For educators, career development and continuing education is important to stay up-to-date with your teaching skills and innovations. Instead of spending your summer break on-campus or at a workshop, enroll in an online class from USD. We offers quality courses at affordable rates that make it possible to advance your career.
Some programs are funded externally by non-university partnerships as projects or classes. You may earn college credits for the courses, however, the funding to offer the course is provided by the external source or organization.
If you are interested in offering a course for educators through partnership with USD, please contact us.
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ELED 592: Kindergarten Academy: Happy Kids, Happy Teachers
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Instructor: Tricia West
Location: Canton High School PAC
Dates: June 20-21, 2022
Tuition: $40/credit
Credits: 1
Guest Speaker: Dr. Ben Springer
Course Description: A two-day workshop geared at providing teachers innovative ways to incorporate evidence based practices into their daily routines and interactions with students. Topics will focus on teacher attitudes and actions that integrate principles of behavioral intervention with the best practices of positive psychology and result in a fresh, effective response that respects the tough realities that teachers face every day. Teachers will gain skills and strategies for addressing learner needs through a variety of routines and activities. Teachers will be equipped to implement these strategies in their own classrooms or areas of instruction.
ELED/SEED/SPED 592: Relationship, Responsibility and Regulation
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Instructor: Pat Hubert
Location: Online
Dates: April 4, 2022 – May 2, 2022
Tuition: $40/credit
Credits: 1
This course will examine the practices and procedures outlined in the text. We will explore mechanisms to create a culture of safety in schools focusing on valuing students and enhancing practices designed to build student's social and emotional skills in particular resiliency and self-regulation. Interventions and behavioral management strategies for students that have experienced trauma will be discussed as well as practices that influence students' learning, attitudes and mindset.
SPED 593: South Dakota Special Education Conference
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Instructor: Ryan Groeneweg
Location: Sioux Falls Convention Center
Dates: March 15 – 16, 2022
Tuition: $40/credit
Credits: 1
This training will provide virtual training for school-based personnel to learn "best practices" in the focus areas of differentiated instruction, disability specific, classroom management, behaviors, tech in the classroom, transition, SPED law and severe disabilities. Participants will be required to submit a two-page reflection paper on what they took away from the training and how they will implement the "best practice" strategies they learned into their specific setting. Educators are continually seeking out "best practice" skills to incorporate into their classroom setting. This two-day training provides the participants with a wide assortment of "best practice" training in the specific content areas of need.
MUS 790: Choral Directors’ Institute 2022
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Instructor: Don Langlie
Location: University of South Dakota Fine Arts Center
Dates: June 15-17, 2022 (Final project is due July 1, 2022)
Registration fee: $195 (Early bird registration before June 1, 2022 $175)
Tuition: $40/credit
Credits: 0-3 (1 credit per class)
The USD's addition to teaching methods and materials. We are excited to once again offer the institute in person on the USD campus in Vermillion from Wednesday, June 15 to Friday, June 17, 2022.
The three-day institute will include large ensemble reading sessions, master classes and clinic sessions that focus on a wide variety of teaching subjects for choral directors and will feature guest clinician, Jacob Narverud and a variety of USD faculty. The Trends class will require a project agreed upon by the participant and the instructor (i.e., creating a database for their music library, programming music for their upcoming school year or other projects for their classroom).
MUS 790: Advanced Instructional Techniques for the Coral Music Educator - Master classes, clinics and discussions that focused on teaching materials, techniques and pedagogy for choral music educators, grades K-12.
MUS 790: New and Traditional Choral Music for the Vocal Music Educator - Reading sessions focusing on a variety of choral music for public school choirs, grades K-12 will be presented. Materials will include both standard works and new releases in numerous choral genres from music major publishers.
MUS 790: New and Continuing Trends in Choral Music Education - Seminars and roundtable discussions to allow the choral director to focus on current trends in the area of choral music education. A written final project is required.
MUS 792: Band Directors’ Institute 2022
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Instructor: Paul Schilf
Location: University of South Dakota Fine Arts Center
Dates: June 15-17, 2022 (Final project is due July 1, 2022)
Registration fee: $195 (Early bird registration before June 1, 2022 is $175)
Tuition: $40/credit
Credits: 0-3 (1 credit per class)
All classes and credit offerings will be available to participants and all institute materials accessible through an online platform. Clinic sessions (with a variety of presenters) and reading sessions (with full scores to view online) will be offered and our trends projects will be presented as in the past.
Participants have the option of registering for the institute ($175) for zero credits or can choose to enroll in any or all of our classes (at $40 per credit, plus the $175 registration fee). We are asking participants to register by the June 1 early-bird deadline. This will enable us to gauge interest in the institute this year (and in this format) and make a final decision on our ability to provide this event to directors. The registration fee increases to $195 after May 31, 2022.
MUS 793 Reading sessions will focus on a wide variety of instrumental music for public school bands including concert, marching and jazz music. The selections will include previous and newly published works at a variety of grade levels appropriate for all levels of bands.
MUS 793 Master classes, clinics and discussions that focused on teaching materials, rehearsal techniques and instrumental pedagogy for instrumental music educators. Methods and materials will be available to take back to the classroom.
MUS 793 This course provides seminars and panel discussions with veteran master teachers and band music composers. Topics include current topics and issues facing instrumental music educators.
