Free Teaching Courses

Provides an overview of special education. Characteristics, instructional strategies, and services for children with disabilities.

This course presents an account of the philosophy of education from an Objectivist perspective. The course is adapted from recorded lectures that Dr. Leonard Peikoff gave at a conference for fans of Ayn Rand in 1985.

This course is designed to help students understand the aspects of linguistic principles and processes that underlie oral and written language proficiency, and how this knowledge is relevant K-12 instruction.

Educational psychology emphasizing human development and learning, motivation, instructional applications, individual differences, tests and measurement.

Dyslexia is everywhere, touching so many children and adults, and while science has made extraordinary progress in understanding and clarifying the condition, this incredible powerful knowledge rarely reaches those who most need to know and would greatly benefit from it.

Analysis and application of the concepts of cultural diversity with emphasis on current issues in education in an urban context.

Introduction, Methods of educational psychology, Systems and schools of psychology & their bearing on education, Cognitive development, Personal, Social & Emotional development, Individual Differences…

Discover what shapes how we talk about schools today by exploring the history of U.S. education reform. Engage with the main actors, key decisions, and major turning points in this history.

This course is developed to satisfy the California Commission of Teaching Credentialing requirements for teacher candidates.

This series of 6 lectures is intended for graduates and undergraduates interested in the challenge of how we best defend the work of the humanities in today's political and economic climates.