ONLINE COURSES

Our online courses offer scheduling flexibility and the support of an interactive learning community. Moderated by HighScope instructors, these selfpaced courses take place within HighScope’s user-friendly platform where participants share coursework results, ask questions, receive feedback from the instructor, and benefit from the experiences of fellow educators.

Intentional Lesson Planning for Infants and Toddlers

Learn to develop lesson plans based on curriculum content as well as children’s interests and development. You’ll return to the classroom with your own lesson plans plus the skills and confidence to intentionally scaffold learning and include families in the planning process.

Creating Meaningful Preschool Lesson Plans

Support children’s development by learning how to plan intentional activities based on curriculum content, child development, and children’s interests. This course helps you plan for each segment of the daily routine.

Movement and Music Group Times With With Infants and Toddlers

Learn what large-group times are all about, how to engage both infants and toddlers in movement and music activities, and how to plan for their development in these key areas of learning.

How to Support Active Learning at Work Time

Work time is the “do” part of Plan-Do-Review ® when children carry out their plans, play, and solve problems. This course provides strategies to help you support and scaffold children’s learning during work time.

Planning and Recall

Learn how to create planning and recall experiences based on children’s interests and developmental needs. Explore the benefits of planning time and recall time, the similarities and differences, and how these integral process change as the school year progresses.

Small-Group Times for Active Learners

Explore how children discover content through active learning during small-group time. This course offers many new activity ideas, as well as methods for planning effective small-group times and scaffolding strategies to maximize each child’s learning experience.

Large-Group Times for Active Learners

Transform your large-group time into a fun and meaningful part of your day. This course helps you learn how to implement shared control during large-group time, and how to develop appropriate large-group time activities and plans.

COR Advantage

Through expert instruction and video examples you will learn how to collect and accurately score objective evidence and successfully identify the categories, indicators, and items of HighScope’s child assessment tool, COR Advantage. This course also offers strategies for engaging families in the child assessment process and includes reliability testing.

Program & Classroom Assessment

Gain in-depth experience observing, recording, and evaluating program and classroomquality using HighScope’s assessment tools: n Classroom Coach: Improving Preschool Classroom Quality and Reliability Test n Infant-Toddler Program Quality Assessment (PQA) and Reliability Test n Family Child Care PQA Reliability Test