Welcome to your future as a well-prepared, up-to-the-minute K-12 educator
of the 21st century!
Marygrove College has a nearly 80-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. It is a recognized leader in offering quality programs for the adult learner. Among its many accolades, Marygrove has been cited by U.S. News and World Report as one of the best colleges for special education.
We’ve designed programs that meet your individual needs. Get your graduate credit courses anyway YOU want them: on-line, distance learning or in the classroom. Marygrove has partnered with three top course developers to deliver high quality, cutting-edge teacher professional development.
Marygrove is committed to your professional development because it reflects in the quality of education of America’s youth. Marygrove College: transforming the lives of children and young people one teacher at a time!
Should you wish to speak with someone regarding professional development for teachers, you may contact the Program Coordinator, Donna Kerry at (313) 927-1276 or at dkerry@marygrove.edu.
Online courses. Click here for more information.
- Foundations of Reading (Grade K-6 teachers)
- Fundamentals of Mathematics (Grade 2-6 Teachers)
- Research-Based Instructional Strategies to Improve Student Achievement (Grade K-12 Teachers)
Distance learning courses:
- Teaching reading in the elementary grades
- Improving reading in the content areas
- Classroom management to promote student learning
- Designing curriculum and instruction with the learner in mind
- Foundations of reading and literacy
- Strategies for literacy instruction: phonics, vocabulary and fluency
- Strategies for literacy instruction: comprehension
- Math: teaching for understanding
- Supporting the struggling reader
- Learning differences: effective teaching with learning styles and multiple intelligences
- Building your repertoire of teaching strategies
- Integrating the Internet into the k-12 curriculum
- Including students with special needs: curriculum, instruction and assessment
- Assessment to improve student learning
- How to get parents on your side
- Succeeding with difficult students
- Assertive discipline and beyond
- The high performing teacher
- Teaching students to get along
- Motivating today’s learner
- Helping students become self-directed learners
Call 1-800-669-9011 or visit the Canter Web site at www.canter.net.
In-classroom courses:- Successful teaching for acceptance of responsibility
- BYTES: Building Your Technology Education and Skills
- Merging educational goals and interactive multimedia projects
- Classroom management: orchestrating a community of learners
- Coaching skills for successful teaching
- Building communications and teamwork in the classrooms
- Brain based ways we think and learn
- Teaching through learning channels
- Achieving student outcomes through cooperative learning
- Discovering the power of live-event learning
- Teaching the skills of the 21st Century
- Meaningful activities to generate interesting classrooms
- Purposeful learning through multiple intelligences
For information and to register call 1-800-295-1515 or visit the PLS at www.plsweb.com