The Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education offers numerous FREE and low-cost workshop and institute professional development opportunities. They vary in length from day-long during the school year to week-long in the summer and often have CEUs or free graduate credits available to particpants.

For detailed information on current offerings click on the link(s) below. To see highlights of past opportunities, click on the "ARCHIVES" link to the right.

2009

Firewise - 1 day workshop
September 26, 2009
Macalester College

GEOFEST Minnesota 2009
October 24, 2009
Macalester College

AAG 2009 West Lakes Division Annual Meeting
October 29 - 31, 2009
Macalester College

Geography Days at the Minnesota Zoo
November 20 and 21, 2009

High School Geography Round Table Talks - ongoing
Sept 19, Jan 10, March '10 and May 10
This will be the final year of the High School Round Tables and will all include a preview of the newly created  Common Assessments for the HS Human Geography course, as well as Best Practices lessons for each of the seven units.

Middle School Geography Round Table talks – ongoing
Dates:  tentatively set for Oct. 10 and Dec. 5, 2009, and Feb. 13 and April 10, 2010
Macalester College, Saint Paul
Middle School teachers are invited to attend sessions and share ideas for teaching both physical and cultural Geography in a world regional course.  Swap lessons, websites, strategies and informally learn new Geography concepts. Links to the Minnesota standards will be included.  These roundtables follow the format of the highly successful high school roundtables of the past 2 years.  Click on the link for more information.

2010

Teaching About the Geography and Cultures of Africa in the Middle Grades
February 11-12, 2010
Minnesota Humanities Center, Saint Paul, MN

Firewise Teacher Training
August 11 - 13, 2010
Itasca Community College, Grand Rapids, MN