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Teacher Leadership Development: The Value of Boundary Crossing Spaces (online)

Online

Join the College of Education and Human Development School of Learning and Teaching for a research brown bag talk on "Teacher Leadership Development: The Value of Boundary Crossing Spaces," with assistant professors of curriculum, assessment and instruction Tammy Mills and Rebecca Buchanan: "As both practitioners and scholars of teacher education, we are interested in building capacity for teacher leadership that is rooted in relationships, spans a career, and […]

Diane Sweeney: Making an Impact with Student-Centered Coaching

Wells Conference Center ME, United States

Diane Sweeney is an author and educational consultant. In this professional development workshop sponsored by the University Training Center for Reading Recovery and Maine Partnerships in Comprehensive Literacy, she will discuss tools and strategies for offering instructional coaching to K-12 teachers, collaborating on lesson and unit planning, best practices for focusing on student learning, and […]

Education Career Fair

Wells Conference Center ME, United States

Teacher candidates from the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, as well as other area teacher preparation programs will meet with Maine schools and school districts. The […]

Insights into Personalized Learning: Co-Creating a Practical Guide to Enhance Teacher Cognition and Professional Development (online)

Online

Maya Gunawardena will give a virtual talk as part of the College of Education and Human Development’s School of Learning and Teaching Research Brown Bag series from 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2 The talk is titled “Insights into personalized learning: Co-creating a practical guide to enhance teacher cognition and professional development.” For connection information, […]

Penny Kittle: Engage and Empower Adolescents with Four Essential Studies: Essay Writing, Book Clubs, Poetry and Digital Composition

Wells Conference Center ME, United States

Penny Kittle teaches freshman composition at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was a teacher and literacy coach in public schools for 34 years and has authored or co-authored nine books on reading and literacy. In this workshop from the University Training Center for Reading Recovery and Maine Partnerships in Comprehensive Literacy, Kittle will […]

Running with Purpose: An Evening Discussion with Jordan Daniel ’11

McIntire Room, Buchanan Alumni House 2 Alumni Place, Orono, Maine

All are welcome to this presentation by Jordan Daniel, a University of Maine alum who majored in political science and was also a runner on the cross-country and track teams. Daniel is now an Indigenous advocate, organizer, athlete, and filmmaker. Daniel will be sharing stories and experiences of using running and movement as advocacy tools […]

Research on Engineering Education at K-12 Settings Across Communities of Practice: A Systematic Literature Review, 2009–2018 (online)

Online

Presented by Ethan Geheb, Ph.D. student in STEM Education, for the School of Learning and Teaching Research Brown Bag series. This research aims to provide a systematic review of K-12 engineering education publications between 2009 and 2018 across education research fields. Whereas previous systematic reviews focus on narrow subtopics, this study reviews the K-12 engineering […]

Learners’ Collaborative Use of Human Scale Spatial Diagrams

Shibles Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Presented by Camden Bock, Ph.D. student in STEM Education for the School of Learning and Teaching Research Brown Bag series. In school geometry, diagrams are typically inscribed on plane surfaces (e.g., whiteboards, paper, projector screens), at scales smaller than the learners who inscribe them. Spatial diagrams, rendered with virtual reality, offer depth and human-scale to […]

UMaine College of Education and Human Development Career Fair

Wells Conference Center ME, United States

Teacher candidates from the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, as well as other area teacher preparation programs, will meet with Maine schools and school districts. Past career fair events have featured school officials from more than 20 communities, who have the opportunity to meet current students majoring in elementary education, secondary […]

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