Teacher Education Classes Summer 2024
Instructor: Rodney Volk
Date: May 28-31
2 Credits, $100.00 Professional Graduate Credit Fee
Location: Medora
To register for the conference, go to: http://www.ndroughrider.com/registration.html; payment must be received by May 15, 2024.
To promote healthy lifestyle concepts to North Dakota students, school personnel and community members in order to share, learn and develop plans of action for healthy schools and communities.
Instructor: Emily Parrill
Date: June 1 – August 8
2 Credits, $100.00 Professional Graduate Credit Fee
Location: Grand Forks, Center for Innovation
Join the Foreign Language Association of North Dakota (FLAND) for their 2024 Summer Conference, “Vintage Innovation: Leveraging Retro Tools and Classic Ideas to Design Deeper Learning Experiences.” In this conference/course, participants will read book and also attend (in-person) the FLAND conference August 7 and 8 at the Center for Innovation Ina Mae Rude Entrepreneur Center, 4200 James Ray Drive, Grand Forks.
Instructor: Retha Mathern
Date: June 10-13
2 Credits, $100.00 Professional Graduate Credit Fee (paid for by the Lignite Energy Council)
Location: Bismarck, ND, BSC
Pre-registration is required: To register to attend this event, please fill out the application form at https://lignite.com/events/teachers-seminar/ A $60 deposit is required to hold your place is the seminar. The deposit can be paid online at the time of application or a check can be mailed in. All deposits will be refunded upon check-in at the seminar. However, should you cancel after May 1 or no not show up for the seminar, your deposit will be forfeited. For more information on this event, please contact Retha Mathern, 701-355-2192, or rethamathern@lignite.com. This seminar will provide the participant with a broader understanding of the lignite coal industry and the important role it plays in providing electricity to customers, farmers and businesses in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana. Discussions on how lignite coal is mined and converted into energy, and the economic impact of the industry on the region including a tour of a lignite mine, a lignite-based power plant and the Great Plains Synfuels Plant are featured. Classroom activates are provided to participating teachers which they can take back to their classrooms to teach their students about the coal industry and the importance of it. Information is also provided to help their students look at careers in the coal industry which provide high paying jobs with excellent benefits. Course participants will be eligible to apply for a grant to coer the cost of transportation to replicate tours for their own students.
Instructor: Sherry Niesar
Date: June 10-11
1 Credit, $50.00 Professional Graduate Credit Fee
Location: NDSU Central Research Station, Minot
Come and learn all about pollinators. Where they live, what they are, how you can attract them, and their importance to our survival. This workshop is standards based, teaching across the curriculum with hands on activities to engage all learning styles. Topics and activities are suitable for all grade levels. All materials are included.
Instructor: Andrea Petersen
Date: June 11-13
2 Credits, $100.00 Professional Graduate Credit Fee
Location: Bismarck
Welcome to the ND Envirothon and enjoy tours and hand-on training session in Bismarck. Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of the ND Envirothon, a deeper knowledge of the 4-core disciplines (aquatics, forestry/prairie, soils and wildlife) oral presentation skills, and lesson plans and experiments to help their teams prepare for competitions. This training session is perfect current and new Envirothon teachers.
Instructor: Jeff Beck
Date: June 11-13
2 Credits, $100.00 Professional Graduate Credit Fee
Location: Lake Metigoshe, ND
To register please contact Jeff Beck at 701-240-9231 or e-mail at jeff.beck@minot.k12.nd.us
The “NDGA Explorer” class will combine authentic activities and field presentation with experiences in classroom lectures, individual and group activities, computer-based exercises, and outdoor experiences. Participants will be expected to hike, bike and kayak to successfully participate in the class. The participants will transfer these exercises to practical classroom applications. The class will be limited to 16 participants.
Date: June 24-27
2 Credits, $100.00 Professional Graduate Credit Fee
Location: Bismarck, BSC
Pre-registration required at http://www.ndpetroleumfoundation.org/TES. Enrollment is limited to 50 primary & secondary educators on a first-come, first served basis. Application deadline: May 1, 2023.
This seminar includes an overview of North Dakota's oil gas industry. Participants will receive a great deal of hands on experience, with an emphasis on technology, as well as several learning activities to develop lesson plans and use in the classroom. The seminar covers various aspects of the industry including history, geology, physics, engineering, production issues, refining and marketing, employment needs, and the impact of oil tax on state tax revenues, policy decisions and the state's budget surplus.
Instructor: Jeff Beck
Date: July 10-11
1 Credit, $50.00 Professional Graduate Credit Fee
Location: Valley City
To register please contact Jeff Beck at 701-240-9231 or e-mail at jeff.beck@minot.k12.nd.us
The 2024 NDGA Farm Tour will give participants a close-up view of North Dakota agriculture. Teachers will visit farmers and ag related businesses across southwest ND. They will have the opportunity to talk to these takeholders on their farms or at their businesses. The workshop will combine lectures, individual and group activites, computer-based exercises, and outdoor experiences. The class is limited to 25 participants.
Date: July 15-19
4 credits, $200 Professional Graduate Credit Fee
Location: Bismarck
This event requires pre-registration: https://www.dwr.nd.gov/adminlink/4dcgi/wet/WET-3.
Join us in Bismarck for an opportunity to experience current watershed management and water resource issues along the Missouri River. While exploring the issues and identifying solutions, participants will receive real world, user friendly and classroom ready instruction from specially trained Project WET facilitators, resource professionals, and scientists. Participants transfer the institute’s field studies to practical classroom applications. Participants will experience hands-on, minds-on learning through a balance of presentations, discussions, activities, field tours, and environmental investigations.
Instructor: Laura Forde
Date: July 24-27
2 Credits, $100.00 Professional Graduate Credit Fee
Location: Bismarck, State Historical Society of ND
“History and Healing: From Assimilation to Reclamation at Fort Totten Boarding School” will take place at Fort Totten State Historic Site, a Native American Boarding school run by the federal govern between 1891-1939. The workshop address NDNAEU, tell the history of the boarding school era in North Dakota, and help educators understand how tribal nations are working to revive their communities and culture that the boarding schools tried to eliminate.
Instructor: Michael Netzloff
Date: August 4-5
1 Credit, $50.00 Professional Graduate Credit Location: Bismarck, ND-Event Center
This event requires pre-registration, to register please go to https://www.cte.nd.gov/pdc
Event Registration Fees (Payable to ND CTE):
$75 fee if postmarked by July 15
$100 fee if postmarked by July 30
$25 fee if postmarked by August 10 or onsite registration
The purpose of this professional development conference is to provide career and technical education teachers and administrators with information, resources, and instructional tools to be more effective educators. Attendees will gain skills in designing, implementing, and evaluating instructional programs for career and technical education students and assessing the level of learning achieved by those students.
