The New York State Education Department requires healthcare, educational, and other licensed professionals to be trained to identify and report child abuse. Matriculated students at MVCC should consult with academic advisors before enrolling in this course.

This course will address the social patterns of harassment, bullying, and discrimination including, but not limited to, those acts based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex. It will also cover the identification and mitigation of harassment, bullying, and discrimination and strategies for effectively addressing problems of exclusion and bias and aggression in educational settings. Successful completion of this course will meet the certificate requirements in 14(5) of Chapter 102 of the Laws of 2012.

This workshop satisfies the New York State Education Department's requirement for two-hour school violence prevention training (SAVE). The course focuses on issues relating to violence and safety for school-age children from both the identification and prevention perspectives. Topics include abuse and neglect, abduction, substance abuse, traffic and fire safety, and violence. Teachers' legal responsibilities, dangerous behavior identification, intervention techniques, effective classroom management, and promoting positive attitudes and behaviors will also be discussed.

From building to improving an online course, from fostering online discussion to encouraging student interaction, from traditional assessment to online tests, the program will give you the fundamentals of teaching online, as well as the most advanced tips and techniques in the business. Your instructors are authors, speakers, and consultants in online learning and teaching. This certificate includes Advanced Teaching Online, Designing Online Instruction, and Fostering Online Discussion.

In the 21st century, half of all learning will be online. The opportunities are tremendous for teaching online. Discover how to plan, develop and teach an online course. Take home a ten step model for developing your online course. Experience one of the most advanced online classrooms for teachers. Learn how to create online audio lectures with slide shows. Plus, find out how self quizzes enhance learning.

Learn about the online instructional environment, envisioning your online course, developing a web course, phases of design and development, design guidelines, and more. Discover the principles behind the adoption of technology innovation and the nature of the online learning environment. Then get tips for planning your online course, identifying resources and design guidelines. Discuss the phases of design and development and models, motivating student-student interaction, and managing interaction. Get the latest information on copyright issues, assessment and evaluation.

Being engaged with your online learners throughout the course is one of the three biggest weaknesses of online teachers. It is also one of the three biggest ways to take your online course to the next level, making it a superior learning experience for your learners. Come experience how to do it from the creator of the concept and practice of 'continual engagement' in teaching. Discover how to build student success through your interaction, how to give online learners feedback, communicating with them about everything from subject matter to delicate issues to grading. You will come away with advanced, practical, how-to tips from one of the foremost authorities on fostering online discussion. And you will see how your instructor models great interaction and engagement in the online environment.