As the school year winds down and summer approaches, it's the perfect time to invest in your professional growth and reignite your passion for teaching. Lifetime Learning by Ball State offers transformative professional development courses that will help you simplify your teaching approaches and manage your classroom more effectively.

Key Benefits

• Reignite Your Passion: Rediscover the joy of teaching by exploring new ideas and methodologies.

• Simplify Your Approach: Learn to streamline your teaching methods for more effective results.

• Boost Your Confidence: Gain the skills and confidence needed to tackle any classroom challenges.

• Best Practices for Neuro-diverse Learners: Get the latest on ways to build a supportive and effective classroom for all learners.

Don't let this summer pass by without investing in your professional development. Embrace the opportunity to grow as an educator and make the upcoming school year your best yet!

Tailored Professional Development

Our courses are designed to meet the unique needs of educators. Whether you're looking to incorporate new teaching strategies or refine existing ones, our programs provide practical, actionable insights.

Flexible Learning Opportunities

With summer on the horizon, take advantage of the flexible scheduling options that fit into your well-deserved break. Engage in learning that aligns with your pace and lifestyle, ensuring you return to the classroom refreshed and inspired.

Expert Curriculum

Our course content creators are experienced educators and experts who understand the challenges and triumphs of teaching. Benefit from their knowledge and gain new perspectives that can transform your teaching practice.

Enhance Classroom Management

Discover innovative ways to manage your classroom more effectively. Our courses include strategies to create a positive learning environment, foster student engagement, and reduce classroom disruptions.

Show us your pain points, and we will create a tailored solution to help you build the team you need. Your input into the process makes the end product so much more rewarding. Your team will feel valued by your efforts. 

Ball State faculty experts engage your staff in targeted innovation or leadership workshops to give you a competitive edge and help your school or district adapt or take advantage of current opportunities.

Is your team ready for new ways of working as technology or student needs change? Choose from  AI, behavioral management, ASD or ADHD support interventions, specialized instructional approaches, and more. 

Whether your goal is for professional or personal development, our non-credit courses at Ball State will help you take your career to the next level.

Child Development Associate 

edTPA Microcredentials

120-Hour TEFL Certification

With an estimated 1.5 billion English language learners around the world, the demand for TEFL certified teachers is sky high. Earn your internationally- recognized TEFL certificate in this online course, so you can teach English online, abroad or wherever the need arises.

Prepare  for the Child Development Associate® (CDA) certification process of the Council for Professional Recognition with content review, assessment practice, and portfolio preparation. Learn the principles of child growth and development from birth through age five.

This teacher preparation program is a performance-based assessment used to evaluate a teacher's ability to teach effectively in a classroom. In the course, you'll identify the components of the three tasks involved in edTPA – planning, instruction, and assessment. 

Mentoring an Early Childhood Education Apprentice

This 6-module course supports mentors working with early childhood apprentices by offering strategies and tools to guide the development and implementation of a successful mentor- mentee relationship. Participants engage in self-assessment and self-reflection to better understand how who they are as an individual impacts their work.

Mentoring New and Aspiring Teachers

This course supports mentors working with aspiring, pre-service, and novice teachers to develop their own identity as a mentor through exploring multiple mentoring modalities and approaches and creating a mentoring plan.

COMPASS Self-paced Autism Support Intervention
Students with autism need specialized and personalized instruction in self-determination skills such as social, communication, and self-management. But IEPs often lack quality instruction in these areas. COMPASS is a consultation-based, research-supported intervention with proven outcomes. Unique to COMPASS is its focus on developing personalized interventions with caregiver and teacher input, support, and mutual collaboration. Autism trainers will be immersed in interactive, lively, and practical examples, tools, and readings to crystalize new concepts and skills. 

Music Arts Education for ASD

This course helps educators and parents understand, design, and deliver successful music education programs to students who are on the autistic spectrum. Understand communication, cognitive, behavioral, socialization and sensory challenges and how music may act as a bridge for learning.

Sign up for Lifetime Learning updates, including promotional offers, new course offerings, and career information to help you fly to your next destination.

Lifetime Learning by Ball State

Applied Technology Building

Monday-Friday 8am-5pm

765-285-8565

Email: Lifetimelearning@bsu.edu

https://www.bsu.edu/academics/lifetime-learning

Copyright © 2025. All rights reserved.