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More than 90 Maine College and High School Students to Gather for Educators Rising Pre-Service Teacher Conference MacKenzie Riley Young | March 25, 2022

Thomas College’s Lunder School of Education and the Center for Innovation in Education presents the Educators Rising Pre-Service Teacher Conference on April 1 at Thomas College in Waterville. 这次会议是 open to pre-service teachers from any Maine college and high school seniors interested in becoming teachers.

这次会议是 the first of its kind in Maine and will focus on topics that are important 职前教师 including getting a job, the first year of teaching, 和更多的. 这次会议是 made by pre-service teachers, including conference co-chairs and Thomas College students Abby Bolvin and Kathryn Nightingale, 职前教师 and is part of a larger, national network of the organization, Educators Rising.

会议期间, the award for the Preservice Teacher of the Year will be announced, which carries an honorarium of $1000. Seniors in teacher prep programs across the state of Maine were eligible for the award and the three finalists will attend the conference on April 1.

当: 2022年4月1日上午8:30.m.-2 p.m. 

地点: Thomas College, 180 West River Road, Waterville

活动时间表:

  • 8:30 a.m. ——登记 & 早餐
  • 9-10 a.m. - Keynote with Dr. 蒙特谢尔比 说话(唱歌) building student relationships.
  • 10-10:50 a.m. -第一阶段:
  • County Teacher of the Year Patti Forster talks classroom management at the high school level
  • 扎克·朗伊尔校长 talks 获得工作
  • Mike Muir talks helping students get self-motivated
  • Amy Tuker and Sue Caron talk integrated curriculum and student advisory groups
  • 11-11:50 a.m. -第二阶段:
  • 苏·卡伦和艾米·塔克 talk controversial topics and handling hard conversations
  • Principal Monte Selby talks the beauty and the beast of very small schools
  • County Teacher of the Year Lindsay Mahoney, 扎克·朗伊尔校长, Erin LaPlante talk finding success in the first year
  • Dr. Theresa Overall and UMF preservice teachers talk not-your-traditional assessments using tech for grades 6-12
  • 12- Lunch and Awards (announcement of $1,000 Preservice Teacher of the Year award)
  • 1-1:50 p.m. -第三次会议:
  • Maine Teacher of the Year Heather Whitaker talks middle school classroom management
  • CTOY Lindsey Mahoney talks math anxiety and innovative math practices at the MS level
  • County Teacher of the Year Jessica Harvey talks elementary school classroom management
  • 1:50-2:闭幕词

Currently, more than 90 Maine college and high school students are registered to attend.

Presenters include current Maine principals and Maine Teachers of the Year. Thomas College is happy to partner with the Maine Association for Middle Level Education and the Maine Department of Education.

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