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March 9, 2019Professional Development Opportunities

New England Institute Courses
March 18, 2018Encountering the Arts, Music assessment, G/T
- Encountering the Arts: Choice, Voice and Creativity, (hybrid) taught by Lindsay Pinchbeck – April 7 to June 9, 4.5 CEUs
- Assessment in the Music Classroom, (online) taught by music educator, Jake Sturtevant – April 2 to June 11, 4.5 CEUs
- Educating Gifted & Talented Learners, (online) taught by Grace Jacobs – April 2 to June 18, 4.5 CEUs
Encountering the Arts: Choice, Voice and Creativity – April 7 to June 9
You can join Lindsay Pinchbeck, MALI Design Team member, in her very own school, Sweetland School in Hope, and learn some wonderful strategies to incorporate into your classroom right away. Sweetland School is s a project based elementary program inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach. Drama, Movement, Music, Poetry, Storytelling, and Visual Arts will be integrated across content areas: Math, Science, Social Studies, Reading and Writing.
Work with colleagues, build relationships, and ask questions of the professor, in person, for two Saturdays and have the convenience of doing the rest of the coursework online. Encountering the Arts: Choice, Voice and Creativity is one such hybrid course.
Assessment in the Music Classroom – April 2 to June 11
This online course taught by music educator and MALI Design Team member Jake Sturtevant provides looking closely at assessment practices through a collaborative and fine-tuned lens. It can provide unique opportunities for growth. Connecting new assessment practices to instruction can bring exciting changes to how we approach our students and their learning.
Participants will discuss how best to apply recent music assessment work to their own unique situations in their own school music programs. This will lead them to create a personalized plan for implementing new strategies. Assessment in the Music Classroom will provide a great opportunity to look closely at assessment practices.
Educating Gifted & Talented Learners
This introductory course provides foundational information relating to the field of gifted and talented education (i.e. history, laws, etc.), details characteristics of gifted students from various populations, describes how such students are identified and assessed, and presents up-to-date, research-based pedagogy relating to curriculum design and instruction.
It may be applied toward the 690 (Gifted & Talented) endorsement for the State of Maine teachers. Join Grace Jacobs for this Educating Gifted & Talented Learners online course.
If you have questions contact Catherine Ring, Executive Director, New England Institute for Teacher Education.

Music Teacher Mentoring Course
October 27, 2017New England Institute
If you are a veteran music teacher who is considering mentoring a new music teacher (or perhaps you already are), and you want to learn some best practice strategies to be the best mentor you can be, we’re excited to announce an opportunity to earn 4.5 CEUs in a brand new course EDPU 620: Mentoring New Teachers in the Music Classroom.
There is such a need for strong, quality mentorships in music education for new teachers, and we all know how difficult it can be to navigate those first years in the profession. So why not get up on the latest research and practice for teacher mentorship, take the course, and get your recertification credits at the same time?
The course is taught by Sue Barre, music educator from Waterville High School, and most of you know Sue from her role as President of the Maine Music Educators Association. The online course is designed to run for the school year. It starts October 30 and runs through May 28. You have until October 30 to enroll. If you know someone who might be interested, please share this information with them. The cost is $790 for 4.5 CEUs and we will accept purchase orders from your school district. For more information on the course, and to join us for this exciting opportunity, visit our website.
There are other courses, to consider as well.
If you are just getting on board with Assessment, or need a great refresher, Jake Sturtevant is teaching Assessment in the Music Classroom, K-12 starting April 2 through June 11, 2018. This is also an online course for 4.5 CEUs. The teacher reviews for Jake’s classes have been fantastic!
Technology for Educators is yet another offering you can use for recertification AND get a little more tech savvy as you go.
Courses on Managing Classroom Behavior, Bullying Prevention and Gifted Talented endorsement courses are also available. Learn more on the New England Institute for Teacher Education website about the courses listed above and their other courses.

Music Educators Opportunity
May 27, 2017New England Institute
Proficiency-based teaching and learning is here to stay. Learn how you can effectively implement it in your MUSIC classroom, with Jake Sturtevant! Improve your classroom results, make your Principal happy, and take care of your recertification credits this summer! For K-12 Music Educators.
Jake has been a teacher leader with the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative since it started in 2011.

Happy Dance
May 26, 2016Project in dance
Lubec teachers and Washington Academy (WA) collaborated to dance for a surprise school wide assembly. The surprise was complete with gleeful clapping, hoots and wows from the student population. Their performance was followed by Gaetani leading the entire PK-8 school in 4 line dances. Connie Bagley is Lubec’s Art Teacher and gifted and talented Coordinator. She led Lubec’s staff in learning a line dance to “Happy Song” by Pharrell Williams. WA Dance “Guru” Gina Gaetani helped Bagley with choreography and had come to Lubec with her WA dance students to help teach the Lubec staff and then again to dance with them.
Bagley says the point of the Dance Project was to model creativity, arts integration and open mindset. Her idea to create Professional Development for teachers was for “Brains on Fire” a graduate class she is taking with Catherine Ring and the New England Institute for Teacher Education. Here is the public link https://prezi.com/dashboard/ to a Prezi she presented to teachers under her name Connie Harter-Bagley and is titled “Gifted and Talented Lubec”. Connie has a dozen Art related Prezis to share.
Thank you Connie for providing this blog post that provides food for thought for other educators.

Brains on Fire Course
March 11, 2016New England Institute for Teacher Education
EDAR 528 Brains on Fire: Rekindling Imagination in the Classroom, K-8. This course has been approved as one of four courses toward Gifted Talented endorsement 690 K-12 by the Maine Department of Education.

Catherine Ring, course instructor
This exciting arts integration course will explore the significant role the arts can play in learning. Educating gifted and talented learners will be included as a component of this study and we will also explore the latest research on the brain and creativity.
You will get to see examples of student learning through visual art, dance, music and drama; learn about the critical evidence of improved achievement in all subject areas by students who are regularly exposed to the arts; and participate in practical, hands-on arts integration lessons which can be used immediately in the classroom. Helpful resources, including books, videos, websites and lesson plans will be shared. Collaborative work between arts teachers and classroom teachers are encouraged. You will take away a renewed sense of confidence that you CAN make a difference in your classroom by making room for the arts, promoting engaged students through a rich learning culture.
The New England Institute honors the individual needs of teachers taking our classes, and you will create a self-designed course study with guidance from the instructor, using the wealth of materials provided to you, making the course relevant and immediately applicable to your classroom.
So join instructor, Catherine Ring, in this wonderful opportunity to learn, create, network and grow in your ability to make your teaching and learning for your students even more dynamic and engaging.
CLICK HERE to learn more and to register.