Teens Caring for Themselves and Each Other
Instructor: Valerie Fischer & Barb Bjorum
ED 500
1 SH/$50

How to Register for the Course: Contact Deb Pilon at dpilon@nd.gov or 701-328-2753

To Register for Graduate Credit: https://www.minotstateu.edu/secure_pages/cel/cel_conf_reg_form_15.shtml

This is a 25-lesson health curriculum designed for grades 7-12 that offers knowledge, techniques and skills to enrich the journey through the teen years.  It includes hand-on, activity-based lesson on issues such as dating, ending a relationship, time management skills, laws that govern teens, abuse, stress management, conflict and compromise, and many more.  Participants will receive the curriculum.

June15 -16
8:00am-4:00pm

Teaching with Love and Logic
Instructor: Sally Jenkins, Mark Vollmer, Amy Neal
ED 500
1 SH/$50 
Career & Technology Exploration Building
                                

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The use of Love and Logic techniques lays the foundation for a positive learning climate for students and teachers.  Through logical consequences and caring actions, schools can help develop citizens who monitor their own behaviors.  Based on natural consequences and decision making, this approach allows teachers to keep control of the classroom while empowering students.  Teachers will acquire knowledge and practice strategies designed to lead students to become more self-sufficient, motivated and ready for the real world.

June 16-17
8:30am – 4:30pm

Building Healthy Behaviors
Instructor: Deb Sisco
ED 500
1 SH/$50

How to Register: e-mail Deb.Sisco@sendit.nodak.edu or call 857-4467 or you can First Class, Include name, address, email address and phone number

“It can’t happen to me” is thought and spoken by teens today.  We know that children make decisions every day with this thought in mind.  They travel in a car without buckling up, ride with someone who has been drinking or even choose to cheat on a test all thinking they will not get caught or that anything bad will happen to them.  We all live with the choices we make but the chance that an educated choice will keep us from getting hurt or in trouble can depend on the education that has been presented.

Teachers today need to educate the students on how to make informed decisions when it comes to healthy behaviors.  Students need to learn how to make good choices today that will last them a lifetime.  Participants will discuss risks students take and look at the ND Youth Risk Behaviors Survey to view the percentage of youth from our area who are taking these risks.  Participants will also learn about the cause and effect of these risks and how it affects the future of our youth.

Learning by Doing: PLC at Work
Instructor: Mark Vollmer
ED 500
1 SH/$50
Magic City Campus, Career and Technical Center

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This workshop, based on the book Learning by Doing: Professional Learning Communities at Work by Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas Many, provides participants a basic knowledge and understanding of Professional Learning Communities.  The course will teach the basic format of a Professional Learning Community and will assist educators in understanding the need to promote academic reform at all levels.

July 13-14
8:3am– 4:30pm

Learning by Doing: PLC at Work
Instructor: Mark Vollmer
ED 500
1 SH/$50
Magic City Campus, Career and Technical Center

To register online click here:

This workshop, based on the book Learning by Doing: Professional Learning Communities at Work by Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas Many, provides participants a basic knowledge and understanding of Professional Learning Communities.  The course will teach the basic format of a Professional Learning Community and will assist educators in understanding the need to promote academic reform at all levels.

July 13th
9:00 am– 5:00pm

July 14th & 15th 8:30am – 4:30pm

July 16th
8:30am – 3:30pm

Nutrition Education for the School Aged Child
Instructor: Julie Zikmund
ED 500
2 SH/$100
Minot State University, Old Main 216
To Pre-Register:  Contact Loris (701) 328-2664   or e-mail lfreier@nd.gov

To Register for Graduate Credit:  https://www.minotstateu.edu/secure_pages/cel/cel_conf_reg_form_41.shtml

This course focuses on nutrition issues affecting school age children and their families.  It examines how the school, family and community influence a child’s nutritional health and provides the teacher with the background needed to teach nutrition with emphasis on strategies for bringing about behavior change.  The course focuses on skill building in the area of using food in the classroom as a teaching strategy and investigates specific nutrition issues such as societal and cultural influences on eating habits, body image and eating disorders, sports nutrition, and other nutritional concerns relating to school age children.

June 18-19
8:30am – 4:30pm

Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform
Instructor: Mark Vollmer
ED 500
1 SH/$50
Magic City Campus, Career and Technical Center

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This program is designed to address specific issues of school reform.  In the era of NO Child Left Behind, it is crucial that educators understand the best and current practices for leading the charge for better schools.  The course is based on seven cornerstone strategies and thirty one recommendations that are proven methods for improving schools, and specifically, student performance.  Breaking Ranks II encourages educators to take a look at current programs and develop a comprehensive plan for school improvement.

Geographically FIT
ED 500
2 SH/$100
Instructor: Various

To request a registration form or more information please contact the North Dakota Geographic Alliance, Minot, ND, at  858-3063 or 1-800-235-1948, or marilyn.weiser@minotstateu.edu (838-6835 or 721-6248).  You may also visit our website at http://www.ndgeographic.org.

The “Geographically FIT” (Forestry Institute for Teachers) will be a broad-learning experience covering four days in the southeast quadrant of the state.  The workshop will begin in Valley City with the basics of how geology changed the geography of the state, resulting in the different kinds of native forest resources and their locations.  Participants will visit the Scenic Byway, North Dakota’s only waterfall in a State Forest, the Sheyenne River Valley, USDA Forest Service National Grasslands, learn about riparian forestry, forest health, city forestry, visit a sawmill and the tree research center at Absaraka, ND.

Aug.  4 - 5
8:00am – 4:30pm

HELP: Wetlands
Instructor: JoAnn Schapp & Becky Dewitz
ED 500
1 SH/$200 includes book and credit.  If book is not requested, cost is $100

How to Register: joann.schapp@sendit.nodak.edu

This course is for teachers in elementary and middle schools who have an interest in learning about the various habitats and their ecology.  The topics discussed will be types of biomes, animal life and adaptations, ecology, impact on environment, and survival.  The focus of this module will be the wetlands.

Aug. 11 -12
8:30am – 4:30pm
     

Teaching with Tigers
Instructor: JoAnn Schapp & Becky Dewitz
ED 500
1 SH/$50

How to Register: joann.schapp@sendit.nodak.edu

This course is for teachers in elementary, middle school, or high school, whom are interested in learning and in developing an appreciation about tigers.  The topics discussed will include learning about tiger habitats and how they have changed over time, cultural perceptions, conservation techniques, and how mankind is affecting tiger status.