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Complimentary Professional Development
With professional development options, you’ll earn clock hours at no initial costs. We’ve developed professional development courses in the areas of instructional technology, course design, and leading and coaching to help hone your skills. Apply these learnings toward a Capella degree program to help you save time and money.
Benefits of Professional Development
Online Flexibility
Professional development is available anytime, on any device, so you can learn when it is convenient for you.
Immediately Applicable
Gain knowledge, learn strategies, and create artifacts that you can apply immediately in the classroom or your professional setting.
Earn Clock Hours You Can Apply to a Degree
Earn 25–50 clock hours toward your required professional development at no initial cost*.
*Additional requirements and fees apply when pursuing graduate credit. State regulations vary regarding salary benefits and continuing education. It is the students’ responsibility to understand and comply with requirements for their state, which may include preapproval of qualified professional development opportunities.
Setting Up a Modern Classroom
For teachers with little or no experience using instructional technology. Foundational courses that focus
on setting up, designing, and enhancing instructional materials and methods with technology in the modern classroom.
21st-Century Instructional Practices
Build your understanding of instructional technology frameworks and explore which one works best for you.
Designing for the 21st-Century Classroom
Go step by step through building the competencies you need to transform your classroom.
Enhancing Instruction with Technology
Learn how to apply strategies for effective planning for teaching with technology.
Flipping Your Classroom
Explore blended learning and “bring your own device” strategies for implementing a flipped classroom lesson.
Digital Citizenship
Explore issues of safety, security, and etiquette when using digital tools to engage your students.
Classroom Device Management
Develop a technology resource inventory to keep on top of the devices, access codes, and other objects in your classroom.
Classroom Instruction Using an LMS
Understand and apply the features of an LMS that can drive success in your student outcomes.
Standards-Based Digital Instruction
Learn to plan for instruction and evaluation that aligns to content and technology standards.
*Additional requirements and fees apply when pursuing graduate credit. State regulations vary regarding salary benefits and continuing education. It is the students’ responsibility to understand and comply with requirements for their state, which may include preapproval of qualified professional development opportunities.
Implementing and Enhancing Course Design
For teachers and teacher leaders with moderate instructional technology use. Find courses that can
provide you with the competencies and immediately applicable artifacts to take your lessons to the next level.
Personalized Instruction
Explore personalizing competency-based instruction in a blended environment.
Personalized Learning Through Gaming
Discover innovative ways to motivate and engage learners in a personalized environment using gamification strategies.
Implementing Adaptive Learning
Find applied strategies to adapt to the needs of your students with disabilities, your ELL students, and your gifted and talented students.
Designing Instruction for Adaptive Learning
See how universal design for learning (UDL) can improve learning for students with diverse needs.
Understanding Competency-Based Curriculum
Learn how to apply effective pedagogical strategies for implementing competency-based instruction, creating an educational environment that values student voice and pace.
Understanding Competency-Based Instruction
Gain an understanding of the differences between standards, outcomes, and competencies and the skills to integrate them into your curriculum.
“I’m interested in furthering my own knowledge—learning for its own sake. But I also know that, in teaching, it’s beneficial paywise to get as much experience and education as I can.”
*Actual Capella student who is compensated to appear in Capella materials.
Expand Your Potential with Professional Development
K-12 Teachers: How to Make Graduate School Work for You
Learn how to assess K-12 professional development options and choose the PD course that's right for you.
Professional Development for Teachers: Starting Your 1:1 Classroom
Good news for teachers prepping to take on a 1:1 classroom—there are resources available to help better understand and structure your coursework.
Professional Development for Teachers: Taking EdTech to the Next Level
Take your EdTech skills to the next level with a focus on learning strategies.
Leading and Coaching Others
For teacher leaders and PD professionals. Prepare to lead others in their professional development
goals and learn best practices for building, implementing, and evaluating solutions for other educators.
Instructional Coaching
Explore and evaluate coaching models and techniques that focus on solutions, not problems.
Teacher Evaluation and Assessment
Find the teacher assessment and evaluation models that can strengthen teachers’ knowledge, skills, classroom practices, and more.
Program specializations
Learn more about admissions requirements, costs, and courses for your specialization.
Curriculum and Instruction
Master of Science in Education
Early Childhood Education
Master of Science in Education
Early Childhood Education Studies
Master of Science in Education
English Language Learning and Teaching
Master of Science in Education
General Educational Technology
Master of Science in Education Innovation and Technology
Leadership in Educational Administration
Master of Science in Education
Reading and Literacy
Master of Science in Education
Special Education Teaching
Master of Science in Education
MEd in Teaching and Learning
Master of Education