Graduate Courses that are Acceptable for Renewal of your Reading or Math Credential

Updated 06/06/2012

A

• Accelerated Reader Workshop
• Activity Staff Development (Reading renewal only)
• ADD& Vantage MR (Math renewal only)
• Adolescent Development
• Adult Education Fall Conference
• Aimsweb & Curr Based Measurements Rdg & Math
• Aimsweb Introduction (Reading renewal only)
• Algebra! Algebra! Algebra! (Math renewal only)
• An Introduction to Underlying Principles & Research for Effective Literacy (Reading renewal only)
• Animated Literacy
• Applied Comm In Voc Ed (Voc Ed 900)
• Applied Control Theory
• Are You Making The Grade
• Art in the Core Curriculum (Reading & Math renewal)
• Art Of Teaching Literature (900)
• Arts & Early Childhood (900)
• ASD Evaluation Program
• Assessing Student Learning (6140)
• Assessment/Classroom (STCE/PERF)
• Assessments & Standards Fall 2009
• Assessment Student Performance (900)
• Assessment Techniques (754)
• Assessment To Improve Student Learning
• Assessment & Educational/Behavioral Intervention In Children With Acquired Brain Injury
• Authentic Instruction And Assessment (500)
• Autism Pro Workshop

B

C

• CAFÉ Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessments & Instruction
• CASCLS Grand Open Conf (Reading & Math)
• Century Teaching & Learning (Reading & Math)
• Celebrating Learning Centers Practices
• CGI Cognitive Guided Instruction (Math)
• Challenges For All Who Are Involved (Deals With Assessments)
• Character Counts
• Child Neurological Disorders (SPED 599)
• Children's Authors on the Web
• Children's Literature (900)
• Children’s Literature and the Internet
• Claris Works Can Do That (This Class is Specified for Title I)
• Claris Works For Educators (600)
• Classroom Accommodations & Curriculum Modifications (900)
• Classroom Application of Technology (Reading or Math renewal)
• Classroom Instruction that Works
• Classroom Management (500)
• Clearing Learning Blocks (Reading renewal only)
• Cognitively Guided Instruction (Math renewal only)
• Collaboration for improved Student Performance
• Collaborative Classroom (900)
• Combination Multiage Teaching
• Common Core Literacy Academy
• Comprehension Through Text-Based Strategies
• Comprehension Workshop with Visualizing and Verbalizing (Reading renewal only)
• Conducting Needs Assessment
• Connected/Internet/Education (600)
• Conscious Discipline Guiding the Most Challenging Children (Reading renewal only)
• Content Enhancement (900)
• Content Enhancer Unit Organizer (SPED 550)
• Control Theory Application (Reading renewal only)
• Cooperative Learning I (900)
• Cooperative Learning II (900)
• Cooperative Learning – A Structural Approach to Success (500)
• Creating a Culture for Learning (Math)
• Create Community Of Learners (500)
• Creating Brain-Compatible Learning Environments & Effective Instructional Practices
• Creating Schools For All Students
• Creative Teaching (900)
• Creative Visual Education Unit (ST) (596)
• Creativity In Today's Classroom (900)
• Cultural Linguistics Diverse Exceptional Learners
• Curriculum And Methods Of Middle School (590)
• Curriculum Based Measurements (Testing for Reading)
• Curriculum Design Asst.
• Curriculum Enhancement (PT 1)
• Curriculum Enhancement (PT 2)
• Curriculum Frameworks
• Curriculum, Instruction & Learning Theory (513)
• Curriculum Integration (900)
• Curriculum Issues Trends (500)
• Curriculum Mapping 2005 (Reading and Math)
• Curriculum Mapping 2006 (Reading and Math)

D

E

• Early Intervention Strategies K-3 (Reading And Math)
• Educational Research Practicum (Reading renewal only)
• Education In 21st Century (500)
• Education/Young Adolescent (STCE) (519)
• Educating Students with Special Needs
• EDUTECH Historical Reality
• Effective Classroom Communication (900)
• Effective Classroom Management (512)
• Effective Classroom Management: Discipline with Dignity
• Effective Use Of Technology
• Effective Vocabulary Inst
• Elementary School Curriculum (773)
• Empowering Children through Stories
• Enabling Students with Special Needs to Succeed in Math Class (Math renewal only) On transcript the title is recorded as PBS 600 Enabling Students with Special Needs.
• Engaged Learning
• Engaging Literacy Activities (600)
• Engaging Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles in Your Classroom
• Engaging Strategies that Strengthen Students’ Reading Comprehension
• Engaging Students Mathematically K-12: How can Students Solve for Unknowns? (Math renewal only)
• Engaging the Disengaged (Reading And Math)
• English Humanities (Deals With Reading In The Content Area) (600)
• Enhancing Technology for Educators (500)
• Enhancing The Learning Environment (500)
• Enhancing Vocabulary and Comprehension Instruction (Reading renewal only)
• Enrichment Activities For All Students (500)
• Environmental Education (STCE) (600)
• Error Monitoring & Test Taking (500)
• Exercise Your Mental Muscle
• Exp Ed Gifted Student (597)

F

• Fantasy Literature – Children’s (590)
• Food, Land and People (Reading)
• Fostering Cooperative Learning (PBS TeacherLine) (Math Renewal Only)
• Foundations/Philosophy Middle School (590a)
• Four Blocks Literacy
• Four/mat Fundamental (4mat fundamental)(Reading renewal only)
• Framework for Instruction: The Dimensions of Learning
• Frameworks (900)
• Frameworks Assessment Development
• Frameworks Implements Studies (900)
• Framework of Poverty: Understanding Differences to Increases Effective Learning

G

• GeoMath/GeoLiteracy Presentations (Reading & Math Renewal)
• General Expectations/Student Achievement (STCE) (600)
• Gifted & Talented
• Great Books & Your Curriculum (900)
• Great Plains Study Group
• Growing Up American (545)

H

• Helping Students Improve
• Helping Students Succeed/Teach & Learn
• Hey Wait A Minute ,They Can’t All Be A.D.D. (900)
• Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (500)
• How to Successfully Teach Math: The Mastering Math Facts Way (Ottertail Creek)
• How to Successfully Teach Math Facts & Word Problem Strategies to ALL Students
• How To Talk So Kids Will Listen (STCE) (519)
• How To Teach FAS/FAE (900)
• Hyperactivity Disorder Conference (500s)

I

• IBR Institute for Bgnni
• Implement Comp Tech A-D
• Improving Student Achievement
• Improving Creative Writing Using Six Traits (T & L 900)
• In Concert a Symphony (900)
• Inclusion, Creating Schools For All Students (500)
• Inclusion/Mainstreaming
• Independent Practicum (Deals With Language Arts) (600)
• Individualizing Assessment (590A)
• Informal Assessments (Reading renewal only)
• Ignite Student Learning (Reading And Math)
• Inservice Smorgasbord III
• Instructional Coach & Leadership Training
• Instructional Conference 2008 (Reading and Math)
• Instructional Leadership I-II-III-IV-V (Reading renewal only)
• Instructional/Peer Coaching Translating Brain Research into Effective Instructional Practices (STCE/EFF)
• Instructional Process (500)
• Instructional Strategies (500)
• Instructional Strategies that Work
• Instructional Planning, methods & Assessment
• Interactive Whiteboard Refresher (Reading renewal)
• Introduction To Cooperative Learning For Educators (600)
• Integrated Classroom Learning (900)
• Integrated Thematic Inst (Reading renewal only)
• Integrating Agriculture Into Your Elementary Curriculum
• Integrating American Indian Culture Into The Classroom
• Integrating Internet Lessons (STCE) (Involves writing and publishing)
• Integrating Language Arts Web Resources in the Classroom
• Integrating Math Web Resources in the Classroom
• Integrating Prod SFTW - PT 4 (This course demonstrates a curriculum related PowerPoint presentation) (STEC/USG)
• Integrating Technology & Language Skills (500)
• Integrating Technology Into The Classroom (This Class is Specified for Language Arts)
• Interactive White Board, Ipads & Web 2.0 Tools
• Internet & Curriculum (900)
• Internet And The Elementary Curriculum (900)
• Internet Fundamental (This Class Worked With Curriculum Sites) (500)
• Introduction To Rubrics/Performance Task (900)
• Investigating Classroom Assessment for Learning I
• ISS/Comm-Research/Pedagogy
• Issues/Communication (STCE) (600)
• IT Curriculum Academy (Reading renewal only)
• ITI Model Teaching Week (Reading and Math renewal)

J

• Junior Great Books Leader Training Opportunity
• JPA Professional Development through UND (2006) (Reading or Math)

K

• Kindergarten Curriculum (Reading and Math renewal)
• Kinesthetic Learning (Reading & Math)

L

• Language Arts Benchmarks/Performance (STCE) (600)
• Language Arts Benchmarks/Performance Assessment Implementation (600)
• Language Arts Elementary (616)
• Language Of Cultures (900)
• Language Of The Land: A Journey Into the Great Plains
• LD-At Link (900)
• LD Comprehensive Approach (500)
• Leadership, Planning and Organizational Behavior (501)
• Learning About Learning (600)
• Learning Connection (900)
• Learn Disabilities/Child (SPED 489)
• Learning Exceeds Accepted Possibilities (L.E.A.P.)
• Learning Forward Conference (Reading)
• Learning & Personality Styles
• Learning Strategies I (900)
• Learning Strategies II (900)
• Learning Strategies III (900)
• Learning Styles (900)
• LETRS Training (Language Essentials for teachers of Reading and Spelling)
• Leveled Literacy Intervention 1
• Life & Literature
• Linking Language Strands
• Linking Literature with Math & Science
• Linking Manipulative To The Curriculum (678)
• LIPS=Develop Phoneme Awareness and Sequence
• Literacy For Freedom (Bill Martin) (900)
• Literacy, the Write Way: Developing Writers in all Content Areas
• Literature Connections
• Lonetree Teaching Inservice (500)
• Love and Logic (Reading and Math)

M

• Make It Real Game (Cooperative & Active Learning)
• Manage & Grow with Change (500)
• Managing Resistance (SPED 500)
• Many Minds Many Methods Making Differentiated Inst More Than Just A Buzz Word
• Marcopolo (Deals With Curriculum)
• Math Conference
• Math & Science Workshop 07-08 (Math renewal only)
• Math Summer Institute (Title I)
• Math Through Children's Literature (900)
• MDEC Cornerstones of Education (Reading & Math)
• Meaning & Usefulness Of Fairy Tales (900)
• Mega Skills
• Mentoring and Coaching (EDL 900)
• Middle Childhood/ Adolescent Development (CDFS 796)
• Mind Brain Myth-Busters (Reading and Math renewal)
• Mind/Brain Initiative (Minot State University) (Reading and Math renewal)
• Mind, Memory & Learning (603)
• Mini Society
• Mini Society & Common Core Math Standards (Math)
• Models of Teaching and Learning (Reading & Math)
• More Than Words On A Page (Reading renewal only)
• Mosaic of Thought/Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
• Multiple Intelligences In The Classroom (Reading & Math)
• Multiple Intelligences and Technology in the Classroom
• Multiple Talent Teaching (900)

N

• National Council Of Teachers Of English/National Writing Conference
• NCA CASI Workshop
• NDPetro Council Tchr Edu (Math)
• NDABBE Conference (Language Learners) (900)
• NDEA Instructional Conference (600) (Reading and Math renewal)
• NDELA Performance Assessment (Language Arts) (600)
• NDDPI Title I/Spec (Math renewal only)
• NDRA Reading Conference
• (NDCTE) North Dakota Council of Teachers of English (Reading renewal only)
• Ninety Minute Reading Block (Reading renewal only)
• North Dakota Curriculum Initiative (Math renewal)
• North Dakota Teacher Mentoring
• North Dakota 2008 Geographic Alliance Summer Institute (Reading and Math renewal)
• Number Sense & Number Nonsense (Math)

O

• Observation Assessment
• Observation & Documentation In The Classroom: Making The Child Visible
• Observational Survey
• Org Strategies Middle School Education (900)
• Optimizing Voc
• Overview & Sentence Writing (500)

P

• Parent Involvement in Title I ( Reading and Math Renewal)
• PBS Training
• Peer Coaching Seminar (SPED 500)
• Personality & Learning Styles (500)
• Philosophy & Foundations In Middle School Education
• Play Real Game (900)
• Portfolios & Authentic Assessment
• Positive Discipline (500)
• Poverty and Its Effect on Children – Workshop I
• Poverty and Its Effect on Children – Workshop II
• Preparing Educator's for the Future (500)
• Prin Of Teaching & Learning
• Prism Literacy Blue
• Problem Solving/Monitoring (900)
• Professional Development SEEC (Math)
• Project Climb (500)
• Project Food, Land and People (Resources for Learning)
• Project Success Enrichment
• Promise & Practice Instruction
• Promoting Social & Emotional Learning (599)
• Provide Hope Kids Without (900)
• Pyramid Response to Intervention

Q

• Quality Classroom (STCE/TCHG)
• Qualities of Teaching and Learning (Reading renewal only)
• Questioning the Author (Grades 3-8 Comprehension Workshop)

R

• Reach (900)
• Read 180 Curriculum Implementation
• Read 180 National Summer Institute
• Reading and the Brain Institute
• Reading Essentials The Specifics You need to Teach Reading Well
• Reading Workshop K-8
• Readers Theatre in the Classroom
• Regie Routman (Reading)
• Research Young Readers: Improving Reading Skills K-3
• Reaching Students With Diverse Learning Styles
• Read & Write For Meaning (900)
• Readers Theatre Workshop
• Reading Academies, Second Grade and First Grade
• Reading in the Content Area
• Reading in the Content Areas: Helping Secondary Students Read to Learn – Otter Creek Institute
• Reading Leadership Plan Org. Behavior
• Reading Summer Institute (Title I)
• Real Game
• Redesigning Instruction (Involves Curriculum)
• Renaissance Literature (682)
• Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
• Responsive Teaching - How to Increase Student Engagement (Reading And Math)
• Restitution (very similar to positive discipline) (900)
• RTI 2011 Minot State (reading & math renewal)

S

• Safe Schools for the 21st Century
• School Improvement Training (500)
• Scott Foreman Specific Ins.
• Seven Ways To Bloom (900)
• (SIOP) Sheltered Inst Observation Protocol (Reading)
• So Many Books, So Little Time (900)
• Social Networking and Digital Literacy in the classroom
• Special Needs Learning/Classroom (STCE) (519)
• Special Topics 18th World C LT Literacy
• Standards Based Education Series MREC
• STEM Course MSP Grant Institute (Math)
• Steps in Grant Writing
• Strategies For Behavior Management
• Strategic Instructional Model (900)
• Strategies Intervention Model
• Strategies/Skills/Enhance Learning (STCE) (600)
• Strategies that work Collegial Study
• Strategies Using The Internet (900)
• Strategy/Development Reading/Math Literature (STCE) (519)
• Strategy/Teaching Reading & Math (ST) (519)
• Steps in Grant Writing (Voc Ed 900)
• Storytelling (900)
• Storytelling At Its Finest
• Study Group-Test Review (900)
• Study Skills (900)
• Succeeding with Performance Based Learning
• Succeeding with Problem Based Learning in the Classroom
• Success For All
• Supporting Students W/Disin Hs (WKSP) (T&L 900)
• Surfing The Net (This Class Specified New Curriculum)
• Sustaining Character Ed
• Symp/Opt Voc & Comp INSTR 2009

T

• Take One (Reading renewal only)
• Talents Unlimited (500)
• Teach 2 Learn
• Teacher & Administrator Development (900)
• Teaching Children of Poverty (Reading & Math renewal)
• Teachers Quest Conference (In Jamestown)
• Teach Critical Thinking (WKSP) (900)
• Teaching & Assessment Strategies For The Whole Literacy Classroom (900)
• Teaching Comprehension (Reading renewal only)
• Teaching English Language Learners in the K-12 Classroom
• Teaching Hard To Reach Kids Through Humor (900)
• Teaching/Learning/Assessment/Improving School Achievement (790)
• Teaching Main Streamed Students (STCE) (519)
• Teaching Phonemic Awareness and Phonics (Reading renewal only)
• Teaching Reading in the Content Areas
• Teaching Reading in Mathematics (Math renewal only)
• Teaching Reading/Writing 90 (STCE) (519)
• Teaching Students Responsible Behavior (ST) (796)
• Teaching Social Skills (900)
• Teaching to the Mind of Boys & Girls Ignite Student Learning (Reading &  Math)
• Teaching With Humor
• Teaching With the Brain in Mind (500)
• Teaching With Writing
• Teaching Word Problems Made Easy (Grades 1-6): Strategies All Students Can Learn in Just 10 Minutes a Day – Otter Creek Institute
• Teaching Vocabulary
• Teaching Writing in the Content Areas (Reading and Math renewal)
• Tech Camp 2010 (Reading)
• Technology Integration in the Classroom (Reading and Math renewal)
• Technology Integration Instruction (TR-PT2) (STCE) (600)
• Technology In Language Arts, Math, & Social Studies
• Technology = New way of Teaching
• Technology/Strategies Instruction
• TESL Understanding SIOP (Math)
• TESA Teachers/Students (900)
• The ABC's of Curriculum Based Assessment
• The Paragraph Writing Strategy (Reading renewal only)
• Thinking Skills I /Communication Skill (900)
• Thinking Skills II/Communication Skill (900)
• Thinking Strategies for Mastering Math (Math renewal only)
• TIE Conference (Reading and Math renewal)
• Tickling Your Funny Bone
• TNT Conferences (Reading & Math)
• Tough Kids In The Classroom (900)
• Train The Trainer
• Training Trainers for the North Dakota Reading Academies
• Training Trainers on DIBELS
• Transforming Work
• Translating Brain Research into the Classroom Practice
• Turn Kids On To Reading (900)
• Tutoring People with Dyslexia (Reading renewal only)
• Trouble Personality
• Twenty (21st Century Summer Conference 2011) (Math)
• TWT Teaching With Technology I (Reading and Math renewal)
• TWT Teaching With Technology II (Reading and Math renewal)

U

• Understanding Poverty
• Understanding Poverty Part 1 & 2 (reading & math renewal)
• USG INTGR Prod SFTW-PT4 (this course demonstrates a curriculum - related Power Point Presentation (STCE) (600)
• Using Assessment and Evaluation
• Using E-mail in Classroom Lessons (Great way to get kids to write)
• Using Lego’s in the K-4 Classroom (Math)
• SWEST/NDEA Teacher Network

V

• Victorian Literature (687)
• Visual Phonics (500)
• Visualizing/Verbalizing (500)
• Voc Ed
• VOWAC (500)

W

• Walsh-Pemb Staff Development Program (900) (Reading and Math renewal)
• What’s Different About Teaching Elementary-Level ELL Students
• What are Standards (SPED 500)
• Whole Language Act K-6 (590)
• Whole Language Connection (900)
• Word Identification (SPED 500)
• World Of Birds And Kids (900)
• W-P Teach/Admin Dev (WKSP) (900)
• Wright Group (900)
• Writing for Teachers (Reading renewal only)
• Writing Process & Personality
• Writing Workshop the Essential Guide
• Writing Workshop Smorgasbord

X

Y

• Young Adolescents (WKSP) (900)
• Young Adult Literature and the Internet

Z

Listed below are courses that do not count for renewal of your reading credential:

• AIMS
• Big Muddy River of Dreams
• Central Auditory Processing Disorders
• Curriculum Instruction Assessment (McREL High Plains Consortium for Math and Science)
• Educational Equity
• Expanded Macintosh Usage in the Special Education Class
• Foundations of Educational Thought
• Introduction to Research (509)
• Learning Data Development
• Seeds of Change
• Strategic Planning
• Student Profiles and Assessment Plans
• Tech Communications
• Violence Prevention

Please call (701) 328-2170 with questions regarding the above courses or courses not listed on this website.

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