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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

GOAL SETTING: A Practical Plan for Student and Professional Success: A Practical Plan for Student and Professional Success

Strategies for Dynamic, Student-Centered Classrooms

Artificial Intelligence Tools and Teaching Practices for Feedback, Grading, and More

8 Dimensions of Wellness

Building Tolerance while having Fun in the Multicultural Classroom.

Eating Extremes

You Are What You Eat

Encouraging Student Voices

"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

A Teacher's Survival Guide to Distance Learning

A Teacher’s Survival Guide for Dealing with Difficult Parents

A Teacher’s Survival Guide to Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

Academic Language Instruction for Students and Families

Actively Engaging the Emotionally and Behaviorally Disturbed Child

Addressing the Causes of Absenteeism and Devising Practical Solutions

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 Adobe 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 Selective Mutism (SM)

All About Trauma Informed Behavior and Classroom Management

All About: Anxiety in School-Age Children

All about: Creating regulation and calm in yourself, staff and students

All About: Managing Student Behavior in Remote and Blended Learning Environments

All about: Social Emotional Learning (SEL) School-wide Engagement Activities

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

Applying Psychological Principles in Schools

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

Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom

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 K12

Beyond Academics - Bringing Concepts from Positive Psychology into Schools

Beyond Book Reports

Beyond the Classroom- Ways for Educators to Find Teaching Opportunities and Market Their Skills

Blended Learning for Educators

Blogging for Educating Professionals

Books without Bias

Building Positive Relationships with English-Language Learners

Building Self-Esteem for Students: You Make a Difference!

Building Student/Teacher Relationships with SEL Activities

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, STEM and Project Based Learning Project Based Learning with a splash of STEM & Standards

Communication Skills in Today's World

Communication Struggles of ELL Students

Counting on Independent Learning Through Math Work Stations

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

Create your own ESCAPE ROOMS AND CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURES using Google Forms

Creating a Positive Classroom Climate with SEL

Creating a Positive Math Culture

Creating an Effective Tutoring Program

Creating Images for Classrooms Using Adobe Photoshop

Creating Math Strategy Kits

Creating Meaningful Summer Experiences for Students

Creating Text Dependent Questions

Creating the Perfect Mini Lesson

Creative Bookmaking Techniques

Creative Ways to Teach Children to Make Inferences

Creative World

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

Dealing With Parents and Effective Communication

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

Design Tool to Maximize Learning and Engagement

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

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

Eight Essential Tutoring Traits

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

Embracing Diversity: Cultivating Cultural Consciousness in Education

Emotions and Their Effects on Learning

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

Ethics and You in the Classroom

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

Family Engaged Learning: Helping Families Connect with Schools, Students, and Other Families

Financial Literacy

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

Math Instruction: Changing Math Mindsets and Teaching Strategies to Make Math Learning Equitable and Accessible for All Learners

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

Healing Trauma Through Reading and Writing

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?

How to Create an Effective School Mentoring Program

How to Live to 100 and LOVE IT!

Improving Classroom Climate and School Culture

Improving Social Skills and Social Thinking the Classroom and Small Groups

Inclusive Mathematics Instruction: Math Made Simple with Strategies and Support for Students with Learning Disabilities



Incorporating Cell Phones in the Classroom

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

Integrating SEL, CRT and the Arts in the 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

Let's Group Up! Engaging Students in Learning

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



Linking Families to Learning

Literacy Stations... Making Centers that Work!

Literature outside of the English Classroom

MakerSpace in the 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 21st Century Classrooms

Mental Health Matters

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

PEDC 9002 A+ Online Tools for Every Learner: Resources for Social and Emotional Learning

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

Portrait of a Well Rounded Teacher

Power in the Art of Questioning

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

Professional Career Readiness

Promoting Cultural Respect and Awareness

Providing Great Feedback

Public Speaking and Engagement Techniques Your Students Can Use

Put your Self-Directed Learner to Work!

QR Codes in the Classroom

Reaching the Resistant Student

Reggio Emilia-Inquiry Inspired Teaching Approach

Restorative Practices

Revolutionizing your instruction with Choice Boards: inspire autonomy, curiosity, and differentiate content, all in one lesson!

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

Seeing Science through the Lens of a Child

Service Learning in the Classroom

Shifting Gears: A New Approach Through The Science of Reading

Social Problems in Education

Sports Math

STEM, Common Core and Computer Technology (Technology, STEM, and Standards)

Strategies that Engage Students through Movement

Student-Centered Learning Environments

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

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 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

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