Learn where you live - Winter 2008

The Adolescent Brain: A Time of Opportunity and Danger!

Who Should Attend: Youth-serving organization staff members and leaders, educators, parents and other caring adults, professionals working with young people and their families

Instructors: Dee Lindenberger, MARESA educational consultant
Workshop Fee (Lunch is NOT included.)
Members: $99
Not-Yet Members: $129
Multiple Attendees: $89 (When three or more from an organization register)
Additional Social Worker CE Fee: $40
Eligible for annual one free workshop membership benefit

Thursday and Friday, February 7-8, 2008
Location: MARESA, 321 East Ohio, Marquette
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Learn how the naturally occurring changes in the adolescent brain influence youth behavior––and how we can promote healthy youth development while minimizing the dangers of high-risk behaviors during these critical years. Prevailing wisdom would have us believe that adolescents look like adults, their brains must be like an adult's. Recent research in neuroscience has shown that to be far from true. There is major remodeling happening in the adolescent brain that represents both a window of opportunity and a time of great risk. This training is designed for parents, professional helpers, educators, and other caring adults.

This training is co-sponsored by Great Lakes Center for Youth Development, Marquette-Alger RESA, and the ODCP through a pending proposal from NorthCare Substance Abuse Services Coordinating Agency.

Dee Lindenberger is an educational consultant with the Marquette-Alger RESA. She has pursued her passion for brain research and neuroscience-based education through extensive reading, training, and coaching by some of the most respected experts in the field, including Eric Jensen, David Sousa, Pat Wolfe, and Rich Allen. She is a Rich Allen Associate Impact Learning trainer and participates in yearly advanced "update trainings" with Pat Wolfe.

This advanced-level workshop has been approved the State of Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative for 12 Continuing Education Contact Hours for Social Workers in Michigan (course approval number #121007-03). A workshop agenda is available by emailing polson@glcyd.org. In order to obtain all 12 CECHs, participants must attend all 12 hours of the workshop, complete paperwork provided at registration and submit an evaluation. If you are not satisfied for any reason, please contact Paul Olson at 906-228-8919 ext. 29, to file a concern. Accommodation needs: GLCYD is committed to providing equal opportunity for participating in all programs, services and activities. Accommodations for people with special needs may be requested by contacting GLCYD at 906-228-8919 one week prior to the event you plan to attend. Requests received after this date will be honored whenever possible.

School and Community Relations, 2cr.

ED 533 (12574)

This course stresses the critical need for educators to involve the various school district publics as partners in the educational enterprise.  It provides ideas and procedures for improving both our schools and the perception the public has of them.

Where: Bay de Noc Community College, UC Center
When: Fridays 6-9:40 pm: 2/22 & 3/14. 
           Saturdays 9am – 4:40pm: 2/23 & 3/15
Contact: NMU Student Services 1-906-227-1221

Supervision of Instruction, 3 cr.

ED541B (12585)

This course is a review of the current research on and practice of supervising and evaluating teachers with an emphasis on clinical and developmental supervision for improving teacher’s classroom performance.

Where: Copper Country ISD (Hancock)
When: Fridays 6-9:40 pm: 3/14, 3/28, 4/11 & 4/25.
          Saturdays 9am – 4:40pm: 3/15, 3/29, 4/12 & 4/26
Contact: NMU Student Services 1-906-227-1221