This year is almost over and 2024 beginning very soon.  You will likely be looking at what to do and use for PD days and hours in 2024.  Online courses that can be taken individually or used for group PD formats are helpful not only to planning but to the learning time itself.

The Gurian Institute has four PD video courses you can use for all day, half day, or shorter formats as well as individual and PLC coursework.  Today’s blog features these courses.

If they look of interest to you for teams, please let us know at info@gurianinstitute.com so that we can get you the bulk discount for the courses.

To augment any of these courses, Dr. Michael Gurian or a Gurian Master Trainer such as Dr. Glynetta Fletcher, our Program Director, can provide further PD, Q & A, and resources via Zoom during your PD hours.

On our Products page, https://gurianinstitute.com/products/ you’ll see four Courses, all taught by Michael Gurian:

Our 6 hour Educator Online Course:  https://gurianinstitute.com/products/boys-and-girls-learn-differently-online-course/

Our 6 hour Early Childhood Educator Online Course:  https://gurianinstitute.com/products/the-minds-of-our-youngest-boys-and-girls-online-course/

Our 6 hour Parent Online Course:  https://gurianinstitute.com/products/the-minds-of-boys-and-girls-online-course-for-parents/

Our 3 hour Course for Counselors, Health, and Mental Health Professionals:  https://gurianinstitute.com/product/online-course-for-how-do-i-help-him/

Get ready to learn and apply practical applications that have been proven successful in schools and communities around the world!  Each video session is packed with actionable information.

Focusing on the Educator Online Course

Let’s feature one of the courses today:  https://gurianinstitute.com/products/boys-and-girls-learn-differently-online-course/.

A school superintendent who used it with his staff called it “a life-changing PD experience for our schools.”   A principal who used it the same way called it, “eye-opening, dynamic, and the perfect fit for forty teachers on our PD day.”

When Michael and the GI team created the course, we did so in order to allow individual educators and others to purchase it individually to gain theory and strategies, while also providing a way for whole groups of teachers/staff to have a PD experience.  Happily, the course is being used in both ways now, with an increasing number of schools opening it up to the whole staff.

If you are looking for resources for your 2024 Professional Development days or any PD days/hours in the new year, we hope you will consider this Course.  It is a great fit for both coed and single sex schools because it covers the learning and life needs of boys, girls, and the gender spectrum.  Once your organization or school purchases the course, GI sends a private link to your team that allows the course to be projected for the whole room if everyone is gathering there, or provided to every individual learner’s own device.

The content of the Course is divided into well-timed video clips that align with discussion questions and exercises in PDF form.  If your whole team is gathering in one room, a leader can navigate the video content and lead the exercises.  Or you can let the course be viewed without a leader as long as someone interrupts the projection in intervals to give reflection/discussion time.  Either way, the Course fits at least six contact hours of PD because all of its content in various modalities.

To learn more about this Course please see https://gurianinstitute.com/products/boys-and-girls-learn-differently-online-course/.    To look at similar outlines and information on all the courses, please visit each webpage listed above.

For groups like your school staff or your PLC, GI provides discounts that align with your number of participants.  To explore these discounts and learn more about how to bring the Course to your school, write us at info@gurianinstitute.com.

And of course all of our products and services are on www.gurianinstitute.com.

We look forward to serving you in the new year!