Description

The North Dakota Water Resources, through its Project WET  Program, will conduct a 64 hour four professional development credit ProjectWET Connect is for up to 30 K-12 formal and non-formal educators. The 2022 course is scheduled for August 29 – September 26, 2022. The course title will be "ProjectWET Connect 2022”. The course instructor is Tina Harding, Water Resource Education Manager, ND Project WET Explore Your Watershed, ND State Water Commission, 900 East Boulevard, Department 770, Bismarck, ND 58505-0850, (701) 328-4833, Fax (701) 328-3696, E-mail - tinamharding@nd.gov.  Mrs. Harding will provide instruction and oversight instruction during the entire course. Supplemental instructors will be used as the course outline indicates including number of contributing hours. These facilitators will help teach course agenda items and help students transfer course learning to the classroom situation and provide analysis and interpretation. Mrs. Harding will oversee all supplemental instructors and minor presenters to ensure adherence to course mission, purpose and learning objectives. Individuals will attend weekly online classes covering Project materials on Climate and water resilience. 

Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes

Objectives:

Educators should know, understand or be able to attain:

1. Understand and be able to use, incorporate, and teach institute curriculum materials in a variety of learning situations through a variety of methods.

2. Have increased knowledge, skills, motivation, and commitment to teach about contemporary North Dakota water resource issues and concerns.

3. Understand the economic, science and social issues of water resources on climate, justice, equality, diversity, and inclusion.

4. Understand why the North Dakota’s water resources are important to the overall state's social and economic well-being.

5. Use informational and educational materials and resources to supplement institute curriculum (e-books) in classroom learning situations.

6. Use critical thinking and information processing skills in developing study unit of personal perspectives and classroom incorporation ideas through online experiences and explorations.

Required Materials:

All required materials are furnished by the Instructor as part of the fee paid by all students. Online Project WET educator curriculum guides will be the primary textbooks. The author of the Project WET educator curriculum guides is the Project WET International Foundation, an award winning 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the mission of reaching children, parents, educators and community members with water education. The latest editions of the curriculum guides will be used. 

Participants need to register at https://www.dwr.nd.gov/adminlink/4dcgi/wet/WET-6 before starting the workshop. 

For NDSU professional development credit, click the "register" icon. Online registration URL closes @ 5:00 p.m. on September 9, 2022.