Professional Development
 |
TxVSN
Approved
through Region 4 Education Service Center |
Opportunities
that Fit Your Schedule!
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Explore great opportunities to harness the Internet as a vehicle for learning.
Courses delivered online enable you to earn professional development credit
from home or school at times convenient for you.
Each course incorporates high-quality educational content, innovative instructional strategies, visual and interactive educational components and access to the informational resources of the Internet to provide an extraordinary virtual classroom experience.
Choose
between instructor-led courses and independent study courses that allow
you to complete course requirements at your own pace.
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Instructor's Certification Part I
(WICC
I)
(
Approved
Professional Development for Teaching Online Courses)
Professional
development focusing on the mastery of skills needed to be effective as
an online teacher.. Each training is 5 weeks in length and totally online
with an optional face-to-face session.
Click
here for a multimedia presentation explaining Part
I's goals and requirements. "How To Teach in the Online Classroom"
Date
for WICC Part I: (new to online teaching)
June
9, 2008-
July 14, 2008...contact
Linda Gillis directly if interested
Cost $500.00 (Optional Face-to-Face session on June 11, 2008)
Click
here to register online Session ID# 323576
September
8, 2008 - October 13, 2008...contact Linda Gillis directly if interested
Cost $500.00 (Optional Face-to-Face session to be announced)
Click
here to register online Session ID#
Date
for WICC Part I: (experienced online teachers only)
July
7, 2008
- August 4, 2008..contact
Linda Gillis directly if interested
Cost $500.00 (Optional Face-to-Face session on July 7, 2008)
Click
here to register online Session ID# 327069
(
Approved
Training; not required for teaching)
Dates
for WICC Part II:
Part II's focuses on instructional design and the development
of interactive online courses.
October
20 - November 17, 2008...contact Linda Gillis directly if interested
(Optiona Face-to-Face session to be announced)
Click here to register online Session ID#
(Note: Participant must have successfully completed WICC Part I)
Cost $600.00
(For
more information contact, Linda Gillis at lgillis@esc4.net
)
(Note: This is a Region 4 certification of completion, not a state mandated certification for teaching online)
"Liaisonics"
Now taking reservations for summer session to be scheduled
Online course designed for campus contacts and counselors of online students.
Click here for a multimedia presentation of this exciting new offering.
(Note- for directions on how to view, click here)
Session Dates: August 4 - August 15, 2008 now scheduled
Cost: $75.00
Click here to register online Session ID#
(For more information contact, Linda Gillis at lgillis@esc4.net )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Parent's Online
Open enrollment (Cost: $25.00) introduction to online learning. This one-week facilitated online course is specifically designed to help parents understand the complexities of online classes.
Registration Form
Online Teaching: Is it for Me?
Fall Session Dates to be Scheduled
This two-week mini-course introduces online instruction to teachers. This training's purpose is to present an all-inclusive, organzied setting in which educators become familiar with a highly interactive online class from both a student's and instructor's perspective. Click here to view course syllabus.
(For more information contact, Linda Gillis at lgillis@esc4.net)
This course was a finalist for Blackboard's 2006 Greenhouse Award
Cost $200.00
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