AkPLN Math and ELA Courses
Educators may participate in these short courses at no cost. One optional 500-level professional learning credit is available for $125 in connection with these classes.
Our new STEM Across the Curriculum course is 3-credits and open to all K-6 teachers ($300).
- Registration Open: September 16, 2019
- Registration closes: October 15, 2019
- Last day to submit course assignments for one-credit classes: January 15, 2020.
Let’s get better together!
- Learn online with the Alaska Professional Learning Network (AkPLN) and apply in your classroom tomorrow. Hone your skills and grow and refine your instructional strategies in English Language Arts and Math.
- Join us for online mini-courses focused on improving specific instructional practices in ELA and Math.
- Explore best instructional practice in ELA and Math in your classroom while collaborating with other Alaska teachers online.
- The facilitation model supports your learning with collaboration and expertise.
- The course follows an exploration and action-oriented cycle through a variety of evidence-based best practices that are aligned to the Alaska Standards.
- Participants are guided through an unpacking of targeted Learning Plans, including collaborative discussion as you try and apply each strategy with your own students.
ELA Courses
- NEW! Alaska Foundational Skills: Phonics and Word Identification, and Phonological Awareness (K-5)
- Vocabulary Instruction: Explicit Word Instruction, and Word Learning Strategies (K-5)
- Text Dependent Questions: Building Professional Knowledge (K-5)
Math Courses
- NEW! Building a Culture of Student Math Discourse (5-9)
- NEW! Middle School Math: Mindsets for Making Math Visual, and 2 Parts Math/ 1 Part Mindset: Ratios and Proportional Relationships (6-9)
- Using Worked Problems to Teach Algebra and Negative Numbers: Expanding the Number System (6-12)
STEM Integration Course (for Teachers of All Subjects!) 3-Credits
- Registration Open: September 16, 2019
- Registration closes: October 15, 2019
- Last day to submit course assignments: December 9, 2020.
- NEW! 3-Credit Class – STEM Across the Curriculum (K-6)
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