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Top 10 Online Courses for Teachers to Enhance Their Skills in 2024
26 June 2024/ By Zineb DJOUB
Teachers must continually upgrade their skills to thrive amidst the challenges and the unexpected demands of everyday teaching. Online courses offer a flexible and convenient way to access various professional development at one’s pace and place. Whether you’re looking to deepen your subject knowledge, learn new teaching strategies, or explore innovative educational technologies, there’s an online course out there for you. Here are the top 10 online courses for teachers, including paid and free options offering valuable learning opportunities.
1. Exploring Inclusive Pedagogies (British Council)
Description: This course is designed for primary and secondary school teachers wanting to enhance their teaching practice and understand inclusive pedagogical methods. School leaders can also learn how to develop inclusive pedagogies in their schools.
In this course, you’ll learn about the pedagogical practices of inclusive education and discover how you can ensure all students have the chance to fulfil their potential within your school. The course includes articles, videos, peer reviews, and quizzes.
Features
Date: Available now.
Duration: 3 weeks (4 hours per week).
Certificate: A PDF Certificate of Achievement to prove your success when you’re eligible.
Price: free with unlimited access.
2. How to Help Children With Challenging Behaviour (Udemy)
Description: How to handle effectively challenging behaviours in the classroom is the number one concern of most educators. This course addresses this issue by focusing on supporting children’s self-regulation and managing behaviours when they escalate.
You’ll also learn about the foundation of behavioural change, the root cause of challenging behaviour, and how brain science can help us reverse them.
Not only can educators and school administrators benefit from this course but also parents can learn how to build positive relationships with their children and support them to thrive.
Features
Date: Available at any time.
Duration: 1h 55m total length (Self-paced).
Certificate: Certificate of completion is provided.
Price: $11.99 (discounts included).
3. Teaching With Technology (University of Cape Town)
Description: The course is aimed at teachers and teacher trainers interested in deploying technology and new pedagogical techniques into their teaching style. You’ll learn about the history of technology as a teaching aid and explore highly practical and theoretical applications necessary for effective technology integration.
Features
Date: July 29, 2024.
Duration: 8 weeks (6-8 hours of self-paced learning per week).
Certificate: You can earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cape Town if you meet the requirements after starting the course.
Price: USD 467.
4. Teaching With Google Classroom (Udemy)
Description: This course is for teachers, school administrators, professors, and IT personnel. It’s packed with simple-to-follow lessons that will show you how to use Google Classroom like an expert. You’ll create dynamic lessons that are student-centred, and collaborative, and engage your students fully.
Features
Date: Available at any time.
Duration: 4.5 hours on-demand video
Certificate: Certificate of completion is provided.
Price: $12.99 (discounts included).
5. Teaching English Online (Cambridge)
Description: This course is for experienced or recently qualified English language teachers who would like to transfer their teaching skills to online teaching.
The course will prepare you for teaching online. You’ll discover the kind of equipment you need, research and choose an online platform, and learn how to create materials and activities for English lessons.
You’ll also get some tips on how to get your students engaged online. In addition, this course will support you in teaching English speaking, pronunciation, and writing skills online and develop as an online teacher.
Features
Date: available now (access expires on 17 July 2024 for the free option).
Duration: 4 weeks (5 hours per week).
Certificate: Digital certificate when eligible.
Price: Free to audit; $89 for unlimited access and a certificate
6. Classroom Strategies for Inquiry-Based Learning (UTAustinX)
Description: If you’re interested in fostering students’ engagement through inquiry-based instruction, then this course can help you develop the skills and strategies needed to implement inquiry-based instruction in your own classroom.
You’ll learn how classroom teachers model a 5E lesson and use inquiry-based strategies with their students.
Features
Date: available now (access expires on 18 July 2024 for the free option).
Duration: 4 weeks (1-2 hours per week).
Certificate: Digital certificate.
Price: Free to audit; $149 for unlimited access, a certificate, and graded assignments and exams.
7. Innovative Teaching with ChatGPT (Vanderbilt University)
Description: This course is available as part of multiple learning programmes which aim to develop a professional skill.
It provides practical techniques that any educator, from K-12 to higher education, can use to help support their teaching. No experience with ChatGPT, prompt engineering, or Generative AI is required.
In this course, you’ll learn how to plan lessons while integrating students’ needs and interests, create engaging activities, and personalized quizzes, and encourage students to think and solve problems.
Features
Date: available now
Duration: 2 hours to complete.
Certificate: Shareable certificate that is added to your LinkedIn profile
Price: 7-Day Free Trial, then USD 49/mo.
8. Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty & Stress (Yale)
Description: Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty & Stress will help you understand and manage your emotions and those of your students.
The 10-hour online course is designed for school staff, including teachers, paraprofessionals, counsellors, principals, and non-teaching staff in preK-12 schools.
Features
Date: available now.
Duration: 9 hours to complete (3 weeks at 3 hours a week.
Certificate: Shareable certificate that is added to your LinkedIn profile.
Price: Free to audit; $49 to earn a certificate.
9. Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Introduction to Student Assessment
Description: The Foundations of Teaching for Learning programme is for all subject teachers. This course includes 8 modules to help you acquire the skills to develop and use appropriate assessment procedures.
Features
Date: available now.
Duration: 12 hours to complete (3 weeks at 4 hours a week).
Certificate: Shareable certificate that is added to your LinkedIn profile
Price: Free to audit; $49 to earn a certificate.
10. Resilient Teaching Through Times of Crisis and Change
Description: The course aims to support educators to rethink their practices and develop a resilient pedagogy that helps them to thrive in moments of doubt and stress. Though the course is designed for higher education faculty, lecturers, and graduate student instructors, but may also apply to educators in a wide variety of instructional environments.
Features
Date: available now.
Duration: 20 hours to complete (3 weeks at 6 hours a week.
Certificate: Shareable certificate that is added to your LinkedIn profile
Price: Free to audit; $49 to earn a certificate.
Investing in your professional development is one of the best decisions you can make as an educator. Explore the above online courses and take the first step towards becoming an even more effective and inspiring teacher.
If you found this list helpful, please share it with your fellow educators and in case you have taken any of these courses, I would love to hear about your experience in the comments. Also, feel free to suggest other great online courses for teachers.
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