Classes For Teachers
Twice-Monthly Teleconference - Conversation about children and parenting
Join me on the first and third Monday every month for a conversation about what’s on your mind right now, about your kids, the families you serve and your teaching. Get guilt-free support and a fresh perspective. The teleconference starts at 4 pm Pacific time (5 pm Mountain, 6 pm Central and 7 pm Eastern). The line closes at 15 minutes after the hour, so dial in promptly to be included. There’s no charge. The number to call is 1-712-432-1620, access code 333495#
Monthly Teleseminar - Brain Development & Learning
On the second Monday of every month, get the information you need about brain development and learning in a convenient teleseminar, archived in an mp3 you can listen to again and again. You’ll also receive specific suggestions of actions to take at home or at school, all based on up-to-the-minute research in brain structures, brain development, and learning in kids of all ages. Sign up HERE to attend the next session.
Monthly Teleseminar - Achieving Self-Discipline
We all want kids to know what to do in any situation and do it, automatically, without being told. How on earth do you get your children there? Find out on the fourth Monday of every month, when I’ll present solid tips and proven strategies to help your children achieve self-discipline. If you can’t make the call, it will be archived in an mp3 you can listen to at your convenience. Sign up HERE to attend the next session.
Always Online - My courses offered through The Heritage Institute
Earn undergraduate or graduate-level college credit from Antioch University in Seattle, CEUs or clock hours in courses offered by The Heritage Institute. The Heritage Institute is a progressive organization dedicated to top-quality in-service education for teachers and other interested adults. Find out more about The Heritage Institute here. You may enroll in these courses at any time and take up to one year to complete them. Click on the course titles to find out more.
CURIOSITY & WONDER: CULTIVATING QUESTIONS, NOT ANSWERS
Interest in new ideas is the essence of great science, of great art, and of a lively social life, so how do we support children’s curiosity? This online course will explore the connection between curiosity, creativity and intelligence. Participants will refresh their own curiosity, wonder about the world, find help to value children’s offbeat ideas, channel their experimentation into socially acceptable forms, and discover fresh ways to support children’s potential.
EDUCATING CHILDREN’S SENSES: WAKING UP YOUNG MINDS
Children’s full physical involvement in learning - touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing - is vitally important and downright fun! Enliven your teaching and maximize learning with lessons that involve all the senses. Whether your young students are adventurous or squeamish, all the children you work with will respond eagerly to the kinds of activities, loving instructions and encouragement you will discover in this online course.
Patricia Nan Anderson is an expert in child development and learning with over thirty years’ experience in innovative programming, public speaking and guidance of parents and teachers of young children. She earned her doctorate in Educational Psychology from Northern Illinois University and a master’s degree in Education from University of Minnesota. She taught first grade for six years in St. Paul, Minnesota and developed programs for children, teens and parents at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She was a professor of Early Childhood Education at National-Louis University for 13 years, until deciding to devote her energies exclusively to the development of parents and families.
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