21st Century Teaching & Learning Series

Free 21st Century Teaching Professional Development Offer

This professional development series includes online courses and workshops. It addresses the needs of middle school and high school teachers by providing discipline-specific tracks for language arts, math, science, and social studies educators. Teachers gain skills that can immediately be applied in their classrooms to create an engaging and effective 21st century learning environment.

Research-based content from the series aligns with classroom look-for strategies from the companion 21st Century Teaching & Learning Observation Form. This form, available with the purchase of iObservation, offers content resources that help leaders provide supportive feedback to teachers as they progress through the professional development series.

SPECIAL PACKAGE AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME!

The online course and workshop libraries are now available to your school free of charge when you purchase the iObservation system by March 31, 2010. All teachers in your school receive free enrollment to an online course of your choice (a $9,000 value for 30 teachers). Your school will also have access to the staff development resource library of workshops that offers hundreds of professional development hours free (a $12,500 value)!

Stretch your professional development budget with this free package normally priced at $21,500!

Your free package, included with the purchase of iObservation system licenses, features:

21st Century Teaching & Learning Walkthrough & Observation Form

  • Classroom walkthrough and observation form included with iObservation system purchase
  • Classroom look-fors that align with content in the 21st Century Teaching & Learning professional development series - online courses and workshops
  • Exemplary classroom videos that model effective 21st century skills

Online Courses

The special package offers $9,000 of complimentary professional development for a school with 30 teachers (normally $299 per enrollment).

  • 17 online course titles from which to choose with content developed based on the works of renowned authors, including Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson, Marc Prensky, Dr. Fred Newmann, and Dr. Nancy Dana
  • Courses feature exemplary classroom videos modeling effective strategies and job-embedded activities to help teachers apply the strategies in their classrooms
  • Each course provides 30 professional development hours
  • Access to courses available for 12 months from time of purchase
  • View the catalog (PDF)

Workshops in the Staff Development Resource Library

The special package offers $12,500 of complimentary professional development workshops (normally $499 per workshop).

  • 9 secondary workshops that can be delivered by a local facilitator, including your teacher leader or department chair
  • 16 additional teacher leadership and instructional coaching workshops
  • Each workshop includes a printable and reusable facilitator guide with step-by-step instructions for your local facilitator, a printable participant notebook with articles and reflection questions, and multimedia segments with modeling sequences
  • Each workshop provides six professional development hours with multiple delivery options: one 6-hour in-service day; six 1-hour staff meetings; or four 90-minute sessions on early dismissal days
  • Access to workshops available for 12 months from time of purchase
  • View the catalog (PDF)

Request more information about the special package.

Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson Discusses Differentiated Instruction in Connection to 21st Century Learning

Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson Discusses Differentiated Instruction in Connection to 21st Century Learning

In this video excerpt from the online course Differentiated Instruction in the 21st Century Classroom, Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson shares key principles of differentiated instruction to support a student-centered classroom in the 21st century learning environment. This course can be provided to all your teachers – free of charge – with the purchase of iObservation.