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North Country Professional Development Day 2011
The North Country Professional Development Day 2011 conference will have a new format for this year. In addition to the White Mountains Regional High School venue, Berlin Junior High School will serve as a second site. We will feature two keynotes. Our keynote presentations will be lead by the National Writing Project New Hampshire and Dr. Marianne True. The keynote speakers will swap during the lunch break, travelling between the two locations. This will give participants the opportunity to hear both keynote presentations.
Though the intention is for the majority of participants to attend the keynote presentations, there will be a few alternative sessions offered. We are accepting presenter proposals through the end of August. If you are interested in presenting, please submit a proposal online at http://tinyurl.com/ncpdd11.
The conference will take place on Friday, October 7, 2011.
You may contact Lori Langlois for more information at lori@ncedservices.org.
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Integrating Land Use into the Upper Elementary & Middle School Classroom
Participants will learn a wide range of age-appropriate, inquiry-oriented field, laboratory, and classroom methods, using as a learning context the assessment of the health of the forest, with a focus on methods developed for the Forest Watch Program. Activities appropriate for 5-8th grade students will be presented for detecting, quantifying, monitoring and mapping a range of forest conditions, each designed to allow the individual student to learn the process of science through asking (and answering) self-generated questions. In addition, ways to motivate students for engagement in inquiry-based learning will be discussed.
Workshop Leaders:
Eleanor Abrams & Michael Middleton, UNH Education Department
Barry Rock, UNH Institute of the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space Institute
For: NH certified upper elementary and middle grade educators.
Dates/Times: August 15 & 16, 2011 from 9:00 to 4:00
Location: NCES
Cost: Free, lunch provided.
Stipend: $150 stipend for those who fully participate in the two-day session
Registration: One seat left. Email lori@ncedservices.org to claim it!
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Astronomy, Star Signatures & More
Led by Eleanor Abrams and Michael Middleton of the UNH Education Department, and Toni Galvin, UNH Institute of the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space Institute, this seminar will cover:
Light
Light is more than meets the eye. These hands-on activities will allow participants to become space detectives and learn how scientists determine the composition of stars, nebulae and other space bodies, like a signature or finger print.
Electricity & Magnetism
Electromagnetism is one of the four forces of nature. By building and taking apart several electromagnetic devices, participants will increase their understanding of how magnets and electricity works.
Motivation
Student motivation to engage in with abstract concepts will be discussed.
For: NH certified upper elementary and middle grade educators.
Dates/Times: August 17 & 18, 2011 from 9:00 to 4:00
Location: NCES
Cost: Free, lunch provided.
Stipend: $150 stipend for those who fully participate in the two-day session
Registration: Three seats left. Email lori@ncedservices.org to claim one!
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Communities of Practice
In Northern New Hampshire and Vermont, school based Related Service providers often work as the sole practitioners in a school or school district. In response to the problem of “professional isolation”, this fall, NCES will begin offering Community of Practice seminars for school nurses and occupational therapists.
The seminars will allow practitioners the opportunity to meet regularly for workshop presentations, networking, collaboration, problem solving and discussion under the direction of a highly respected and credentialed facilitator.
The registration deadline is September 8, 2011. Each seminar will be limited to 12 participants.
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Train the Trainer: Bicycling 1-2-3 Youth Instructors
The Bike-Walk Alliance of NH (BWA-NH) is pleased to offer a Safe Routes to School-funded “Train the Trainers” program for elementary school faculty members wishing to promote standardized and sustainable bicycling education in grades 4 and 5. Course material was developed by the League of American Bicyclists and the National Bicycle Dealers Association. The “Train the Trainers” program is conducted by a certified Master League Cycling Instructor (LCI) who is authorized to certify “Bicycling 1-2-3” Youth and Skills level instructors, even for people without extensive classroom or on-bike training. While knowledge of cycling is needed, a key point of the program is that the “trainee” need not be a highly skilled, fast, or long-distance cyclist. The “trainee” is to teach students what they need to know at their level, not to teach what the “trainee” may know or not know about the finer points of bicycling. This allows a “Train the Trainer” session to be completed in just three hours with minimal on-bike time and no tests. Bikes and helmets may be brought to the seminar by the participants but they are not required. All that is needed is a commitment to implement the LAB/NBDA standardized bicycling education in your school on a sustainable basis. Part of the training session includes suggestions how such may be accomplished without significant addition to class time.
BWA-NH will provide all documentation, forms, and handouts for the “Bicycling 1-2-3 Youth Instructors” plus samples of the materials to be used with the students. (Back-ups are provided on a CD.) Three hours of free training by a Master LCI, handouts, certification of the instructors, and travel expenses (gas and tolls, not lodging) are included in the SRTS-funded “Train the Trainers” program.
Cost: For school personnel working directly with grades 4 and/or 5, there is no charge (this can include classroom teachers, nurses, PE teachers, Guidance, Special Ed, or even paraprofessionals or principals). Others, including non-school personnel, may attend for a fee of $40 payable to the BWA-NH.
Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 from 3:00 to 6:00 PM
Location: NCES, 300 Gorham Hill Road, Gorham, NH
57 Regional Drive, Suite 6, Concord, NH 03301-8518 by October 5th.
Note: A minimum of 8 participants working directly with 4th & 5th grade students is required for this training to be offered.
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Moodle 2.0 for Educators
Interested in learning about why you should use Moodle, how Moodle can improve student learning or how to make your Moodle class appealing and effective? Ron Danault a WMRHS teacher will answer these questions and teach you how to: 1. Create a course. 2. Create user accounts. 3. Update user profiles. 4. Upload files and folders. 5. Work with images. 6. Create hyperlinks. 7. Create assignments. 8. Using other features of Moodle Participants in this three morning series may host one class on the NCES Moodle server for the 2011 / 2012 school year. This class will be taught in Moodle 2.0, Moodle’s latest software platform update.
Instructor: Ron Danault
Dates/times:
Monday, August 8: 9:00 – 11:00
Tuesday, August 9: 9:00 – 11:00
Monday, August 10: 9:00 – 11:00
Location: NCES Conference Room
Meal: Light Continental Breakfast
Cost: $125: A $25 deposit is required for this class.
Class size: Limited to 16 participants
Last chance to register: Deadline is August 1, 2011.
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Making Inclusion Work
Strategies for Regular Ed / Special Ed Collaboration
with Trish Walton, Educational Consultant
Including students with disabilities in regular education settings does not always mean the same thing to special education personnel as it does to regular classroom teachers. To make inclusion successful, all of the adults need to create a common vision and communicate in order to make collaboration work for the benefit of all students. And, in fact, effective inclusion may look entirely different for different students and in different classrooms.
This one-day interactive workshop will start by using a tool that teachers and aides can use to establish comfortable norms for sharing a classroom and students. Strategies for communication, collaboration, lesson planning, team teaching, and sharing the evaluation process will be presented and developed.
Monthly or bi-monthly follow-up (at your school or at NCES) will be an important part of creating structures that work for your building.
Teams of teachers should plan to attend together in any of the following configurations:
- Regular Education Teachers & Special Education Teachers
- Classroom teachers & the aide(s)/paraprofessional(s) who work with in their classrooms
- 1:1 paraprofessionals & classroom teachers & special education teachers
- Grade level team of teachers (including special education teacher) & the paraprofessional(s) that work with the grade
- Administrators, teachers, paraprofessionals
 About Trish Underwood: A regular education teacher by trade, Trish has been a part of special ed/regular ed teams that worked, as well as a few that didn’t. Trish will guide participants through the elements essential to making inclusion successful or all – students and teachers alike.
For information about scheduling and cost for the one-day workshop and follow-up at your school/district, contact Lori Langlois at lori@ncedservices.org or 603-466-5437.
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Contact Info
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Directions to NCES
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