Certificate Programs in New Jersey
A 15-credit graduate certificate program for licensed K-12 classroom practitioners
Note: The Graduate Certificate Programs are not the same as the state certification or licensure.
Certificate Program Outline
Any course listed below can be taken online or as a live-virtual classroom.
Classroom Technology (five 3-credit courses)
- Artificial Intelligence for Educators: Navigating the Future of LearningEDIN524
This course will provide educators with a comprehensive understanding of how artificial intelligence is transforming education. Participants will explore AI-powered tools, their applications in K-12 classrooms, ethical considerations, privacy and security concerns, and policies and regulations related to AI in education.
- Developing a Technology Rich Classroom EDIN523
This course focuses on keeping educators on the cutting edge of free available resources to improve instruction regardless of their teaching situation. Participants will experience a variety of different engaging instructional tools to enhance their own content delivery as well as providing access to their content in new and exciting ways. This course is designed to enhance the educator's knowledge base of content curation and improve their teaching pedagogy around the proper use of instructional technology in a digestible, understandable, and engaging format.
- The Movement and Technology Balance: Classroom Strategies for Student Success EDIN564
Defining and creating the movement/technology balance in our schools is now a vital necessity for future growth and academic achievement. The course implements the principles of Move Students Often with a Steady flow of Technology (M.O.S.T.)
- Technology with Ease: Enhancing the Modern Classroom EDIN573
Focus on keeping ahead of the technological curve, regardless of your initial comfort working with technology. This course is designed to increase confidence in integrating technology using emerging web applications. Explore the use of educational technology to facilitate student learning and have students become digitally prepared for the 21st Century.
- UDL: Transforming Learning through Technology and Design EDIN536
Learner variability is the rule in today's face-paced classrooms. Research suggests that it is no longer acceptable to design with an average learner in mind. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework designed to personalize learning, proactively address learning challenges, and design with access in mind. This course provides participants with a fundamental understanding of UDL, how to design accessible lessons and infuse educational technology to personalize learning.
Classroom Climate (five 3-credit courses)
- Cooperative DisciplineEDIN565
Shift discipline from controlling student behavior by rewards and punishment to managing and motivating students by building self-esteem and helping them make better choices.
- Increasing Student Responsibility and Self-Discipline in Learning CommunitiesEDIN544
Develop appproaches to help students resolve their inner conflicts, and improve responsibility and self-discipline.
- Styles of Teaching: Personality Type in the ClassroomEDIN548
Based on Jung’s four temperaments, issues pertaining to teaching, learning, classroom management, communication, conflict resolution, esteem building, and problem solving will be examined and applied to classroom situations.
- Motivation: The Art and Science of Inspiring Classroom SuccessEDIN556
Increase awareness of various motivational techniques through research, literature, simulations, discussions, applications and reflection.
- The Bully Proof ClassroomEDIN559
Bullying is an important issue facing families, schools, communities, and society. understand the issues and develop strategies to address the problem.
The Differentiated Classroom (five 3-credit courses)
- Differentiated InstructionEDIN570
The focus of this course is to provide a framework to design effective instruction for all students using students' learning styles, interests and level of readiness.
- UDL: Transforming Learning Through Technology and DesignEDIN536
Learner variability is the rule in today's fast-paced classrooms. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework designed to personalize learning.
- Skills for Building the Collaborative ClassroomEDIN528
Collaboration, cooperation, innovation, creativity and critical thinking are demonstrated using interactive hands-on structures and activities.
- The Culturally Distinctive ClassroomEDIN546
Strategies for classroom engagement and lesson delivery in a changing diverse classroom will be examined.
- Strategies for ADHD, LD, and a Spectrum of LearnersEDIN552
Today's classrooms include a spectrum of learners who have different levels of attention, learning, communication, and behaviors. Learn how to tap into your students' strengths with appropriate interventions and curriculum practices.
Brain-Based Teaching (five 3-credit courses)
- Brain-Based Teaching and LearningEDIN560
Current research in neuroscience indicate ways that brains naturally learn best, and applications to the K-12 classroom.
- The Mindful ClasssroomEDIN540
This course introduces educators to mindfulness as a lifestyle and more importantly, as an instructional style rather than an isolated period of instructional time.
- The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning Through MovementEDIN553
Instructional content can be enlivened in the K-12 classroom through the use of dynamic movement and kinesthetic activity. By using movement, academic standards can be met, test scores can be improved and important life skills can be developed.
- The Kinesthetic Classroom II: Moving Across the StandardsEDIN554
Design kinesthetic activities for the K-12 classroom focusing on teaching Common Core and national standards based on content. Design effective action plans to increase movement in the school environment.
- Encouraging Skillful, Critical, and Creative ThinkingEDIN545
A practical, experiential course for all educators to explore and apply a variety of instructional strategies to teach students to be better thinkers.
For more information about the certificate programs, please contact the RTC office at 800-433-4740 or Dr. Alan Amtzis at 609-771-2586.
Upon completion of 15 credits in the above certificate program, please fill out the TCNJ/RTC Certificate Completion Form and email the completed form to tcnjcert@theRTC.net. Please note more than 4 courses taken prior to November 2017 are not eligible for the program.