Dear colleague,
It's that time of year when some of you have a line item in your PD budget that needs a home before the fiscal year closes. If that's you, I wanted to put my courses on your radar, not as some kind of sales pitch, but rather because these learning experiences are special creations of mine that have benefitted the hearts and minds of educators over the years. Below, I'll share some of the courses I've made over the years and what's special to me about each one. (For a full list, see this page.)
- The Student Motivation Course ($199 single user license): When I was writing These 6 Things in the 2010s, Chapter Two (regarding the Five Key Beliefs) quickly became a big old monster of a chapter. There were so many nerdy research stories and intervention strategies that I wanted to share, but before I knew it, the chapter started getting as big as all the other chapters combined. As a result, I had to cut a lot from that chapter, and the Student Motivation Course is where those treasures found their home. Another little gem is that creating the Student Motivation Course helped me generate the clarity I eventually brought to The Will to Learn, which I wrote in the early 2020s. Folks still take and learn from the Student Motivation Course today — it holds up.
- The Teaching with Articles Course ($199 single user license): Speaking of still holding up, this is my oldest online course, and it holds a special place in my heart. In it, you can see me working toward the clarity I would eventually bring to These 6 Things. Though some of the thinking models present in this course don't show up in my writing often, the abundance of classroom footage (me teaching with articles) makes this course special and reminds me that though the models I use have transformed over time, the basic teaching methodologies I use look largely the same. I still teach like this today.
- The Teacher Time Management Mini-Course ($99 single user license; group viewing licenses start at $499): What's cool about this one is that I've never written a book on the topic, so this is the closest you can get to seeing my take on time management. The key insight I had in creating this is that the world didn't need another perfectionistic time management system for teachers — at least, not one from my simple mind. Instead, in the course, I teach time management as something you get better at, kind of like a sport, via the use of 10 key practices and disciplines. Some DSJ-Land crowd favorite concepts get treated in this course, such as satisficing. Like all my mini-courses, this one works well for group viewing (10 core videos, about 10 minutes apiece, with engaging group discussion and application questions after).
- The ‘Why Do We Have to Do This!?' Mini-Course ($99 single user license; group viewing licenses starting at $499): At the start of this school year, I argued in an article that this is the year of Value. As I approach the end of the year, I would say that was a solid prediction. Students today deeply desire to value the work of learning, yet more and more of them simply don't have a grid for how to get there or what it feels like. This course introduces the fundamental set of moves and mindsets that I've gleaned from the research and my classroom practice.
- The Principles of Learning Course ($249 single user license): This is the largest course I've ever made, and someday I ought to make a book out of it. However, that day is far away. It still boggles my mind how underinformed I was as an early career teacher about the way learning works and how to bring that to bear on a classroom. This one is a deep dive for sure, but it contains my comprehensive take on applying cognitive science to real teaching.
Again, the full course list is here, but those above are special to me, and I wanted to share them today in case you've got that dangling funding available prior to summer.
Teaching right beside you,
DSJR
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