Course | Building and Sustaining an Exceptional Teaching Team

Prices

The price listed is for 3 credits purchase option. An additional pricing is available for this course at $150 for flex credit purchase option.

For further information, please visit Teaching Channel website.

Term Availability

Spring 2026 Term Registration
7/16/25-3/15/26

Summer 2026 Term Registration
12/16/25-7/15/26

Fall 2026 Term Registration
3/16/26-10/22/26

Course Description

Course 5636
In this course, you’ll discover best practices for attracting, hiring, coaching, and nurturing excellent teachers.

You’ll learn how to find the best applicants for your positions and assess whether applicants are a good fit for a position. For your existing staff, you’ll review strategies for making good teachers into great ones, including conducting effective observations, providing meaningful coaching, and helping teachers set and meet goals that are important to them.

Finally, you’ll take a deep dive into the issue of burnout, including how to prevent it and how to intervene when teachers show signs of wanting to quit. By investing your time in this course, you will be able to proactively build and keep a great staff for years to come, saving yourself time and headaches down the road.

Goals and Objectives

What you will learn:
Use prompts about recruitment, retention, and reengagement of educators to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional education practice and growth.
Draft a procedure for hiring a teacher or revise an existing procedure to include any new learning and interview questions.
Create a resource to inform your teachers about walkthroughs or observations.
Outline a system to allow for personalized, data-driven professional learning that include goal-setting and opportunities for collaboration.
Identify, in writing, changes to professional practice related to instructional coaching based on learning from the course.
Create a plan to increase staff resilience.

Available University Partners

American College of Education
Andrews University
Augustana University
Concordia University, St. Paul
Greenville University
Lourdes University
Loyola Marymount University
Roosevelt University
Southern New Hampshire University
Teaching Channel
Upper Iowa University

Graduate Credits

3 Semester Credits
Credit may be available for this course and may vary by country or institution. Please verify eligibility with Teaching Channel.