MAYVILLE AREA TEACHER CENTER

Donalee’s Hours:

I am in the Mayville Area Teach-

er Center the following hours

(although this will be subject to

change on occasion ):

Monday: 8 am to 4 pm ( with

the exception of 2 to 3, as I

teach a class during that

hour)

Tuesday: 8 am to 12 p.m.

Wednesday: 8 am to 4 p.m.

*Robin Haines and Dr. Andi

Bucholz will be available to help

you at times that I am not availa-

ble.

E-mail:

teachercenter@mayvillestate.edu (or)

donalee.strand.2@mayvillestate.edu

Phone: 701-788-4718

Cell: 701-371-1036

You may also contact the following:

Robyn Haines:

robyn.haines@mayvillestate.edu

Dr. Andi Dulski-Bucholz:

andrea.dulskibucholz@ mayvilles-tate.edu

Happy Spring??? A Note from Donalee

It may not feel like spring yet, but it is certainly here! I am sure that you are busy in your classrooms pacing out the rest of the year to make sure you get everything in as you work around test-ing, spring programs and spring fever! Make sure that you take care of yourselves as I know the hearts of teachers well and the last person that many of you think of taking care of is yourself!

The Mayville Area Teacher Center has been busy with a lot of ac-tivity this month and you will read more about many of them throughout this newsletter! Find out about the Visiting Musicians, the annual STEM Carnival, the C.O.R.E Teacher Trip; the Breakout Box Game Night , Sparks Lesson Planning, and some new text sets that will be available through KitKeeper! You will also read about some Professional Development opportunities coming this summer!

Have a great April and enjoy every minutes with your classes! All too soon they will be off and running for the summer and even though there might be moments that you think differently, you will miss them:) !

Mayville Area Teacher Center Newsletter April 2016

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Thirteen area teachers attended the Breakout Box Game Night on Wednesday, March 30. The group solved an activity called “Dr. Johnson’s Lab” by going through steps to save the world from destruc-tion by finding the anti-virus that was stolen by the evil Dr. The teachers divided into two groups and worked together to solve the problem. The workshop included time to investigate several sites for ideas and tips on using the Breakout Box in the classroom. Teachers also shared their experienc-es with using the Breakout Box in the classroom. A suggestion was made to develop a Blog or Wiki Site on which to share ideas about the Breakout Box as well as other ideas from area teacher’s classrooms.

Teachers from Finley-Sharon, Hatton, Northwood, MPCG, Hope-Page, and Hillsboro participated in the event and received a stipend of $50 for attending the event. Several of the teachers went back

to their schools and presented this innovative way of using Problem Based Learning in the classroom!

The service and learning group of MSU students, professors, and Teacher Center Teacher Trip winner Benjamin Strand, accom-

panied by his wife Shelby Strand, spent Spring Break volunteering at a Soup Kitchen, Woodlawn African American Cemetary, a

Salvation Army distribution center, a Nursing Home, Day Care, and at the Riverdale Elementary in Courtland, Va as well as finding

some time for sight seeing in our nation’s capital, Washington D.C. including a visit to ND Senator John Hoeven.

Benjamin, a third grade teacher at Hillsboro Elementary, communicated with his class back home in Hillsboro while in a 4th grade

classroom in Courland as well as traveling in Washington D.C. He used Skype, Face-time, and Twitter to communicate and even

played the math game SKUNK with both classrooms at the same time! Whole Brain Learning was observed by Shelby Strand and

she in turn is bringing it back into her classroom in Hillsboro.

Thank you to all who participated in the contest, the Hillsboro Elementary Administration for encouraging these professionals, and

the MSU Education Department for arranging the trip!

The C.O.R.E.group with Sen. Hoeven 2 Benjamin Strand Teaching 4th Graders

Bookshelf

Teacher Center Supported Events

Google Teacher Symposium

A teacher symposium for pre-service teachers as well as faculty at MSU was supported by the Mavyille Area Teacher Center on Tues-day, April 5th. Monica Martinez and Janet O’Hara along with MSU Faculty members presented information on technology available to enhance classroom instruction. Look for sites listed in the Idea sec-tion of this newsletter to help you enhance your instruction!

MSU Multi-Cultural Club Visiting Musicians

Josue Trelles and Luis Munoz, currently living in Sweden, but originally from Chili

and Peru, spent the week of April 4-8 at MSU combining culture, storytelling, and of course music on the campus of MSU as well as slipping in a concert for the Hills-boro Elementary students. The pair used various wind instruments to entertain and inform their audiences. The Teacher Center supported the musicians in their travels.

National Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Conference

The Teacher Center also supported a group of MSU pre-service teachers as they attended a conference for the Na-tional Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. This is a great experience for our MSU Students that are pursuing edu-cation!

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Play Like a Pirate

Quinn Rollins

Whole Brain Teaching for

Challenging Kids

By Chris Biffle

122 Amazing

Games for Class-

room Management

By Chris Biffle

Advisory Board

Benjamin Strand: Hills-boro

Ashley Palowski: Hat-ton

Sarah Burger: North-wood

David Smith: North-wood

Teresa Agnes: MPCG

Jodi Fugleberg: MPCG

Betty LeClair: MSU

Frank Justin: Central Valley

Stephanie Dale: Finley-Sharon

Matt Chandler: Thomp-son

Ashley Scheer: MSU Student Representative

Aubrey Madler: MSU

Robyn Haines: MSU

Donalee Strand:MSU

MACTC Coordinator

Dr. Andi Dulski-Bucholz:

MATC Director

Idea Page

1.Gone Google Story Building:

http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/

2. Snap Seed: a free photo app to enhance presentations:

http://iphonephotographyschool.com/snapseed-tutorial/

Resource Spotlight Sphero SPK: There will be five Sphero’s and IPads available in May! Watch for a PD Workshop next fall for implementing

these into the classroom!

STEM CARNIVAL: April 9th

The Annual STEM Carnival was held on Saturday,

April 9th in the Education Building. There were

approximately 165 children accompanied by par-

ents and grandparents in attendance! Thank you

to the student volunteers, Education Department,

Lake Region Nursing Program, and the Science

Club for all of their help!

Carnival Fun!

Coming Soon

A Professional Development Workshop is being planned for area

teachers to work on their own curriculum/unit planning. Teachers

will be given help and materials to incorporate technology and

the standards into their own classroom units while earning cred-

its. Watch for more information in the May Newsletter!

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http://www.eventkeeper.com/kitkeeper/index.cfm?curOrg=mayville

The following link will take you to the necessary templates and rubric for lesson plan/evaluation writ-

ing.

http://www.mayvillestate.edu/community/stem/stem-collaborative-cataloging-project/

Coming Soon: Non Fiction Text Sets

The Sparks Grant is also providing funds to order non fiction text sets that will be added to the

Kitkeeper checkout system for area teachers to borrow! Watch for listings of sets in the May

newsletter!

Lesson/Evaluating Opportunity