Teachers and food service staff members from Maine schools are invited to a day-long, no-cost workshop focused on creative approaches to nutrition education. The workshop takes place April 30 at the Augusta Civic Center.
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The seventh annual Comprehensive Sexuality Education Conference on April 5 attracted more than 160 participants from across Maine.
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Summer institute will kick off initiative focused on standards-based instruction and assessment in world languages classes
World languages teachers are invited to apply to attend the 2012 World Languages in Maine Schools Summer Institute from June 27-30 at the University of Maine at Farmington.
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This summer’s Maine Middle Level Institute will bring together middle-school educators and others from across the state to focus on customizing learning for each student and implementing the rigorous Common Core State Standards in their classrooms.
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Science teachers, agricultural science teachers and student-teachers from the middle- and high-school levels used chemicals, metals and a motor to develop a functioning battery; creatively presented the steps of photosynthesis; and simulated antibiotic treatments, collecting data on their effectiveness in the process.
The activities were part of a training in inquiry-based instruction recently at Washburn District High School, and exercises the teachers could deploy in their classroom.
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A May conference in Bangor will bring together middle-school students, their teachers and administrators to plan how they can prevent bullying against students with disabilities in their schools.
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A conference on effective writing instruction and the Common Core State Standards drew 280 educators from across Maine to the Augusta Civic Center on March 16.
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Teachers of students in grades K-12 are invited to the University of Maine on April 18 to learn about Maine workforce development needs and how to bring STEM-related (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) innovation back to their classrooms.
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Future Focus event puts eighth-grade girls from central Maine in contact with Iraqi counterpart, women working their dream jobs
By Charlie Hartman
“Do you like Justin Bieber?”
With a roll of her eyes, Maryann replied, “Oh, noooo!”
Shrieks rang out in response through Given Auditorium at Colby College as 250 eighth-grade girls talked to Maryann Naman in Kurdistan, Iraq, live via Skype. The girls, from four schools in central Maine, were at the morning keynote of Future Focus, an annual conference sponsored by the Waterville branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI).
Educators from pre-kindergarten through the university level are invited to a one-day workshop on June 22 focused on “Teaching and Leading in Tough Times.”
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