TEACHER CERTIFICATION, LICENSURE, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Teacher Aide Program
  Learn classroom communication skills, major instructional techniques, technology's role in the classroom, how to assist special needs students, and more. Books, lessons, learning aids, special supplements and equipment are included at no additional cost. As the shortage for teachers continues, demand for teachers aides increases - start a rewarding career in this exciting and growing field today.

Penn Foster Career School is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools for high school and vocational-technical programs, and by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Penn Foster Career School is affiliated with DANTES, which qualifies U.S. military personnel for tuition reimbursement. Many Penn Foster programs are approved for U.S. Armed Forces veterans training benefits.

Penn Foster Career School offers affordable, all-inclusive pricing—among the lowest of all career schools—and 0% interest financing and customized payment plans.

• Instructional Design for Online Learning
• Teaching Online
• Training and Performance Improvement
• Leadership for K-12 Programs

Learn more about these online graduate certificate programs for professional educators.

Ashworth University
Ashworth University is a widely respected, nationally accredited distance education school, and offers the following teacher assistant diploma:

• Professional Teacher Assistant Program
  As a professional, experienced teacher assistant, you could make a big difference in children's lives. And improve the quality of education at the same time! With Ashworth University's convenient home study course, you can learn how it's done. The only prerequisite for this course is a high school diploma or GED. This distance learning course will give you a solid foundation in teacher assisting. Trained teacher assistants with the right preparation, skills, and credentials may work in preschools, grammar schools, special education programs, and youth organizations nationwide.

Ashworth University is an Accredited Member of the Distance Education and Training Council and is qualified under the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support, or DANTES program.

Learn more about this teacher assistant program.

Indiana University Bloomington
The Indiana University School of Education Distance Education program offers beginning and experienced educators fully accredited coursework delivered via the Internet and two-way interactive video. Topics range widely across the elementary and secondary curricula, offering graduate-level credit that will help meet certification and recertification requirements in school districts across the country and around the world (video courses available only to Indiana residents), as well as potentially being a part of a Master's program, either at IU or another institution. Also available are a limited number of courses for undergraduates just beginning work towards certification. In all of our courses, the projects on which you will work involve activities and/or research that could have a significant positive impact both on how you teach and how your students learn.

Phono-Graphix® Certification Course
Phono-Graphix is an approach to literacy instruction, whether remedial, beginning, or on-going. This 35 hour online interactive certification course is available to individuals and schools, districts, other educational groups.

Rio Salado College
Rio Salado College offers an online Post-Bacc Teacher Preparation Program, designed for working adults who have already received their undergraduate degree and wish to enter the teaching profession. The program incorporates the teacher certification requirements for the State of Arizona into a curriculum that offers the essential skills students need to become highly effective teachers.

Rio Salado College offers professional development courses that lead to endorsements in:

• Computer Science
• ESL (teaching English to Speakers of other Languages)
• Bilingual (teaching English to Speakers of Spanish)
• Math
• Reading
• Middle Grade

Teacher Education Institute
The Teacher Education Institute offers online graduate courses as well as professional development and continuing education training for teachers. Here's a small sampling of available titles:

• Fundamentals of Graduate Research
• Self-Esteem for Educators
• Preventing School Violence
• Classroom Management
• Engaging the Gifted and Talented: Practical Methods and Strategies
• Teacher and Parent: Winning and Keeping Parent Support

WebED - Professional Development
WebED, Inc. is an online education company dedicated to providing K-12 educators, administrators and school personnel with the opportunity to earn professional development and graduate level credit through Internet-based courses.

K-12 Professional Development Catalog includes courses in a wide variety of subject areas, including the following:

• Administrative Development
• Assessment
• Classroom Management
• Gifted & Talented
• Instructional Strategies
• ESL Education
• Special Education
• Staff Development