K12 Courses

University of Reading

Supporting Successful Learning in Primary School

75 reviews

Build your understanding of learning and teaching to gain confidence in supporting children in school as a teaching assistant.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom

633 ratings at Coursera

Emerging technologies are quickly gaining momentum in the field of virtual K-12 instruction. In this course, we will explore how the latest trends in the use of technology affect student learning and engagement. What innovative learning spaces and tools…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Museum of Modern Art

Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom

429 ratings at Coursera

Explore how to integrate works of art into your classroom with inquiry-based teaching methods originally developed for in-gallery museum education.

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 13th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UC Santa Cruz

Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally

148 ratings at Coursera

In this short course you will explore the possibility that children might acquire written language in a way that is similar to how they acquire spoken language—without instruction.

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

University System of Georgia;  Kennesaw State University

K-12 Blended & Online Learning

119 ratings at Coursera

This course introduces teachers and interested adults to K12 blended and online learning. Participants will design a blended or online unit and develop one module to use with K12 students.

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 13th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots;  CU Boulder

Compassionate Leadership Through Service Learning with Jane Goodall and Roots & Shoots

131 ratings at Coursera

Join us for an action-oriented online teacher professional development course! This course will teach participants how to identify and implement a local service-learning campaign using the Roots & Shoots program model. The service learning curriculum equ…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 13th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Gowrie Victoria

Early Childhood Education

39 reviews

Examine the world of children from 0 to 5 years. Explore how they develop and learn in this critical stage.

• Open2Study
• 4 weeks long
• 18th Nov, 2018
• Free Online Course

Teaching Impacts of Technology: Workplace of the Future

In this course you’ll focus on how the Internet has enabled new careers and changed expectations in traditional work settings, creating a new vision for the workplace of the future. This will be done through a series of paired teaching sections, explorin…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1st Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching Impacts of Technology: Relationships

In this course you’ll focus on how “smart” devices have changed how we interact with others in personal ways, impacting how we stay connected in our increasingly mobile society. This will be done through a series of paired teaching sections, exploring a…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1st Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Capstone Project: Teaching Impacts of Technology

In this project-based course you’ll review the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course and exam description guide to prepare for the “Explore Task”, where students must research a recent computing innovation and and analyze its impacts on t…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 1st Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Computational Thinking for K-12 Educators: Abstraction, Methods, and Lists

How do gamers cause things to happen when they hit buttons on their controller? How does the computer keep track of gamer's scores? This class teaches the concepts of nested loops, events, and variables. For each concept, we'll start by helping you c…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 1st Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Computational Thinking for K-12 Educators Capstone

In this capstone project course, you will learn to support your students in successfully completing the Advanced Placement Principles Create Task -- however this task can be useful for any course as a culminating, student-designed final programming proje…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1st Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching Impacts of Technology: Fundamentals

28 ratings at Coursera

In this course you’ll focus on the fundamentals of teaching the impacts of technology, starting by exploring how you interact with and benefit from technology in a typical 24 hour period, such as the desire for instant food and entertainment. This will b…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1st Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching Impacts of Technology: Data Collection, Use, and Privacy

10 ratings at Coursera

In this course you’ll focus on how constant data collection and big data analysis have impacted us, exploring the interplay between using your data and protecting it, as well as thinking about what it could do for you in the future. This will be done thr…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1st Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Queensland University of Technology

Teaching Phonics in Early Childhood

575 ratings at FutureLearn

Learn what phonics is and how to teach it in the early years

• FutureLearn
• 1 hour a week, 2 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)