Great Prairie AEA partners with the following post secondary institutions to offer graduate credit for some of our Professional Development courses. For more information click on a graduate partner below:
Drake University
Grand View University
Morningside University
Drake University
Drake University School of Education - Extension Education
You can continue your professional development and receive a Drake education regardless of your location through Drake’s Extension Education programs. All Extension Education courses are graduate level offerings. Please visit Drake's Extension Education website for more information.
Transcripts
For more information about requesting a transcript from Drake University, please click here.
Online Courses
Drake University Continuing Education and Professional Development has two new online courses. They are:
- Instructional Coaching (3 semester hours of graduate credit)
- Differentiation and Literacy (3 semester hours of graduate credit)
Instructional Coaching Online
An instructional coach is chiefly responsible for bringing evidence-based practices into classrooms by working with teachers and other school leaders. This course focuses on the coach’s role in classroom management, content enhancement, instruction, asking effective questions, and assessment for learning. Participants will also explore the fundamentals for sustaining a successful coaching program including how to represent the coach’s role to staff, building trusting relationships, participating in ongoing training, garnering support from administrators, and providing confidential, nonevaluative job-embedded professional development for teachers. Types of coaching and how to implement effective verbal and nonverbal communication designed to improve expertise in leadership, communication and listening, positive thinking, and support are major course themes, with additional focus on the conferencing and facilitation skills (including confidentiality agreements among coaches, teachers, and principals).
https://plsclasses.com/browse-enroll/classes/instructional-coaching-online/
Differentiation and Literacy
In this course, Differentiation and Literacy, you will learn to differentiate your instruction to reach children of varying literacy readiness levels, both elementary and secondary. You will learn ways to improve your instruction by adopting a growth mindset and will practice strategies such as flexible grouping to enrich your literacy instruction. You will review the English Language Arts Common Core Standards and will explore methods to create differentiated literacy lesson plans to address those standards. You will discuss methods to develop a positive classroom culture. You will review effective methods of both self-assessment and other forms of assessment to guide your differentiation.
http://www.drake.edu/cepd/distance/onlinecourses/differentiationandliteracyedma244/
For more online courses offered by Drake University Extension Education, please click here.
Licensure Specific
Developed by Drake University - click on links below for current listings:
Cultural Awareness: Seeing Past the Stereotypes (EDMA 209)
3 Semester Hours Graduate Credit
Human Relations (EDMA 204)
3 Semester Hours Graduate Credit
Elementary Social Studies: Making Your Content Relevant (EDMA 208)
3 Semester Hours Graduate Credit
Courses for Special Education Consultant and Work Experience Coordinator Endorsement
For more details regarding the courses being offered and application requirements, visit www.drake.edu/specialeducation.
Michael A. Couvillon, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Undergraduate & Graduate Studies in Special Education
michael.couvillon@drake.edu
(515)271-4690
http://www.drake.edu/specialeducation/
Courses for Athletic Coaches and Physical Educators
Please click here for more information about Drake University Extension Education courses for Athletic Coaches and Physical Educators.
Grandview University
Grand View University Credit Info
Grand View University’s Graduate and Professional Studies Department is pleased to announce its
partnership with Mississippi Bend AEA and the Iowa AEA system. Grand View University offers
Professional Development and continuing education opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate
credit.
While centrally located in Des Moines, most of these programs can be completed entirely online if
preferred. Individual courses that are not part of a degree program can be taken for GV graduate credit
through Mississippi Bend AEA or directly through Grand View. See the below links for more information.
Master of Education offered entirely online: https://www.grandview.edu/academics/graduate/master-
of-education
Renewable Scholarship dedicated solely to Master of Education students -
https://www.grandview.edu/forms/jacobson-nomination
Graduate and Undergraduate Endorsements in ELL, Strat I, Strat II (ID), Strat II (LDBD)
https://www.grandview.edu/academics/endorsements
Drivers Education Endorsement this online optional program is the only Drivers Education Endorsement
offered in the state of Iowa- https://www.grandview.edu/academics/endorsements/driver-education
Reading Endorsement offered face-to-face, but available to working students.
Instructional Coaching Certificate offered online.
Virtual Professional Development through Grand View:
https://www.virtualeduc.com/direct_accounts/index.php?uid=59
Additional Financial Aid information: https://www.grandview.edu/admissions/financial-
aid/scholarships-grants
Accreditation
Grand View and its undergraduate and graduate programs are accredited by the Higher Learning
Commission, a regional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. The
Grand View teacher education program is approved by the Iowa Department of Education.
https://www.grandview.edu/about/institutional-information/policies-disclosures
Morningside University
Graduate Education at Morningside University
To learn more about graduate education at Morningside University, please click here.
Transcripts
For more information about requesting a transcript from Morningside University, please click here.
Contact Morningside University
Morningside University Graduate Studies
1501 Morningside Avenue
Sioux City, Iowa 51106
712.274.5375 OR 800.831.0806, x.5375
Fax: 712.274.5470
Email Inquiries: gradeduc@morningside.edu
