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Course Overview
Children often hear adults yelling about the news, but lack a safe space for their emotions and for civil discourse: Learn how to create one!
Course Objectives
As a participant, you will:
- Discover five (5) strategies to use when discussing hot-button current events and social issues with your students.
- Explore these tangible, practical strategies and how to implement them with your students of different age groups.
- Receive ready-to-use worksheets, exercises, and other resources that support these strategies. (You can download and print them at any time.)
- Be guided to build a plan to customize and implement these strategies with your students immediately.
All Brain Power Academy Online Professional Development Courses consist of a blend of learning elements to engage you and empower you to implement new strategies and techniques with your students.
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Frequently asked questions
When does the course take place?
All of our PowerPD units are self-guided so you can explore at your own pace! Once you enroll in a unit, you will have lifetime access through your Brain Power Academy account.
Our units are setup to allow for free navigation; however, we recommending completing the lesson activities in order for full synthesis of the content.
To navigate through a unit, click on the lesson from the unit's landing page, or click on “Continue Learning” to be redirected into the course player. By doing this, you will always continue straight from the last learning activity you have visited.
Once inside a lesson, you will see all of the different learning activities on the left-hand menu, and the content will appear on the right. Use the left and right arrows to navigate.
How do I complete the course?
In order to complete a course, learners must complete all learning activities within the online professional development course (including all videos, articles, reflection activities, assignments, and quizzes) in order to be awarded a certificate of completion.
What kind of content can I expect to see in this course?
Access multimodal content including voiceover slide presentations, articles, videos, and other supplementary resources within all of the PowerPD lessons!
Can I receive professional development credit for this course?
All of Brain Power Academy's online professional development Brain Bite courses are eligible for 1 Professional Development Hour/Professional Development Point (PDPs). Learners must complete all learning activities within a unit (including all videos, articles, reflection activities, assignments, and quizzes) in order to be awarded a certificate of completion.