Professional Development
TEACH Grant and Title I Student Loan Forgiveness
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2011-12 PD
Click on the links below to see current opportunities for your professional group.
- General
- Administrators
- Elementary
- Arts
- English Language Arts & Reading
- Mathematics
- Reading
- Science and Technology
- Social Studies
- World Languages
- Specialists
- Special Education
- Nurses and Psychologists
General:
Scholarships for Service Learning PD—The DESE, in partnership with KIDS (Kids Involved Doing Service-Learning) Consortium, is offering scholarships for on-site service learning professional development in 2011-12. Click here to learn more.
Summer in Galway 2012—Travel/Study Program for Teachers and Administrators, National University of Ireland, July 5-28. A comparative study of the Irish and American educational systems; 6 graduate credits. For information email lilysky@ncia.net or call Barney Keenan, NUI Coordinator, 603-466-2972.
Administrators:
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Elementary
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Arts
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English Language Arts & Reading
FREE Literature and Guided Discovery for Service-Learning—Wednesday, February 1 (snow date Friday, February 3), 9:30 am-12:30 pm at North Adams Public Schools OR Thursday, February 2, 9:00 am-12:30 pm, Ecotarium, Worcester. Learn how literature can be used as a Guided Discovery strategy for launching a service-learning project, while at the same time teaching/reinforcing literacy skills. Participants will review the idea that SL needs to start with a problem or a need instead of a solution while looking for themes/issues in books and discuss effective literacy strategies that can be used to help students launch discussions about service-learning projects.
Mathematics
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Reading
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Science & Technology
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Social Studies & History
Inventing America: Lowell and the Industrial Revolution, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities—Earn $1,200 attending a week-long summer workshop at Tsongas Industrial History Center at the Historic Boott Cotton Mills, Lowell MA. Choose the week of June 24-29 or July 15-20, Combines scholarlly presentations with investigations of the canals, mills, worker housing and exhibits of the Lowell National Historical Park, as well as drama, hands-on simulations, historical fiction and field studies at Old Sturbridge Village, Walden Pond and Concord, MA. Open to K-12 teachers, administrators and other school personnel. Application deadline: March 1, 2012. Apply at: www.uml.edu/tsongas/NEH, or contact Ellen Anstey at 978-970-5080. Click on images below to enlarge for details.
World Languages
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Specialists
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Special Education
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Nurses and Psychologists
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