MDE & Michigan Virtual
Michigan Virtual offers over 350 professional development courses that can be bundled into thematic pathways that meet the needs of your school or district’s improvement plan. These pathways are entirely customizable. Our professional learning specialists will help you design a plan tailored to the needs of your educators. You can pick just one class or several with both free and affordable options, as well as online and face-to-face training and events.
Assessment Security Training
This MDE-approved course will help you establish and maintain appropriate and secure test administration practices. When test day comes around, this course will help you build a fair testing environment.
One-hour | self-paced course | free of charge
Seclusion & Restraint Awareness Training
This one-hour, self-paced course — created in partnership with MDE — fulfills the State of Michigan requirements for seclusion & restraint awareness training.
One-hour | self-paced course | free of charge
Free SEL Training for Educators
In partnership with the Michigan Department of Education, we've created a series of free online courses that inform educators on best practices in social emotional learning.
Computer Science Standards: A Primer for K-5 Teachers
For Michigan’s students to be competitive in the 21st-century economy, it is critical that they have access to computer science learning opportunities. Why? They need to develop skills and aptitudes in computer science that equip them to navigate new and emerging innovations.
In partnership with the Michigan Department of Education, we have developed a course that provides an overview of Michigan’s K-12 Computer Science Standards and demonstrates how they can be integrated with existing teaching practice in a K-5 classroom setting.
Educator Evaluation in MI
This set of courses explores specific strategies and opportunities that empower participants to take ownership of their evaluation and become the driving force behind their own professional growth. Participants will learn how to leverage specific strategies and opportunities to engage in evaluation cycles, including self-reflection and goal-setting, student growth planning and tracking, identifying professional learning needs and opportunities, processing and implementing feedback, gathering evidence of effective practice, and preparing for evaluation conferences.
MDE Facilitating Future Proud Michigan Educator: Explore
The Future Proud Michigan Educator Program (Future PME) asks motivated and capable instructors to help Michigan’s efforts in enticing and maintaining a strong teacher workforce. In this preparation course, you will become familiar with your role as a teacher educator helping future educators, including students in grades 6-12, navigate their unique pathways through this program. You will learn about theory and current movements in teacher preparation designed to best support those on their way to seeking certification.
Student Course
Future Proud Michigan Educator
Future Proud Michigan Educators is a course designed to raise student awareness of educational strategies, systems, and professions. This course engages learners in a study of student identity and the ways in which those identities are developed in learning communities. The lessons and activities provide a telescopic perspective while supporting individual learners to consider their personal microscopic perspectives. Students will examine issues that affect their education, including personal and systemic influences.
Through classroom assignments and clinical experiences, students will analyze teaching and learning practices as they experience mentorship and participatory learning. Students will use the course content and experiences to reflect on and prepare for their own educational pathways.