Illinois K-12 teachers can earn 5 CPDUs from Northeastern Illinois University’s College of Education by completing a free online Professional Development Workshop. Teachers can begin the workshop at any time, complete it on their own schedule and receive CPDU credit immediately upon completion. The online professional development workshop (click here) prepares teachers to effectively engage students in learning through development of curriculum related to students’ lives.
The workshop familiarizes teachers with the Curriculum Infusion of Real Life Issues (CIRLI) educational strategy enabling them to integrate pressing life issues like immigration and immigrant rights into classes across subject areas and grade levels; through CIRLI teachers also learn to engage students in study of pressing life problems that students identify including substance abuse, bullying, social ostracism and violence.
The online workshop prepares teachers to incorporate evidence-based prevention strategies to build resistance to these problems which interfere with students’ educational and personal development; it takes teachers step by step through the process of integrating life issues into a class that they currently teach.
The CIRLI model fits Illinois Learning Standards (the CCSS) and supports students social-emotional learning standards.
For questions about this online professional development opportunity contact
Dr. Ron Glick, Professor Emeritus and Director of the Network for Dissemination of
Curriculum Infusion (NDCI) at NEIU.
You can find information about the Curriculum Infusion of Real Life Issues
educational strategy on the NDCI website—www.cirli.org.
