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The purpose of The Creative Teacher Education Institute is to provide high-quality standards-based professional development courses through online training services to certified teachers for teacher training and continuing teacher educational services. Our intent is to provide effective and engaging virtual learning environments for teachers to integrate in their classroom based upon Next Generation and Core Learning Standards of Curriculum Instruction, Instructional Technology, and National Educational Technology Standards. All instructors are highly qualified NYS certified teachers working in the field of education. We are NYSED Approved CTLE Sponsor 23231 and offer graduate, inservice and NYC P/A+ courses for academic recertification and salary advancement .


    Available courses

    Incorporating Cell Phones in the Classroom

    Books without Bias

    Mental Health Matters

    Nutrition News

    Creating the Perfect Mini Lesson

    "When Students are in Crisis"

    “Getting To Parents Before They Get To You,” Fostering Positive Parent/Teacher Relationships

    “What’s for Homework ?”: Making Homework and Assessment Policies That Make Sense

    5 Ways to Integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into your Work in Schools

    5 Ways to Integrate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy into your Work in Schools

    10 Things to Know about Depression in Children and Adolescents

    10 Ways to Increase Your Happiness and the Happiness of Your Students

    21st Century Mathematicians

    25 Students, 25 Lessons? Is this the case? Differentiated Instruction for Today's Diverse Learners

    30 (Almost) Forgotten Women: The Philosophers, Mathematicians, Scientists, Warriors, and Rulers Who Changed the World


    180 Wired and Unwired Ideas

     

    A Guide to Preventing Lifestyle Diseases

    A Look At Our Nation's Obesity Epidemic

    ABC's of Classroom Management and Organization

    ABC's of Mainstreaming and Inclusion

    ABC's of Working Effectively with the Challenging Parent

    ABC’s of Balancing Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning

    ABC’s of How to Focus on Student Well-Being amid the COVID- 19 Pandemic

    ABC’s of STEM vs. STEAM

    ABCs of Teaching During a Pandemic: Distance Learning

    Actively Engaging the Emotionally and Behaviorally Disturbed Child

    ADHD in HD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in High Definition

    Adult Life 101: Helping Students Become Successful Adults by Teaching Real-life Skills in the Classroom

    Advanced Photoshop

    All About CRISS!

    All About Dyslexia

    All About OCD: a Primer for Educators

    All About School Mental Health Issues

    All About School Refusal

    All About Trauma Informed Behavior and Classroom Management

    All About: Anxiety in School-Age Children

    All Behavior is Functional: functions of behavior and how to increase participation and manage misbehavior

    Amazing Anchor Chart Ideas

    Amazing Author Studies

    American History Via Comics

    Analyzing Art Online/ Appreciating Art on the Web

    Answering the Question “Why?” in Science

    APP SMASHING for the Classroom

    Apps for Google Apps

    Are You Using Your Brain? / Brain-Based Learning Strategies for the K-12 Classroom

    Around the World in 180 Days

    Art Explorer

    Asking Great Questions

    Autism A to Z

    Awesome, Beautiful, New York!

    Backwards by Design

    Be the Spark!: Using Passion Projects to Inspire Students

    Beating Test Anxiety: Teaching Strategies to Help Students Become Better Test Takers

    Best Apps for Boosting your Social Media in the Classroom

    Beyond Academics - Bringing Concepts from Positive Psychology into Schools

    Blended Learning for Educators

    Building Positive Relationships with English-Language Learners

    Building Tolerance While Having Fun in the Multicultural Classroom

    Bullying: Everyone's Problem

    BYOD - Mobile Learning in the Classroom

    Captivating Students with Literature

    Character Education & the LGBTQ Community

    Character Education in the Classroom

    Chemicals in the Classroom- How to Keep your Students Safe

    Childhood and Adolescent Depression

    Children with Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD)

    Children's Literature for All Teachers

    Classified 101

    Co Teaching- Partnerships that Work

    Collaborative Learning: Students Working Together

    Common Core: Helping Students Become Self-Directed Learners

    Counting on Independent Learning Through Math Work Stations

    Crash! Bam! Boom! Teaching Science, Math, Writing and More Using Superheroes

    Creating a Positive Math Culture

    Creating and Eco-Friendly and Safe Classroom for your Students/ Chemicals in the Classroom

    Creating Images for Classrooms Using Adobe Photoshop

    Creating Meaningful Summer Experiences for Students

    Creating Text Dependent Questions

    Creative Bookmaking Techniques

    Creative Ways to Teach Children to Make Inferences

    Critical Issues and Effective Solutions for Education Reform

    Cultural Wonders of Africa

    Cultural Wonders of Asia

    Cultural Wonders of Europe

    Cultural Wonders of Latin America

    Deconstructing the Common Core Math Modules: Helping Educators infuse the Math Modules into their Everyday Math Lessons

    Differentiating Writing Through Writers Workshop

    Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

    Discovering Museums as a Valuable Classroom Resource

    Distance Learning Made Easy for All

    Drugs and Alcohol- What Every Teacher Needs to Know

    Dynamic Ways to Integrate Differentiated Common Core Reading Instruction into Science, Social Studies, and Writing for Students with Learning Disabilities

    Dynamics of Conflict

    Earning an “A” on Teacher Evaluations: Tips for Today’s Professional Educator

    Educating with Character

    Educators Choice Awards/ The Best Sites on the Web

    Educators Guide to Tourette Syndrome

    Effective Strategies for Incorporating Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Into Your Educational Setting

    Effective Strategies to Enhance Students’ Writing Skills

    Effective Teaching Ideas for 21st Century Classrooms

    Embedding Formative Assessment Strategies into the Classroom (k-12, Special Education, Speech Teacher, ELL)

    Empowering All Students Through Non-fiction Reading

    Empowering Students in a Culturally Competent Classroom

    Empowering the Silent Witness

    Encouraging a Love of Reading through Literature Circles

    Encouraging the Well-Being of our Students Through Mindfulness and Empathy

    Engaging the Disengaged Learner

    Enhancing Language and Literacy through Photography for the Classroom Teacher

    Enhancing Your Classroom Curriculum With Iphoto and Imovie

    Everyone Can Do Read-Alouds

    Everything Picasso

    Executive Functioning: The Conductor of Our Lives

    Exploring Repertoire for Band

    Exploring Repertoire for Orchestra

    Exploring the World of Forensic Science: A Cross-Curricular Approach

    Flipping Your Ancient Civilizations and Early European History

    Flipping Your Early American History Classes

    Flipping your Math Class

    Focusing on Grammar in a Foreign Language Environment

    Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum

    Fostering Reading and Writing Success for Students with Learning Disabilities

    Game On! Applying Gaming Strategies and Concepts in the Classroom

    Genetics and Environmental Impacts on Cognitive Learning

    Giving Students a Voice: Teaching Arguments, Debates, and Other Common Core Standards For Speaking, Listening, and Writing

    Google Apps for Beginners

    Google Apps Intermediate - Apps for Assessment

    Google Classroom for Parents

    Great Masters

    Grocery Store Math

    Grouping Students with a Focus on Respect

    Growth Mindset

    Health Promotion and Cancer Prevention

    Helping Students Be Successful: Aligning lessons to the New Common Core

    Hip Hop Culture in the Classroom: A Study in Graffiti and Street Art

    HIV and AIDS Update

    How are GMO's Hurting your Children?

    Improving Social Skills and Social Thinking the Classroom and Small Groups

    Incorporating Value Affirmation and Reflection Exercises in Instruction

    Innovative Practices in Education

    Inside Contemporary Art

    Instrumental Music Remote Learning


    Integrated Learning for Deep Understanding

    Integrating Music in the K-12 Classroom

    Interactive Instruction to Improve Speaking and Listening Skills

    Interactive Media: Exploring SMART Boards and Promethean Boards

    Introduction to Illustrator for Educators

    Keeping our Students and Staff Safe

    Learning Disabilities and Beyond

    Let's Group Up! Engaging Students in Learning

    Lights, Camera, ACTION! Students as Filmmakers In and Out of the Classroom



    Literacy Stations... Making Centers that Work!

    Literature outside of the English Classroom

    Making Flipping Your Classroom Work for You and Your Students

    Making Math A Magical Experience For All

    Math Made Simple for Students with Learning Disabilities

    Mental Health Challenges of the 21st Century Classroom

    Met Any Good Authors Lately?

    Mind Design Tools for Educators

    Mind Your Manners: Teaching Students Social Graces and Communication Skills

    Mindfulness for Educators: Developing a Sense of Calm in your Personal and Professional Life

    Mindfulness for your classroom

    More Than Just Word Problems: Writing in Math Class

    Motivating Children to Learn Through the Use of Enjoyable Websites for Primary Students

    Motivating Music Students

    Motivating Students with Growth Mindset

    Native American Culture, History and Art

    New York State of Mind/ Exploring NYS Museums and Cultural Resources

    Note-taking and Study Skills 101

    Nutrition 101

    NYC on Canvas: Standing Up for Social Justice

    Oh No... Anything but Poetry!!

    Once Upon a Lesson Plan

    Online Archaeologist

    Out of the Box Behavior Modification

    Peer Assisted Teaching and Learning

    Photography and Photojournalism Exposed on the Web

    Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom

    Poets in Latin America

    Pop Bottle Science

    Positive Behavior Intervention Program: K-12

    Problem-solving Instruction: Strategies for Teaching Problem-Solving in a Learner-Centered Classroom

    Promoting Cultural Respect and Awareness

    Public Speaking and Engagement Techniques Your Students Can Use

    Put your Self-Directed Learner to Work!

    QR Codes in the Classroom

    Restorative Practices

    Safe Schools or Schools in Crisis: What is your Plan?

    Seeing Science through the Lens of a Child

    Service Learning Projects in the Classroom

    Social Problems in Education

    Sports Math

    Strategies that Engage Students through Movement

    Student-Centered Learning Environments

    Students as Problem Solvers: Problem-Based Learning in the K-12 Classroom

    Supporting the Communication Struggles of ELL Students

    Supporting the English Language Learner: Strategies that Work

    Supporting the Math Struggles of ELL

    Supporting the Reading Struggles of ELL

    Surrealism: Exploring the Marvelous

    Surviving Education in this Day and Age

    Surviving the Holocaust

    Teach Green

    Teaching Across the Curriculum with Children’s Literature

    Teaching and Learning in the Age of Distraction

    Teaching Children with Learning Disabilities in New and Creative Ways

    Teaching Dignity, Empathy, and Integrity to all Students

    Teaching Gratitude and Journaling in the Classroom

    Teaching Media Literacy: Fact Checking- Teaching Students How to Analyze Information and Question Sources of Information in the 21st Century

    Teaching String Technique

    Teaching Vocabulary in a Foreign Language Classroom

    The 411 on Response to Intervention

    The Comprehension Connection: Strategies to teach Reading and Listening Comprehension Skills in the Classroom (k-12, Special Education)

    The Creative Instrumental Rehearsal

    The Creative Teacher

    The Creative World of Ezra Jack Keats

    The Creative World of Maurice Sendak

    The Effect that Stress has on Student Learning

    The Genius Hour Model

    The Great American Landscape

    The Impact of Stereotypes and Labeling on Education

    The Incredible Classroom

    The Makers of History

    The Messages in Art of Latin America

    The Messages in the Art of Europe

    The Respectful Classroom

    The Science Behind Taste and Flavor

    The Socially Networked Classroom

    The Story of Music: Exploring Western Music in Relation to History

    The Teachers Pocket Guide to IEP's: Getting the IDEA Right


    The Van Gogh Experience

    Thematic Web Ideas

    Think Green, Act Green

    Tips for Teaching Preteens and Teens

    Today a Reader/ Tomorrow a Leader/ Learning to Implement Guided Reading Strategies

    Tolerance Through Art

    TPRS: Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling

    Trauma and Children: Its Impact on Learning and Social Growth

    Understanding and Working with the Resistant Student

    Unleashing the Power of Presentation Tools

    Using Computers for Productivity

    Using Themes to Integrate Latin American Novels into the Curriculum

    Utilizing Technolgy with Diverse Learners

    Virtual Renaissance

    Vocabulary Instruction for 21st Century Learners

    Vocabulary Strategies: Multiple Ways to Teach Words

    Warm Up your K-12 Classroom with Icebreakers

    Weird Science

    Welcoming Diversity and Including Immigrant Students in your K-12 Classroom

    What is Disordered Eating?

    Why Can’t We Just Behave? Social Learning Theory in the K-12 Classroom

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