Here our full conference schedule.
Featured Friday Keynote SpeakerMinnesota's Achievement Gap and What We Can Do About ItR.T. RybakExecutive Director, Generation Next Former Minneapolis Mayor |
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Featured Saturday Workshops
Phenomenon-Based Learning: Fun, Hands-on, Cooperative LearningAt the Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Director of Special Programs College of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology Delaware State University |
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This workshop will have a focus on grades 3-8.
Experience the kind of learning that propelled Finland to international leadership in science education—learning not by memorizing facts, but by exploration and discovery. Combining the most effective aspects of Finnish teaching along with project-based learning, collaborative learning, responsive teaching, and hands-on experiments, we present “Phenomenon-based Learning” (PBL). Copies of of the PBL Gadgets & Gizmos books for your grade level — full of hands-on explorations that support the PBL approach — will be available for purchase. Each participant will receive a gadget or two that evokes curiosity and inspires the desire to explore and learn.
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Engineering a Better Science ClassroomAt the Verizon Wireless Center, Banquet Hall, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Creator of Bozeman Science High School Science Teacher, Bozeman High School, Bozeman Montana |
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This workshop will have a focus on grades 9-12.
Paul Andersen has been teaching high school science for the last nineteen years. He has been teaching science on YouTube for the last three years. Paul spent the first seven years teaching all of the science classes at a small rural school in northern Montana. Paul is currently a science teacher and technology specialist at Bozeman High School. |
Mental Health Resources for TeachersAt the Verizon Wireless Center, Reception Hall School Psychologist Mankato Area Public Schools |
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
Understanding Mental Illness in Children and Adolescents
Information regarding the most commonly diagnosed areas of mental illness in children, and how parents and teachers can work together to support their students.
This workshop meets the continuing education requirement for Minnesota teachers regarding mental health.
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Understanding Anxiety in Children and Adolescents
Anxiety symptoms and disorders are the number one health problem in America, ranging from a simple Adjustment Disorder to more difficult and debilitating disorders such as Panic Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Although quite common, Anxiety Disorders in children often are overlooked or misjudged. This workshop will focus on the symptoms of anxious behaviors, as well as best practice supports to assist these students.
This workshop meets the continuing education requirement for Minnesota teachers regarding mental health.
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