Welcome to your future as a well-prepared, up-to-the-minute K-12 educator 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.

We’ve designed programs that meet your individual needs. Get your graduate credit courses anyway YOU want them: online, distance learning or in the classroom. 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!

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)
• Research-Based Instructional Strategies with a Mathematics Focus, K-12
• Proportional Reasoning in the Middle Grades, 6-8
• Teacher as Leader, K-12
• Instructional Design, K-12
• Understanding Teaching and Learning, K-12
• Fundamentals of Math for Educational Leaders
• Questioning and Assessment (Math)

Distance learning courses. Click here for more information.

• 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 - Elementary Education
• Supporting the Struggling Reader - Secondary Education
  
• 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

In-classroom, on-campus courses. Click here for more information.

• Successful Teaching for Acceptance of Responsibility
• Bytes:  Building your Technology Education and Skills
• Merging Educational Goals and Interactive Multimedia Projects - also online!
• Classroom Management:  Orchestrating a Community of Learners - also online!
• 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  - also online!
• Meaningful Activities to Generate Interesting Classrooms
• Purposeful Learning through Multiple Intelligences - also online!
• Designing Motivation for all Learners
• Differentiated Instruction for Today’s Classroom
• Learning to Read:  Beginning Reading Instruction - also online!
• Reading to Learn:  Comprehension Instruction - also online!

Contact the Program Coordinator Donna Kerry at (313) 927-1276 or dkerry@marygrove.edu.

last updated 12/07