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NEW FEATURE: The Learning Hub now offers course bundles! * These bundles are courses tailored for different roles or areas of interest. * Each Course Bundle has recommended courses, but you ...
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Geared specifically toward CTAE teachers, this course is designed to help participants understand how to start the year to lead to successful learning no matter if learning is in-person, remote, or blended, how to do hands-on activities in an online environment, and where to find further training and resources. Created by the Montana OPI CTAE team |
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User Ratings: 3.62 out of 4.00 | ||||
Type: Self-paced
Audience: Middle/High School
OPI Professional Development Units: 3 hours
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Participants in this course will understand the purpose of teaching Close, Analytical Reading of Informational Text in their classes and will step through the process of creating a lesson to use in their classroom. Applicable to all content areas. Created by Kate Peterson, Helena Public Schools "I thought this course was really created with teachers in mind." —Elementary teacher, Helena, MT |
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User Ratings: 3.6 |
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- Facilitator: Claire Mikeson
Type: Self-paced
Audience: Middle/High School
OPI Professional Development Units: 3 hours
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This course will explore different ways to assess writing and allow you to analyze different types of assessments. Our goal is to learn strategies for formative assessment that scaffold your students toward ever higher levels of proficiency, flexibility, and confidence in their writing. Created by Dr. Tammy Elser, Salish Kootenai College "Some excellent and practical techniques available in this course. I am using some of them tomorrow!" — Montana High School Teacher |
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User Ratings: 3.9 |
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- Facilitator: Stephanie Swigart
Type: Self-paced
Audience: K-8
OPI Professional Development Units: 6 hours
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This course is a reading methods course for any teacher who wishes to deepen students' comprehension and engagement with challenging informational text. This course will teach you how to help any reader by modifying lesson structure, teaching and modeling comprehension strategies, and employing fix-up strategies when comprehension breaks down. Note: This course was formerly titled Supporting Readers with Textbooks. This course is for 3rd-8th Grade Teachers. Created by Dr. Tammy Elser in partnership with the Salish Kootenai College (SKC) and BRAIDS (A Native Youth Community Partnership Project hosted by SKC). "This class provided immediate strategies that could be implemented the next day!" —Teacher, Red Lodge, MT |
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User Ratings: 3.8 |
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- Facilitator: Claire Mikeson
Type: Self-paced
Audience: K-8
OPI Professional Development Units: 5 hours
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Course participants will gain knowledge of designing and implementing a book study for their staff or student group. This includes selecting texts, setting professional learning outcomes, organizing meeting sessions, and facilitating engagement activities and discussion. This course highlights Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults to illustrate the book study process. Created by Claire Mikeson, K-12 Content Standards, OPI |
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- Facilitator: Claire Mikeson
Type: Self-paced
Audience: All Educators
OPI Professional Development Units: 2
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This course is a newly created hybrid of the former 4-course Disciplinary Literacy series. The course focuses on the specialized skills and codes that must be mastered in order to be able to read, write, speak, and listen across the disciplines of ELA, math, history, science, and technical fields. Created by: Makayla Kennelly and Sara Kendrick - MCLSDP Literacy Specialists "I gained a much better understanding of the standards and what Disciplinary Literacy is and how it can be applied through this course." —Middle school teacher, Missoula, MT |
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- Facilitator: Makayla Kennelly
Type: Self-paced
Audience: Middle/High School
OPI Professional Development Units: 3 hours
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Welcome to Understanding Print Awareness for Early Literacy. Print awareness is often understated in the literacy continuum but it is worthy of study as we continue to think about best practices for instruction. This course is intended to ground our understanding of Print Awareness and this grounding will loop with us as we move through the continuum of Early Literacy skills. Created by: Jackie Ronning jackie.ronning@mtgov.com |
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- Facilitator: Kate Gammill
- Facilitator: Jackie Ronning
Type: Self-paced
Audience: Lower Elementary
OPI Professional Development Units: 2
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Pre-requisite: Introduction to Foundational Skills and Montana Content Standards. This course falls into the Foundational Skills and the MCS for Elementary Schools pathway. Targeted at teachers for grades PreK-5, this course will aid participants in assessing, planning to teach, teaching, and re-assessing fluency. Upon completion participants will have a bank of strategy cards and practices to be used immediately in the classroom with students. Created by Sarah Kendrick. MCLSDP Specialist, Montana OPI "Thank you for a great course!" —Elementary teacher, Havre, MT |
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User rating: 3.8 |
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Type: Self-paced
Audience: Elementary
OPI Professional Development Units: 3 hours
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This course is designed to help you keep your expectations high while supporting your students in developing as thinkers through questioning techniques and writing. Your awareness of the depths of knowledge required to perform tasks and how to shape questions will help you guide your students to independent, higher-level thinking. Created by Lorrie Henrie-Koski, retired Billings teacher and director of Elk River Writing Project "Great course! Easy to navigate and learned about a lot of new ideas and resources." —Teacher, Ophir, MT |
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User Ratings: 3.7  |
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- Facilitator: Claire Mikeson
Type: Self-paced
Audience: Middle/High School
OPI Professional Development Units: 1 hour
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In this course, you will do a deep dive into the Montana Writing Standards, explore the developmental stages of writing and learn strategies to best support students in K - 2nd grade as they become writers. Engage with your student's texts, learn to assess and understand them in new ways, and refine your feedback. Created by Dr. Tammy Elser, Salish Kootenai College "This was a great course. It provided practical application suggestions for the grade level that I teach." —Elementary teacher, Belgrade, MT |
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User Ratings: 3.8  |
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- Facilitator: Claire Mikeson
Type: Self-paced
Audience: Lower Elementary
OPI Professional Development Units: 12 hours
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Pre-requisite: Introduction to Foundational Skills and Montana Content Standards. This course falls into the Foundational Skills and the MCS for Elementary Schools pathway. Targeted at teachers for grades 1-5, this course will aid participants in assessing, planning to teach, teaching, and re-assessing phonics and word recognition. Upon completion participants will have a bank of strategy cards and practices to be used immediately in the classroom with students. Created by Kathi Tiefenthaler, former OPI Title 1 School Support Unit Director, and Sara Kendrick MCLSDP Literacy Specialist, OPI "This course reminded me of why I originally got into teaching . . . ." —Teacher, Kalispell, MT |
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User rating: 3.8 |
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Type: Self-paced
Audience: Elementary
OPI Professional Development Units: 4 hours
Enrollment Opens: 05/21/2024
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This course will take you on a deep dive into Montana's Content Standards for Writing and guide understanding of the unique strategies needed to teach young writers in the middle grades. Created by Dr. Tammy Elser, Salish Kootenai College "I really enjoyed the balance of theory and practical application." -Middle School teacher, Billings, MT |
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User Ratings: 4.0 |
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- Facilitator: Claire Mikeson
Type: Self-paced
Audience: Middle School
OPI Professional Development Units: 6 hours
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This course provides an introduction to dyslexia for educators. Including definitions, myths, and support for students. The course also outlines the Montana Dyslexia Screening and Intervention Act (§ 20-7-469, MCA) and the responsibilities of districts, schools, and the Office of Public Instruction. This course is for all educators and administrators. Created by Christy Mock-Stutz, ELA Instructional Coordinator at the MT Office of Public Instruction "A wonderful resource! Thanks for a great training! I appreciated it very much!!" —High school teacher, Kalispell, MT |
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User rating: 3.7 out of 4.0 | ||||
Type: Self-paced
Audience: All Educators
OPI Professional Development Units: 2 hours
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This course will take you on a deep dive into Montana's Content Standards for Writing and guide understanding of the unique strategies needed to teach young writers in the upper grades. Created by Dr. Tammy Elser, Salish Kootenai College "I began this course simply as a way to gain OPI renewal units; however, I learned many strategies I hope to employ in my classroom. It was VERY worthwhile. Thank you!." -Teacher, Big Timber, MT |
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User Ratings: 3.8  |
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- Facilitator: Claire Mikeson
Type: Self-paced
Audience: High School
OPI Professional Development Units: 6 hours
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Pre-requisite: Introduction to Foundational Skills and Montana Content Standards. This course falls into the Foundational Skills and Montana Content Standards for Elementary Schools pathway. Targeted at K-1 teachers, this course will aid participants in assessing, planning to teach, teaching, and re-assessing print concepts. Upon completion participants will have a bank of strategy cards and practices to be used immediately in the classroom with students. Created by Kathi Tiefenthaler, former OPI Title 1 School Support Unit Director and Makayla Kennally, MCLSDP Literacy Specialist. "Great information! Loved this course." —Teacher, Columbus, MT |
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Type: Self-paced
Audience: Lower Elementary
OPI Professional Development Units: 2 hours