Courses

ART 2900: Art & Italy

This ART 2900 credited course will take Art Teachers on an Educational Art Virtual Tour of Italy. Teachers will then reflect and create an original Italian inspired work of art including an artist statement. This experience will add to professional learning and will improve classroom practice in many ways.

April 1, 2021 to April 1, 2022

ART 2900: Watercolor Wax Batik with Linda Renaud

Linda Renaud is the primary art instructor for this workshop. Linda, an award winning professional artist, paints in watercolor, watercolor wax batik, acrylic and mixed media. The process of watercolor wax batik will be explained, demonstrated and practiced in this hands-on, intensive workshop.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

COUN 2900: Civil and Employment Mediation Seminar

Attend Civil and Employment Mediation Training and learn critical mediation skills to work more effectively with conflict at work, in your community, neighborhoods and with small claims and civil cases as a party to conflict as well as a third-party mediator.

January 4-7, 2022

COUN 2900: Family Mediation Seminar

Attend Family Mediation Training and learn critical mediation skills to help people have a healthier divorce and happier children. The ability to engage in difficult conversations on many levels and with productive outcomes is crucial for everyone.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

MUSC 2900: Popplers New Music Reading Clinic 2021

The annual New Music Reading Clinic presents teachers with the newest, hand-selected Band, Choir, and Elementary Classroom materials. Presenters include well-known composers, writers, and arrangers.

August 3-5, 2021

T&L 2900: 180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators (Book Study)

Participants will use this book study/course to gain knowledge in assisting themselves in leading happier, healthier and more productive habits. Participants will outline a plan for self-care to be used in the upcoming school year, following a 36-week outline.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: AIM - Accept Identify Move (Teacher Workshop)

This workshop is designed to prepare teachers, school psychologists, counselors, and other school staff to implement the AIM curriculum in their unique setting.

June 22, 2021 to July 8, 2021

T&L 2900: Becoming a Globally Competent Teacher (Book Study)

This book study course introduces educators to twelve elements of equitable teaching and learning. This course touches on three key categories of globally competent teaching: dispositions, knowledge, and skills.

September 1, 2021 to November 1, 2021

T&L 2900: Career Advisor Training

This training is based on the Facilitating Career Development curriculum developed by the National Career Development Association. It encompasses the 12 competencies required to become globally certified and incorporate North Dakota specific materials when appropriate.

October 1, 2021 to December 1, 2021

T&L 2900: Classroom Management That Works (Book Study)

This book study course will allow teachers to explore the topic of classroom management.

September 1, 2021 to October 1, 2021

T&L 2900: Discipline with Dignity (Book Study)

This text "provides in-depth guidance for implementing a proven approach to classroom management that can help students make better choices and teachers be more effective.

October 1, 2021 to December 1, 2021

T&L 2900: Discussion in the Classroom

This course seeks to assist teachers in thinking critically about how they can "produce intellectual challenge and powerful learning for all students? through implementing discussion-based classroom practices.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: Disrupting Poverty (Book Study)

This book study course seeks to aid teachers in examining, exploring, implementing, and classroom practices and strategies that disrupt the adverse effects of poverty on students and reflecting on classroom practices and strategies that disrupt the adverse effects of poverty on their lives in the classroom.

August 1, 2021 to December 1, 2021

T&L 2900: How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students (Book Study)

This book study seeks to aid teachers in using feedback effectively in their practice. This text provides general guidelines for good feedback and addresses what kinds of feedback work best in different content areas.

June 1, 2021 to August 1, 2021

T&L 2900: Introduction to Mastercam

The GTI course, An Introduction to Mastercam Art is designed for users of Mastercam Art, and machining with CNC routers. The course covers how to generate 3 dimensional surfaces with Mastercam Art and the process for machining those surfaces with a CNC router.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: Managing 21st Century Classrooms (Book Study)

This book study course targets one of the hardest parts of being a teacher: classroom management. This text helps teachers answer the question "how do I avoid ineffective classroom management practices?"

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: MC: 2021 Natural Resources Institute/Focus on the Forest

Join us in Bottineau for an opportunity to experience current Forest management and forest resource issues of North Dakota.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: MC: Carbon Talk: Things We Should All Know About Carbon

Practical application of carbon science will be presented with respect to North Dakota agricultural and economic sustainability.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: MC: GeoFIT Forestry 2021: Living With Our Environment

The institute provides experiential learning and resources for curriculum planning and development and how to help foster environmental responsibility of natural resources in stewards of all ages.

August 3-5, 2021

T&L 2900: MC: Lignite Education Seminar 2021

This seminar will provide the participant with a broader understanding of the lignite coal industry and the important role it plays in providing electricity to consumers, farmers and businesses in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: MC: ND Council of Teachers of English 2021

The North Dakota Council of Teachers of English conference professional development credit will focus on discussion and presentations in reading and writing from authors H.D. Hunter and Darcy Bakkegard.

July 29-30, 2021

T&L 2900: MC: ND CTE Professional Development Conference 2021

The purpose of this professional development conference is to provide career and technical education teachers and administrators with information, resources, and instructional tools to be more effective educators.

August 9-11, 2021

T&L 2900: MC: ND School Safety Conference 2021

Provide school safety professional development training to K-12 and higher education educators, administrators and counselors, law enforcement and campus security officers, child and adolescent behavioral health and juvenile justice professionals, emergency managers and other emergency first responders.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: MC: North Dakota Petroleum Council Teacher Education Seminar 2021

The Teacher Education Seminar expands participating teachers' knowledge of the North Dakota oil and gas industry, from its prehistoric beginnings to the final product. The seminar covers various aspects of the industry including history, geology, physics, engineering, production issues, refining and marketing, employment needs, and the impact of oil tax on state tax revenues, policy decisions and the state's budget surplus.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: MC: North Dakota Roughrider Health Conference 2021

The mission of the ND Roughrider Health Promotion Conference to promote healthy lifestyle concepts to North Dakota students, school personnel, and community members in order to share, learn, and to develop plans of action for healthy schools and communities.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: MC: Northern Prairie Grazing Lands Ecology Workshop 2021

This workshop provides an opportunity for teachers to apply scientific concepts to land management and wildlife habitats in grazed grassland ecosystems at a working ranch.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: MC: Summer Teacher Institute 2021

Using the new North Dakota Studies high school curriculum, teachers will learn how inquiry design models (IDMs) can be used to invigorate their classrooms through inquiry teaching and learning.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: Mentoring First Year Teacher - NDTSS

This course in conjunction with the Education and Standards Practices Board provides first year North Dakota teachers mentorship with a veteran educator. Teachers in this course will be provided support and feedback in their growth as a professional educator.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: NASA-in-the-Classroom: ND Atmospheric Investigations

Participants will receive a free PurpleAir atmospheric sensor, developed through NASA, to contribute to citizen science data.

August 10-19, 2021

T&L 2900: Questioning for Classroom Discussion (Book Study)

This book study course seeks to aid participants in critically examining and strengthening their use of discussion as a teaching and learning tool in the classroom.

July 1, 2021 to August 1, 2021

T&L 2900: Tackling Attendance Challenges (Book Study)

This book study course will provide teachers with strategies to "address chronic absence and improve the attendance of students" at the classroom level.

July 1-31, 2021

T&L 2900: Teacher's Guide to Special Education (Book Study)

This book study course will assist general education teachers in identifying their specific role and responsibilities in supporting students with disabilities and special needs.

September 1, 2021 to October 1, 2021

T&L 2900: The Burnout Cure (Book Study)

This book study seeks to support teachers that may be feeling overwhelmed, underappreciated, fatigued, worn out or burned out from the teaching profession.

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

T&L 2900: The Nurtured Heart Approach 6-Week Course II

The Nurtured Heart Approach is being successfully implemented through families, classrooms, foster care, health care professionals, social workers and criminal justice organizations that are seeking successful, early intervention techniques.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration

T&L 2900: U.S. History Beyond the Textbook (Book Study)

This book study course introduces educators to six different strategies that can be integrated into the U.S. History classroom.

June 1, 2021 to August 1, 2021

T&L 2900: Understanding Schwa

Participants will learn that the schwa is more common than we realize. Through the study of our six syllable types, we will focus on the accented syllable and the unaccented syllable.

This offering currently has no open sessions available for registration