The MEPLI program has translated and contextualized courses from the Professional Education portfolio into Arabic in order to make the work of HGSE faculty more accessible to Arabic-speaking educators around the globe. These courses are offered on a custom basis to groups of 30+ participants. Please contact mepli@gse.harvard.edu for pricing and more information.
Agile Thinking: How Educators Make Decisions When Applying Differentiated Instruction
Course Description
With more and more classrooms populated with learners of differing abilities, reaching all students requires teachers to become agile thinkers and decision makers. In the midst of planned lessons or classroom discussions, teachers must recognize student learning difficulties, understand the specific challenge, and make the decision to pivot to a new instructional approach.
Agile Thinking: How Educators Make Decisions When Applying Differentiated Instruction is an online professional development program designed by Dr. Rhonda Bondie to provide experienced and novice Pre-K–12 classroom teachers with these critical agile-thinking skills.
The online workshop also explores new avenues within the research and study of differentiated instruction — helping teachers better identify when the approach is needed, as well as develop their ability to assess and analyze student skills that need to be developed or enhanced.
“This is a useful course for those in the field, providing an opportunity to learn about innovative concepts and practices to improve the teacher’s and student’s performance.”
– Course Participant
Tiers of Help: How Teachers Provide Help that Furthers Learning
Course Description
In this course, Dr. Rhonda Bondie discusses how teachers teach, provide, and assign help resources to meet the diverse needs of learners. Participants will also learn important differences in the way supports, scaffolds, and extensions are taught and used with students. Throughout the workshop, participants will have access to mini-lectures, readings, concept checks, facilitated discussions, and additional resources for further learning.
Tiers of Help: How Teachers Provide Help that Furthers Learning is an online professional development program designed to provide experienced and novice Pre-K–12 classroom teachers with the skills necessary to identify and provide different types of help in the classroom. The online workshop also explores new avenues within the research and study of differentiated instruction – helping teachers better identify when help is needed, as well as develop their ability to identify the type of help that is necessary to further student learning in the group and individual setting.
In addition to the knowledge that I gained, this course enabled me to diagnose different situations for students and how to present individual help to those students, which can reflect positively on the entire class.
– Course Participant