High+School+2011-2012

August 22 -24 || Concepts and strategies that can guide writing instruction for all learners Teachers of Grades 6-12 English, Social Studies, and ScienceTeachers || 20 || 15 || **Registration Deadline: April 15**
 * **Provider** || **Dates** || **Description**: Stipends, Credits, Location, etc. || **Seats Available** || **Seats Remaining** || **Sign-up Sheet** ||
 * Boston Writing Project || August 15-17

|| the content areas of Africa, asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.
 * Primary Source || June 2011-July 2012 || Promoting global Awareness: teachers will be provided learing opportunities in

Description of summer Institutes on-line and face to face



Partnership outlined for 2011-2012



[|Summer Institutes 2011] || Summer Institutes

5 || 5 || **Registration Deadline: April 15**

Send registration form to jallen@malden.mec.edu

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 * Teaching American History Grant Year 3: //Becoming America: The Defining Role of Immigration// || June, 2011--May, 201

Summer Institute: August 15-19 || Becoming America: The Defining Role of Immigration is a five-year project funded by the federal Teaching American History grant progrtam to increase teacher content knowledge in American History. Teachers in Braintree, chelsea, Everett, Malden and Medford are being recruited to participate in year 3.

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|| 4 || 4 || **Registration Deadline: March 31** Application letters should include a statement indicating how this topic aligns to your classroom curriculum, and must be addressed to the superintendent of schools and sent via email to the Director of History: jallen@malden.mec.edu ||
 * Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century Classroom - Online Course || June 2011--August 2011 || This on-line course will focus on 21st Century skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and innovation, communication, and global connections, which will be practiced in an inquiry-based environment. Participants will create an innovative unit in their content area that integrates inquiry-based learning as well as literacy and technology skills to engage 21st century learners.



Open to all teachers in the MPS, K-12. Teachers from cohort 1 of the technology grant are eligible to participate. || 20 || 20 || **Registration Deadline: April 31** Please complete attached registration form and email to Judi Allen @ jallen@malden.mec.edu. ||
 * AP Training || Summer 2011 || 4 Social Studies teachers will have an opportunity to participate in a College Board training to prepare for the rigors of teaching AP in one of the following: Psychology, World History, U.S. History, and U.S. History & Government

|| 4 || 1 || **Regisitration deadline: Pending need indicated by student selection.** Send a statement of interest to jallen@malden.mec.edu. Please be sure to indicate which course you are interested in. ||
 * Model UN Training || April 2, Saturday || The United Nations Association of Greater Boston presents: Utilizing a human rights framework, this course explores linkages between climate change, global policy, and environmental refugees. Participants gain unique training in the rigorous Model UN program as a classroom tool. The workshop includes a full set of FREE curricular materials plus access to our professional development library of Model UN topics and themes, including student worksheets and activity ideas.

 Model UN Training for History and Social Studies Teachers will be held at Tufs University. Malden is sponspored by the generous support of National Grid and each teacher from Malden only has to pay $12 to attend this session. ||  ||   || **Interested participants may Email:** education@unagb.org or call 617-482-4587 for more information today! ||  || 14 || 14 || **Registration Deadline: May 15** Complete the attached form and email to jallen@malden.mec.edu ||
 * **Generation Citizen** || August 17, 18, & 19 || The three-day training will incorporate relevant educational standards, specifically focusing on the English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies standards emphasized in the recently approved Common Core. The framing of the institute is that effective civics education provides a framework in which students can learn core academic disciplines, and specifically literacy standards such as persuasive communication, writing, and critical reading skills, through engaging in a relevant topic connected to their area of study.