The Right Course Format for Your Learning Style

Engaging & Relevant Courses from the Comfort of Your Home

Most courses include a hard copy course text(s) containing a combination of practical strategies, methods and research-based theory for classroom teaching. Learners Edge works to use the most applicable and popular texts in the field. All 3 credit courses include the following sections:

• Read and Respond: Each course uses a study guide with questions aligned with the readings.
• Reflection Requirement: Every 3-credit course has a Reflection Requirement that is a minimum of 2 pages long. The Reflection Requirement allows you to deepen your learning on the topic, and to explore related issues.
• Resource Requirement: An opportunity to customize your learning by finding and summarizing current articles and blog posts that support the content of your course.
• Application Requirements: Applications are designed to be relevant and useful to teachers in their classrooms, so each course requires that you create something applicable to your teaching situation.

Course Materials

• The Online Format is infused with multi-media clips to enhance learning, with all materials (including the syllabus) online.

Feedback

• For online courses, evaluator feedback is given after each module submission (3 Modules for a 3 credit course).

Tight Timeline? Get on the Fast Track!

Relicensing dates and contract dates can sneak up on you. When you have a tight timeline to meet, look for our Fast Track courses offered in partnership with Augustana University and Roosevelt University.

Fast Track courses:

• 3 graduate credits | 45 hours of work | $499
• Learning resources are found entirely online - no need to wait for a textbook
• Expedited 2-day coursework evaluation - guaranteed on Fast Track courses

Registration for Fast Track courses are only available during select dates:*

• Spring Session: January 2 – March 15
• Summer Session: May 16 – July 15
• Fall Session: September 2 – October 15

*These dates are based on Grade Release Dates from Augustana University and Roosevelt University.

For Those that Like a Little of Both - Self-Paced & Synchronous

Are you the kind of person who likes to have an accountability partner? Does the thought of self-paced learning intrigue you, but honestly, it's helpful to have a little nudge every now and again? Let us introduce you to Blended Learning! A mix of self-paced (asynchronous) and instructor-led (synchronous) learning in the Learners Edge online environment. 

We are currently offering two blended learning courses:

• Course 5113: Teacher Wellness II
  When: September 23 and September 30 @ 6:00-7:30 pm CST
  Location: Zoom
  Instructor: Lance Raabe

Course Description:
Finding balance in our teaching lives is critical for a successful classroom career. How can we maintain a strong commitment to our profession while also finding the time and energy required to be happy outside of the school day? This course will answer these questions and will get teachers moving, creating, and thinking about all the ways to maintain a balanced approach--in school, and out. We will work to achieve balance and wellness through a Bob Ross-inspired art session, a Top-Chef cooking competition, and a Line Dancing lesson!

• Course 5114: The Power of Positivity
  When: October 7 and October 14 @ 6:00-7:30 pm CST
  Location: Zoom
  Instructor: Lance Raabe

Course Description:
Stories of students and teachers seeking to be positive forces for good are the inspiration for this exciting new course in this challenging year, 2020. Teachers will become part of the phenomenon of positivity through the development of a "Posi-Plan" designed to spread kindness and to wipe out negativity. At the end of the course, educators will join in a community activity designed to spread goodwill. Oh, what a feeling! Join us!

If you love summer in the Midwest!

On-Site courses will deliver new adventures to your continuing education. Lance Raabe, a seasoned and favorite Learners Edge instructor, is always bringing fun and energy to a handful of popular courses where you'll get to meet fellow teachers and collaborate in your learning. You don't want to miss these unique adventures! Offered Summers (late May and June) in the Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa area. Registration typically opens in March. 

Complete your information below if you would like to be notified when On-Sites open for registration: 

When You (and your Colleagues) Found the Perfect Book!

There are some books that resonate at a gut level. When you come across this type of book, use a Learners Edge book study to share your learning and excitement with teachers at your school or district.

Hours, PDPs, CEUs - Time to Relicense or Recertify!

Learners Edge has worked with teachers across the country to help them relicense and recertify. If you are looking for applicable, online learning that will provide you with a Learners Edge Letter of Completion and 10 hours of professional development, these courses are the perfect fit. We offer nearly two dozen online professional development courses that you can take from the comfort and coziness of your own home and keep ahead of that recertification deadline.

Academic transcripts ARE NOT available for professional development courses and we encourage you to check with your state licensing board to ensure Learners Edge Professional Development will meet your needs!