Courses

ACDA Workshop Professional workshop. Dr. Andre Thomas, clinician. Dr. Nicolas Alberto Dosman, USM lead. This course is focused on choral techniques and will cover the following topics- choral literature, choral rehearsal, and curriculum.

Instructor Name: Dr. Nicolas Alberto Dosman, USM. Dr. Andre Thomas invited clinician.

MYAN's Continuing Education Series

Overall Learning Objectives::

·         Deepen content knowledge and relevant skills of adults working in youth engagement fields:

·         Enhance the social emotional learning competencies of attendees:

·         Initiate and sustain adult communities of practice in Maine

Goals of Advanced Youth Facilitation Skills training::

·         Develop an understanding of youth adult partnerships, youth culture, & adultism:

·         Practice research informed facilitation methods and techniques to stimulate creativity and inquiry:

·         Deepen the understanding of facilitator impacts on youth development and provide space for reflection

Instructor Names: Alastair Lawson, MichaelForst, Gabe O'Brien, Danielle Layton

This year's continuing education series is specially targeting educators and school administrators.
Overall Learning Objectives of MYAN's Continuing Education series:
•       Deepen content knowledge and relevant skills of adults working in youth
engagement fields
•       Enhance the social emotional learning competencies of attendees
•       lnitiate and sustain adult communities of practice in Maine
Goals of Emerging Best Practices of Youth Prevention training series:
•       Strengthen participants' understanding of youth engagement best practices
•       Develop effective strategies for including youth voices in prevention
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Instructors: Beth Broderick, Michael Forst, Gabe O'Brien, Danielle Layton

This year's continuing education series is specially targeting educators and school administrators.
Overall Learning Objectives of MYAN's Continuing Education series:
•       Deepen content knowledge and relevant skills of adults working in youth
engagement fields
•       Enhance the social emotional learning competencies of attendees
•       lnitiate and sustain adult communities of practice in Maine
Goals of Emerging Best Practices of Youth Prevention training series:
•       Strengthen participants' understanding of youth engagement best practices
•       Develop effective strategies for including youth voices in prevention
work
Instructors: Beth Broderick, Michael Forst, Gabe O'Brien, Danielle Layton

This year's continuing education series is specially targeting educators and school administrators.
Overall Learning Objectives of MYAN's Continuing Education series:
•       Deepen content knowledge and relevant skills of adults working in youth
engagement fields
•       Enhance the social emotional learning competencies of attendees
•       lnitiate and sustain adult communities of practice in Maine
Goals of Emerging Best Practices of Youth Prevention training series:
•       Strengthen participants' understanding of youth engagement best practices
•       Develop effective strategies for including youth voices in prevention
work
Instructors: Beth Broderick, Michael Forst, Gabe O'Brien, Danielle Layton

This year's continuing education series is specially targeting educators and school administrators.
Overall Learning Objectives of MYAN's Continuing Education series:
•       Deepen content knowledge and relevant skills of adults working in youth
engagement fields
•       Enhance the social emotional learning competencies of attendees
•       lnitiate and sustain adult communities of practice in Maine
Goals of Emerging Best Practices of Youth Prevention training series:
•       Strengthen participants' understanding of youth engagement best practices
•       Develop effective strategies for including youth voices in prevention
work
Instructors: Beth Broderick, Michael Forst, Gabe O'Brien, Danielle Layton

Executive skills are a set of brain-based skills that underlie virtually everything we ask students to do in school. This course will provide an introduction to executive skills, beginning with what the skills are, how they develop across childhood, and how they impact school performance in profound ways. From there, the discussion will move to how executive skills can be assessed in meaningful ways, and what kinds of strategies teachers and other educational or mental health professionals can use to promote executive skill development in struggling learners.

Time and Space to Create. Every day, starting on 07/19/20 and ending on 07/26/20, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Course meetings daily via Zoom at 9:00 am and again at 4:00 pm (see syllabus for specifics)

With attention to content and design, and some experimental techniques, each student will create a group of Artist's Books or Drawings about their one-week studio intensive, actively responding to the visual world around them.

Each student will work with several blank artist's books, sketchbooks and rolls of paper that they have prepared for the journey into their At-Home-Residency. The drawings and artist's books will be developed throughout the week. Students will work at home with daily morning Zoom meetings and 5 afternoon Zoom critiques.

The last project will be an Artist's Book or finished drawing made during the month of August.

Contact Hrs/CEUs: 35/3.5

This course will provide an overview of Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI). Topics include history, theories, research, terminology, safety and ethics, and the practice and differentiation between several forms of AAI. This course provides the necessary foundation for understanding animal assisted activities and therapies in improving the lives of humans.

Students will gain an understanding of the various roles animals play in counseling and education, and the clear legal and ethical boundaries and differentiation between educational and mental health practitioners of AAI.

This course will provide an introduction to Green Care interventions within a wide range of counseling, educational, and healthcare contexts, with an emphasis on social and therapeutic horticulture/horticultural therapy, nature and wilderness therapy, eco therapy, animal assisted therapy, and care farming.

The focus of the course will be on Nature Based Interventions. The goal of the course is for students to gain a basic understanding of green care, the use of nature and farms for social, psychological, emotional, developmental, and/or physical benefits.

In this two-hour online workshop, students will learn to create beautiful trace monotypes and fold them into a variety of accordion book structures. The immediate and ethereal nature of trace monotype printing is the perfect addition to any book and in this workshop, we will discuss tricks for registering multiple color prints, plan how your images will interact with the accordion book structures, and explore methods to enhance the book forms.

We will cover: proper inking and printing techniques, multiple color registration, using a guide to print multiples, folding a simple accordion, folding a Land + Sky accordion, and folding a one- page accordion.

Instructor Name: Beth Sheehan

NGPF Certification Courses are teacher-centric professional development programs. In this multi-week course, teachers have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and deepen their understanding and confidence of personal finance content in their classrooms.

After completing the Certification Course, participants will be knowledgeable in the content focus and prepared in instruction to best meet their students’ unique learning needs. NGPF Certification Courses will improve outcomes for educators by elevating their confidence with useful 21st-century financial capability content.

NGPF Certification Courses are teacher-centric professional development programs. In this multi-week course, teachers have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and deepen their understanding and confidence of personal finance content in their classrooms.

After completing the Certification Course, participants will be knowledgeable in the content focus and prepared in instruction to best meet their students’ unique learning needs. NGPF Certification Courses will improve outcomes for educators by elevating their confidence with useful 21st-century financial capability content.

Over the course of three sessions you will learn a set of at-home techniques and structures for creating engaging artist’s books with little surprises such as storage compartments, peek-through cut outs, and custom patterned paper. In the first session we will learn how to print patterned papers using simple supplies at home. Next, we will explore masu boxes, a folded box structure that can used to create a variety of book objects with storage compartments. And in the last session, we will learn to make a suite of single-page folded book structures and look at how to incorporate cut-outs to take advantage of both sides of the paper.

Instructor Name: Rachel Church

This topics course will offer students an introduction to the Feierabend philosophy of music learning. Students will learn about the history and research which informs the philosophy, discuss folk musics and understand why they are important to music education, learn how to research folk musics and incorporate all genres of music into their classroom. The principles of the 8-part musical workout, and how Feierabend informs other methodologies also will be discussed. This course is an introduction course and does not lead to certification.

This year's continuing education series is specially targeting educators and school administrators.
Overall Learning Objectives of MYAN's Continuing Education series:
•       Deepen content knowledge and relevant skills of adults working in youth
engagement fields
•       Enhance the social emotional learning competencies of attendees
•       lnitiate and sustain adult communities of practice in Maine
Goals of Emerging Best Practices of Youth Prevention training series:
•       Strengthen participants' understanding of youth engagement best practices
•       Develop effective strategies for including youth voices in prevention
work
Instructors: Beth Broderick, Michael Forst, Gabe O'Brien, Danielle Layton

This year's continuing education series is specially targeting educators and school administrators.
Overall Learning Objectives of MYAN's Continuing Education series:
•       Deepen content knowledge and relevant skills of adults working in youth
engagement fields
•       Enhance the social emotional learning competencies of attendees
•       lnitiate and sustain adult communities of practice in Maine
Goals of Emerging Best Practices of Youth Prevention training series:
•       Strengthen participants' understanding of youth engagement best practices
•       Develop effective strategies for including youth voices in prevention
work
Instructors: Beth Broderick, Michael Forst, Gabe O'Brien, Danielle Layton

Using an interdisciplinary perspective, students will gain broad background in understanding the Covid-19 pandemic, its global and local impact, and recovery from it. The course is delivered through a series of online lectures taught by faculty experts from Muskie School programs, Business, Maine Law, and the School of Social Work, as well as outside guests. Each lecturer will present an aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic through their disciplinary lens, highlighting how we understand, track, mitigate, and recover from its impacts.

This workshop will be a combination of writing from observation and memory. We will begin with quick writing exercises that open us to seeing the world that’s right in front of us and then follow our instincts and intuition move more deeply into our work. We will look at examples of other writers, read each other’s work, and spend lots of time writing. The goal is to start without judging and end up in a place that might surprise us.

Instructor Name: Stuart Kestenbaum

The goal of the Island Teacher’s Conference is to provide responsive, relevant professional learning and networking opportunities that match the unique needs/interests of island, coastal and isolated rural educators.

This year’s conference theme is ‘Striving for Equity: Rural Educators as Courageous Leaders’ and will be almost completely virtual. Conference offerings include interactive workshops, presentations, panel discussions and our key note speaker is Dr. Cat Biddle, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at UMaine. We hope to offer some small, in-person sessions at Mid-Coast School of Technology (where there is ample space for social distancing) if there is interest. For more on the Island Teacher’s Conference, visit https://mailchi.mp/islandinstitute/save-the-date-2020-island-teachers-conference-1042386?e=4f5b834841

As we face the unprecedented demands Covid-19 has placed on the healthcare system, the goal of this event is to bring FQHC providers together for a virtual educational retreat. Sessions will address the best practices for managing infectious disease within our populations, as well as addressing the clinical sequelae of social and economic trauma. Many chronic disease, mental health, and dental visits were postponed in the first months of the pandemic. Now that non-urgent is resuming, FQHC providers need tools to assess and respond to more intense patient needs. Participants will have the opportunity to reconnect with the FQHC mission to serve the underserved and gain valuable skills for advocacy in the new world of virtual communication.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

In this one session online workshop we will quickly construct a text block using a very speedy sewing technique. This will free up the remainder of our time together to concentrate on folding a variety of paper cases to dress this text block ”mannequin.”

As each case is presented, suggestions will be given on appropriate sewing techniques and endsheet constructions for that particular structure. All structures are low or no adhesive. All can be constructed in a sparsely-equipped home studio with minimal specialized equipment.

This workshop is appropriate for intermediate binders, beginners who are ready for a fast-paced workout, and anyone who wants to add more paper cases to their repertoire.

Executive skills are a set of brain-based skills that underlie virtually everything we ask students to do in school. This course will provide an introduction to executive skills, beginning with what the skills are, how they develop across childhood, and how they impact school performance in

profound ways. 

From there, the discussion will move to how executive skills can be assessed in meaningful ways, and what kinds of strategies teachers and other educational or mental health professionals can use to promote executive skill development in struggling learners. Course participants will have the opportunity to practice intervention design incorporating an array of methods and techniques, including how to modify environments for students with weak

executive skills, how to teach executive skills directly, and how to identify motivators that encourage students to engage in practice to improve executive skills. 

The course will also introduce participants to a coaching model that holds particular promise for enhancing executive skills.

This course will provide an overview of Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI). Topics include history, theories, research, terminology, safety and ethics, and the practice and differentiation between several forms of AAI. This course provides the necessary foundation for understanding animal assisted activities and therapies in improving the lives of humans. Students will gain an understanding of the various roles animals play in counseling and education, and the clear legal and ethical boundaries and differentiation between educational and mental health practitioners of AAI.

This course is also offered for USM graduate-level credit as PDS 526. Contact pdc@maine.edu for more information about graduate-level credit and/or questions about this course.

NOTE: Registrants will be contacted via email after registration regarding setting up a USM Brightspace account. 

Instructor Name: Clare Thomas-Pino

This course will provide an introduction to Green Care interventions within a wide range of counseling, educational and healthcare context, with an emphasis on social therapeutic horticulture/horticultural therapy, nature and wilderness therapy, ecotherapy, animal assisted therapy and care farming. The focus of the course will be on Nature Based interventions.

NOTE: This course is also offered for USM graduate-level credit as PDS 525. Contact pdc@maine.edu for more information.

NOTE: Registrants will be contacted via email after registration regarding setting up a USM Brightspace account.

Movable books were originally created to illustrate ideas about astronomy, fortune telling, navigation, anatomy of the body and other scientific principles. Most commercial pop-up book publications today are geared towards children, but pop-up book structures can be used to make engaging works of art for any age- from greeting cards to animations to kinetic sculptures. In this workshop, students will learn the basic elements of pop-up paper engineering and how to combine them to create more complex mechanisms.

Participants will need an internet connection to log-into the classes through Zoom, preferably on a larger screen such as a laptop or iPad (vs. phone) so you can see the demos. Please set up your workstation near your computer/iPad so you can follow along.

Supplies Students should bring:

Scissors

X-acto knife and self-healing mat

65lb cardstock, https://tinyurl.com/y2td7mwv

Glue, PVA suggested for fast drying time, https://tinyurl.com/y4z59jd4

Pencil, eraser

Ruler

3M Permanent double-sided tape

Small knitting needle for scoring or scoring tool, recommended

Students may bring any 2D paper-based art that they might want to incorporate/collage with their pop-ups. These can include magazine pictures, drawings, matte photographs, and laser prints.

NGPF Certification Courses are teacher-centric professional development programs. In this multi-week course, teachers have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and deepen their understanding and confidence of personal finance content in their classrooms. After completing the Certification Course, participants will be knowledgeable in the content focus

and prepared in instruction to best meet their students’ unique learning needs. NGPF Certification Courses will improve outcomes for educators by elevating their confidence with useful 21st-century financial capability content. Student outcomes in personal finance standards will increase through the implementation of NGPF curriculum, including hands-on activities, problem solving scenarios, and data analysis tasks. Assessments and projects will act as indicators for student learning and growth. An educator’s participation in our Certification Course will immediately enhance student learning in the local school system through implementation of customizable, standards-based personal finance curriculum and instructional best practices.

Learning Objectives - As a result of the NGPF Certification Course, teachers will:

?       Deep-dive into NGPF’s expertly curated, award-winning curriculum

?       Deepen their content knowledge to best meet their students’ unique learning needs

?       Collaborate to share ideas and form an empowered network of outstanding educators

?       Elevate their teaching confidence with useful 21st-century Financial Capability content

NGPF Certification Courses are teacher-centric professional development programs. In this multi-week course, teachers have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and deepen their understanding and confidence of personal finance content in their classrooms.

After completing the Certification Course, participants will be knowledgeable in the content focus and prepared in instruction to best meet their students’ unique learning needs. NGPF Certification Courses will improve outcomes for educators by elevating their confidence with useful 21st-century financial capability content.

NGPF Certification Courses are teacher-centric professional development programs. In this multi-week course, teachers have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and deepen their understanding and confidence of personal finance content in their classrooms. After completing the Certification Course, participants will be knowledgeable in the content focus

and prepared in instruction to best meet their students’ unique learning needs. NGPF Certification Courses will improve outcomes for educators by elevating their confidence with useful 21st-century financial capability content. Student outcomes in personal finance standards will increase through the implementation of NGPF curriculum, including hands-on activities, problem solving scenarios, and data analysis tasks. Assessments and projects will act as indicators for student learning and growth. An educator’s participation in our Certification Course will immediately enhance student learning in the local school system through implementation of customizable, standards-based personal finance curriculum and instructional best practices.

Learning Objectives - As a result of the NGPF Certification Course, teachers will:

?       Deep-dive into NGPF’s expertly curated, award-winning curriculum

?       Deepen their content knowledge to best meet their students’ unique learning needs

?       Collaborate to share ideas and form an empowered network of outstanding educators

?       Elevate their teaching confidence with useful 21st-century Financial Capability content

NGPF Certification Courses are teacher-centric professional development programs. In this multi-week course, teachers have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and deepen their understanding and confidence of personal finance content in their classrooms. After completing the Certification Course, participants will be knowledgeable in the content focus and prepared in instruction to best meet their students’ unique learning needs. NGPF Certification Courses will improve outcomes for educators by elevating their confidence with useful 21st-century financial capability content. Student outcomes in personal finance standards will increase through the implementation of NGPF curriculum, including hands-on activities, problem

solving scenarios, and data analysis tasks. Assessments and projects will act as indicators for student learning and growth. An educator’s participation in our Certification Course will immediately enhance student learning in the local school system through implementation of customizable, standards-based personal finance curriculum and instructional best practices.

Learning Objectives - As a result of the NGPF Certification Course, teachers will:

?       Deep-dive into NGPF’s expertly curated, award-winning curriculum

?       Deepen their content knowledge to best meet their students’ unique learning needs

?       Collaborate to share ideas and form an empowered network of outstanding educators

?       Elevate their teaching confidence with useful 21st-century Financial Capability content

NGPF Certification Courses are teacher-centric professional development programs. In this multi-week course, teachers have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and deepen their understanding and confidence of personal finance content in their classrooms. After completing the Certification Course, participants will be knowledgeable in the content focus

and prepared in instruction to best meet their students’ unique learning needs. NGPF Certification Courses will improve outcomes for educators by elevating their confidence with useful 21st-century financial capability content. Student outcomes in personal finance standards will increase through the implementation of NGPF curriculum, including hands-on activities, problem solving scenarios, and data analysis tasks. Assessments and projects will act as indicators for student learning and growth. An educator’s participation in our Certification Course will immediately enhance student learning in the local school system through implementation of customizable, standards-based personal finance curriculum and instructional best practices.

Learning Objectives - As a result of the NGPF Certification Course, teachers will:

?       Deep-dive into NGPF’s expertly curated, award-winning curriculum

?       Deepen their content knowledge to best meet their students’ unique learning needs

?       Collaborate to share ideas and form an empowered network of outstanding educators

?       Elevate their teaching confidence with useful 21st-century Financial Capability content

NGPF Certification Courses are teacher-centric professional development programs. In this multi-week course, teachers have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and deepen their understanding and confidence of personal finance content in their classrooms. After completing the Certification Course, participants will be knowledgeable in the content focus and prepared in instruction to best meet their students’ unique learning needs. NGPF Certification Courses will improve outcomes for educators by elevating their confidence with useful 21st-century financial capability content. Student outcomes in personal finance standards will increase through the implementation of NGPF curriculum, including hands-on activities, problem

solving scenarios, and data analysis tasks. Assessments and projects will act as indicators for student learning and growth. An educator’s participation in our Certification Course will immediately enhance student learning in the local school system through implementation of customizable, standards-based personal finance curriculum and instructional best practices.

Learning Objectives - As a result of the NGPF Certification Course, teachers will:

?       Deep-dive into NGPF’s expertly curated, award-winning curriculum

?       Deepen their content knowledge to best meet their students’ unique learning needs

?       Collaborate to share ideas and form an empowered network of outstanding educators

?       Elevate their teaching confidence with useful 21st-century Financial Capability content

Introduction to Aquaponics: Dynamic STEAM for the K-8 Classroom is a professional learning (PL) opportunity for educators to experience how the concept of sustainable food production methods are emerging all over the world, as well as using an aquaponic system to give hands-on scientific learning experiences to their students. 

For more information about this course, please refer to this web link:

https://herringgutlearningcenter.org/index.php/for-educators-asdf/

Instructor Names: Georgie Burruss, Patrick Burnham, Kathy Barker

Executive skills are a set of brain-based skills that underlie virtually everything we ask students to do in school. This course will provide an introduction to executive skills, beginning with what the skills are, how they develop across childhood, and how they impact school performance in

profound ways. 

From there, the discussion will move to how executive skills can be assessed in meaningful ways, and what kinds of strategies teachers and other educational or mental health professionals can use to promote executive skill development in struggling learners. Course participants will have the opportunity to practice intervention design incorporating an array of methods and techniques, including how to modify environments for students with weak

executive skills, how to teach executive skills directly, and how to identify motivators that encourage students to engage in practice to improve executive skills. 

The course will also introduce participants to a coaching model that holds particular promise for enhancing executive skills.

This course will provide an overview of Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI). Topics include history, theories, research, terminology, safety and ethics, and the practice and differentiation between several forms of AAI. This course provides the necessary foundation for understanding animal assisted activities and therapies in improving the lives of humans. Students will gain an understanding of the various roles animals play in counseling and education, and the clear legal and ethical boundaries and differentiation between educational and mental health practitioners of AAI.

This course is also offered for USM graduate-level credit as PDS 526. Contact pdc@maine.edu for more information about graduate-level credit and/or questions about this course.

NOTE: Registrants will be contacted via email after registration regarding setting up a USM Brightspace account. 

Instructor Name: Clare Thomas-Pino

This course will provide an introduction to Green Care interventions within a wide range of counseling, educational and healthcare context, with an emphasis on social therapeutic horticulture/horticultural therapy, nature and wilderness therapy, ecotherapy, animal assisted therapy and care farming. The focus of the course will be on Nature Based interventions.

NOTE: This course is also offered for USM graduate-level credit as PDS 525. Contact pdc@maine.edu for more information.

NOTE: Registrants will be contacted via email after registration regarding setting up a USM Brightspace account.

Executive skills are a set of brain-based skills that underlie virtually everything we ask students to do in school. This course will provide an introduction to executive skills, beginning with what the skills are, how they develop across childhood, and how they impact school performance in

profound ways. 

From there, the discussion will move to how executive skills can be assessed in meaningful ways, and what kinds of strategies teachers and other educational or mental health professionals can use to promote executive skill development in struggling learners. Course participants will have the opportunity to practice intervention design incorporating an array of methods and techniques, including how to modify environments for students with weak

executive skills, how to teach executive skills directly, and how to identify motivators that encourage students to engage in practice to improve executive skills. 

The course will also introduce participants to a coaching model that holds particular promise for enhancing executive skills.

The 3D Printing will consist of presentations by students and teachers describing innovative K-12 projects and cutting-edge STEAM curriculum specifically related to 3D printing, with ample opportunities for dialogue and networking between educators.

FMI:
https://usm.maine.edu/college-of-science-technology-health/3d-printing-forum-2019

Both the ACDA Professional Workshop on October 11 and the 11th Annual Northern New England Collegiate Symposium on October 12 are focused on choral techniques and will cover the following topics- choral literature, choral rehearsal, and curriculum.

Must be 18 years of age. IDs will be checked at the event, sorry refunds will not be issued if this requirement is not met.

Students will experience first-hand how farms and food producers are engaging visitors in authentic experiences through tours, farm activities, value-added products, and farm to table food service. The class takes place in rural Piscataquis County, Maine.

Students will visit a maple syrup producer, vegetable farm and café, and a Christmas tree farm to learn their value within the Local Food Movement, assess how these traditional agricultural businesses are transforming the landscape, and understand the impacts on local communities and the visitor economy. Plus, we get to eat some delicious food in a beautiful part of the State of Maine! All transportation and meals provided in course fee.

In this one-day workshop, students will create two book structures that demonstrate various bookbinding skills - folding, gluing, cutting, and sewing. The first, the Starburst book, is a hardcover book with folded pages that pop out into a starburst shape when opened. Secondly, students would create a softcover Buttonhole Stitch book in which a window cut-out along the spine exposes the folded signatures. This book highlights the exposed sewing along the spine.

SUPPLIES TO BRING:

Pencil

Ruler

Bone Folder

X-acto/Utility Knife

PVA Glue & Glue Brush

All Other Materials Will Be Provided.

Instructor Name: Victoria Engling

*If you have any questions about the content of this course, please contact Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator, Annie Lee-Zimerle: aemin.leezimerle@maine.edu

This ONLINE course offers an opportunity for students to have a similar experience to the USM Summer Book Arts Program. Professor Goodale will teach a variety of techniques throughout the session, including various book forms (single section, accordion, compound bindings, star and drum leaf pop-ups) design (developing a visual narrative, rhythm and pace, balance and contrast), and printmaking techniques (reduction block printing and stencils).  All of these skills will give each student the confidence to design and make a unique artist’s book for a September exhibition at the Glickman Library. Instructor Name: Rebecca Goodale

A week-long workshop series where students will learn a variety of techniques throughout the session, including various book forms (single-section, accordion, compound bindings, star and drum leaf pop-ups) design (developing a visual narrative, rhythm and pace, balance and contrast), and printmaking techniques (reduction block printing and stencils). All of these skills will give each student the confidence to design and make a unique artist’s book for a September exhibition at the Glickman Library.

Upon completion of the course students will have:

• Gained experience in developing skills used in the making of Artist’s Books.

• Developed good production habits in working independently

• Considered a broad range of possibilities in terms of producing artist’s books

• Gained experience in using form to complement content

Instructor Name: Rebecca Goodale

View this link for more details about this course and the course schedule: https://usm.maine.edu/registration-services/summer-book-arts#schedule

Advancing trust and understanding in our communities. A conference building on Maine's response to sexual and domestic violence in New Mainer Communities, and building bridges to accessing services for New Mainers.

Instructor Name: Fatuma Hussein

The Conductor Track is designed for teachers and conductors of all levels who wish to improve their musicianship through ensemble conducting. Conductors will work with clinicians directly, rehearsing with the Casco Bay Wind Symphony. Each Conductor will receive at least 30 minutes of conducting time on their assigned piece, as well as conduct in the final concert at Merrill Auditorium in downtown Portland. All rehearsals as well as the final performance will be videotaped and shared with the Conductor.

This course will provide an introduction to the spectrum of Equine Assisted Activities and Therapies (EAAT) modalities, but will focus upon the mental health therapy and educational aspects of EAAT, clearly differentiating between therapy and therapeutic aspects, as well as roles and limitations for practitioners with different backgrounds and licensure. Topics include history, theories, research, terminology, safety and ethics, and the practice and differentiation between several forms of EAAT. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of the human-equine bond as part of EAAT for clients and practitioners. The course will emphasize the role of the equine as co-facilitator and partner, working with the counselor or educator to facilitate treatment or educational goals.

This course is also offered for USM graduate-level credit as PDS 527. Contact pdc@maine.edu for more information about graduate-level credit and/or questions about this course..

NOTE: Registrants will be contacted via email after registration regarding setting up a USM Brightspace account.

Instructor Name: Clare Thomas-Pino

The "Exploring Oceanography" BLOOM Educators' Program, is an annual professional development workshop for Maine middle and high school science teachers, which brings 10 educators to Bigelow Laboratory for four days (Tuesday, August 10 - Friday, August 13, 2021). In 2010, the Laboratory broadened the reach of the Keller BLOOM Program by offering an annual ocean sciences professional development workshop for Maine high school teachers. Modeled after the Keller BLOOM student program, the BLOOM Educators' Program - "Exploring Oceanography", provides teachers with training and hands-on experience, using the Gulf of Maine for context, so that they are better equipped to integrate ocean science into their science curricula.

Instructor's Name: Dr. Nicole Poulton and Dr. David Fields

Brief Course Description: NGPF Certification Courses are teacher-centric
professional development programs. In this multi-week course, teachers have
the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and deepen their
understanding and confidence of personal finance content in their classrooms.
After completing the Certification Course, participants will be knowledgeable
in the content focus and prepared in instruction to best meet their
students’ unique learning needs. NGPF Certification Courses will improve
outcomes for educators by elevating their confidence with useful 21st-century
financial capability content.

As we prepare for another semester during the pandemic, the Women & Gender Studies Program and the Office of the Provost invite you to audit WGS 220 Feminist Yoga Thursdays, 2 - 4:30pm on zoom, free of charge.  

Instructors: Melora Gregory and Dr. Rose Cleary

First Steps in Music is a music pedagogy rooted in research, folk literature, and practical experience. It is a fun, engaging, and research-based pedagogy that aligns with our National Standards and is centered in early childhood and primary general music instruction. Participants will safely engage in singing, dancing, playing, and movement activities that lead to immediate take-aways to the classroom. This pedagogy is flexible in that it should evolve differently in each classroom, dependent on who and where the participant teaches. This pedagogy is taught through a culturally responsive and relevant lens. Online teaching considerations also will be discussed.

Course Instructor: Rachel Grimsby

*Fully remote/online participation will be discussed with the instructor directly. Please contact Rachel Grimsby at rachel.grimsby@maine.edu for more info.

The Project Learning Tree workshop, in addition to the Maine TREE Foundation Teachers' Tour, gives teachers a firsthand introduction to the Forest Ecology of Maine while introducing them to industrial, economic and historic facts about our state.

This 5-day workshop will provide hands-on experiential learning to K-8th grade teachers to expand their knowledge and experience about watersheds. Herring Gut Learning Center staff will work with program participants on activities to develop a project-based approach to watershed education. In addition, teachers will learn about the connection between the upland watershed areas to downriver estuaries and the ocean that benefits both the freshwater and marine environments.

For more information about this course, please refer to this web link:

https://herringgutlearningcenter.org/index.php/for-educators-asdf/

Instructor Names: Georgie Burruss, Patrick Burnham, Kathy Barker

The University of Maine Augusta is hosting this grading and assessment workshop so that teachers around the state can work together, share some best practices, and develop a working understanding of UMA's grading standards. This collective understanding can help Early College teachers streamline their grading process and validate their assessment standards. 

Objectives of the program:

1.      Develop a collective understanding of the University of Maine Augusta's assessment standards specifically for two common assignments: The research-based essay for ENG 101 courses and the literary analysis essay for ENG 102 courses.

2.      Learn best practices when assessing essays and student work as well as identifying effective scaffolding and feedback to help students improve their writing.

The Green Dot Strategy is a comprehensive approach to violence prevention that capitalizes on the power of peer and cultural influence across all levels of the socio-ecological model. The Green Dot curriculum is comprised of: (1) The Overview, which is intended to mobilize the whole community to action, and (2) The Bystander training, which is intended to train socially influential individuals to role-model and endorse key attitudes and behaviors.

This workshop is for artists who want to learn a variety of ways to transfer and enhance their images onto unique surfaces and substrates such as fine art papers, Japanese papers, metal, wood, books, blocks, fabric, collage, found objects, glass, and so much more.

The weekend course will explore the techniques and uses of several different kinds of transfers including emulsion transfers, solvent transfers, alcohol transfers, gelli plate transfers, and the enhancement of your transfers with traditional artist mediums such as watercolor, acrylic and colored pencils.

You will learn to transfer images from both photo copies and from ink jet printed transparency film.  Transfers can be used alone, or can be layered to create a montage effect or used with collage for a more complex layering effect.

Instructor Name: Jari Poulin

Aquaponics is the cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment. A combination of aquaculture and hydroponics, aquaponics pairs fish and plants in one integrated system. Fish waste provides a food source for the growing plants and the plants provide a natural filter for the water the fish live in. This creates a sustainable ecosystem where both plants and fish can thrive.

The workshop includes:

- 2.5 days of hands-on teacher training in aquaponics

- A complete classroom aquaponics kit including tank, filter, pumps, planting materials and an operating manual

- Standards-based aquaponics curriculum materials that will engage and motivate your students

The Island Institute works to sustain Maine’s island and remote coastal communities. Our core program areas—including economic development, education, community energy, marine resources, and media—are driven by the requests of community members themselves. Our commitment to the islands of Maine includes sharing what works among these diverse communities and beyond.

Instructors: Yvonne Thomas and others