Online Courses:

• Successful Strategies in Today's Classroom for Education Technicians

• Supervising, Evaluating, and Training Educational Technicians

Guided Independent Study:

• The Art of the Essay: Reading and Writing Essays in the Classroom

• Among the Notables—Sinclair Lewis: America’s First Nobel Laureate for Literature

• The Writing Teacher K-12

• “Away From It All”— Writers on the Wilderness of Maine

• Beyond “Charlotte’s Web”: E.B. White—the Man, the Writer

• The First “Mainers”—Teaching K-12 Students about Maine’s Native Americans

• For the Love of Reading: On Engaging Students with the Printed Page

• Give Them Roots and Wings: The Power of Story for Teaching and Learning

• Great American Writers: A Self-directed Study

• Helping You Help the Young Learner

• How Did We Get Here From There?—Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Issues in Schools

• “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”: The Imaginative Literature of Flannery O’Connor

• Looking at Ourselves in the Mirror: Teachers as Reflective Practitioners

• The Long and the Short of It: Teaching—through the Short Story

• On Maine and the World: May Sarton—Her Work, Her Life

• Remembering Our Writers: Utilizing Maine Writers in the Classroom (K-12)

• So All May Learn: Behavior Management Strategies for Educational Technicians
  and Teachers (K-12)

• Successful Strategies in Today's Classroom for Education Technicians

• Teaching Maine History to K-12 Students

• Teaching: A Novel Approach

• Their Voices Were Not Silent—Women Writers from Maine

• Whatever Happened to Childhood?—On Growing Up in Today’s World

Augusta:

Teaching the Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom

July 27 - July 31

Bangor:

Looking at Ourselves in the Mirror: Teachers as Reflective Practitioners

February 5, March 12, April 2, May 7, and June 4. 4-7 PM

Successful Strategies in Today’s Classrooms for Educational Technicians

Thursday, December 4th 9 AM - 4 PM

New! Encountering Children’s Literature through the Arts: PreK-8

May 15/16 & TBA

New! Teaching Maine History to K-12 Students

TBA

Math Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities K-12

January 9/10 & March 13/14

Bringing the Best Out of Your Students:
A Workshop for Teachers and Educational Technicians K-12

December 5-6 (The Hampton Inn—Bangor Mall)

Teaching the Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom (K-12)

March 20/21 & April 3/4
June 5/6 & June 26-27

New! The Long and the Short of It: Teaching—through the Short Story

TBA

New! The Writing Process: K-12

February 6/7 & March 13/14

So All May Learn: Behavior Management Strategies for Educational Technicians and Teachers (K-12)

February 6/7 & March 13/14

New! Courses for initial Teacher Certification:

Science Methods: Curriculum and Instruction K-8

TBA

Math Methods: Curriculum and Instruction K-8

TBA

English Language Arts Methods: Curriculum and Instruction K-8

TBA

Social Studies Methods: Curriculum and Instruction K-8

TBA

Secondary Methods: Curriculum and Instruction 7-12

April 20 through 24, 2009 (9 AM to 4 PM) (school vacation week)

Literature for Children and Young Adolescents

December 5/6 and January 9/10

The Writing Process: K-12

February 6/7 & March 13/14

Integrating Technology and Teaching: K-12

TBA

Reading Methods: Curriculum and Instruction K-8

TBA

Reading Instruction for Students At-Risk or with Learning Disabilities

TBA

Understanding the Learner: K-8

TBA

Understanding the Learner: 7-12

TBA

Belfast:

Teaching the Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom

January 16/17 and March 27/28

New! Encountering Children’s Literature through the Arts: PreK-8

TBA

Brunswick:

New! Integrating Literacy and the Arts: PreK-8

TBA

Response to Intervention: Principles and Strategies

April 17/18 & May 23/23

Making Writers out of "Kids Who Hate to Write"

February 27/28 & March 27/28

Caribou:

Response to Intervention: Principles & Strategies for Success

August 3 - 7

Ellsworth:

So All May Learn; Behavior Management Strategies for Teachers & Educational Technicians (K-12)

August 10 - 14

Gardiner

So All May Learn; Behavior Management Strategies for Teachers & Educational Technicians (K-12)

August 17 - 21

Lewiston/Auburn

New! Brave New World: Literary Perspectives on Reading and Democracy

TBA

New! The Long and the Short of It: Teaching—through the Short Story

TBA

Teaching the Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom

January 23/24 & February 27/28

Machias

Teaching in the Block: Strategies for Engaging Learners

TBA

Integrating Technology and Teaching: K-12

February 13/14 and April 10/11

So All May Learn: Behavior Management Strategies for Teachers & Educational Technicians (K-12)

February 13/14 and April 10/11

Naples

Roots and Wings: The Power of Story in Teaching & Learning

July 13 through 17

So All May Learn: Behavior Management Strategies for Educational Technicians & Teachers (K-12)

May 1/2 and June 19/20

Portland

Successful Strategies in Today’s Classrooms for Educational Technicians

Thursday, December 11th 9 AM - 4 PM (plus online/practicum components)

New! Encountering Children’s Literature through the Arts: PreK-8

July 20 through 24

New! Brave New World: Literary Perspectives on Reading and Democracy

January 29, March 5, April 9, May 14, and June 11 4-7 pm

Maine Writers for the K-12 Classroom

May 15/16 (with Guided Independent Study component)

So All May Learn: Behavior Management Strategies for Educational Technicians and Teachers (K-12)

January 30/31 & March 6/7, 2009

New! Courses for initial Teacher Certification:

Science Methods: Curriculum and Instruction K-8

TBA

Math Methods: Curriculum and Instruction K-8

TBA

English Language Arts Methods: Curriculum and Instruction K-8

TBA

Social Studies Methods: Curriculum and Instruction K-8

TBA

Secondary Methods: Curriculum and Instruction 7-12

February 16 through 20, 2009 (9 AM to 4 PM) (school vacation week) Contact Dean Stephen York: StpYo@aol.com

Literature for Children and Young Adolescents

December 5/6 and January 9/10

The Writing Process: K-12

February 6/7 & March 13/14

Integrating Technology and Teaching: K-12

TBA

Reading Methods: Curriculum and Instruction K-8

TBA

Reading Instruction for Students At-Risk or with Learning Disabilities

TBA

Understanding the Learner: K-8

TBA

Understanding the Learner: 7-12

TBA

Presque Isle

Give them Roots and Wings: The Power of Story for Teaching and Learning

July 6 through July 10