Professional Development for Teachers

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Program Coordinator
Donna Kerry M.A.
Phone: 313.927.1276
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Welcome to your future as a well-prepared, up-to-the-minute, K-12 educator or school administrator of the 21st century!  Marygrove College has a nearly eighty-year history of training teachers. Marygrove-educated teachers can be found in public and private schools across the nation in classrooms and in leadership positions.

Select graduate-credit courses for re-certification from an extensive list of high-quality online or onsite courses. Marygrove is committed to your professional development and transforming the lives of children and young people one teacher at a time!

18-Hour Established Planned Programs for Teacher Re-certification

Michigan Classroom Teachers – you have choices for recertification!
Either design your own planned program from an extensive and diverse list
of interesting and informative courses, or choose an “established” planned program package.  All groupings consist of six three-credit graduate-level courses (18 credit hours total).

Established Planned Programs

Courses Offered in Partnership with Canter

Canter Winter 2012 Brochure

Canter Winter 2012 Information Packet

Canter Winter 2012 Online Policies

After a long and successful partnership, Marygrove College and Canter & Associates are no longer accepting registrations for recertification courses.  Marygrove College continues to provide classroom teachers with high quality, interesting, affordable onsite and online recertification courses that increase content knowledge and provide practical teaching skills and strategies for improving student success at all grade levels.

If you are interested in taking recertification courses with Marygrove College, please contact Donna Kerry, Program Coordinator at 313.927.1276 or  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .  Marygrove College offers many interesting and affordable online and onsite options for your recertification needs.

Courses Offered in Partnership with Learner’s Edge Inc.

Marygrove College is pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2013, teachers may register for graduate-credit courses offered in partnership with Learner’s Edge, Inc.  Courses may be taken for re-certification, professional development, salary increments etc.  These instructor-led courses may be completed in either online or print based formats during specific semesters; Spring, Summer or Fall.  Tuition is $385 per course.  Students pay and register for course materials with Learner’s Edge. To receive graduate credit, students must complete online registration with Marygrove College but only after they have contacted Learner’s Edge.

To register, please visit www.learnersedgeinc.com, select “Partners”, “Academic” and choose Marygrove College as your institution.  You will find a wide variety of dynamic, flexible, relevant and affordable courses with teaching strategies, tools and resources that are immediately applicable in your classroom.

Courses Available as of June 11, 2013

1. Brain Works: Better Teaching with the Brain in Mind
2. Reaching Young Readers: Improving Reading Skills K - 3
3. Fully Wired: Understanding and Empowering Adolescents
4. Sticks and Stones: The No-Bully Zone
5. Engaging Multiple Intelligences in Your Classroom
6. Differentiated Learning: How to Teach to Varying Ability Levels
7. Effective Classroom Management
8. Gender Matters: How Boys and Girls Learn
9. Succeeding With the Struggling Student
10. Across the Spectrum: Teaching Students with Autism
11. What Great Teachers Do
12. Parent Trap: Dealing with Difficult Parents
13. Good to Great: Principles of Good Teaching
14. The Courage to Care: Working with At-Risk Students
15. In the Face of Poverty
16. What Great Middle School Teachers Do
17. Math Works: Teaching Math with the Brain in Mind
18. The Driving Force: Keys to Developing a Motivating Classroom
19. ADHD: Focusing, Learning, Teaching
20. Igniting Creativity, Comprehension and Collaboration Through Inquiry
21. Integrating the Brain and the Arts into your Classroom
22. 180 Degrees:  Rethinking Classroom Management
23. Tapping the Talent:  Working with Gifted Students
24. The Sky’s the Limit:  The Outdoor Classroom
25. The Writer’s Notebook
26. The Challenging Child:  Strategies for the Early Childhood Classroom
27. Achieving Success with English Language Learners
28. Assignment Homework:  Where, When and Why
29. Shaping Respectful, Responsible Learners in your Classroom
30. Web EDU
31. Lost in Translation:  New Languages, New Learning
32. The Future is Now:  Re-visioning Skills for the 21^st Century
33. Words Matter:  Using Teacher Language to Help Students
34. Knowing what you Know:  Summarizing Saavy
35. Common Core Standards
36. Instructional Strategies that Work
37. Inclusion Strategies:  Success in the Classroom
38. Literacy and Learning:  The Building Blocks
39. Successful Strategies in Literacy
40. Literacy Essentials:  Reading for Understanding
41. Literacy:  The Write Way:  Developing Writers in All Content Areas
42. Conferring with Young Writers
43. Building Comprehension in the Primary Grades

1. All courses are three graduate credit hours.
2. Tuition:  $385 per course
3. Print-based and Online formats are available
4. Additional courses are being reviewed and approved monthly
5. Visit www.learnersedgeinc.com
6. Select Marygrove College as your academic institution

Additional courses are being added monthly!

Please contact Donna Kerry, Program Coordinator, Professional Development for Teachers at 313-927-1276 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

>>www.learnersedgeinc.com

Courses Offered in Partnership with PLS 3^rd Learning (Onsite and Online)

In partnership with PLS 3^rd Learning, Marygrove College offers both online and onsite courses that are creative, practical, fun, interactive and with strategies immediately applicable to any grade level and content area.  Onsite courses near your home offer the opportunity to collaborate face-to-face with other educators.

>> Register for Courses online at www.plsclasses.com.

PLS 3^rd Learning Summer 2013 

PLS 3^rd Learning Winter/spring 2013 Catalog

 Performance Learning Systems Policies and Procedures

Online courses offered in partnership with Teachscape

Marygrove has partnered with Teachscape, a leader in K-12 professional development, to offer online graduate courses. For more than a decade, Teachscape has been bringing world-class technology and professional development services to partner schools, districts, and state departments of education.

Register online for courses at www.teachscape.com.

Teachscape Brochure

Teachscape Policies and Procedures

Courses Offered in Partnership with Ed2go Michigan Department of Education Clock Hours

Marygrove College is now offering twenty-one (21) courses for state of Michigan -continuing education clock hours.  Tuition for each course is $124 and upon successful completion, you may receive -24 continuing education clock hours.

1. Teaching Students with Autism
2. Creating the Inclusive Classroom
3. The Creative Classroom
4. Differentiated Instruction
5. Empowering Students with Disabilities
6. Solving Classroom Discipline Problems
7. Solving Classroom Discipline Problems II
8. Survival Kit for New Teachers
9. Teaching Preschool: A Year of Inspiring Lessons
10. Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities
11. Teaching Students with ADHD
12. An Introduction to ESL/EFL
13. Teaching ESL/EFL Grammar
14. Teaching ESL/EFL Reading
15. Teaching ESL/EFL Vocabulary
16. Using the Internet in the Classroom
17. Creating a Classroom Website
18. Teaching Smarter with Smart Boards
19. Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts
20. Homeschool with Success
21. Understanding Adolescents

>> www.ed2go.com/mgcteacher

Teachers, please note: The following two forms are required to receive your Michigan Department of Education continuing education clock hours.

 Marygrove College Course Log: Print this form and log your online time for each course you take each month. When you have completed your coursework, please sign and date the form(s) and save it as a pdf. Other log forms will not be accepted. Failure to provide a completed, signed and dated form within 30 days of the course end date, may result in not receiving -.your continuing education clock hours.

 Marygrove College Participant Information Form: Print this form for each course you take each month. Complete all information on the form, sign and date the form and save it as a pdf. Other information forms will not be accepted. Failure to provide a completed, signed and dated form within 30 days of the course end date, may result in not receiving -your continuing education clock hours.

Note: For each course started in a given month, send both completed, signed and dated pdf documents as attachments to one (1) email. Your subject line should be last name.first name.ed2go forms.Course Title. Example: Smith.Sarah.ed2go forms.Creative Classroom.