Creating Adoption Sensitive Classrooms

3 Credits | 45 Hours

$199.00
$199.00
$199.00
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  • Diverse Student Populations
  • Social/Emotional Learning
Creating Adoption Sensitive Classrooms K-12 teachers professional development course

Course Description

This course is designed to help educators understand the many complex issues students who come from adoptive backgrounds face and how they can affect them in the classroom. While often regarded as a compassionate and beautiful way to form a family, it comes with challenges. The challenges some of these students may bring with them can have a major impact on the classroom and on that student’s learning.

This course will help educators go beyond the storybook idealism of adoption to help them understand the deeper issues facing these students. This course provides concrete information and strategies to support these students academically and socially-emotionally. Issues of childhood trauma (ACEs), race, gender and cultural consciousness are addressed.

Objectives

Teachers will be able to:

  • Understand what adoption is and is not.
  • Gain an understanding of how trauma may impact children who come from adoptive families.
  • Learn strategies for identifying and managing trauma in the classroom.
  • Understand the best methods for discipline and classroom management in support of adoptive students.
  • Understand how special needs and disability may impact many adoptive students.
  • Increase cultural sensitivity and sensitivity to adoptive issues in lesson planning.

To Enroll in a Course:

  • If you need a certificate of completion only, choose the Course Only option. Or…
  • If you need an official transcript, choose the Course & University Credits option. See our University Partners page for more information about our regionally accredited university partners.
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  • Upon purchase, you will receive an email receipt and be able to log in to your course at eClassroom Sign in. You have 180 days (about 6 months) from your purchase to complete your course.

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Course + Credits Courses

  • We have partnered with a number of regionally-accredited universities.  See University Partners tab for information about our regionally-accredited university partners.  
  • All courses taken for graduate-level professional development credit receive both a Certificate of Completion for your records and an official University Transcript.
  • Upon completion of your course, CE Credits Online will forward all the required documentation to the university you selected.
  • Graduate Credits are available through Adams State University. Graduate-level professional development credits are available through Valley City State University and Cal Poly Humboldt. The University partner will process your course completion and provide a transcript that includes the name of the course, course number, number of credits, and your grade.
  • You will receive directions on how to receive your transcript in email form, and you can also review the University Partners section of our website for more information.
  • You must check with your district to ensure the credits received will meet your specific requirements. We will not be held responsible if your school, district or state does not accept the credits issued.

Course Only Courses

  • We offer all of our courses as a Course Only option (credits not included) that can be used to meet your recertification or professional development needs (always check with your district/state to determine eligibility). 
  • Upon successful completion of your course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion for your records that will include the name of the course and number of professional development hours completed.
  • The Certificate of Completion acts as a record that verifies that a professional development course was taken and passed.