore several strategies for involving students in the learning process thereby keeping them more engaged. Finally, teachers will learn how to switch their mindsets from one of a loss perspective to that which strives to make the teaching process more sustainable. By the end of this continuing education course, teachers will feel more confident and successful in their quest to attack the unique barriers that exist in terms of learning and knowledge retention so that students can get on the road to recovery as quickly and as efficiently as possible. This online professional development course is worth 3 ⅓ semester units/5 quarter units (50 hours of training) from University of California San Diego (UCSD) Division of Extended Studies. For detailed information on receiving university credit for your PDI professional development course, visit our credit page.

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"This course offered valuable information and useful resources. Many great ideas were shared that can be implemented with my students." - Sheila Webb