KDS offers teachers a variety of professional development solutions
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     WELCOME, MICHIGAN EDUCATORS!

Enroll in KDS Online Courses to earn Professional Development Hours towards the 6 Semester Credit Hours / 18 SB-CEUs (or combination) required to renew professional education certificates.

(KDS offerings, are approved for Michigan SB-CEUs through MEMSPA, Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principal's Association (see http://www.memspa.org for details.)

    ** SUMMER REGISTRATION NOW OPEN **

Course length: 10 or 15 Hours (self-paced)
Credits earned: 1 or 1.5 SB-CEUs (each)
Cost: $40 (1 SB-CEU), $64 (1.5 SB-CEUs), no materials fee
NOTE: Participants pay an additional $10 to MEMSPA per course
Timeframe: On-demand, 24/7 access over a 2-month period per course


**You Must Submit This Form To Redeem SB-CEUs  from MEMSPA - Full Procedure Below**
MEMSPA Registration Form


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About KDS Courses: Michigan SB-CEU Courses consist of 5-8 topics, each including an online video-based lecture, pre- and post-assessment questions, and optional discussion board participation. (Printable study guides and resources included.)

Other Applications:  Ask your district for prior approval to utilize courses towards:
         * In-Service Credits towards salary upgrades
         * Other professional development, recertification or license renewal



 Procedure to Redeem SB-CEUs:


1. After completing each 2-hour segment print out a certificate of continuing education for the segment.


 


2. When all segments have been completed for the course print off the MEMSPA Certificate of Completion form. This will serve as a cover page for all the segment certificates in #1.  Note: Partial courses completed will receive NO sb-ceu credit.


 


3. Fill in the bottom portion of the MEMSPA Certificate of Completion. Be sure to include the complete course name, and the participant contact information. Sign and mail with a $10 check made payable to MEMSPA at the address listed on the form. 


 


4. Each completed course requires a separate MEMSPA Certificate of Completion form and a $10 processing fee.


 


5. Once MEMSPA has received ALL continuing education certificates, the MEMSPA Certificate of Completion form & the processing fee, the credit will be issued and a transcript will be mailed to the participant at the address listed on the form submitted.


 


**You Must Submit This Form To Redeem SB-CEUs  from MEMSPA**
MEMSPA Registration Form


 MEMSPA
 Attn: Annette
 1980 N. College Road
 Mason, MI 48854

Please contact KDS at 1-800-728-0032 or Michigan@kdsi.org with any questions you may have.

COURSES OFFERED
Creating a Successful Classroom, Part I (1 SB-CEU)
PURCHASE|SHOW DESCRIPTION
From these seminars, teachers will learn superior classroom management skills. They will learn strategies designed to reduce classroom disruption and maintain an order, once set in place, will be carry through the school year. They will take from the seminar effective techniques for dealing with classroom disruptions and basic, daily management issues. Teachers will learn to design homework practices and policies that benefit teachers, students, and ability to clearly assess student achievement and effort. Teachers rid themselves of the stress associated with homework, while boosting students’ homework completion rate with provocative and practical lessons that pose and respond to tough questions about this daily concern. Teachers will learn strategies and techniques to challenge and motivate struggling students. The lectures contain a gold mine of proven, practical ways to help students labeled "special education," "slow," "remedial," or "LD" succeed in school—without remediation, watering down content, lowering expectations, or depriving other students of the time and attention they need. Sections of this program are designed to help educators learn effective techniques to adapt regular classroom curriculum and activities to meet the learning needs of academically gifted students. The seminar provides a thorough discussion of the characteristics describing gifted students, as well as the teacher’s task in developing strategies that successfully challenge all students at levels appropriate to them. The Program also includes strategies for compacting the regular curriculum and standards, and providing consistent opportunities for gifted students to be engaged in appropriately differentiated learning experiences. Lectures are designed to help educators become knowledgeable about the techniques that may be used to adapt the regular classroom curriculum and activities to meet the learning needs of their most academically capable students.
Rick Wormeli
Jim Moulton
Rick Wormeli
Rick Wormeli
Donald Deshler
Creating a Successful Classroom, Part II (1 SB-CEU)
PURCHASE|SHOW DESCRIPTION
Teachers will understand what are the appropriate ways to shift behaviors and not have students or parents leave angry, in order to reach the primary goal- not having the inappropriate behaviors happen again. It will also help teachers learn how great teachers prevent disruptive behaviors, encourage student participation in school activities, deal with angry parents, and engage and involve students instructionally through active learning. This course will also help teachers understand why teaching is about multiple choices made daily, why poor teachers must be instructed how to teach before interacting with parents, students and others, why it’s imperative that principals impart confidence to their teachers, and how teachers can most effectively behave towards their students.. The program also highlights specific connections between integrated curricula and the developmental needs of students, developing a rationale for implementing curriculum integration. Teachers can assess their own practices of curriculum integration, which, enhanced by this course, could then be expanded on. Participants will learn the ins and outs of integrated curriculum, interdisciplinary teaching, thematic teaching, and synergistic teaching, as well as how the problems and pitfalls of each can be overcome. The participant will learn the ins and outs of integrated curriculum, interdisciplinary teaching, thematic teaching, and synergistic teaching.
Rick Wormeli
Rick Wormeli
Susan Winebrenner
Susan Winebrenner
Susan Winebrenner
Literacy and Integrating a New Curriculum in the Classroom (1 SB-CEU)
PURCHASE|SHOW DESCRIPTION
Teachers will examine the specific ways in which content area teachers can use writing, vocabulary development, and reading comprehension to effectively teach their students. Teachers will learn techniques for increasing literacy at the school-wide level, as well as strategies to develop school-wide approaches for improving literacy learning, using the National Literacy Project’s (NLP) model. They will observe the steps to teaching the reading process and clarify effective and ineffective behaviors for each step of the process. Teachers will explore specific ways in which content area teachers can use writing, vocabulary development, and reading comprehension to teach their subjects. Teachers will learn techniques to improve literacy, as well as describe a model for strategy instruction and effective strategies for improving literacy before, during, and after reading the text. They will hone the steps necessary to successfully teaching the reading process, as presenters clarify effective and ineffective behaviors for each step of the reading process.
Rick Wormeli
Judith Irvin
Nancy Dean
Mark Springer
Mark Springer
Differentiated Instruction and the Middle Grades (1.5 SB-CEUs)
PURCHASE|SHOW DESCRIPTION
This course will comprehensively cover topics relating to Differentiated Instruction and the Middle Grades including teaching and classroom management techniques. More specifically, this course will help teachers hone skills in the following areas: Differentiation and Middle Level Instruction, Assessment and Grading, Differentiated Assessment and Grading, Day-to-Day in a Differentiated Classroom, Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligences, The Brain, Learning and Multiple Intelligences, Finding your Rhythm in a Differentiated Classroom, Building a Classroom Community that Supports a Differentiated Environment, Designing Standards-Based Lessons that Meet Different Student Needs, Differentiated Teaching and Assessing Through Multiple Intelligences, Finding your Strengths as a Teacher, Managing the Differentiated Classrooms, Foundations for Differentiated Instruction, Differentiation and the Issue of Quality, Strategies for Addressing Academic Diversity in the Middle Grades, Strategies for Differentiation, Middle Level Instruction, Brain Research and the Middle School Student, Changing Instruction for the Block Length Class, Games as Tools for Learning, Motivating and Engaging the Middle School Student, Motivating Colleagues, Using Rubrics to Evaluate and Improve Student Performance.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell
Debbie Silver
Debbie Silver
Building a Differentiated Curriculum Through a Strong School Environment (1.5 SB-CEUs)
PURCHASE|SHOW DESCRIPTION
This session will show teachers a wide variety of tactics and research that will allow them to create effective differentiated classroom. This course will take a lively look at recent research from the neurosciences and its implications for classroom instruction the teacher will view how to understand Multiple Intelligences. In order to fully understand how a child’s mind works you will be shown the human brain and how it can change structurally and functionally as a result of learning and experience, and how intelligence itself is an open, dynamic system. In this course, teachers will also learn how to manage and create differentiated assessment and grading systems using innovative strategies designed to meet state standards as well as each individual students' unique needs.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Rick Wormeli
Alan Blankstein
Michelle Pedigo
Bruce Campbell
Rick Wormeli
Susan Winebrenner
Susan Winebrenner
Teaching the Diverse Brain (1 SB-CEU)
PURCHASE|SHOW DESCRIPTION
Teaching Processes and Decision Making to Students from Poverty (1 SB-CEU)
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