Commissioner Stephen Bowen congratulates 14 teachers from across the state who have been nominated to become Maine’s 2014 Teacher of the Year. The program highlights great teachers and teaching. One nominee will be named the Teacher of the Year during a surprise event in September.
Category: Professional Development
Seventh and eighth grade math teachers called to participate in UMaine study
UPDATE: This article was updated on March 27 to reflect the fact that eighth grade teachers can now undergo training too.
In a study offered by the University of Maine and ASSISTments, seventh and eighth grade math teachers will be paid to use a free online system to easily assign and monitor practice problems for homework, either from their textbooks or their own problems. Students will be able to do homework using their school-issued laptops.
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Attend Healthy Indoor Air for Schools Conference
The Maine Indoor Air Quality Council is hosting a free, one-day Healthy Indoor Air for Schools Conference on March 12 as part of the Council’s two-day Maine Indoor Air Quality Conference. Schools and districts are invited to send a team of representatives–facilities staff, health care professionals, teachers and administrators–to this event. Continue reading “Attend Healthy Indoor Air for Schools Conference”
Mt. Blue’s Doug Hodum named national teacher fellow
Doug Hodum, science teacher and science department head at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington, was recently selected as one of 12 Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellows.
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Learn to support ELL students through technology
The University of Maine Project Reach program invites teachers of English language learners to attend a free two-hour workshop to discover how a variety of readily available technology tools (e.g. digital cameras, computers and IPads) can be used in intentional ways to provide new educational opportunities for diverse learners, including young children (grades PreK through third) learning English.
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UMF announces graduate course series in K-12 math leadership
University of Maine at Farmington is offering a series of four graduate courses to prepare educators for the challenges of being a mathematics leader, whether they are a math coach, math interventionist, Response to Intervention coordinator, Title I: math teacher, or grade-level team leader.
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Maine Center for Best Practice releases fourth case study and new resources
Regional Possibilities: A Case Study of the Western Maine Education Collaborative
The Center for Best Practice announces the release of its newest case study, which focuses on school transformation. Unlike the previous case studies, which highlighted individual school districts, the new case study focuses on a collective regional group: the Western Maine Educational Collaborative (WMEC).
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Teacher scholarships to MIT science and engineering program offered
The MIT Alumni Club of Maine invites Maine middle and high school science and engineering teachers to apply for Club scholarships to the MIT Science and Engineering Program for Teachers (SEPT) this June.
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Financial literacy resources for high school students available
As required by Title 20-A Section 254, Sub-section 13, as enacted by Public Law 2011, Chapter 154, this annual report is being shared with superintendents. Please share this report with your school board members.
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Professional development series offered to world language teachers
A series of free workshops are being offered to world language teachers at the elementary, middle and high school levels for the remainder of the 2012-13 school year. Eighteen Maine world language teachers have been trained as teacher leaders to provide this regional, standards-based professional development. Contact the world language teacher leader(s) listed below to register for a regional workshop.
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