Online Courses for Teachers on Summer Break
Published July 30, 2024
Courses Mentioned in this Post: Rhetoric, Building Personal Resilience, Outsmarting Implicit Bias, Early Childhood Development, Introduction to Family Engagement in Education, Leaders of Learning, Saving Schools, and Strategy Execution for Public Leadership
Students aren’t the only ones out of school for summer. If you’re a teacher, summer break is a great time to focus on your own goals and aspirations.
Perhaps you’ll use this time to catch up with friends, travel to a new destination, or explore a hobby. Summer is also a great time to work on yourself and your own career. You might usually be the one leading the class, but consider swapping into a learner seat for a change.
In this blog, we’ve curated the top courses teachers can take during summer break to work on their own passions, equip themselves to better assist students, and learn leadership skills to bring their school system to the next level.
Build your own skill set
Teaching, no matter the age, involves a great deal of public speaking and persuasion. You’re speaking to students every day, attempting to explain new concepts clearly. If this is an area you’d benefit from working on, our self-paced course Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking may help. Built around Harvard Professor James Engell's on-campus course, "Elements of Rhetoric," this course will help you analyze and apply rhetorical structure, style, and persuasion.
Sometimes the only way to show up for your students is to show up for yourself first. Taught by Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques, our self-paced course Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health can help you become your most resilient self using science-backed tools.
Expand your student toolkit
Do you know what really goes into your decision-making in the classroom? We may be making choices that we ourselves don’t fully understand. Implicit bias can impact the way students learn, whether through unintentional decisions or by specific school district-approved curriculum or practices. In our cohort-based course Outsmarting Implicit Bias, you will experience the way your mind works, how it influences your decisions, and how you can outsmart it to overcome implicit bias.
An estimated 250 million children in low- and middle-income countries risk not meeting their development potential in the first five years of life, leading to lifelong impacts. But, with early childhood intervention, teachers can completely transform a student’s life trajectory. Our self-paced course Early Childhood Development: Global Strategies for Implementation, can help you learn how to generate innovative, scalable intervention strategies that support early childhood development.
Do you want to refresh your approach to teaching? Are you searching for brand new experiences to share with your students in the coming academic year? Harvard's LabXchange provides the best tools and resources to inspire future scientists, problem-solvers, and changemakers. Co-developed by teachers and pedagogical experts at Harvard University, LabXchange empowers a global community of educators to deliver meaningful learning outcomes for diverse student groups.
Level up your school system
Successful collaborations between families and educators lead to improved outcomes for students and schools. It can often be challenging to navigate how to include parents in the educational process, given different at-home family dynamics. Our self-paced course Introduction to Family Engagement in Education can help you navigate this process and explore the research linking family engagement to better educational outcomes.
All of us carry explicit or implicit theories of learning. These theories manifest themselves in the ways we learn, the ways we teach, and the ways we think about leadership and learning. Teachers can benefit from identifying and developing their personal theories of learning to pave the way for the future of education. In our self-paced course Leaders of Learning, you’ll be able to craft your personal theories of learning and explore how they fit into the shifting landscape of education.
What does the future of education in the U.S. look like? To understand where school systems are going, it’s helpful to first understand how they’ve evolved over the years. In our self-paced course Saving Schools: Reforming the U.S. Education System, learners can uncover the personalities and historical forces that shaped and re-shaped U.S. school politics and policy. The course also answers the pressing question: What are the best ways of lifting the performance of American schools to a higher level?
Leaders in educational organizations face unique challenges when it comes to making strategic decisions. Without careful planning and execution, your decisions can have major consequences on students and their futures. Led by former U.S. Pentagon Chief of Staff Eric Rosenbach, our cohort-based course Strategy Execution for Public Leadership can help you navigate the complexities of high-stakes outcomes and learn how to lead a high-performing team to successfully execute strategic ideas.
Want to learn something else during your summer break? We have over 130 courses available for you to take online wherever your summer adventures take you! Check out our full course catalog here and register for a course today. Bonus tip: register for your course with an .edu email address and get a discount on select courses!
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