What would you like to see offered for renewal courses?

Heartland is seeking your help. What courses would you like to see offered during the Spring or the Summer, please leave your suggestions or feedback in the Post a Comment section below.

Teaching Brass Instruments

How to guide young brass players from beginning to advanced as well as solutions to common brass-playing problems. Participants are required to bring a brass instrument. Very helpful for teachers who are mainly woodwind players.

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Salisbury House: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Using Salisbury House as a resource, this on-site interdisciplinary workshop will engage participants in art, social science, language arts, and science activities. Participants will engage in interdisciplinary activities on day 1 and develop their own activities on day 2. Teams of teachers are encouraged to enroll. This is a great team building workshop to help kick off the new school year! License Renewal and EDEX credit is being offered.

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Love and Logic Classroom: Nine Essential Skills

Love and Logic Classroom: Nine Essential Skills
In "Love and Logic Classroom: Nine Essential Skills" teachers will learn powerful skills to help end student arguing and back talk, guide kids to own and solve their own problems, build positive relationships with challenging students, raise test scores, prevent problems, and preserve the teaching and learning environment in the classroom. This class teaches low stress strategies that will help to build strong schools where teachers have time to teach and students want to learn. It can help to put the fun back into teaching! The registration fee includes a "Nine Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom" workbook.

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Love and Logic Classroom: Nine Essential Skills (Advanced)
Prerequisite: "Love and Logic Classroom: Nine Essential Skills" 
In Advanced Love and Logic Classroom: Nine Essential Skills, participants will learn:

• How to define discipline style: Enforce, Enable, or Empower 
• How to apply Love and Logic in your current discipline system 
• 23 Quick and Easy Preventive Interventions 
• How to share discipline with your colleagues 
• How to handle the confrontive person on the phone and face to face 
• How to distinguish between fear and anger 
• Understanding of the Loss Syndrome 
• How to keep the momentum of class going in the face of interruptions, arguments, and nasty backtalk 
• Understanding of student needs, and the teacher's needs in a classroom 
• How to Change behavior, Theirs and Ours 
• Handle it now or Handle it Laterb - How to pass it on 

Participants need to bring their "Nine Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom" workbook that they received in the basic level course.

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Housing and Interiors for Family and Consumer Sciences Instructors

Principles of teaching and learning applied to housing and interiors content. Instructional methods and specific strategies for use in the Family and Consumer Sciences classroom with a focus on interior design principles. Projects will require the completion of several small activities that can lead to a final FCS housing/interiors classroom assessment.

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Rules of Engagement in Foreign Language

Take your foreign language instruction to a whole new level. If you want them to hear it, "you talk," if you want them to LEARN it ... "they talk." Receive tons of ideas that will help your students become active participants in their own learning. Learn brain-friendly strategies for engagement you can implement immediately with proven results. You will learn the strategies by immersing in the strategies. A must have for all second language teachers! There is a $5 materials fee included in the registration fee.

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Cognitive Coaching: Planning and Reflecting (Level I)

Cognitive Coaching (Level 1) is a 4-day experience during which participants will build their communication and problem-solving skills through the process of becoming intentional about how we mediate for someone else's effectiveness. Planning and reflecting will be included. Research, modeling and practice will support learning. Cognitive Coaching is a process that supports individuals working together to improve their skills in a variety of situations. The registration fee includes a learning guide.

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ActivExpressions=ActivLearning!

Checking for understanding has never been so timely or easy! Participants will learn how to use the ActivExpressions student answering systems to improve the way they teach and how students learn. Participants will learn how to create the 3 different types of quizzes ActivInpire has to offer, prepare quizzes, and use the results in a variety of ways to show student learning.

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Technology in Early Childhood Education

This class is designed to share practical technology applications that can be used to support cognitive, motor and communication skills development with early childhood students. Participants will learn to use technology to develop or incorporate instructional materials using an iPad/iPhone/iTouch into their classroom and/or direct service practice. Participants will also gain information on the basic uses and simple tips and tricks of the iPad/iPhone/iTouch. This course will also include other online resources for early childhood providers to use in their daily practice to assist in time saving techniques and enhance their knowledge of resources available to them. To quote the recent NAEYC position paper Technology in Early Childhood Programs, "The genie is out of the bottle; technology is here to stay." Many of our youngest students are using devices in their homes and preschool. As an early childhood service provider, it is important to be current in your resources and ability to use these devices.

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Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment for Teachers

This course is designed for Early Childhood practitioners to learn about the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System. Participants will have opportunities to examine the Objectives for Development and Learning and additional materials used in implementing the assessment system. Early Childhood educators will review children's portfolios and complete the assessment using both the paper-based and on-line systems. Use of the GOLD assessment system will facilitate instruction based on data gathered during the assessment process that accurately pinpoints where children are in their development and learning. Participants will explore the dedicated online portal which promotes communication with families and educational team members. The assessment system is an easy-to-understand approach to observation, documentation, child portfolio-building, and reporting. Participants will receive a Child Assessment Portfolio and an Objectives for Development & Learning miniposter.

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Introduction to The Creative Curriculum for Preschool

This course will explore the philosophy of The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, the theory and research supporting it, and an overview of Volumes 1 (The Foundation) and Volume 2 (Interest Areas) of The Creative Curriculum for Preschool Fifth Edition. The Foundation includes topics such as How Children Develop and Learn, The Learning Environment, What Children learn, The Teacher's Role, and Partnering with Families. Participants will deepen their understanding of the Iowa Quality Preschool Program Standards and the Iowa Early Learning Standards and examine the connections between these standards and The creative Curriculum. Additionally, participants will practice strategies and environmental supports that will allow for routine and regular implementation of meaningful experiences throughout the daily routine in the early childhood classroom. The registration fee includes the booklet "The Coach's Recording Tool."

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iPads in Early Elementary

Bring your iPad and learn how to jazz up centers, engage students in whole class activities, and differentiate learning with the iPad in early elementary. I will showcase some "must have" apps and accessories. Participants will be able to explore the features of an iPad, explore iTunes Store in search for Apps that would enhance their curriculum, download Apps from the iTunes Store to own hand-held device, and prepare lessons/centers/projects for the iPads in their curriculum. Free iTunes card to be given away!

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Future of Secondary PE

The purpose of the course will be to improve physical education instruction. Topics will include best practice for assessment, changing units to emphasize competing without aggression, maximizing time in PE class, and infusing technology into PE. Students will explore current practices and research professional literature.

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Preventing Childhood Obesity II

NOTE: Preventing Childhood Obesity I is NOT a pre-requisite for this course.

In this class, we will look at the industrialized nature of our country's food supply. We will explore relationships between how our food is produced and human health, workers' rights, animal welfare, and other concerns about our food system. We will visit an organic farm and store near Des Moines and a dairy farm and creamery near Woodward.

Please click here for more information or to register for the June 5 & 6 course.
Please click here for more information or to register for the July 18 & 19 course.

Promethean/ActivInspire Beyond the Basics

This course will help you create flipcharts that will get students out of their seats and engaged in learning on the Promethean whiteboard! Participants will learn how to use advanced tools in ActivInspire, explore and download lessons from www.prometheanplanet.com, and prepare lessons/flipcharts templates that can be used over and over again. Be ready to create

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SolidWorks 2012- Level 1 and 2

Level 1
This class will teach SolidWorks 2011-2012 CAD software. This class will cover Basic sketching and Basic solid modeling.

Note: Interested educators need to contact Todd Woolston at 1-888-509-0690 before registering for either license renewal credit or graduate credit.

The registration fee for this class is $300.00 through Mid-West 3D Solutions, LLC.

Additional Costs: Information regarding license renewal credit ($25.00) through Heartland AEA and graduate credit through Drake ($100.00) will be available the first day of the class payable to Heartland AEA 11. You will not be able to register below for the credit until the first day.

Please click here for more information for SolidWorks 2012 Level 1.
Please click here for more information for SolidWorks 2012 Level 2.

Implementing iPad2 Technology into School Counseling

This training is for school counselors interested in using IPad2 technology to enhance their counseling programs. Participants will learn basic iPad functions, explore apps for counseling, and create lessons to use within their programs.

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Summer Vacation: Destination Literacy!

One hour of staff development will be offered for attending both days of the conference.

Conference sessions featured:

• Nationally known speakers/authors 
• Literacy development 
• Education Research 
• Strategies and Assessments 
• Content area reading 
• Best practices in reading 
• Electronic learning 
• Information literacy 
• Exhibits 

For registration information, go to the website to download a registration flyer: http://www.iowareading.org/Iowa_Reading_Association/Home.html

This conference is open to all interested classroom teachers, reading/writing educators (pre-school level and up), administrators, parents, home-school teachers, etc.

Full Conference Registration:
Before 6/1

• Member $150
• Non-Member $180
• Full-Time Students $30
•  Retired Teachers $45

After 6/1

• Member $170
• Non-Member $200
• Full-Time Students $35
•  Retired Teachers $55

One Day Registration:
Before 6/1

• Member $95
• Non-Member $110
• Full-Time Students $25
•  Retired Teachers $30

After 6/1

• Member $110
• Non-Member $125
• Full-Time Students $30
•  Retired Teachers $40

Additional Costs:
 Information in regards to obtaining license renewal credit from Heartland AEA ($25.00) will be available the first day of the conference between 7:30 am - 8:00 am by the registration area.

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Mixed Media

Mixed media means using more than one medium to create a piece of artwork. Participants will "think outside of the box" using found objects to create art.

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Writing and Literacy Support with Clicker 6

Learn to use Clicker 6 software program to support literacy for students with a wide range of abilities and ages, including struggling readers and writers. Clicker 6 provides literacy support through a word processor enhanced with speech, highlighting-as-reading, images, video, word prediction, painting tools and interactive books. Keyboarding is not required as Clicker 6 incorporates alternative input methods. Participants will learn how to quickly create interactive instructional materials using Clicker 6 templates, wizards and on-line resources. Clicker 6 is a tool to increase independent work completion and enable students to access the curriculum. This class is based on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, which facilitate lesson planning or curricula development to reduce barriers to learning for all students.

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Drawing Processes for Classroom Use

Practical exercises in a variety of drawing techniques (line variation, blending, pencil techniques, etc.) and mediums. Recommended for those interested in learning more about the Art of Drawing. Curriculum geared for the Middle School-Secondary Educator. Participants will be asked to provide their own materials--the instructor will send the participants a supply list prior to the class (some supplies may be available for purchase at class). This class will provide direction and time for application. Participants do not have to be Art Educators.

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Boardmaker Plus: Interactive Visual Supports for Students with Special Needs

Create interactive visual supports to enhance, modify or adapt instructional materials with Boardmaker Plus software. Learn basic through advanced features and tools of Boardmaker Plus software to support learners across a broad range of ages and abilities. Participants will develop interactive activities that support literacy, reading, writing and accessing the curriculum. This course is intended for educators interested in Universal Design for Learning and the instructional needs of students with special needs.
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A Practical Approach to Educating Students in Poverty

This course will provide educators with concrete tools for working more effectively with students living in poverty. It will provide a foundation for understanding poverty and what to do about it in school buildings and classrooms. Participants can expect a combination of engaging discussions and refection time as well as videotaped clips of Dr. Donna Beegle, a national public speaker and author on the topic of poverty. The registration fee includes an Action Approach Guidebook (this book is a companion to the DVD: "Be the Difference! An Action Approach to Educating Students in Poverty").

Please click here for more information or to register for the March 3 and March 10 course.
Please click here for more information or to register for the June 12 - 13 course.

Supporting Under-Resourced Students and Families

Many of our students come to school without the supports to help them become successful. They are "Under-Resourced." This course will explore the what and how of supporting students and families. Included in the two-day course will be a historical perspective, understanding students and family needs, and strategies to meet those needs.

Please click here for more information or to register for the March 24 and 31 course.
Please click here for more information or to register for the July 12 - 13 course.

PowerPoint 2010 for Educators

This course will provide instruction in PowerPoint 2010. Instruction in the program will begin at the basic level and will include some intermediate and advanced features of the software. Instruction will be hands-on and participants will receive handouts to help them maintain their skills. Activities for implementing the program in the classroom will be discussed. During the two-day class, participants will create PowerPoint presentations that they can use in their classroom. Although new ideas will be discussed, participants should also bring their own ideas and information for classroom projects of things they would like to create. This class is for teachers who currently use an older version and need to transition to the newer version and also for teachers who are new to using PowerPoint.

Please click here for more information or to register for the June 6 - 7 course.
Please click here for more information or to register for the June 18 - 19 course.

Word 2010 for Educators

This course will provide instruction in Microsoft Word 2010. Instruction in the program will begin at the basic level and will include some intermediate and advanced features of the software. Instruction will be hands-on and participants will receive handouts to help them maintain their skills. Activities for implementing the program in the classroom will be discussed. During the two-day class, participants will create Word documents that they can use in their classroom. Although new ideas will be discussed, participants should also bring their own ideas and information for classroom projects of things they would like to create. This class is for teachers who currently use an older version and need to transition to the newer version and also for teachers who are new to Word

Please click here for more information or to register for the March 27, March 29, April 3 and April 5 course.
Please click here for more information or to register for the June 4 - 5 course.
Please click here for more information or to register for the June 13 - 14 course. 

Working with your Paraeducator

There are a number of benefits that can be experienced if paraeducators are utilized effectively. Paraeducators provide a viable and powerful means of delivering services to students if they are properly prepared for their duties and provided with adequate support and supervision. We will be exploring how to effectively communicate with a paraeducator as well as what roles and responsibilities should be assigned to the paraeducator. Teachers play a significant role in contributing to policies concerning paraeducator use, selection, assignment, training, supervision and evaluation. Come and learn how you can get the most from your relationship with your paraeducator.

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Paraeducator Certification: Communication, Ethics & Confidentiality

NOTE: Paraeducators currently employed in an Area 11 school district should check with their building principal for other options before signing up for this class.

Prerequisite: All applicants for a Paraeducator Certificate must have a high school diploma or graduate equivalent diploma and be a minimum of 18 years of age. This is Course #1 of the three courses required to receive a Paraeducator Generalist Certificate. These classes must be taken in the following order: (1) Communication, Ethics & Confidentiality; (2) Roles and Responsibilities; (3) Behavior Improvement. Participants will develop skills and strategies to enhance communication and examine situations where professionalism, ethical standards, and confidentiality will guide the correct course of action when working with colleagues, students, parents, and others.

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**This course is not appropriate for teachers to take for license renewal.
**This course would not be appropriate if you successfully completed the online paraeducator program through your district.

Paraeducator Certification: Roles and Responsibilities

NOTE: Paraeducators currently employed in an Area 11 school district should check with their building principal for other options before signing up for this class.

Prerequisite: All applicants for a Paraeducator Certificate must have a high school diploma or graduate equivalent diploma and be a minimum of 18 years of age. This is Course #2 of the three courses required to receive a Paraeducator Generalist Certificate. These classes must be taken in the following order: (1) Communication, Ethics & Confidentiality; (2) Roles and Responsibilities; (3) Behavior Improvement. Participants will develop skills and strategies to assist, support and maintain safe environments, educational activities, team interventions, and technology integration when working with colleagues, students, parents, and others.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

**This course is not appropriate for teachers to take for license renewal.
**This course would not be appropriate if you successfully completed the online paraeducator program through your district.

Paraeducator Certification: Behavior Improvement

NOTE: Paraeducators currently employed in an Area 11 school district should check with their building principal for other options before signing up for this class.

Prerequisite: All applicants for a Paraeducator Certificate must have a high school diploma or graduate equivalent diploma and be a minimum of 18 years of age. This is Course #3 of the three courses required to receive a Paraeducator Generalist Certificate. These classes must be taken in the following order: (1) Communication, Ethics & Confidentiality; (2) Roles and Responsibilities; (3) Behavior Improvement. Participants will gain knowledge, skills and strategies to assist, support and maintain the positive social, emotional and behavioral development of children.

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**This course is not appropriate for teachers to take for license renewal.
**This course would not be appropriate if you successfully completed the online paraeducator program through your district.

Paraeducator Certification: Early Childhood

Priority will be given to certified paraeducators in Area 11.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of the three Paraeducator Generalist Certification courses or completion of Heartland's online paraeducator course leading to the Paraeducator Generalist Certification is a prerequisite to receive a Level II certification. This class may also be part of a staff development plan for teaching assistants with an Associates degree or two years of college in fields other than early childhood addressing how early childhood expertise is being provided to guide the curriculum.

Reminder: You must have been issued your Paraeducator Generalist Certificate by the Board of Educational Examiners (BOEE) prior to completing this course in order to use the credit from this course to renew your Paraeducator Generalist Certificate. This is the required course to receive the Paraeducator Certification Generalist II with the Area of Concentration: Early Childhood. Participants will gain knowledge, skills and strategies to assist, support and maintain the positive social, emotional and behavioral development of early childhood students and special needs early childhood students. The focus of this course will be on early childhood birth to grade 3 with an emphasis on ages 3-5.

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Paraeducator Certification: English as a Second Language

Priority will be given to certified paraeducators in Area 11.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of the three Paraeducator Generalist Certification courses is a prerequisite to receive a Level II certification. Reminder: You must have been issued your Paraeducator Generalist Certificate by the Board of Educational Examiners (BOEE) prior to completing this course in order to use the credit from this course to renew your Paraeducator Generalist Certificate.

This is the required course to receive the Paraeducator Certification Generalist II with the Area of Concentration: English as a Second Language (ESL). Participants will gain knowledge, skills and strategies to assist and support ESL students.

Please click here for more information to to register for this course.

Paraeducator Certification: Special Needs

Priority will be given to certified paraeducators in Area 11.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of the three Paraeducator Generalist Certification courses is a prerequisite to receive a Level II certification. Reminder: You must have been issued your Paraeducator Generalist Certificate by the Board of Educational Examiners (BOEE) prior to completing this course in order to use the credit from this course to renew your Paraeducator Generalist Certificate.

This is the required course to receive the Paraeducator Certification Generalist II with the Area of Concentration: Special Needs. Participants will develop skills and strategies to understand and implement IEP goals and objectives, demonstrate understanding of special instructional strategies for students with various needs, rationale and use of data collection, and assistive technology to meet student needs in a variety of instructional settings.

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Paraeducator Certification: Library, Media, and Technology

Priority will be given to certified paraeducators in Area 11.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of the three Paraeducator Generalist Certification courses is a prerequisite to receive a Level II certification. Reminder: You must have been issued your Paraeducator Generalist Certificate by the Board of Educational Examiners (BOEE) prior to completing this course in order to use the credit from this course to renew your Paraeducator Generalist Certificate.

This is the required course to receive the Paraeducator Certification Generalist II with the Area of Concentration: Library, Media and Technology. Participants will develop skills and strategies in library, media and technology to support the K-12 school teacher-librarian in the operation of the school library. Participants will demonstrate understanding of the role of the paraeducator in supporting the goals of the school library program and the school curriculum. Skills and procedures taught are to support the smooth operation and management of the school library under the direct guidance of a certified school teacher librarian.

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Introduction to Google Apps (online)

An essential component of the 21st century classroom is the use of digital technology. Digital tools not only provide the productivity means to accomplish tasks like previous software, but they create an environment for collaboration, sharing of learning, ongoing peer- and self-assessment, and formative guidance and feedback from instructors. Iowa's AEAs have entered a partnership to make Google Apps (a highly powerful and robust suite of digital tools) accessible for Iowa's teachers. This course examines how to use Google Apps in the 21st century classroom as digital tools enhancing collaboration, creativity, and improved student communication.

Please click here for more information or to register for the course beginning January 23
Please click here for more information or to register for the course beginning February 20
Please click here for more information or to register for the course beginning April 16

Intel Elements Series-Educational Leadership in the 21st Century (online)

This interactive e-learning course helps school and district leaders support technology integration that improves teacher effectiveness and enhances student achievement. You will engage with colleagues as you examine strategies to promote and sustain effective technology integration. Through activities and discussions, you will learn how technology can support a collaborative school community. Finally, you will have an opportunity to extend your learning by exploring technology trends in education.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

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Teacher Saving Skills

The teachers who should take this class find themselves exhausted at the end of the day feeling they have been in a wrestling match with their students. Do you find yourself saying, "sit down," "be quiet", or "please listen" too many times during the day? If you didn't have to say those things, do you feel you would get more accomplished? Teachers who take this class will identify the reasons students misbehave, examine their own discipline style, and walk away from the class with their own new discipline and motivational system.

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Student Saving Skills

Frustration for many teachers comes when they know a child is bright, but their grades don't reflect that. As all teachers know, students don't all learn at the same speed or in the same way. In this workshop, you will learn about learning styles and how to design lessons that teach the essential skills to all of them. You will also learn the Mastery learning method, which gives extra time to learn for those students who need it and to have special enrichment projects for those students who master the essential skills faster. During this workshop, time will be given for individuals to prepare a lesson, write test questions, create a mastery learning activity, and brainstorm ways to review. Bring with you: (1) your district standards and benchmarks, (2) a unit or lesson to work with, and (3) the current assessment used with your selected unit or lesson.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

The Explosive Child

This course focuses on the Collaborative Problem Solving approach to working with students who are easily frustrated and chronically inflexible. The course begins with our adult perceptions of why students misbehave and then focuses on those whose challenging behavior can be attributed to their poor development of thinking skills. The course then dives deeper into the Collaborative Problem Solving approach which relies on the adult teaching of those thinking skills that the child lacks. Participants in this course must come with an open mind and the willingness to see these students from a completely different perspective. The registration fee includes the book "The Explosive Child: A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children" by R. W. Greene.

Please click here for more information or to register for the February 18 & 25, 2012 course.
Please click here for more information or to register for the July 23 & 24, 2012 course.

Transition: From Disability to Possibility

This class will provide participants an opportunity to understand and apply the six critical elements around quality transition IEPs. The main objective of this course is to improve student outcomes around post-secondary expectations of living, learning, and working. Staff, teachers, and AEA staff who wish to learn more about ways to better identify strengths and needs in order to successfully transition students from high school to employment and post-secondary education are encouraged to attend.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

Theory and Ethics of Coaching

This is one of the four courses required to receive a coaching authorization or endorsement. The four courses are: (1) Theory and Ethics of Coaching, (2) Human Growth and Development, (3) Physiology, and (4) Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries.

This is a hybrid class with the equivalent of 10 hours to be completed online prior to attendance of 5 hours of face-to-face class. Participants must successfully complete the online portion of the class before attending the face-to-face portion of the class on February 8 from 5:00-10:00 p.m. Online coursework will be available beginning January 18 and will conclude February 8. Instructions for accessing the online portion of the course will be e-mailed to participants on or before January 18.

Participants should be able to explain methodology and responsibilities of a successful coach, apply teaching techniques to sports skills, connect how communication and motivation affect performance, and distinguish appropriate ethical behavior of coaches and students. Taking responsibility for their own learning, participants should be able to plan for an effective and meaningful experience for the athlete that is supported by informed decision-making.

Teachers who would like to add a coaching endorsement to their teaching license must take the four required coaching courses for college credit. Therefore, you will need to register for the Drake University graduate credit. To apply for the endorsement, you must write a short letter to the Board of Educational Examiners asking that the endorsement be added to your teaching license. Please include your name, social security number, address, phone number, the official college transcripts, and a $50 application fee.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

Human Growth and Development

This is one of the four courses required to receive a coaching authorization or endorsement. The four courses are: (1) Theory and Ethics of Coaching, (2) Human Growth and Development, (3) Physiology, and (4) Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries.

This is a hybrid class with the equivalent of 10 hours to be completed online prior to attendance of 5 hours of face-to-face class on February 12 from 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Participants must successfully complete the online portion of the class before attending the face-to-face portion of the class. Online coursework will be available beginning January 18 and will conclude February 8. Instructions for accessing the online portion of the course will be e-mailed to participants on or before January 18.

This program will connect the participants to the basic concepts of growth and development of students in the 5th through 12th grade who would participate in school sponsored athletics. By the end of this course, participants should be able to explain how and when physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development occurs and how this development affects learning, behavior, and performance. Taking responsibility for their own learning, participants should be able to plan for an effective and meaningful athletic experience for the adolescent that is supported by informed decision-making.

Teachers who would like to add a coaching endorsement to their teaching license must take the four required coaching courses for college credit. Therefore, you will need to register for the Drake University graduate credit. To apply for the endorsement, you must write a short letter to the Board of Educational Examiners asking that the endorsement be added to your teaching license. Please include your name, social security number, address, phone number, the official college transcripts, and a $50 application fee.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

Physiology

This is one of the four courses required to receive a coaching authorization or endorsement. The four courses are: (1) Theory and Ethics of Coaching, (2) Human Growth and Development, (3) Physiology, and (4) Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries.

This is a hybrid class with the equivalent of 10 hours to be completed online prior to attendance of 5 hours of face-to-face class on February 12 from 1:30-6:30 p.m. Participants must successfully complete the online portion of the class before attending the face-to-face portion of the class. Online coursework will be available beginning January 18 and will conclude February 11. Instructions for accessing the online portion of the course will be e-mailed to participants on or before January 18.

 By the end of this course, participants should be able to apply basic physiological concepts to athletics, connect how they affect movement, conditioning, and performance. Taking responsibility for their own learning, participants should be able to plan for an effective and meaningful experience for the athlete that is supported by informed decision-making.

Teachers who would like to add a coaching endorsement to their teaching license must take the four required coaching courses for college credit. Therefore, you will need to register for the Drake University graduate credit. To apply for the endorsement, you must write a short letter to the Board of Educational Examiners asking that the endorsement be added to your teaching license. Please include your name, social security number, address, phone number, the official college transcripts, and a $50 application fee.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries

This is one of the four courses required to receive a coaching authorization or endorsement. The four courses are: (1) Theory and Ethics of Coaching, (2) Human Growth and Development, (3) Physiology, and (4) Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries.

This program will describe the duties and responsibilities in protecting the health of athletes. The program is aimed at recognizing injuries and providing basic care for those injuries as well as techniques to prevent injuries from occurring. The registration fee for this class includes a textbook.

Teachers who would like to add a coaching endorsement to their teaching license must take the four required coaching courses for college credit. Therefore, you will need to register for the Drake University graduate credit. To apply for the endorsement, you must write a short letter to the Board of Educational Examiners asking that the endorsement be added to your teaching license. Please include your name, social security number, address, phone number, the official college transcripts, and a $50 application fee.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

Historical Perspectives of Diversity

To understand who we are or where we are going, we must first understand where we have been. In this course, the historical perspectives of all manner of diversity will be explored to gain a clearer vision of social justice in Iowa.

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Identifying Your Cultural Identity

In order to understand others, we must first understand ourselves. This course will help participants to identify their own individual cultural identity, why it is important and what impact that identity has on a classroom.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

Practical Applications for Celebrating Diversity in the Classroom

You have students from a number of diverse backgrounds in your class. What do you do with them and for them that will enable each of them to learn and be successful? Strategies, models, tools and resources will be identified to assist teachers in a variety of settings to celebrate the diversity in their classrooms.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

Human Relations

Research tells us that to meet the needs of a diverse group of students, we need to understand the culture of our students, understand ourselves and our culture, then work on strategies that meet students' needs. This course takes a look at all three areas. The course is divided into three components: Historical Perspectives of Diversity, Identifying Your Cultural Identity, and Practical Applications for Celebrating Diversity in the Classroom. Whether you are an experienced teacher or brand new to the field, this class will open your eyes! This course is fully approved by the Iowa Department of Education to meet the Human Relations requirement for teacher education certification.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

Functional Communication Training for Special Education Teachers

This course is intended for special education teachers and AEA staff who serve students with challenging behaviors, who do not use or demonstrate the use of appropriate verbal or augmentative communication, as a replacement to problem behavior. This course provides best practice knowledge and hands-on experience in the areas of applied behavior analysis and instructional strategies for building the communication skills of students with developmental delays. Participants will learn the definition of functional communication training, determine students who would benefit, the sequence and steps in teaching and generalizing, goal writing, and how to utilize strengths of support staff focused on implementation.

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Facilitating Adult Learning

As educators, we have moved our teaching to new heights to meet the needs of our 21st century learners. As professional developers, moving our professional development to new heights is more important than ever. In this two-day course, a framework for professional learning will be explored while embedding tools and strategies for use by facilitators.

Please click here for more information or to register for the February 11 and February 18, 2012 course.
Please click here for more information or to register for the June 15 and June 18, 2012 course.
Please click here for more information or to register for the July 30 and August 6, 2012 course.

State of Mind: Understanding the Human Factor I-3 Principles of Network Training

Two days are devoted to presenting participants with an understanding of the basics of human psychological functioning.  Emphasis will be given to illuminating the nature of mental well being and resiliency. 3 Priniciples training illuminates the psychological functions that exist within all of us. These functions create our moment to moment experience.  Because our internal world is so invisible, most of us don't realize the impact it has on our moods, our perceptions and our lives - instead we just react to it. Sometimes we try to regain control by attempting to manage the external world, and when we do, we experience varying amounts of stress.

• 3 Principles training provides understanding about this internal functioning.
• With understanding, we effortlessly change because our perspective is different.
• We regain an inner power, a center from which we have a new vantage point and a completely different kind of control. In short, we regain our psychological bearings.  From this higher level of psychological functioning we can access and use our own inner resources: patience, creativity, compassion, motivation and inspiration.

To register, contact Corinne Lambert, callingwisdom1@hotmail.com or call 515-556-3679

The course fee is $100.00/person or $80/per person for team of 2 or $70 per person for team of 3 or $60 per person for team of 4 or $50 per person for team of 5, payable to Central City Community Development Corporation at time of registration. Because of short notice, registrations will also be accepted at 8:30 AM at the training site.

Credit Information
License renewal credit from Heartland AEA ($25.00) and graduate credit through Drake University ($100.00) will be available to those who complete the class both payable to Heartland AEA 11. Credit registration and payment information will be provided at the training.

Empowering Students with Technology-online

Alan November is an internationally recognized expert in the field of educational technology. His book "Empowering Students with Technology" demonstrates how today's teachers can expand classroom experiences and motivate students with learning adventures powered by technology. This course will explore the author's case for technology's capacity to improve school performance and best practice by demonstrating how today's technologies can enhance critical thinking, research and problem-solving skills.

This is an online course and there will be no face-to-face meetings. The participants must have reliable access to the internet and email. The course will be available 24/7 through the Internet, however, there will be scheduled deadlines for readings, activities, assignments and asynchronous and/or synchronous discussions.

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Web Applications using Google

The participants will create a web site using Google Sites web application. They will learn the benefits of using a web application such as Google for teachers and students. Participants will learn how to use the Google Docs programs and how they can integrate or embed them into their web site. They will create word processing, spreadsheets, spreadsheet forms, presentations, calendars, and photo albums. They will learn how to integrate these programs into their web site. Participants will learn to use Google sites to create interactive multimedia presentations in a universal format that can be created on any computer at any site. They will learn how to share documents and web sites with staff or students. Participants do not need prior web page experience. It will save class time if students create their Google account before the class starts.

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Teaching Beginning Spelling and Writing

LETRS Module 9 will address the content and format of effective writing instruction for novices in grades K-3. This course provides an exploration of cognitive processes involved in writing and will include an integrated lesson framework grounded in research that combines skill development with process-oriented composition. In addition, the writing of sentences will be examined in detail, and instructional techniques will be presented that support the three phases of the writing processes.  The registration fee includes LETRS Module 9: Teaching Beginning Spelling and Writing, second edition.

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Introduction to the Online Learner-online

Clayton Christensen, in his book Disrupting Class, boldly predicts that half of 9-12 instruction will be online by 2019.  But, what is online instruction?  How does learning take place online?  And, what do students need to be successful?

This course helps educators understand what online learning is like from the student perspective.  It gives a firm foundation for the different type of activities that constitute online learning, as well as a firm pedagogical base for what students need in order to be successful.

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Examining: The Myth of Laziness-online

Pediatrician Mel Levine, a developmental-behavioral expert, offers theories on why it's so hard for some children -- even bright ones -- to succeed in school. "Often these individuals absorb and process information well; they learn but they don't produce," he says, adding, "people say glibly that they are not `living up to their potential.' "  Levine prefers the term "output failure" over "laziness." In a series of case studies, he discusses the biological, neurological and psychological factors that may be responsible for "output failure." He focuses on kids challenged by oral and written communication; he believes parents and educators must pay attention to different learning styles rather than simply label a child as lazy.

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Examining: 7 Keys to Comprehension-online

7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers (those who aren't already using this valuable program) practical, thoughtful advice about the seven simple thinking strategies that proficient readers use:

Connecting reading to their background knowledge:

• Creating sensory images
• Asking questions
• Drawing inferences
• Determining what's important
• Synthesizing ideas
• Solving problems

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Examining: Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction-online

Bringing Words to Life provides a research-based framework and practical strategies for vocabulary development with children from the earliest grades through high school. Aided by specific suggestions and user-friendly examples and exercise, teaches lean to selct words for instruction; create meaningful leaning activities; and engage students in thinking about and suing new words both within and outside the classroom.

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Examining Bullying from Both Sides-online

This class is based on the book "Bullying From Both Sides" by Walter B. Roberts, Jr.  This course will focus on the nature of bullying and what it entails.  It will also help bring to view the emotional needs of the one who is being bullied.  Finally, in an area that is not often addressed, the emotional make-up, problems and needs of the one who bullies will be explored.

All participants are required to purchase the book "Bullying From Both Sides" by Walter Roberts, Jr. This may be ordered through a local bookstore or online.

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Intel Elements Series-Educational Leadership in the 21st Century-online

This interactive e-learning course helps school and district leaders support technology integration that improves teacher effectiveness and enhances student achievement. You will engage with colleagues as you examine strategies to promote and sustain effective technology integration. Through activities and discussions, you will learn how technology can support a collaborative school community. Finally, you will have an opportunity to extend your learning by exploring technology trends in education.

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Using Iowa AEA Online Databases in the Social Studies Classroom-online

This class will take you through a embedding a variety of Iowa Online Databases into the Social Studies classroom. We will be exploring AP Images, Britannica Online, GALE, iClipart, Learn 360, Culture Grams and SIRS. Participants will expand their knowledge of copyright and curriculum integration. 

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

The Global Classroom-online

The world our students are entering is becoming increasingly inter-connected. Students have opportunities to collaborate with students across the globe on an infinite number of issues relating to them. This course will explore connecting your classroom with other classrooms around the world. We will study this topic with hands-on training using popular social networking tools. Safety and respect will be implemented and discussed through training on cyber citizenship and global empathy. This course will be a safe and exciting environment for finding practical ways of teaching and implementing 21st century skills to take your classroom beyond its walls.

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iLife in the Classroom-online

Digital media has the ability to connect with students in new instructional ways. It provides visual and auditory stimuli for students, giving them access to concepts in new manner. Plus it allows for the faster exchange of ideas and collaborative discussion than print media. This course will teach you how to implement Apple's amazing iLife suite (iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iDVD, & iWeb) into your teaching to promote 21st century skills in students! Participants will leave this class with skills and ideas on how to implement this software into their lesson plans and units of instruction. No previous experience on this software is needed.

Please click here for more information or to register for the course beginning on February 6, 2012. Please click here for more information or to register for the course beginning on April 2, 2012.

Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands

Educators will participate in learning activities designed by a collaborative of seven national organizations including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), The Environmental Protection Agency, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Parks Service, and U.S. Forest Service. The activities are organized in a DVD based Toolkit that uses a case study approach to focus on climate change and its impact on wildlife and public lands.

All activities have been reviewed by scientists and by educators from the 2008 Einstein Fellowship Program, and are aligned with the National Science Education Standards.  Strong connections to the Iowa Core in Science are emphasized as well.

* Participants will receive the Climate Change Toolkit
* Dinner on day One and continental breakfast and lunch on Day Two will be provided
* Participants will earn a free classroom zoo experience for their students.

Please contact Kathy McKee at Blank Park Zoo. Ph# 515-974-2557, or email kamckee@blankparkzoo.net for registration information.

Additional Costs: There will be a $15.00 fee payable to Blank Park Zoo to defray zoo expenses. Credit registration information will be available the first day of the class, for one license renewal credit from Heartland AEA ($25.00) or one graduate credit from Drake University ($100.00). Both will be payable to Heartland AEA 11.

Exceptional Learner

This course is designed to address characteristics and needs of students with exceptional needs, skills, and abilities. Some of the major areas that will be addressed are: special education procedures, learning stages, learning strategies, instructional and material adaptations, testing, grading, and behavior management. Matching instruction to learner needs will be emphasized. This course meets the Department of Education's requirement for the "Exceptional Learner."

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Verbal Behavior Teaching Strategies

This course provides best practice knowledge and hands-on practice in the areas of applied behavior analysis and verbal behavior for students with autism spectrum and related disorders.  Participants will learn empirically-based practices and instructional strategies for teaching verbal behavior, including critical communication and language skills and promoting the generalization and maintenance of those skills.  Participants will have the opportunity to apply the strategies they have learned and debrief and troubleshoot at follow-up sessions.

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Zoo as a Teaching Tool

Experience a module created by the Wildlife Conservation Society and used at the Blank Park Zoo. H.E.L.P. utilizes art, math, geography, and life science to explore ecology. The lessons are designed to motivate students, encourage critical thinking, and make learning science and math fun. This class will specifically focus on grassland, rainforest and desert habitats. Some of the key elements include plant and animal adaptations, survival challenges, and energy flow through a community. The lessons and activities are flexible, giving teachers the ability to adjust to fit their students' abilities. All the lessons are connected to the National Science Education Standards and the Iowa Core Curriculum in the areas of science, math, and reading. The workshop includes dinner on Friday night, Saturday morning coffee and doughnuts, and lunch on Saturday at no charge. All participants are eligible for a free classroom program provided by the zoo. Due to the hands-on nature of the program, there is a maximum of 35 participants.

Please contact Kathy McKee at Blank Park Zoo. Ph# 515-974-2557, or email kamckee@blankparkzoo.net for registration information.

Please click here for more information regarding this course.

Cognitive Coaching: Planning and Reflecting (Level I)

Cognitive Coaching (Level 1) is a 4-day experience during which participants will build their communication and problem-solving skills through the process of becoming intentional about how we mediate for someone else's effectiveness. Planning and reflecting will be included. Research, modeling and practice will support learning. Cognitive Coaching is a process that supports individuals working together to improve their skills in a variety of situations. The registration fee includes a learning guide and memory mats.

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Cognitive Coaching: Problem Solving (Level II)

Cognitive Coaching (Level II) is a four-day experience during which participants will build their communication and problem-solving skills through the process of becoming intentional about how they mediate for someone else's effectiveness. The problem-solving conversation will be presented, and the planning and reflecting maps will be reviewed. Research, modeling and practice will support learning. Previous participation in Level I or in the full 7-day training is required. Cognitive Coaching is a process that supports individuals working together to improve their skills.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

Practical Applications for Celebrating Diversity in the Classroom

You have students from a number of diverse backgrounds in your class. What do you do with them and for them that will enable each of them to learn and be successful? Strategies, models, tools and resources will be identified to assist teachers in a variety of settings to celebrate the diversity in their classrooms.

This course is available for license renewal credit or Drake EDMA credit.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment for Teachers

This course is designed for Early Childhood practitioners to learn about the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System. Participants will have opportunities to examine the Objectives for Development and Learning and additional materials used in implementing the assessment system. Early Childhood educators will review children's portfolios and complete the assessment using both the paper-based and on-line systems. Use of the GOLD assessment system will facilitate instruction based on data gathered during the assessment process that accurately pinpoints where children are in their development and learning. Participants will explore the dedicated online portal which promotes communication with families and educational team members. The assessment system is an easy-to-understand approach to observation, documentation, child portfolio-building, and reporting.

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Rule of Law and Lesson Design

Teachers have time during this class to look closely at Article III in the Constitution and the history behind this branch of Government. The teachers will then be instructed on lesson design based on the core's effective instruction. Two learning styles theories will be examined. The teachers will then create a lesson on the rule of law that they will use in their class in the fall. Credit will not be given until their lesson has been taught and a reflective paper about the lesson has been shared.

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Facilitating Adult Learning

As educators, we have moved our teaching to new heights to meet the needs of our 21st century learners. As professional developers, moving our professional development to new heights is more important than ever. In this two-day course, a framework for professional learning will be explored while embedding tools and strategies for use by facilitators.

This course will be offered for license renewal credit or Drake EDMA credit.

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

The Art and Science of Classroom Management

This two-day class will focus on effective classroom management. Specific topics covered include rules, routines and procedures, room arrangement, teacher-student relationships, student engagement, and behavioral principles. This class is designed primarily for new teachers, although most veteran teachers who have taken the class have appreciated the refresher. Substitutes are welcome to attend, although the focus is on managing a classroom and ownership can help in that regard. Participants will be expected to reflect on their current use of strategies and identify areas of strength as well as areas to improve.

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Celebrating Diversity: African Cultures

Celebrating Diversity: African Cultures will aquaint participants with cultural aspects of specific African countries including Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Gambia, Kenya, Somalia, and the Sudan. Bus transportation is provided for field trips, and the cost is included in the registration fee. Participants will incur additional expense for field trip tours and a group lunch at an ethnic restaurant on the second day.

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Right Brain Drawing

Instruction will include Right Brain concepts from Daniel Pink and Betty Edwards and how it affects thinking and problem solving. This course will help participants understand visual learners and how to overcome the issues of drawing inability.

Learn Right Brain exercises and get lesson ideas that will enhance problem solving and creativity. A great course for individuals with little or no drawing skills as well as more experienced artists. The class will take you from drawing stick figures to realism with shading. The instructor has taught this class on the college level for many years and found it transformed the ability of many students to create realistic drawing.

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Nine Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom

Previously titled "Discipline With Love and Logic." In the "Nine Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom," teachers will learn powerful skills to help end student arguing and back talk, guide kids to own and solve their own problems, build positive relationships with challenging students, raise test scores, prevent problems, and preserve the teaching and learning environment in the classroom. This class teaches low stress strategies that will help to build strong schools where teachers have time to teach and students want to learn. It can help to put the fun back into teaching! The registration fee includes a Nine Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom workbook.

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Assessing Academic Rigor

This course is required for school administrators (superintendents, central office administration, building principals, assistant principals, etc.) and other educational leaders responsible for evaluating educators who are renewing their licenses. (Participants should have completed Iowa Evaluator Approval level 2 before taking this course). The fee for this class is $275. Participants should obtain a copy of the book "A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing (2001) (ISBN 9780801319037)" on their own.

In this course, the participants will:

• Be able to define and recognize rigor in the classroom 
• Understand the connection of rigor to the ITS and ISSL as well as the Iowa Core 
• Understand the Revised Blooms' Taxonomy (RBT) and its importance in a comprehensive system of assessment and evaluation 
• Analyze cognitive demand using the revised Bloom's taxonomy 
• Assess where they are now with rigor in their building/district using Iowa Core/AIW examples 
• Analyze unit plans using Iowa Core Unit in terms of rigor, alignment, and assessment 
• Determine a plan to gather a school-wide/district-wide picture of rigor, including next steps for systematic monitoring of rigor 
• Use a structured reflective process to analyze and evaluate units that increase rigor at the classroom level 
• Understand the role of assessing rigor in the formal evaluation process as it pertains to the Iowa Core, AIW, and the ITS/ISSL 
• Develop a plan to communicate and implement a systematic and system-wide monitoring of rigor in schools/districts 

With the focus on the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy and the assessment of academic rigor in our classrooms, administrators will build their capacity to understand what to look for and support in classrooms as they seek to increase student learning in their buildings. The use of the RBT in assessing rigor will deepen the skills and context of the administrators in the areas of coaching and evaluation as they work to implement the Iowa Core, AIW, and other statewide initiatives as connected to the Iowa Teaching Standards and the Iowa Standards for School Leaders.

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Survey of Applied Behavior Analysis Principles and Applications-Session 3 of 3

This course is Session 3 of 3. Successful completion of Survey of Applied Behavior Analysis Principles and Applications Sessions 1 and 2 is required in order to register for this class. (Instructor permission may be given where appropriate.)

Participants will explore the science of behavioral principles in the areas of applied behavior analysis and instructional strategies. A variety of intervention techniques will be reviewed to assist educators in matching instruction to student skill level and need. These days will dig deeper into the continuum of behavioral principles and intervention strategies based on applied behavior analysis. Specifically, schedules of reinforcment (fixed, variable, interval, ratio), types of differential reinforcement (DRA, DRI, DRO, DRZ, DRLR) that can be used as alternatives to punishment, and noncontingent reinforcement will be reviewed, as well as a number of more advances procedures, such as prompting, task analysis, shaping, modeling, chaining, and time-out. Participants will learn about and practice matching specific intervention procedures to functional behavior assessment results. Participants will also have opportunities to identify specific intervention strategies within a behavior intervention plan and practice writing these strategies into a behavior intervention plan.

The required text is Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change - 2nd edition by G. Roy Mayer, Beth Sulzer-Azaroff and Michele Wallace which was received at Session 1.

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Survey of Applied Behavior Analysis Principals and Applications-Session 2 of 3

This course is Session 2 of 3. Successful completion of Survey of Applied Behavior Analysis Principles and Applications Session 1 is required in order to register for this class. (Instructor permission may also be given where appropriate.)

Participants will explore the science of behavioral principles in the areas of applied behavior analysis and instructional strategies. A variety of assessment techniques will be reviewed to assist educators in matching instruction to student skill level and need. These days will dig deeper into a continuum of assessment strategies for analyzing target behavior. Specifically, differences and similarities between Indirect Assessment methods (interviews, rating scales), Descriptive Assessments (Anecdotal, ABC analysis), and Direct Assessments (functional behavioral assessment, preference assessment/paired choice, concurrent operants/structural/functional analysis) will be explored. Participants will explore a variety of data collection methods (partial interval, whole interval, frequency counts) and the pros and cons of each method. Graphing and interpretation of data will be reviewed and practiced.

The required text is Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change-2nd edition by G. Roy Mayer, Beth Sulzer-Azaroff and Michele Wallace which was received at Session 1.

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Survey of Applied Behavior Analysis Principals and Applications-Session 1 of 3

This course will explore the science of behavioral principles in the areas of applied behavior analysis and instructional strategies. A review of historical perspectives will occur and be linked to current practices. Participants will apply behavioral principles to behavior change procedures. A variety of assessment techniques will be reviewed to assist educators in matching instruction to student skill level and need. The registration fee includes the book Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change-2nd edition by G. Roy Mayer, Beth Sulzer-Azaroff and Michele Wallace.

This course is the foundation and prerequisite for Sessions 2 and 3. These sessions will dig deeper into a continuum of assessment strategies for analyzing target behavior, aligning instructional practices to function, data-based decision making, and advanced behavioral principles.

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Supporting Children of the Guard and Reserves

Supporting Children of the Guard and Reserves is a two-day training for those supporting military youth in Iowa. Attendees will gain valuable information on the military, the deployment cycle families navigate as well as information and resources available at the state and national levels. All materials for this training are provided at no cost to the attendee, as are breakfast and lunch both days. This is a dynamic training designed to provide you with the necessary tools to help all children thrive in a changing environment.

Thank you for joining us in the Supporting Children of the Guard and Reserves training. This is a key training in learning how to foster the greatest resiliency in military youth living in an ever-changing world. If you have any questions, please contact Jeremy Van Wyk, State Youth Coordinator, at jeremy.vanwyk@us.army.mil or 515-252-4040.

Click here to register for the June 20-21, 2012 course.  Registration deadline is June 15, 2012.

Living in the New Normal: Helping Children Thrive in Good and Challenging Times

Living in the New Normal is a two-day training for those supporting military youth in Iowa. Attendees gain valuable information and resources on helping youth cope with grief, loss and separation, whether from deployment, divorce or the death of a loved one. All materials for this training are provided at no cost to the attendee, as are breakfast and lunch both days. This is a dynamic training designed to provide you with the necessary tools to help all children thrive in a changing environment. Thank you for your interest in supporting the military youth in your community. We look forward to having you participate in this training.

If you have any questions, please contact Jeremy Van Wyk, State Youth Coordinator, IANG, at: jeremy.vanwyk@us.army.mil or 515-252-4040.

Click here to register for the March 21-22, 2012 class. Registration deadline is March 16, 2012.
Click here to register for the August 8-9, 2012 class. Registration deadline is August 3, 2012.