Robotics! Classroom management! Hip Hop! PD Online!
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Load up your professional portfolio this fall with impressive certificates from MSTA’s 2008 Convention workshops! More than 50 hand-picked workshops bring useful, relevant and timely information to teachers and support personnel. You’ll find strands on topics ranging from classroom management, technology and new teacher support to STEM, leadership and diversity.
“This year, we’re offering workshops in new categories, with special attention to new teachers, STEM, the achievements gaps, and the needs and concerns of Maryland educators,” said Jan Erskine, MSTA School Quality. “We promise you’ll leave inspired and invigorated.”
Receive Continuing Education Credit (CEU)
Many school districts give one credit for a specified number of seat hours. Check with your district’s certification specialist.
How to Receive an MSTA Certificate
- Sign-in with a Workshop Host within 10 minutes of the start of the workshop.
- Attend the complete two-hour workshop.
MSTA gives certificates of completion to participants for each two-hour workshop. You can receive up to five certificates by attending four workshops Friday and one workshop Saturday.
MSTA Convention 2008 Workshop Strands
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
Stress and Tension in Mathematics
Math is Not a Universal Language
STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in the Middle School
FIRST Robotics: Engineering Our Future One Robot at a Time
Managing the Classroom
Get Up – An Active Way for MS and HS students to Learn Grammar
Definitely NOT “My Way or the Highway”!
Effective Conflict Resolution Skills for the Secondary Classroom
Classroom Management and the ADD/ADHD Child
Staying in the Classroom and Out of the Courtroom
New Teacher Help
Tips for New Teachers
Making the Most of Parent Teacher Conferences
A Unique Tool for Closing the Achievement Gap
Talking to Parents: It’s Not So Bad
Partnering with Parents, Families and Community to Achieve Great Public Schools
Reading and Writing
Let Me Tell You a Story
Children’s Words: Story Theater for Literacy
(H.E.L.P.) Hip Hop Educational Literacy Program: Achieving Educational Excellence
Push that Pencil: Refreshing Ways to Enhance Student Writing
Fluency: It’s More than Reading Fast
How Do Struggling Readers Feel?
Teaching Tips for Motivating Struggling Readers
Special Education
Addiction Information for Educators
Autism in the School System: Understanding, Diagnosis and Interventions
The Power of Team Decision-Making in Closing the Gap for Special Education Children
Using Technology and Tools
Technology for America’s Next Top Teacher
PD Made EZ – Online Professional Development Opportunities for Teachers
Cool Tools for Schools: MPT’s Thinkport
iGoogle is My Google and More
PE: Keep it Real, Keep it Simple, Keep it Fun
Teacher Leadership
Professional Development (PD) that Works!
Impact Student Learning: National Board Certification
Are We Collaborating or “Co-blab-orating” in Professional Learning Communities?
Lead Like the Legends
Early Childhood Strategies
Active Learning
Ancient Rome Comes to Your Class: Create a Roman Fresco
Crayola’s Dream-Makers: Visual Art and Standards-Based Learning
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
Election 2008: Politics across the Curriculum
Understanding the New S.A.T.
The Way We Teach
The ARTS of Teaching in the Middle School
Aesthetic Realism: Knowledge Opposes Anger & Students Learn
This We Believe: Middle School Issues and Solutions
I Want to Teach Like my Hair’s on Fire: Rekindling Inspiration
K-12 Classroom Bias: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
It’s Your Life/ESP
Insuring Your Future Health Care Choices and Protecting Your Assets
Energy Breaks, Not Broken Energy! Ways to a More Energetic You
How High is Your Self Esteem?
Supporting Our Own: Mentoring Training for ESP
Coping With Difficult Personalities
Cultural Competency
Cross Cultural Communication or What’s Wrong With Thumbs Up?
Understanding Islam
Cultural Characteristics of African Americans Students in Academic Settings
The Gentlemen’s Club: A Male Leadership Development Program
Celebrate the Diversity of Humanity
