Teacher Professional Development   

Every year across the globe, millions of individuals are affected by violence. This certificate program examines workplace violence, domestic (intimate partner) violence, elder abuse, child abuse, pediatric abusive head trauma, and sexual assault, gender violence, and rape.

Every year across the globe, millions of individuals are affected by violence. This certificate program examines workplace violence, domestic (intimate partner) violence, elder abuse, child abuse, pediatric abusive head trauma, and sexual assault, gender violence, and rape.

Get a teaching tool that will help you become a more modern, effective and dynamic teacher. This easy-to-understand course will help build a published classroom website complete with content, images, links, and a blog.

Get a teaching tool that will help you become a more modern, effective and dynamic teacher. This easy-to-understand course will help build a published classroom website complete with content, images, links, and a blog.

Discover how easy and effective classroom centers can really be. This course introduces a simple system for creating a center schedule and shepherding students through the process. You will see what makes a truly successful center, what pitfalls to avoid, and gain tips for keeping your planning to a minimum. You will also learn strategies for managing students who finish early and discover how a regular center routine can increase your small-group instruction opportunities each day.

Learn how to create engaging, easy-to-maintain classroom center activities that boost independent learning while increasing small-group instruction time.

Understand how to reach the diverse mix of students you face every day with strategies that turn diversity into opportunity. This course provides creative, low-budget strategies for making your inclusive classroom a nurturing, supportive learning environment that helps every student.

In this professional development course for teachers, you'll get the training you need to reach the diverse mix of students you face every day by learning proven strategies that turn diversity into opportunity.

Discover 10 practical Differentiated Instruction strategies, including interest centers, and flexible grouping that will meet the needs of the diverse learners in your class. This course packs real-world examples into every lesson that will help you immediately put these strategies to use in your own classroom.

Improve your ability to teach diverse learners with real-world examples from elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.

Learn effective strategies for differentiating assessments and empowering every student in your class to feel success. This course explores strategies and real-life examples of how differentiated assessment provides direction for improvement, promotes confidence, and motivates your learners to do their best.

Discover the tools you need to help any student who comes through your door. This course provides tips for fostering the reading, writing, and math skills of students with special needs and techniques for helping these learners behave appropriately and make friends in your classroom.

Explore common disabilities you will encounter in the classroom and master techniques for promoting academic, behavioral, and social skills in students with special needs.

Help your children become proficient speakers and thinkers. This course provides ways to stimulate your child's continued speech, brain, and language development in enjoyable, age-appropriate, and natural ways.

Help your children become proficient speakers and thinkers. This course provides ways to stimulate your child's continued speech, brain, and language development in enjoyable, age-appropriate, and natural ways.

Gain a classroom full of students who can negotiate increasingly challenging texts with unprecedented fluency. This class provides differentiated instruction tactics to better understand how your students learn and how to apply those tactics within the guided reading framework.

Get the professional development training you need to improve student literacy.

Lead your students through new creative ways of approaching increasingly challenging texts. This course will help you discover how to build a balanced literary framework that gets results with even the most challenged learners.

Learn creative ways to bring differentiated instruction and guided reading to life in your classroom.

Learn the fundamentals of instructional design and how to create innovative learning solutions.

Discover simple ways to integrate technology in your classroom to enhance the material and meet Common Core standards and other course goals. This course provides ways to integrate technology across the curriculum with tools that will engage auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners.

In this professional development course for teachers, you will learn about technology integration in the classroom and gain the skills needed to use tools like apps, assistive technology, and blogs effectively.

Learn how a child becomes literate from the moment of birth. This course allows you to explore the development of reading and writing from infancy to early school years as you discover what problems to look for and how to assist struggling young readers.

Learn how to support reading and writing skills in young learners.

Discover reading strategies that work without the need for special pull-outs or extra attention. This course will introduce you to some creative tools that will help your struggling readers make steady progress throughout the school year.

Learn response to intervention (RTI) strategies that ensure the struggling readers in your classroom get the help and education they need.

Enjoy a more peaceful, orderly classroom that is free of common discipline problems. This course provides a step-by-step approach to effective, positive classroom discipline, and it's continually rated by teachers as one of the most valuable they've ever taken.

Learn the step-by-step approach to an orderly classroom in this course designed by a veteran teacher.

Gain the teacher training you need to deal effectively with serious discipline problems and help even the most challenging students make more responsible choices. This course offers a step-by-step approach to discipline and numerous real-life examples clearly showing you how to put the ideas into action.

In this professional development course, you'll get the teacher training you need to deal effectively with serious discipline problems and help even the most challenging students you're teaching make more responsible choices.

Bridge the communication gap between you, your Spanish-speaking students and parents with essential Spanish for teachers. This course starts with Spanish basics and provides survival phrases for parent-teacher conferences so that you can discuss progress, deal with academic and behavior problems, and provide grades and homework.

Learn the essential Spanish for teachers so you can communicate effectively with your Spanish-speaking students and parents.

Learn the keys to success from an experienced educator so you can thrive as a classroom teacher. This course is designed to help teachers build motivational classrooms, reach diverse learners, write engaging lesson plans, communicate clearly, and keep stress at bay.

Learn the keys to success from an experienced educator so you can thrive as a classroom teacher. This course is designed to help teachers build motivational classrooms, reach diverse learners, write engaging lesson plans, communicate clearly, and keep stress at bay.

Learn the most powerful techniques for reaching and motivating adult learners. This course will teach you the latest and greatest educational methods to create the perfect student-centered classroom.

Learn powerful techniques for reaching and motivating adult learners in today's student-centered classroom.

Reinvent math instruction for grades 4-6 by bringing hands-on learning, inexpensive manipulatives, and real-world connections into your classroom.

Learn how to develop creative and balanced preschool lesson plans for every month of the school year. This course will equip you with a solid lesson plan template, plus over 100 engaging and interchangeable activities for circle-discussion, art, literacy, motor skills, science, and music.

In this course on teaching preschoolers, you will learn how to come up with creative and balanced preschool lesson plans for every month of the school year.

Learn how to increase your effectiveness as a science teacher for the middle grades. This course will equip you with engaging experiments, practical worksheets, winning lesson plans, and direct instruction methods you can use immediately in your own classroom.

Learn how to increase your effectiveness as a science teacher for the middle grades. This course will equip you with engaging experiments, practical worksheets, winning lesson plans, and direct instruction methods you can use immediately in your own classroom.

Learn the unique and varied teaching applications of SMART technology. This course will help you master the use of SMART Board and SMART Notebook technology to create powerful, interactive lessons.

Master the use of SMART Board and SMART Notebook technology so you can create powerful interactive lessons that capture your students' attention.

Learn the simple and practical steps you can take to help children with ADHD thrive in their school environment. This course will teach you how classroom space, structure, rules, and expectations can be adapted to suit the needs of students with ADHD and help them manage their own behavior.

Learn practical strategies for helping children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) succeed in school.

Learn how to help your students with high-functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome unlock their full learning potential. This course will help you develop the knowledge and strategies you will need to ensure your students with autism succeed in the classroom and beyond.

Help your students with high-functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome unlock their potential in the classroom.

Learn how to meet the diverse needs of students with disabilities in your classroom through easy, practical, and creative strategies developed by an experienced special educator. This course explores the total special education process and help you understand and empower your special needs students.

Learn how to successfully meet the diverse needs of students with learning disabilities in your classroom.

Learn how to motivate and facilitate developing writers from an experienced educator. This course provides an overview of the writing basics and demonstrate how to organize materials and lessons to establish an inviting and supportive writing environment for middle grade students.

In this teacher-training course, you'll learn from an experienced educator how to motivate and assist developing writers.

Learn how to nurture student writers in the early elementary classroom and teach them skills that will be useful for a lifetime. This course examines the developmental stages of writing and show you how to foster your students' skills and growth as young authors.

Learn how to nurture student writers in the early elementary classroom.

The TEAS Prep 2 course will prepare you for the Math and Science portions of the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) exam. Through the hands-on lessons in this course, you will acquire the necessary skill sets that will allow you to master the detailed math and science sections of the exam. Plus, you will identify how to manage stress and prepare for your first clinical experiences. This course will help you develop a game plan for success on the TEAS exam.

Learn how to use creativity as a powerful engagement tool in the classroom, regardless of what subject you teach. This course provides new approaches to field trips, learning labs, exercises, and evaluation methods that will challenge and motivate your students to become creative thinkers.

Enrich your teaching talents and encourage your students' creative thinking as you learn to turn your classroom into a creative classroom.

Learn how to combine two powerful educational approaches so you can enable every student in your classroom to succeed. This course shows you how to use Differentiated Instruction and Response to Intervention in your day-to-day classroom teaching and lesson planning.

Learn how to use the Internet to make teaching easier for you and more relevant to your students. This course will teach you how to help your students locate valuable resources, improve classroom discussions, and safeguard personal information online.

Learn to pronounce, spell, and define veterinary medical terms. This course provides a step-by-step process that will help you build an understanding of medical language specific to the veterinary field.

Learn how to create and distribute an inspirational and professional autobiography for family, friends, and others. This course teaches you how to bring characters to life, recall vivid memories, engage readers, and manage your creative time so you can share a story only you can tell.

Banish writer's block forever with these techniques from the published writer's toolbox. This course will show you how to liberate the imaginative, inventive genius that is inside of you and transform your visions into the written word.

Banish writer's block forever with these tricks from the published writer's toolbox.

Create stories that touch the hearts of children with the help of a published children's author. This course provides you with an essential overview of planning, researching, writing, and marketing children's books that engage audiences and sell to publishers.

Instructor: Cassie Hoppas

Class Time: 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Class Dates: 7/7/2025 - 7/11/2025

Days of Week: Daily

Location: Warrensburg Campus, Warrensburg, MO

Room: MAR 203 
                                                                                                                                                                               Fee: $625.00                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Costume Construction

Learn sewing essentials needed for costume production and general sewing including using sewing and serging machines, hand sewing, cutting techniques, measuring and fitting the body, and how to follow commercial sewing patterns.

A Continuing Education Unit (CEU) certificate will be awarded to participants who complete this workshop.

Instructor: Alice Combs

Class Time: 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Class Dates: 7/7/2025 - 7/11/2025

Days of Week: Daily

Location: Warrensburg Campus, Warrensburg, MO

Room: MAR 204 
                                                                                                                                                                               Fee: $625.00                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Lighting and Sound Design

This course is designed to provide an exploration of the principles and techniques involved in stage lighting and sound design for live performances. Participants will look at the art of lighting and sound design and learn to create shows that are compelling both visually and auditorily. Some topics that will be covered are advanced light board programming, color theory, live sound reinforcement, and composition.

A Continuing Education Unit (CEU) certificate will be awarded to participants who complete this workshop.

Instructor: Cassie Hoppas

Class Time: 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Class Dates: 7/14/2025 - 7/18/2025

Days of Week: Daily

Location: Missouri Innovation Campus, 1101 Innovation Parkway Lee's Summit, MO

Room: B261 
                                                                                                                                                                               Fee: $625.00                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Stage Makeup

Learn fundations of makeup for theatrical productions including basic natural health makeup, manipulations with highlight and shadow, and special effects using latex, scar wax, and effects gel. Participants will need creme makeup for stage (foundation, highlight, shadow, blush, neutral lip color, eyeliner, finishing powder, and brushes/ applicators); a recommended kit is the Mehron Mini Pro which can be found online (Amazon) or at A to Z Theatrical Supply in Kansas City, MO.

A Continuing Education Unit (CEU) certificate will be awarded to participants who complete this workshop.

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Class Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Class Dates: 7/6/2025 - 7/18/2025

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Earning your Kodály Certification just got more affordable at the Kodály Summer Institute at UCM! 

On-campus courses this summer run July 6-18, 2025, where you can start learning the Kodály approach while earning your Kodály Certification or start working towards a Master of Arts in Music with a Kodály emphasis.   

Check out our website or email Juli Weber, KSI Coordinator, kodaly@ucmo.edu for more information. 

https://www.ucmo.edu/college-of-arts-humanities-and-social-sciences/school-of-visual-and-performing-arts/music/kodaly-summer-program/

Section 1/ Level 1 $799.00  Date: July 6-18, 2025

Level 1

Methodology and Materials 1

Solfege 1

Conducting 1

The Kodály Summer Institute at the University of Central Missouri - Warrensburg is a Nationally Endorsed program of OAKE, the Organization of American Kodály Educators. For more information:   https://sites.google.com/ucmo.edu/ucm-kodaly-summer-institute/home

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Class Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Class Dates: 7/6/2025 - 7/18/2025

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Earning your Kodály Certification just got more affordable at the Kodály Summer Institute at UCM! 

On-campus courses this summer run July 6-18, 2025, where you can start learning the Kodály approach while earning your Kodály Certification or start working towards a Master of Arts in Music with a Kodály emphasis.   

Check out our website or email Juli Weber, KSI Coordinator, kodaly@ucmo.edu for more information. 

https://www.ucmo.edu/college-of-arts-humanities-and-social-sciences/school-of-visual-and-performing-arts/music/kodaly-summer-program/

Section 2/ Level 2 $799.00  Date:  July 6-18, 2025

Level 2

Methodology and Materials 2

Solfege 2

Conducting 2

The Kodály Summer Institute at the University of Central Missouri - Warrensburg is a Nationally Endorsed program of OAKE, the Organization of American Kodály Educators. For more information:   https://sites.google.com/ucmo.edu/ucm-kodaly-summer-institute/home

Instructor:

Class Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Class Dates: 7/6/2025 - 7/18/2025

Days of Week: 

Location: ,

Room:  
                                                                                                                                                                               Fee: $799.00                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Earning your Kodály Certification just got more affordable at the Kodály Summer Institute at UCM! 

On-campus courses this summer run  July 6-18, 2025, where you can start learning the Kodály approach while earning your Kodály Certification or start working towards a Master of Arts in Music with a Kodály emphasis.   

Check out our website or email Juli Weber, KSI Coordinator, kodaly@ucmo.edu for more information. 

https://www.ucmo.edu/college-of-arts-humanities-and-social-sciences/school-of-visual-and-performing-arts/music/kodaly-summer-program/

Section 3/ Level 3 $799.00   Date:  July 6-18, 2025

Level 3

Methodology and Materials 3

Solfege 3

Conducting 3

The Kodály Summer Institute at the University of Central Missouri - Warrensburg is a Nationally Endorsed program of OAKE, the Organization of American Kodály Educators. For more information:   https://sites.google.com/ucmo.edu/ucm-kodaly-summer-institute/home