Montessori
Albanesi Educational Center, Australian Institute of Montessori Studies, Kent & Sussex Montessori Centre, Modern Montessori Training Centre Singapore, Montessori Centre International, Montessori Educators International, Inc., Montessori for the Earth Distance Learning, Montessori St. Nicholas Centre, North American Montessori Teachers' Associati, North American Progressive Montessori Teacher Trai
Waldorf
Antioch New England Graduate School, Arcturus Education Program, Arizona Red Rock Teacher Education Center, Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training, Center for Anthroposophy - Mission and Programs, Emerson College, Eugene Waldorf School, Great Lakes Waldorf Teacher Training, Kula Makua - Adult Waldorf Education and Teacher T, Rudolf Steiner College Waldorf Teacher Education P
ACS Professional Development Opportunities
The American Chemical Society provides professional development opportunities for teachers at all levels, kindergarten through post-secondary.
Behaviour Management in Education Foundation
Behaviour management skills training for teachers.Handle any classroom crisis or discipline problem with confidence. Plan class and schoolwide discipline programmes.
Bureau Of Education and Research
Sponsor of staff development training for professional educators in the United States and Canada. Offering seminars, videos and self-study resources.
California Subject Matter Projects
A professional development community for teachers. Each subject area, such as science or history, has a project. Calendar of development opportunities, discussion forums, resource links, content standards for each project.
Catholic School Leadership Program
Professional programs at the graduate level which are capable of fostering critical reflection upon the ends governing the profession, of providing the knowledge and skills required for its practice, and of preparing students for principled and moral leadership in their professions.
Continuing Education for Teachers
Online professional education courses/workshops for K-8 classroom and special education teachers. Courses designed to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act and/or state standards.
Cornell Center for Nanoscale Systems Institute for
Professional development opportunity. Offers workshops during the school year and a two-week and one-week institute in the summer. Courses contain lectures, tours and hands-on learning experiences designed to update high school teachers on recent advances in physics.
Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers (CIBT)
Information about annual workshops designed to provide K-12 science teachers with practical teaching tools and a continuing relationship with Cornell and other program participants.
Council For Professional Recognition
Promotes the Child Development Associate (CDA) National Credentialing Program, a major national (United States) movement to improve the quality of child care. The program is designed to assess and credential early care and education professionals based on performance.
Data Based Directions
Offering consultants to present workshops. Also, books for sale on assessment practices and database searches. Database search requires registration.
Education Schools Project
Provides a critical assessment of the ways in which the United States' 1,200 schools of education prepare--and should prepare--teachers, school administrators, and education researchers.
Effective Learning Resources
Three offerings: Motivating the Unmotivated, Practical Ways to Increase Writing Achievement, and Managing Your Special Ed Classrooms. Academic credit available. Live workshops, video classes, inservice training and consulting services.
Enhancement Courses
Self-directed, independent study courses for teachers and administrators, or any person whose professional and/or salary advancement is achieved with professional development credit.
Focus Educational Services, Inc.
TeachersOnly publications, instructional products and seminars, including the famous Silly Science.
Global Links - Global Educators Program
Opportunity for teachers to gain teaching experience in a foreign country. After spending 3-4 weeks abroad the participants will receive 6 graduate credits from the University of St Thomas.
Ideas that Work: Mathematics Professional Developm
Strategies, resources, curriculum
J. Robert Hanson, Sons & Associates
Offering training in thoughtful education, the deliberate effort to integrate affect and cognition in teaching.
Jo and Jo Productions
Providing child-focused services and programs for teachers and schools.
Knowles Science Teaching Foundation
Established to strengthen the quality of high school (grades 9-12) science and mathematics teaching in the United States. Programs, news, resources and contact details.
Lecture Management
Offering keynote speakers addressing relevant topics such as education technology, teacher education, and student achievement.
Loyola Marymount University Enhancement Courses
Non-classroom, self-directed, independent study courses for teachers and administrators for professional development credit.
Mark Wahl Training for Mathematics Teaching
Seminars in creative math methods for grades 3-9 that tap the multiple intelligences, learning styles and are compatible with NCTM Standards.
Martha's Vineyard Summer Workshops
Graduate level workshops in teaching writing and reading, sponsored by Northeastern University. Two 2 week sessions in July. Master's degree in Writing option.
NASA Ames Education Resources and Workshops
Descriptions and contact information many programs and learning opportunities for students, teachers, schools, and college faculty.
National Center for Conflict Resolution Education
Offering information on conflict resolution training, both on-site and conference style. Also listing other resources related to conflict resolution.
National Council on Economic Education (NCEE)
A non-profit group dedicated to promoting economic education in K-12 schools.
National Resource Center for Middle Grades/High Sc
Provides professional development opportunities for educators, distributes published resources on best practices and research for classroom application, and conducts program, school, and community evaluation studies.
National Writing Project
Collaborative project for university and K-12 staff who want to improve writing instruction in American schools.
Online Professional Development Seminar Toolboxes
Online texts and inquiry strategies out of which K-12 teachers can create seminars in American history and literature.
Passing Notes
Personal reflections on the National Teacher Certification program from a current participant. Site features background, reform links, cost of program, and tips on how to successfully pass the final exams.
Prime Presentations
By McGehe Consulting. Offering teacher workshops in mathematics, science, assessment and school improvement.
Professional Development
Courses and opportunities for teachers at New York City's American Museum of Natural History.
Professional Development Laboratory
Supporting teachers in their quest for professional excellence. Providing classroom-based experiences enabling teachers to learn from one another. Based at New York University's School of Education.
Show Me Center
Providing information and resources to support selection and implementation of standards-based middle grades mathematics curricula.
SkyLight Professional Development
Provides continuing education and graduate programs for K-12 teachers and administrators with emphasis on multiple intelligences, brain based learning and literacy. Online courses and video courses available.
SkyLight Professional Development
Provides continuing education and graduate programs for K-12 teachers and administrators with emphasis on multiple intelligences, brain based learning and literacy.
Stetson University Center at Celebration
Offering professional development and graduate courses for the practicing educator.
Summer Conferences for Secondary School Teachers
One-week-long residential conferences, emphasizing the impact of technology on mathematics and science curricula. Hosted by Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH.
Taking Care of Teachers
Providing interactive stress management and team building workshops to educators
TAPPED IN Teacher Professional Development Institu
An online community of over 2800 K-16 teachers, staff, and researchers engaged in both formal professional development programs and informal collaborative activities. Members hold real-time discussions and classes and interact via mailing lists and discussion boards all in a single on-line venue.
Teacher Advancement Program (TAP)
A Milken Family Foundation program addressing recruitment, training, induction, professional development, compensation, performance evaluation and career advancement for teachers.
Teacher at Sea Program
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offers teachers the opportunity to spend one to three weeks working with research scientists at sea.
Teachers' Learning Center
Distance Learning in cooperation with Portland State University, graduate level education classes in education.
Texas A&M University PTRA Program for Rural Ph
Selected applicants will participate in a three-year program (2003-2006) consisting of annual summer workshops and two-day follow-up sessions each spring. Full details and application available on the site.
The Data Streme Project
The American Meteorological Society offers an on-line course to train teachers to use the Internet to as a resource to study the weather in the K-12 science classroom.
The Smithsonian Office of Education
Works with teachers in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and in several locations throughout the nation. Special events, for-credit courses, and long-term partnerships, teachers meet their teaching objectives using museum resources.
The Southeast Center for Education in the Arts
Professional development in Discipline Based Art Education (DBAE), a combination of music, theatre, visual art and dance. Conducting professional development summer institutes and professional development workshops.
UCLA Service Learning Clearninghouse Project
Information and resources focusing on faculty issues, K-H partnerships, assessment and evaluation, training and technical assistance, and service-learning research.
Waterford Teachers' Centre
Located in the South East of Ireland, an education support centre providing national and local inservices, as well as resources for teachers, students and parents.
West Central Four Professional Development Consort
Resources for K-12 teachers, students administrators and technology coordinators.
Worlds of the Renaissance - NEH Summer Institute
A national Summer institute about the Renaissance for thirty secondary school teachers in the humanities. Includes projects intended to serve as curriculum resources for other teachers.