University of Southern Maine

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• Addressing the Needs of Exceptional Students in the Regular Classroom
• Adlerian Play Therapy
• Advanced Response to Intervention (RTI) for Reading
• Advanced Assessment in Special Education
• Advanced Expressive Arts Therapy: Applications Across the Life Span
• Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy, Grades 5-12
• Child-Centered Play Therapy
• Coordinating the Career Preparation Curriculum
• Creative Literacy: Building Literacy through the Arts
• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Depression and Suicide in Adolescence
• Developing Numeracy in the Elementary School Classroom
• Differentiation of Instruction: Practical Strategies for Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
• Digital Storytelling
• Education Law Conference
• Embracing the Wabanaki Initiative: Bringing LD 291 into all Maine Classrooms
• Environmental Education and Interpretation: Coastal Science
• Environmental Science: Concepts and Strategies for Teachers, 5-12
• Homelessness, Foster Care, Hospitalization and Learning
• Improving Student Writing with the Six Trait Model
• Incorporating the Professional Learning Community (PLC) Model into the Classroom
• Institute for Program Planners in Education of the Gifted/Talented
• Integrating the Arts into Teaching the Holocaust
• Integrating Character (Ethics) and Citizenship Education in Schools
• Interacting in a Diverse Society
• Leadership Training in Experiential Education
• Leading Effective School-Wide Literacy Programs
• Learning to Podcast and Vodcast
• Literacy Strategies Across the Curriculum, Grades 6-12
• Making Classroom Assessment Work for Learning
• Mind/Body Techniques
• Mission to Germany and Poland: A Study Tour for Maine Educators
• Montessori Overview: Elements of Teaching and Learning in a Montessori Early Childhood Environment
• National Writing Project: Summer Invitational Institute
• Practical Instructional Strategies for Middle Level Classrooms
• Read/Write Web in the Classroom
• Responding to and Preventing Bias, Bullying and Violence in Schools
• Response to Intervention (RTI) Methods for General and Special Education
• School Law in Practice
• School Law in Practice: York Summer Institute
• Science Content for Elementary Teachers, Grades K-6
• Science of Maine Forests
• Scientifically-Based Reading Instruction for the Elementary Classroom
• Service-Learning and Project Citizen: Engaging Students as Responsible and Involved Citizens, Grades 7-12
• StarDome Astronomy for the Middle School Classroom: A USM Southworth Planetarium Workshop for Teachers
• Storytelling and Creative Dramatics
• Successful Leadership for Diverse Schools
• Teachers Going Public: A Forum for Mentors, Writers and Presenters
• Teaching the Holocaust: Implications for the 21st Century
• Teaching and Learning through Universal Design
• Technology Integration for the Classroom Teacher: Mac
• Technology Integration for the Classroom Teacher: Windows (Gorham)
• Technology Integration for the Classroom Teacher: Windows (Rockland)
• TIME for Teachers (Training in Instructional Methods for Efficacy)
• Training Paraprofessionals to Work Effectively with Students with Autism
• Understanding Emotional/Behavior Disorders
• Understanding Mathematical Thinking in Grades K-4