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.

SPRING 2008

Geography Round Table Talks
1/26/08, 4/5/08 and bi-monthly.
Attend sessions and share ideas for teaching Geography. Swap lessons, websites, strategies and informally learn new Geography concepts. 9AM to noon at C-109 Carnegie Hall.


SUMMER 2008

Building America: Minnesota's Iron Range, U.S. Industrialization, and the Creation of a World Power:
Two Opportunities! June 22-27 or July 27 – August 1, Duluth and various other locations

Making Geography Authentic: Meeting the Minnesota Graduation Standards July 7 - 18 (M-F), with follow-up workshop on October 4 - 5, 2008 (field trip to Southern Minnesota) at Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED - - The Institute is FULL

ARRGGGHHH! It's a pirate trip on a sailing ship!
MAGE teacher field trip - August 3-4, 2008
Duluth, MN
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED - - The Field Trip is FULL.
Contact Janet Rith-Najarian for a spot on the waitlist.

FIREWISE Communities Teacher Training Summer Institute
August 4 - 6, 2008
Itasca Community College, Grand Rapids, MN