Teachworthy Course Explanation

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9. Post-Digital Literacy

This course serves as a digital literacy post assessment of skills and a culminating activity for the training component. It requires the development of your own personal teaching website which will include many documents created throughout training. You can share your website as a resource as you interview and begin searching for your first job.

3. Strategies for Success

You will learn about best practices for instruction before we ask you to use them independently. This information will give you the big picture of instruction. You can then implement these strategies throughout the training. As you progress through each research based instructional strategy, we will explain the process in "layman's terms" and provide plenty of examples so you will be prepared to implement these techniques in your classroom with success. Teaching requires an understanding of how we can organize our instruction and student learning to meet all students' needs, not just students at the level we are teaching at that moment in time.

2. This is Us

This is Us allows you to initially reflect on the strengths and constraints you witnessed from teachers in your journey through school.

• The first half helps you to identify your personal learning style and core values.
• The second half of this course focuses on the students you will serve by reviewing the required developmental stages and brain development of all learners from pre-school through high school.

This is an in depth review of theories, so take notes as you go and use the information to support you on the assessment.

Teaching

This course will walk you through all the steps needed to be successful during the teaching phase of your certification journey. Once you report your job, Teachworthy will confirm with your district that it meets the requirements for an Internship assignment.

6. Equity For All

This course is a dive into

• critical teaching components,
• legal processes, and
• compliance expectations of educating special populations.

While many of the processes are prescribed by Federal and State level authorities and consistent across all schools, some schools may have a unique approach to their process of implementation. Compliance to federal and state laws is mandatory, so please take your time as you go through the various processes expected of all educators.Your classroom will have students of various talents, skills, limitations, language barriers, and cognitive needs. We embrace every child, and this course will provide directed support for students with disabilities, second language learners, and dyslexia. Reading and thinking about how you can implement language acquisition strategies or support practices for kids from high poverty are also embedded in this course's expectations.

1. Digital Literacy Pre-Assessment

This is the beginning course in the curriculum that starts with a video reflection that serves as a pre assessment of your technology skills and what will be required in your classroom for you to be successful as an educator.

Field-Based Experience (FBE)

This course houses opportunities to complete your required 50 hours of observations. Teachworthy provides all candidates with a minimum of 10 required hours to help establish a foundation to show what good teaching practices actually look like in a school setting.

4. Curriculum Planning

This course focuses on implementing the strategies that you have learned to this point. The course begins with a focus on lesson planning and standards. Using state standards, you will develop SMART objectives to prepare a complete lesson plan and delivery plan. You will also learn the purpose and rationale behind various types of assessments that you will then incorporate into your lesson planning. Finally, you will create lessons for a week of instruction. Preparation and planning are vital components to success in the classroom for a teacher.

7. Focus on Reading

All teacher candidates are required to understand how to teach reading in every certification area offered by SBEC. Some certification areas require a second reading course titled Science of Teaching Reading that is also within our course curriculum. Reading is considered an expectation for all teachers and it is a requirement to support all students with reading skills in their PK-12 education. The misunderstood factor we often hear is that reading strategies are only for elementary students. This is not accurate and all levels of instruction can incorporate some of the strategies to support the learning development of readers' fluency and comprehension. Reading is very complex and is present in EVERY classroom. You will be learning about the basic building blocks of reading for the elementary and secondary level. This course will take you through the influences affecting students and their reading skills, foundational practices and resources you should use to support learners, and strategies to improve reading and literacy in your classroom.

8. Teachers as Leaders

This course reviews the expectations of teachers in the profession. Teachers have a very defined Code of Ethics that is expected of all educators to follow and comply with at all times. Ethics around anger management, student contact, social media, personal behavior off-campus, copyright practices and professional collaboration will be shared in the course so you can have a clear understanding of these expectations and boundaries. The second area of focus for teachers is the accountability system for students and for educators. The course will expose you to a basic understanding of the STAAR assessment and examples of what students will be administered; a glimpse at reviewing and interpreting data; and seeing what the teacher evaluation criteria and expectations are of you in your evaluations. The final part of the course is focused on vision and reflection. Good leaders most often have strong personal and professional vision and reflection practices they use to become the best they can be in what they do.

5. Classroom Behavior Management (CBM)

This course shares specific recommendations for creating a rich, engaging, organized, and mutually respectful learning environment. We recognize that each teacher brings a unique style. However, having a specific implementation plan for classroom management diminishes problems down the road. This course focuses on building relationships, first impressions, classroom procedures, a management plan for student conduct, and communicating with parents. Teachworthy is proud to be the sole alternative certification provider in Texas of the nationally acclaimed Capturing Kids' Hearts training for teachers. Each candidate will be provided this highly sought after training as part of your teacher preparation program.

Capstone

Once you get close to the end of your internship, Teachworthy will begin checking to make sure you have met all your certification requirements. With all exams and remediation complete, a Principal Recommendation, and evidence of successful completion of an internship, the CAPSTONE course will open on your dashboard to complete reflections and final steps before being recommended for your standard certificate.

Capturing Kids Hearts (CKH)

Teachworthy is the ONLY teacher certification program that partners with Capturing Kids' Hearts training so that all of our candidates start their career with success. This nationally recognized training will set you up with skills to have an AMAZING experience in the classroom! You will find a course on your dashboard with additional information on available sessions and the registration process. Now that you have been formally admitted, go in the the CKH course to register for your session now so you will have this valuable information on your first day of internship!

Testing

In the TESTING course you will find the following information:

• How to prepare for your first content test
• Test Preparation Resources
• How to secure test permission
• Content Test Remediation (if you are not successful on your test attempt)
• PPR Test Remediation