Online Offerings
The Office of Professional Development in Education offers a variety of online courses geared for the working professional. Our graduate-level professional development courses meet the academic standards of the College of Charleston, as well as address school district and educational organizational needs.
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Collaborative Learning in the Classroom
Collaborative Learning in the Classroom (EDPD 826X) is a new, in-depth, and teacher-centered look on how to group students in the classroom for success. It brings a new perspective about this age-old topic of grouping students to differentiate for their learning needs. This course allows teachers to effectively establish classrooms based on groupings, in which they have structure and control over how learning will take place for every learner in that setting. After teachers have successfully established the structure, guidelines, and management of their classrooms, they will learn very specific activities and strategies. This collection of strategies empowers teachers to make change in their classrooms for the purpose of teaching and assessing for learning. Request a syllabus for more details at fbouknight65@gmail.com
Credit: 3 hours graduate professional development credit
Summer 2024; Registration will open May 1, 2024.
Cost: $350
Delivery Type: Online, Self-paced
Date: June 9 - August 11, 2024
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* A copy of your teaching certificate and your driver's license are required to complete registration. Documents can be sent via email.
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The Struggle for Equal Education in South Carolina
The Struggle for Equal Education in South Carolina (EDPD 826Y) is designed for classroom teachers, administrators, and others interested in learning the history of both the segregation and integration of public schools in South Carolina. Today’s public schools in South Carolina are largely the result of past laws and court decisions. The journey has been marked with struggle and in some cases violence. The purpose of this course is to give teachers, administrators, and school board members an understanding of the past so they can relate to the schools we have today. The past has led us to the present and current organization of schools in South Carolina. Topics include schooling during the Colonial period and reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, the fight for desegregation with the Clarendon County Briggs v. Elliott case, school equalization, the Brown v. Board of Education decision, university desegregation, court ordered desegregation, the aftermath of forced integration, and where we are today. Request a syllabus for more details at fbouknight65@gmail.com
Credit: 3 hours graduate professional development credit
Summer 2024; Registration will open May 1, 2024
Cost: $350
Delivery Type: Online, Self-paced
Date: June 9 - August 11, 2024
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* A copy of your teaching certificate and your driver's license are required to complete registration. Documents can be sent via email.
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Managing the Post Pandemic Classroom
Managing the Post Pandemic Classroom (EDPD 826Z) provides teachers and administrators a new understanding of the impact of the pandemic on students and teachers. This new understanding will be examined through learning about trauma and stress related to the pandemic, programs developed to provide a structure for identifying and managing behaviors, instructional and management strategies, and support systems to ensure teacher and student success. The techniques and strategies examined will allow teachers to build a new skill set to thrive in the post pandemic classroom.
Credit: 3 hours graduate professional development credit
Date: Summer 2024; Registration opens May 1, 2024
Cost: $350
Delivery Type: Face-to-Face
Location: TBA
Date: June 24 - June 27, 2024 (8 AM - 4 PM, daily)
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* A copy of your teaching certificate and your driver's license are required to complete registration. Documents can be sent via email.
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Equity in Education: Taking Action in the Classroom
Equity in Education: Taking Action in the Classroom (EDPD 826 C60)
Equity in Education: TAking Action in the Classroom provides educators with the opportunity to implement actionable, research-based strategies to support all students, particularly underserved and underachieving students, in learning. This course focuses on actively creating a caring community for all learners. Student achievement is tied closely to identity and a sense of belonging in school. This course addresses barriers to student learning created when student identity is ignored or maligned. Participants in this course will gain knowledge of educational research related to equity, identity, anti-racism, and supporting topics. They will develop, implement, and evaluate an action plan to support all students, with an emphasis on student voice. They will understand how their students’ identities are tied to their learning.
Credit: 3 hours graduate professional development credit
Summer 2024; Registration will open May 1, 2024
Cost: $350
Delivery type: Online
Date: June 12 to July 17, 2024
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* A copy of your teaching certificate and your driver's license are required to complete registration. Documents can be sent via email.
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R2S Elementary CARW Using Science of Reading Principles
R2S Elementary Content Area Reading and Writing Using Science of Reading Principles (EDPD 826 Q60)
As experts resurrect the basic components of the Science of Reading, teachers should not lose sight of the value of content-area reading and writing. When teachers are aware of the basic principles of phonological awareness and language comprehension, they are able to integrate them effectively into each stage of recursive reading and writing processes. The combination increases the probability that students will achieve literacy proficiency as necessary for meeting South Carolina’s content-area standards. Students who are effective readers transfer science of reading principles and CARW practices to increasingly rigorous informational texts with confidence and competence. This course lays the groundwork for elementary teachers to build literacy-rich lessons for students to learn how to read and how to read to learn.
Credit: 3 hours graduate professional development credit
Summer 2024; Registration will open May 2024
Cost: $350
Delivery type: Online
Date: TBD (Summer 2024)
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* A copy of your teaching certificate and your driver's license are required to complete registration. Documents can be sent via email.
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R2S Instructional Practices and Science of Reading
R2S Instructional Practices and Science of Reading (EDPD 826 R60)
The Read to Succeed Act of 2014 challenged teachers of all grades and all disciplines to increase the literacy level of their instruction. New research, combined with sound instructional practices that have evolved over the decades, has reignited interest in the Science of Reading and how it, too, works to raise literacy proficiency in struggling, elementary students. This course requires teachers to add appropriate levels of phonological awareness and language comprehension to their already literacy-rich lessons to maximize instructional time; this is a priority as students improve their overall literacy proficiency using recursive reading and writing as instructional practices.
Credit: 3 hours graduate professional development credit
Summer 2024; Registration will open May 2024
Cost: $350
Delivery type: Online
Date: TBD (Summer 2024)
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* A copy of your teaching certificate and your driver's license are required to complete registration. Documents can be sent via email.
Additional Graduate Professional Development Online Offerings
Colonial Charleston Teacher Institute
June 17-21. 2024 In-person Tours and Presentations
June 24 - July 3, 2024 (4) 1-hour Zoom lectures & Project Prep
Interested? More information can be found here!
Virtual SC Graduate Professional Development (3 hours graduate PD credit)
You MUST register with VirtualSC FIRST before registering with the College of Charleston. VirtualSC will send you complete instructions on the registration process.
VirtualSC is an important partner that offers diverse course offerings for course renewal credits and approved C of C graduate professional development courses that can meet the requirements for endorsement and certification programs. These include:
- Online Teaching Endorsement
- Project-Based Learning Endorsement
- Gifted and Talented Endorsement
- R2S Literacy Coach Endorsement
- R2S Literacy Specialist Endorsement
- Transformative Educational Practices (not an endorsement)
- Middle-Level Add-On Certification