TESS USA is an independent global education consultancy gathering the highest quality online learning opportunities and tools for our global customers. Due to the global COVID-19 virus pandemic, it becomes ever more important for educators and students around the world to further their education and professional development via remote online learning. It is TESS USA’s top priority to gather the highest quality online programs from top U.S. Ivy League higher learning institutions for our global customers. As we further the scope of the available course offerings, we are going to start 2020 with eight amazing and low-cost online learning modules created by the Harvard Graduate School of Education Professional Education (PPE) division. These eight learning modules offer K-12 educators around the world a comprehensive overview of important aspects and concepts of the modern K-12 education system including:
Background Information Related to TESS USA Services
- Building Systems of Child Development and Education
- Math Instruction Improvement
- Classroom inclusion and effectiveness
- How to teach students to ask the right questions
- How to best serve today’s young English learners
- Maximizing language and literature skills
- How to educate kids and teachers to become global citizens
For extra fees in addition to the fees charged by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, TESS USA offers the following benefits and services to participants enrolling through us:
- Potential group discounts and hassle-free payment logistics
- Group-based applications so individuals do not need to apply themselves
- Pre-recorded online video sessions guiding our participants to maximize their ability to complete their chosen courses and receive their Harvard Graduate School of Education certificates of completion and clock-hour instruction completion letters
- No need for TESS USA participants (both as a group and an individual) to do any communications with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. TESS USA staff will take care of everything for our participants (as a group or an individual)
Information about the Two-Week Online Courses Offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Education Professional Education Division
The eight two-week online courses offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Education Professional Division are structured as modular learning assets (MLAs). Unlike normal full online courses, these courses are run without any live components. Content are pre-recorded and participants complete these courses at their own pace. All required readings and assignments will be made available to participants through the online learning platform such as Canvas. Each course is broken into specific sections and participants can evaluate the effectiveness of their learning by engaging in self-assessment and reflection of their specific learning experience throughout the course. Participants have the option to engage in facilitated discussions with other course participants. Details of how these discussions are structured and performed depend on the arrangement of the online course facilitator. Lastly, each MLA course provides participants the opportunity to practice how to apply the key concepts and knowledge learned to tackle specific challenges they face in their job.
Fee Structure and Refund Policy
Prospective TESS USA participants can sign up for one, two or up to three out of current eight courses available at once. All learning modules will take place from late June 2020 to early August 2020. It is very important for participants to sign up early as spots can fill very fast. Participants have up to two weeks to complete each of the eight courses at their own pace. Each course should take no more than 20 hours to complete.
Participants signing up for one (1) course through TESS USA: $599 total (Fees include Harvard Graduate School of Education Professional Education division tuition plus all aforementioned additional extra services and benefits from TESS USA.
Participants signing up for two (2) courses at once through TESS USA: $550 per course (Fees include Harvard Graduate School of Education Professional Education division tuition plus all aforementioned additional extra services and benefits from TESS USA.
Participants signing up for three (3) courses at once through TESS USA: $499 per course (Fees include Harvard Graduate School of Education Professional Education division tuition plus all aforementioned additional extra services and benefits from TESS USA.
Tuition made to the Harvard Graduate School of Education Professional Education division is not refundable. Paid participants who cannot attend their course(s) due to excruciating circumstances have up to 12 months to apply the portion of their payment excluding PPE tuition as a TESS USA credit towards future course(s).
HARVARD GRAUDATE SCHOOOL OF EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION DIVISION COURSE OFFERINGS
Improving Math Instruction Through Feedback
June 22 – July 5, 2020 |
Using the Mathematical Quality of Instruction (MQI) Coaching protocols, this workshop provides strategies for promoting high-quality math instruction through observation and feedback. Utilizing the research of HGSE Professor Heather Hill, the workshop explores the role of school leaders and instructional coaches in that process.
Education Redesign: Building 21st Century Systems of Child Development and Education
June 22 – July 5, 2020 |
HGSE Professor Paul Reville’s research forms the foundation for this exploration of why current education reform efforts are failing and how we might work to design a new education system.
Instructional Moves: Making Classroom Discussions More Inclusive and Effective
June 22 – July 5, 2020 |
This workshop builds on the resources offered in Instructional Moves, a HGSE project that promotes high-leverage teaching strategies. During this workshop designed for higher ed and K-12 professionals, learn how to utilize Instructional Moves to strengthen the effectiveness of and engagement in your classroom discussions.
Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions: Best Practices in the Question Formulation Technique
July 6 – 26, 2020 |
This workshop will offer a differentiated active learning experience in the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), a simple yet robust method for teaching students to ask better questions.
The Opportunity of Bilingualism: Serving Today’s Young English Language Learners
July 6 – 19, 2020 |
The Opportunity of Bilingualism, centered on the research of HGSE Professor, Nonie Lesaux, provides strategies for promoting language and literacy development in linguistically diverse education settings and the implications for effective policies to support this important work.
Ensuring Success for All: Tools and Practices for Inclusive Schools
July 6 – 19, 2020 |
Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Thomas Hehir, this workshop explores why inclusion is so important and how schools can treat diversity as an asset, not a problem.
Learning to Talk by Talking: A Developmental Approach to Maximizing Language and Literacy Skills
July 6 – 19, 2020 |
HGSE Professor Catherine Snow, one of the world’s leading experts on language and literacy, provides research for this workshop that follows a developmental approach to language and literacy from birth to the teen years.
Educating Global Citizens
July 20 – August 2, 2020|
This workshop provides strategies for promoting global competence in classrooms and schools, work that comes from the research of Professor Fernando Reimers and the Think Tank on Global Education.
Important Disclaimer
TESS USA is an independent global education consultancy gathering the highest quality online learning opportunities and tools for our global customers. TESS USA does not provide any guarantee of any kind related to certificates or letters to its participants and simply provide guidance and advice to enhance our participants’ ability to complete their chosen courses. It is our participants’ own responsibility and own initiative to complete their chosen courses. It is expected that all participants who sign up for available online courses through TESS USA have working level of English proficiency. There is no affiliation or relationship of any kind between TESS USA and any of the U.S. Ivy League universities nor does TESS USA seek any kind of representation of these institutions.