Not seeing the academic results you want to see in your classroom?

Then THIS Teacher PD online course is for YOU!

After this course, you'll observe:

✔️HIGH Student Engagement!

✔️HIGH Participation!

✔️HIGH Achievement!

✔️HIGH Satisfaction!

✔️HIGH Performance!

✔️HIGH Confidence!

✔️HIGH Teacher Evaluation Scores!

Who is this Teacher PD online course created for?

Do any of these questions sound like you when it comes to using "EDTECH" (educational technology)

in the classroom?

  • You are a secondary teacher, teaching grades 7-12, and want to include "tech" wherever you can!

  • You use technology but don't enjoy using it. It gives you more stress than you want when planning instruction, student learning activities, and assessment.

  • You want to make technology your "friend" but you want more Life-Work Balance!

  • You're using technology, "getting it", and seeing the benefits. You'd love to learn MORE about EdTech, but there is so much to do!

  • You feel confident using EdTech, LOVE all the advantages you see in the classroom, and you say, "Gimme more!"

  • You want help to ROCK IT with tech in the "just-around-the-corner" 2022-2023 school year!

What do you get in this Teacher PD online course?

 

  • Templates, files, and resources you need to make EdTech your friend, your co-teacher, and your virtual assistant!

  • The competence, confidence, comfort, and calm to integrate technology into everything you do in the classroom!

  • EVERYTHING to make your homepage, lessons, discussions, assignments, assessments, quizzes, and tests SUPER ENGAGING for your students!

  • The ENGAGE Framework that will give you want you need to increase student engagement for the rest of your teaching career!

  • 5 EdTech Engagement Strategies that work from the beginning to the end of each class!

  • 5 EdTech Engagement Time-saving Action Plans to customize and make your own!

  • 5 EdTech Engagement Roadmaps that give you step-by-step guidance every time you plan, design, and deliver online instruction, student learning activities, and assessments!

  • 5 EdTech Engagement LMS Blueprints to make each online LMS pages and assignments creation so much easier and take less time!

  • By your first day of school, you have a lot finished in your online course site, giving you a head start!

  • Support with an EdTech Coach!

  • 20-HR Teacher PD certificate!


Enroll in the

Engagement is the Name of the Gain!

Pay with credit card or PayPal—your choice!

Meet your Instructor & EdTech Coach!

Melanie Wiscount, Ed.D.

Hi! Thank you for checking out my teacher PD online course for secondary teachers!

I'm an Educational Technology Instructional Coach with 19 years of experience teaching (5 years teaching grades 6-8 and 11 years teaching 9-12), 4+ years teaching education courses in higher education, and EdTech coaching (2006 to present). 
I'm passionate and driven to make a high-result impact and transformation for teachers when they are using tech in their instruction, student learning, and assessment to increase student engagement and performance in their classroom. 

Learn more about me and my credentials to teach, coach, support, and inspire secondary education teachers at edtechenergy.org

Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] 
with your EdTech questions inside the course. 


See you inside the transformation.
 

~ Melanie 

ISTE certification
Quality Matters certification
Canvas Certified Educator
Microsoft Innovative Educator Certification
Presidential Award for Excellence

Teacher Testimonials

Learn how to make the biggest difference in your classroom with tech!

“ As a special education service provider, I found Dr. Wiscount's course made an impact on both me and my students. I was able to find ways to additional ways to support my students with exceptionalities and provide better access. I've increased my EdTech strategies to keep my special needs students interested and engaged!”

Mr. Robinson

“After taking Dr. Wiscount's teacher professional development course, I was able to increase engagement with my students and families over the course of the school year. Accessibility was a key principle that I learned from Dr. Wiscount and in my planning. I can't wait to access another one of her courses in the future to increase my tech tool repertoire to reach my learners! ”

Mr. Smith

“Using EdTech, I started to stimulate the curious minds of early childhood students and support hands-on learning. Dr. Wiscount made navigating the technologies a breeze and helped me become tech-savvy and less afraid to use and create lessons using interactive tech tools.”

Ms. Rubino

“Dr. Wiscount’s PD course opened my world to a wide variety of EdTech tools and strategies that assisted me with engaging my students in the high school social studies virtual classroom. The EdTech strategies I learned and implemented have led to my students being fully engaged in my lessons. Dr. Wiscount was a supportive instructor and coach throughout the learning process.”

Mr. Cassidy

What you learn in this course, you'll use the rest of your teaching career!

Don't miss this opportunity to learn tried-and-true engagement strategies that work in the classroom.

Look at all that is offered in this Teacher PD online course!

Learn my ENGAGE Framework and increase your students' engagement in your instruction, student learning, and assessments.

Course Value: $635

✸ TEACHER PRICED ✸ $97

Save $538!

  • 💻 25+ EdTech Engagement video and audio coaching lessons! (TOTAL 3 HOURS)—$150 value

  • 💻 25+ EdTech Engagement Tutorials! (TOTAL 8 HOURS)—$400 value

  • 💻 20+ EdTech Timesaving Templates!—$40 value

  • 💻 5 Step-by-step EdTech Engagement Strategies!—PRICELESS!

  • 💻 ONLY AVAILABLE HERE! The ENGAGE Framework, a system I created after 19 years in the classroom where student engagement is the end result!—PRICELESS!

  • 💻 5 Engagement Strategy Action Plans to customize as your own & reuse!—$25 value

  • 💻 6 Engagement Step-by-Step Roadmaps to use when creating online instruction, student learning & assessments!—$10 value

  • 💻 6 Timesaving LMS Blueprints to use when building your LMS pages and assignments!—$10 value

  • 💻 Earn a 20-HR Teacher Professional Development Certificate when you complete the course!—Helps with Licensure PD requirements!

What's inside

Engagement is the Name of the Gain ?

From your homepage to your final exam, this course takes student engagement in your classroom to a whole new level!

Welcome!

Module 1

In Module 1, you'll learn how to get the most out of this course. You'll also learn about my framework, The ENGAGE Framework, and we'll look at why engagement is a high-value value ingredient in your classroom.

Welcome & Supportive Homepage

Module 2

In Module 2, you'll learn about online learning environments, online module structures, and how to create a welcome and supportive homepage. You'll also learn how to use five different EdTech engagers to build the kind of homepage that welcomes students and parents and offers support. Plus, there are two bonuses in this module!

Interactive Lesson

Module 3

In Module 3, you'll learn everything about creating an interactive lesson from the bellringer to the exit ticket. You'll also learn how to use five different EdTech engagers to design an interactive lesson that engages your students. Plus, there are two bonuses in this module! 

Community Online Discussions

Module 4

In Module 4, you'll learn how to frame an online discussion to both build community and students' critical thinking skills. You'll also learn how to use four different EdTech engagers to design an online discussion that offers a community to your students they want to participate in. Plus, there are two bonuses in this module!

Formative Assignments & Summative Assessments

Module 5

In Module 5, you'll learn how to design the type of formative assignments and summative assessments that students want to complete and showcase what they know. You'll also learn how to use four different EdTech engagers to design assignments and assessments that students want to do. Plus, there are four bonuses in this module!

Formative Quizzes & Summative Tests

Module 6

In Module 6, you'll learn how to take traditional formative quizzes and summative tests and give them a facelift to inject more learning, along with confidence and pride students feel when completing them.  You'll also learn how to use four different EdTech engagers to design assignments and assessments that students want to do. Plus, there are two bonuses in this module! 

Let's Wrap It Up

Module 7

In Module 7, we celebrate our learning and the transformation we will see in our classrooms with all the strategies as well as action plans, blueprints, and roadmaps we use moving forward. When all these engagement tools are used, EdTech can become your co-teacher and virtual assistant, saving you time in planning, designing, creating, and delivering these teaching and learning assets! Also, find out how you can continue the momentum of your new love of increased student engagement and the power it has in your classroom. 

BONUS Strategy! Parent and Guardian Communication

Module 8

In Module 8, you'll learn how to make communication with your students' parents and guardians engaging, informative, and supportive. You'll also learn how to use three different EdTech engagers to design communication that parents and guardians want to read and follow your call-to-actions.

+ 5 MORE BONUSES! 
and

Module 1 EdTech Engagement Resources Collection


Complete at your Own Pace!

All the creation you do in this course you do for YOUR CLASSROOM!

Put best practices in your planning and design and watch student engagement INCREASE while saving you time!

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Engagement is the Name of the Gain Teacher PD Curriculum

Learn step-by-step EdTech strategies to increase student engagement along with your competence, confidence, and comfort zone using technology in your classroom and benefit from a healthier life-work balance.

    1. ➯ Getting Started Checklist

    2. Welcome to the Course!

    3. Instructor & EdTech Coach Introduction

    4. Teacher (Your) Introduction

    5. Teacher Introduction Survey

    6. Course Introduction

    7. Q& A Discussion & Course Support

    8. Course Guidelines

    9. The BIG Picture

    10. The ENGAGE Framework

    11. ⚖️ Life-Work Balance Teacher Habit: Teacher Visualization

    12. Module 1 Recap

    13. 2-minute Welcome Module Feedback Form (*OPTIONAL)

    1. Strategy 1 Snapshot

    2. Online Learning Environment (OLE)

    3. Two Free OLE Options Interactive Infographic

    4. Module Elements

    5. Homepage Essentials

    6. The ENGAGE Framework in your Homepage

    7. Strategy 1: Homepage EdTech Engager Tutorials

    8. Engaging Welcoming and Supportive Homepage - Roadmap | Action Plan | Blueprint

    9. Welcoming and Supportive Homepage Reflective Practice

    10. ⚖️Life-Work Balance Teacher Habit - Creating a Teacher Mindset for Student Engagement

    11. Module 2 Recap

    12. Strategy 1 | 2-minute Homepage Feedback Form (OPTIONAL)

    1. Strategy 2 Snapshot

    2. Interactive Lesson Essentials

    3. The ENGAGE Framework in your Interactive Lessons

    4. Interactive Lesson EdTech Engagers

    5. Interactive URL Curation by Wakelet

    6. Grouping Interactive by Genially

    7. Interactive Curation by Pearltrees

    8. Strategy 2: Interactive Lessons EdTech Engagers Tutorials

    9. Interactive Lesson- Roadmap | Action Plan | Blueprint

    10. Interactive Lesson Reflective Practice

    11. ⚖️ Life-Work Balance Teacher Habit - The Power of the Sticky Note

    12. Module 3 Recap

    13. Strategy 2 | 2-minute Interactive Lesson Feedback Form (OPTIONAL)

    1. Strategy 3 Snapshot

    2. Community & Critical-thinking Online Discussion Engaging Essentials

    3. The ENGAGE Framework in your Online Discussions

    4. Online Discussion EdTech Engagers

    5. Flipgrid Online Discussion Example - Feel Free to Post your Response!

    6. Padlet Online Discussion Example - Feel Free to Post your Answer!

    7. Strategy 3: Online Discussion EdTech Engager Tutorials

    8. Engaging Online Discussion - Roadmap | Action Plan | Blueprint

    9. Online Discussions Reflective Practice

    10. ⚖️ Life-Work Balance: Teacher Habit - "What gets scheduled, gets done."

    11. Module 4 Recap

    12. Strategy 3 | 2-minute Online Discussion Feedback (OPTIONAL)

    1. Strategy 4 Snapshot

    2. Assignment & Assessment Engaging Essentials

    3. The ENGAGE Framework in your Assessments & Assignments

    4. Strategy 4: Assignment and Assessment EdTech Engager Tutorials

    5. Assignment and Assessment Reflective Practice

    6. Engaging Formative Assignment or Summative Assessment - Roadmap | Action Plan | Blueprint

    7. ⚖️ Life-Work Balance: Teacher Habit - Use Student Feedback Starters to Save Time

    8. Module 5 Recap

    9. Strategy 4 | 2-minute Online Assignment and Assessment Feedback (OPTIONAL)

    1. Quizzes and Tests Snapshot

    2. Quizzes and Tests Engaging Essentials

    3. The ENGAGE Framework in your Quizzes and Tests

    4. Strategy 5: Quizzes and Tests EdTech Engager Tutorials

    5. Engaging Formative Quiz or Summative Test- Roadmap | Action Plan | Blueprint

    6. Quiz & Test Reflective Practice

    7. ⚖️ Teacher Habit: Teacher Grading Hacks

    8. Module 6 Recap

    9. Strategy 5 | 2-minute Formative Quizzes and Summative Tests Feedback (OPTIONAL)

About this course

  • $97.00
  • 96 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content

Get these NINE BONUSES with the course!

Enjoy these ⭐FREE BONUSES⭐ when you enroll in the course!

  • FREE Sixth EdTech Engagement Strategy—Parent & Guardian Engaging Communication

  • BONUS: 7 Life–Work Balance Teacher Habits

  • BONUS: UNLIMITED Access to the course content for the lifetime of the course!

    (meaning you get all the updates FREE)

  • TIMESAVER BONUS: Course may be completed at your own pace!

  • 5 SURPRISE BONUSES in the course!

FAQ

  • What if I haven't used a lot of technology in my instruction, student learning, and assessments in my classroom. Will these strategies be a lot for me to learn?

    No worries at all. I step you through how to engage your students every step of the way. And you have a lot of autonomy based on your course content, your instructional style, and your students.

    This course meets you where you are at. And what is great...you work on your 2022-2023 course(s) inside this teacher PD course, so you get all the support while you are planning, creating, and designing.

  • I'm SO NOT techy. I actually break out in hives thinking about it. This course may intimidate me. Will it?

    Know you are exactly at the right place if technology, especially NEW technology gets under your collar.

    When I coach my teachers, I start at the beginning and assume no prior experience or knowledge. I framed this course exactly the same way.

    Whether you are tech-phobic or you love everything tech, this teacher PD course is the right place for you.

    Plus, when you see the student engagement transformation in your classroom, you will be sold with tech!

  • My school district does not use an LMS (Learning Management System) like Moodle, Canvas, or Blackboard. May I still join this course?

    Absolutely! There are free online learning environments out there and I will introduce two of them (Canvas and Google Classroom) to you in Module 2 which will be released in the second week of the course.

    I have used both free LMSs and highly recommend them.

  • What is the life-work balance part of this course? I'm a bit confused how it will play into the course's curriculum.

    Great question! I found with the teachers who I coached, if I don't meet them where they are at, and help them build solid practices to not only impact their classrooms in a positive way but support their life-work balance.

    At the end of every module, I check in with my teachers in the course and offer a Life-Work Balance habit that I found works for me and the teachers I coached.

    Getting teachers to a healthy life-work balance is one of the parts of this course I am committed to after COVID-19. Let's show the pandemic who has the power over our lives and peace of mind.

  • I put SO MUCH MONEY into my classroom already. Even though I am getting a lot for my money in this teacher PD course, I would rather not pay for it. What is another option?

    I know and feel where you are coming from. As teachers, we DO put a lot of our own monies into our classroom for many different reasons.

    I have an email template you may send your principal asking for a requisition or reimbursement for the $199 investment in this course.

    No worries. I totally understand!

    Go to this link and you will find the email letter template to complete and send to your principal. You will also find a link in this email template to include the course's Learning Outcomes for your principal to review.

🤔Still thinking about it?

Give Engagement is the Name of the Gain

the opportunity to transform student engagement in your classroom!

Enroll if you...

  • want student engagement to improve and have already tried a lot to do just that!

  • feel tired and a bit intimidated by all the technology out there!

  • want to save time! You've never put so much time into lesson planning as you do now!

  •  use technology in your classroom, with a smile, but want to streamline what you're doing and what needs to be done!

  • feel your students know more about technology than you do, and you want to turn that uneasy feeling into confidence!

  • feel anxious and frustrated using technology in your instruction, student learning, and assessments, and want to feel more comfortable using EdTech in your course.

  • want to learn more about EdTech AND prep for your new school year all at the same time!

  • want to STAND OUT in your department, grade level, or school!

  • are a Department Head and want to equip the teachers in your department with strategies to increase their tech confidence and student engagement!

  • are an EdTech Instructional Coach and want to learn all you can about how to support your teachers when using technology!

  • desire higher teacher evaluation scores during those principal observations


Feel free to email me at [email protected] with any questions you may have about this Teacher PD opportunity.

I want the very best for you, your students, your parents, and your life-work balance when it comes to infusing technology in your course! 

This course will do all of that for you


What are you waiting for?

Take the first BEST step towards INCREASED student (and parent) engagement!!

Coaching teachers to experience the transformation in their classes is my mission and passion.

Helping teachers with technology over the last 17 years has given me a lot of fulfillment. I love hearing about the positive transformation in their classrooms as much as they love the increased student engagement! 

Since March 2020 when the pandemic shut down schools globally, I felt called to help teachers, students, and parents, in a way that felt so deep to my core. I was definitely made for this stuff!

In my course, you will learn and get SO MUCH to help take you to the next level with tech in your classroom! This course has the potential to give you the kind of engagement transformation that lasts the rest of your career in education.

You will benefit by following these EdTech engagement strategies on both professional and personal levels. As you follow and use these strategies, roadmaps, blueprints, templates, and action plans, not only will you see increases in student engagement, excitement, participation, and achievement, you will find you have more time to give to do what you want to do.

More than anything, I want you to experience these kinds of engagement and time increases both professionally and personally.

All my best,