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Posted May 23, 2013
Poverty, Homelessness, Foster Care and Learning (EPA 512)
This course, for teachers, administrators, and related service personnel, provides an interactive format for developing processes to support teaching and learning for students educationally at-risk due to poverty, homelessness, and foster care. Course participants will learn how to recognize and respond supportively to students in these situations, gain greater awareness of services and supports available in Maine, and learn strategies for integrating differentiated curriculum and instruction.
Posted April 23, 2013
EPC 520 Creative Literacy: Building Literacy Through the Arts - Creative Literacy will be an exploration of the integration of literacy development and the arts. This class will engage you as active participants as we move through a series of workshops grounded in the Performance Cycle, a flexible framework for classroom literacy development that can be used at all levels of learning and across virtually all content areas. In addition
to using various creative practices to deepen and demonstrate comprehension of a core text, participants will have time to reflect, engage in professional conversations with peers, and make plans to implement new learning strategies into current classroom practices. More information on this course can be found at http://epc520.wordpress.com/
July 22-26, 2013
USM Portland Campus
Posted April 2, 2013
For more than 30 years, John Hunter, a public school teacher in Virginia, has been teaching his students the work of peace through a remarkable exercise that he created called the World Peace Game.
Director Chris Farina has captured his work in the award-winning
World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements, which interweaves Hunter’s story with his students' participation in the World Peace Game. The game triggers an eight-week transformation of the children from students of a neighborhood public school to citizens of the world. The film reveals how a wise, loving teacher can unleash students' full potential.
Summer 2013
Summer 2013
Summer registration is going on now! To view our summer 2013 offerings please click here.
Is there a course, workshop or conference you would like to see offered? Let us know! pdc@usm.maine.edu
We are also able to offer any course at your school district site!
Fall 2013
Fall is right around the corner and registration for the 4th Annual State-Wide PBIS Conference is too!
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Augusta Civic Center
Registration materials will be available soon!
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