Category: Professional Development

Arts teachers attend institute, focus on assessment, creativity

Music teachers learn to teach students about the dance concepts of space, time and energy at the MAAI institute.
Music teachers Alice Sullivan (left, Woodland/Princeton) and Andrea Wollstadt (John F. Kennedy Memorial School) dance away the morning at a MAAI institute session that highlights the dance concepts of space, time and energy.

Forty arts educators met at Maine College of Art in Portland for a four-day summer institute in early August during phase two of the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI).

During the institute, teacher leaders – representing dance, music, theater and visual arts educators from the elementary, middle and high school levels and all regions of Maine – developed workshops that they will provide throughout the state during the upcoming school year. The institute focused on assessment, technology, leadership and creativity.

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Superintendents learn strategies for student success

Participants in the 101st annual Maine Superintendents’ Conference last week attended five of nine possible workshop sessions addressing one overarching topic: strategies to help each individual learner meet proficiency. State educators, Maine DOE staff and outside program leaders conducted sessions on subjects such as student-centered data management and the Maine Schools for Excellence teacher evaluation initiative. Here is a closer look at three of the workshops offered:

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MLTI design student turns mentor

Tim Walsh of Kennebunk High School presents at the 2012 MLTI Student Conference.
Tim Walsh, a freshman at Kennebunk High School, explains how he used his laptop to design “green” hotel rooms. His keynote speaker address was one of two at the 2012 MLTI Student Conference on May 24.

ORONO – As eighth graders, Tim Walsh and his classmates at Middle School of the Kennebunks designed eco-friendly hotel rooms for the Nonantum Resort in Kennebunkport.

Now, as a freshman at Kennebunk High School, Walsh has graduated from being a student involved with the Green Room Project to being a mentor for current eighth grade art students tackling the same assignment. Continue reading “MLTI design student turns mentor” →

1,000 students with laptops make music, learn

ORONO – What do you get when you put 1,000 students with laptops in the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine in Orono? Music, literally.

At this year’s Maine Learning Technology Initiative Student Conference at the University of Maine on Thursday, students learned about innovative ways they can use their state-issued laptops.

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Interested in creating/expanding a Chinese language program?

2012 Chinese Bridge Delegation: November 7-15, 2012

The College Board and Hanban (Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters) are pleased to announce the 2012 Chinese Bridge Delegation, a one-week education trip hosted by Hanban and designed to help education leaders start and expand Chinese language and culture programs and to facilitate ongoing China-related research and exchanges. Continue reading “Interested in creating/expanding a Chinese language program?” →