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Professional Development Opportunities
Autism and Asperger Publishing Company
Phone: 877.277.8254
Web Site: www.asperger.net
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Career Education Courses for Missouri State Teacher Certification
The following credit courses are designed for Career and Technical Educators at either the adult or secondary levels. The instructors that participate will build upon their present knowledge in the areas of student supervision, assessment, curriculum, and teaching. These courses are needed in the certification process for most career education instructors. If you are not in need of the courses for Missouri State Teacher certification, you may consider one or more to add to your teaching 'tool box.' The courses would also serve as a mode for your professional development hours while gaining knowledge and adding hours to move on a pay scale. Please check with your director and the state certification office for a final determination.
CoursesCoordination of Cooperative Education Assessment in Career Education Introduction to Special Education |
Career Education Curriculum |
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*Weekend course option may be available. Contact the Professional Development Office for more information.Missouri Assessment Program
Phone: 800.663.3348
Web Site: www.nwmissouri.edu/rpdc/map
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The Northwest MAP Regional Instructional Facilitators are expanding their efforts to include the writing of model units in science, in-depth Grade Level Expectation (GLE) work in math and communication arts, and a content series connecting the GLEs, Depth of Knowledge (DOK), curriculum and instruction in math, communication arts and science. Northwest supports theses MAP activities in these and other regions with graduate credit offerings. Through this avenue, teachers are able to reflect on what they have learned and define how they can best implement these learnings in their own classrooms and at their district. |
Contact InformationSally Minnick Margaret Bangerter Debi Korell |
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Missouri Association for Career and Technical Education
Phone: 573.634.7366
Web Site: www.mo-acte.org
40th Annual Conference and Trade Show
- July 20-23, 2009
- Springfield Expo Center (635 E. St. Louis Street, Springfield)
- Register for the conference at www.mo-acte.org
- Register for up to 2 hours of graduate credit at the Northwest Missouri State University Exhibitor Booth.
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Missouri Department of Conservation
Web Site: www.mdc.mo.gov
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Contact Information Adam Brandsgaard |
Stacey Davis |
| Kathleen May Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center 4750 Troost Kansas City, MO 64110 816.759.7305 x 2236 kathleen.may@mdc.mo.gov |
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Missouri State Council of International Reading Assocation
Web Site: www.missourireading.org
The Voice and Vision of Literacy
- November 4-6, 2009
- Branson, MO
- Register for the conference at www.missourireading.org/Conference_IRA.htm
- Register for up to 2 hours of graduate credit at the Northwest Missouri State University Exhibitor Booth.
Northwest Regional Professional Development Center
Toll Free Phone: 800.663.3348
Local Phone: 660.562.1995
Web Site: www.nwrpdc.org
Courses Offered
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The mission of the Northwest Regional Professional Development Center is to "Build the capacity of educators and schools to maximize student performance through high quality professional development." NWRPDC offers extensive professional development workshops with the option of graduate credit. These workshop options focus on content area training, as well as high quality instructional practices. Additionally, if the district's professional development plan engages teachers in long-term professional learning and is linked to student learning and district improvement goals, graduate credit may be an option. For more information call 800.663.3348 or 660.562.1995. You may register on the web at www.nwrpdc.org.
Practical Parenting Partnership
Phone: 573.761.7770
Web Site: www.pppctr.org
Courses Offered
- PPP: Home Visit Training
- PPP: Implementation Training
- PPP: Kindergarten Transition Training
- PPP for After School
- PPP in the Classroom Training
What are the benefits of PPP?
Parents and/or Community Members:
- Build confidence in parenting
- Invest in future work force
- Learn additional skills for coping
- Build current cooperation and productivity
- Coordinate systems of community resources
- Understand growth and development changes
Educators:
- Build confidence in working with students' families
- Refresh understanding of growth and development changes
- Learn additional skills for coping
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Professional Learning Communities/Accelerated Schools
Phone: 800.663.3348
Web Site: http://education.umkc.edu/centers
Contact Person:
Lori Colvin & Steve Johnson
Professional Learning Communities Project Assistants
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Seela Science, Inc.
Web Sites: www.seelascience.com and www.scienceconnection.net
Uncommonly Sensible Science Video Series
Courses Offered
$175 per course payable the day of the class to Seela Science
$75 per credit hour for graduate credit through Northwest Missouri State University billed at later date
- Body Shop (4th-8th Grade)
Body structure: body materials and processes, body structures (complex eye, ear, nerve cells, vertebrae, ball and socket joint), cells and cell processes, classification/characteristics of animals
- Earth and Sky Secrets for Young Minds (K-3rd Grade)
Objects in the sky -- (eclipses, solar energy creates heat, solar system, stars)
Changes in the Earth and sky -- (day/night, moon phases, seasons, weather, weather instruments, extreme changes in the weather - hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes, changes in the earth's surface - volcano, erosion)
Earth materials and fossils -- (fossils, natural or man-made, earth resources, soil components)
- Earth's Dirty Little Secrets (4th-8th Grade)
Earth structure/processes/materials: plate tectonics, earthquakes and earthquake monitoring, volcanoes and volcanic effects, oceans and surface water, glaciers and groundwater, soil, erosion forms and resources
- Everyday Science Around Us (K-3rd Grade)
Advanced properties of objects and materials -- (recycling, environment, changing states of matter, chemical/physical change, density, surface tension, physical properties -- rough/smooth, hard/soft, light/heavy)
Advanced position and motion of objects -- (flight, action/reaction, simple machines, sound, vibration, push/pull, amount of force affects the motion, directions -- up/down, left/right, forward/backward)
- Everyday Waves (4th-8th Grade)
Light, heat, and sound waves
- Have Forces, Will Travel (4th-8th Grade)
Force and motion: energy conversion and transfer, Newton's Laws, torque, center of gravity, centripetal force
- Just Simply Machines (4th-8th Grade)
Simple and compound machines
- Plant and Animal Science (K-3rd Grade)
Life cycles of organisms -- (life cycle of the moth, life cycle of a chicken, life cycle of plants, seed dispersal)
Organisms and their environment -- (habitat differences, camouflage, impact of humans on environment, pollutants, adaptations to environments
Characteristics of organisms -- (animal parts, plant parts, camouflage, classification, basic needs) - Plants Inside & Out (4th-8th Grade)
Plant structure/function: plant structures, seeds and germination, plant functions, plant uses, classification
- Science for Beginning Einsteins (K-3rd Grade)
Properties of objects and materials -- (recycling, environment, changing states of matter, chemical/physical change, density, surface tension, physical properties -- rough/smooth, hard/soft, light/heavy)
Position and motion of objects -- (flight, action/reaction, simple machines, sound, vibration, push/pull, amount of force affects the motion, directions -- up/down, left/right, forward/backward)
Science Content
Learn new teaching techniques while earning graduate credit. You may do this as an individual or a building, department, district in-services. Let's face it, classes use precious time and all that driving hurts the budget! The Uncommonly Sensible Science video series keeps you at home. It lets you work at your own pace, on your home computer, or best of all in you OWN classroom! Each course is flexible in credit, for 1 up to 3 credit hours! Each course provides you with a full thematic unit textbook of 20 some elementary Hands-On science activities. You can use these every year and improve your science curriculum with these activities correlated to the National Science Content Standards! You receive and keep a corresponding full materials kit of science items.
Each class contains a course-specific video that doubles as a classroom constructivist teaching aid! There are also student assessment items for every activity! You're taking the course, but your students can be actively involved in doing the activities and assessing their progress! Then you report back on their learning as a trained professional educator does!
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Science Teachers & Missouri Council of
of Missouri Teachers of Mathematics
Phone: 573.426.4537 Phone: 573.651.2164
Web Site: www.stom.org Web Site: www.moctm.org
Interface 2010 - Math/Science/Technology
- February 18-23, 2010
- Location TBD
- Graduate credit availablity TBD
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Last Updated 10/15/09
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