A masters in teaching can help you become a better teacher, providing you with the skills you need to be more effective in the classroom. Even if you are not planning on getting a masters in teaching degree, you can still improve your teaching skills to become a more effective and valuable teacher. Here are 50 open courseware classes that teachers can use to improve their skills, and find creative ways to interact with their students:
- Teach Global: This courseware is meant for those who are interested in teaching with a global view.
- Highlights for High School: MIT offers this course, including a number of helpful tips on teaching, and interesting subject matter for teachers and students alike.
- Teaching for good behaviour: This class looks at how you can teach more effectively and encourage good behavior in the classroom.
- Working with young people: roles and responsibilities: Courseware designed to help you encourage responsibility in learning and life.
- Reflective Practice: An Approach for Expanding Your Learning Frontiers: A great course that allows you to be a better learner — and a better teacher.
- Teaching, Learning and Assessment methods: Learn some of the theories of teaching and how to assess your students.
- Introducing observational approaches in research with children and young people: Find out how to observe young people.
- Introduction to Education: Understanding and Evaluating Education: Find out how to be a more effective administrator and teacher by understanding the education system.
- K-12 Leadership and the Educational Administration Curriculum: Connexions offers a look at administration.
- Ethical Administrators: Tools for the Trade: You can learn about ethics in education administration.
- School business manager: developing the role: The Open University offers a course in an managerial approach to administration.
- Integrating Thinking for Future Leaders in Education: Prepare to educate future leaders.
- School Governors: planning for improvement: Helpful suggestions on implementing improvements.
- School Governors: organisation and practice: A look at how school boards should work.
- Play, learning and the brain: Find out how children learn, and what you can do to encourage that.
- Developmental Psychology: A helpful look at how we develop psychologically.
- Infant and Early Childhood Cognition: Learn how thinking develops early on.
- Psychology of Gender: An interesting course on what makes “boys” and “girls”.
- Knowledge in everyday life: An exploration of how knowledge is acquired by children.
- Adolescent Stages: A helpful course that can help you learn more about teaching teenagers.
- Adolescent Health and Development: Learn more about how teens develop.
- The Linguistic Study of Bilingualism: Help students who are bilingual, or whose second language is English.
- Language as a medium for teaching and learning: How to use language more effective to reach students.
- Teaching Students with Special Needs: Behaviour Management: University of Southern Queensland helps you learn more about teaching those with special needs.
- Psychiatric Epidemiology: A better look at the psychological issues that may be affecting your students.
- Teaching Blind Students: Helpful resource on how you can be more accommodating of your blind students.
- Learning American Sign Language ASL and Signed English: Helpful course that can help you communication with students exhibiting hearing problems.
- Adapted PE: Helping those who need adapted lessons for physical education.
- Autism Theory and Technology: Find out more about autism and how to reach autistic students.
- Accessibility and eLearning: Helpful course on how assistive technology can help those who need it.
Technology in the Classroom
- Understanding Online Interaction: Find out how online interaction affects students.
- Blogs, Wikis, New Media for Learning: Utah State University offers insights on how new media can help with learning.
- Communicating in Cyberspace: Interesting look at how we communicate in a virtual world. Especially helpful for distance teachers.
- Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science and Technology: MIT helps you understand how technology can help you teach art and science.
- Art and Technology: Helpful look at technology and art.
- Practical Guidelines for Using Technology Tools in Classroom Teaching: The University of Michigan offers helpful hints for using technology as you teach.
Teaching Core Curriculum
- Concept-Centered Teaching: Communicate concepts to your students.
- Using visualisation in maths teaching: Learn how to more effectively teach math to your students.
- Kitchen Chemistry: Learn how you can teach experimental methods in science — with the help of cooking concepts.
- Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice: Find out more about writing and narrative in a way that might be fun to teach to students.
- Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media: A fun approach to teaching writing skills.
- Lego Robotics: A look at the principles of robotics, and using Legos to teach these concepts.
- Practical Electronics: Teaching electronics and learning more about them.
Teaching and Using the Arts
- Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits: A helpful look at how you can encourage learning on visits to the museum.
- Using film music in the classroom: A fun course focused on how film music can be used as part of teaching.
- Fundamentals of Music: Basics of music; helpful for teaching music in the classroom.
- Theater Arts Topics: Courseware designed about the theater arts.
- Dance Skills: Teach dance appreciation, and incorporate movement into the learning environment.
- Art of Color: Be able to teach your students about color and art.
- Introduction to Sculpture: Great courseware on the fundamentals of sculpture in art.