E-Learning Opportunities Now Available for Teachers

The U.S. Department of Education (the Department) is pleased to announce that thousands of teachers have now viewed its new Teacher-to-Teacher free online professional development sessions, which focus on improving teachers' content knowledge and teaching skills in reading, math and science.  

The Department is continuing to work to support teachers by seeking state approval of these free, online professional development sessions.  So far Delaware, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas have agreed to accept these e-learning sessions as credit toward teacher re-licensure.  Arkansas, California, Colorado, Vermont and Wisconsin teachers need approval at the local level to receive credit.  Many teachers are also using these sessions to earn credit or points to meet their state's High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE) to become highly qualified.

Sessions already available free online at www.ed.gov/teacherinitiative are:

Beginning to Write
Examining Student Work: A Protocol for Improving Reading
Looking at Vocabulary
Phonemic Awareness
Reading in the Content Areas: It's Just Different
Feedback: A Powerful Tool for Raising Student Achievement in Language Arts
Developing Computational Fluency in Addition and Subtraction
Measurement and Geometry: Building Conceptual Understanding in Young     Children
Patterns to Symbols: Algebra
Standards-Based Differentiated Math
Taking the "Dense" Out of Density
Using Technology to Enhance Algebra Instruction
Differentiated Instruction
No Child Left Behind Basics
Standards-Based Education and Student Report Cards
Turning Data Into Information

ED will continue to send e-mail updates as more states recognize its free professional development as a pathway to satisfying re-licensure requirements.  To learn more and sign-up for free e-mail updates on the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative, please visit: http://www.ed.gov/teacherinitiative or call toll-free 1-800-USA-LEARN. 

Sarah Crippen
Director of English Language Arts
Division of Curriculum
Texas Education Agency
1701 N. Congress Ave.
Austin, TX 78701
512.463.9500
fax:  512.463.8057
scrippen@tea.state.tx.us