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2023 Private Pesticide Applicator Certification Exam
PLEASE READ ALL INFORMATION CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH YOUR REGISTRATION. You qualify to take this exam to (re)certify for 2023 if: -
3-2-1 CAT - Activity for community building & review, a Teaching Activities webinar
Join us to learn about a versatile and brief Classroom Assessment Technique that’s been modified in a way to not only enable you to gather important mid-term information from students but also promote interactions and support of one another. -
4.22: Creative Language Teaching at the Post-Secondary Level
In this workshop, participants will explore how creativity can increase the quality of language instruction at the post-secondary level. This session will focus on how creativity elevates relationships, rigor, and retention in the language classroom. -
a6.20: Transforming the Teaching of Language Online (4-week intensive asynchronous online institute)
Institute Type: 4-week intensive online—asynchronous Target Audience: Foreign language and ESL teachers at the high school and postsecondary levels. -
a6.26: Language and Culture in Sync: Teaching Linguistic Politeness and Intercultural Awareness (3-week asynchronous online institute)
Institute Type: 3-week online—asynchronous Target Audience: Elementary to postsecondary foreign language and ESL teachers, material developers, curriculum coordinators, teacher educators, administrators, and researchers. -
a6.26: Practical Program Evaluation for Instructors of Less Commonly Taught Languages (3-week asynchronous online institute)
Institute Type: 3-week online—asynchronous Target Audience: K-12 and postsecondary world language faculty and administrators who work in and with LCTL programs and need to develop program evaluations. -
a6.26: Using the Web: Engaged Learning for Today's Students (5-week asynchronous online institute)
Institute Type: 5-week online—asynchronous Target Audience: Foreign language and ESL teachers at the middle school through the postsecondary level. The learning landscape is constantly changing making i -
a7.10: Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom (3-week asynchronous online institute)
Institute Type: 3-week online—asynchronous with required synchronous meeting times. Target Audience: For elementary school to postsecondary foreign language, ESL/E -
About Steven: A Children's Mental Health Case Study About Depression
The About Steven case study is an interactive, web-based tool that helps professionals and students explore topics related to children’s mental health. This case study is curr -
Accounting for Location in Agriculture: Geostatistics and Interpolation in R
Do you need to create a continuous surface of data (i.e., raster) based on sample point data taken at selected locations? This course is designed for those who are interested in collecting, creating, processing, and interpolating geostatistical data. -
Accounting for Location in Agriculture: Spatial regression in R
Is accounting for spatial dependency in your analyses critical to your work? This course is designed for those who want to learn spatial regression techniques and model spatial dependency explicitly. -
Accounting for Location in Agriculture: An introduction to Spatial Data Analysis in R
Would you like to leverage spatial data to start exploring the relationships of agricultural processes across geographies? This course is designed for those who are interested in explicitly accounting for location in their analyses. -
Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®
Take the next step in your Agile journey. -
Advanced Editing and Proofreading Strategies
Maximize professionalism and quality by honing your editing and proofreading skills. -
Agile Coaching
Train, mentor, and coach Agile teams. -
Agile Fundamentals
Learn the basic skills, tools, and techniques of Agile. -
Agile Testing
Learn the importance of testing for an Agile team. -
Agile User Stories
Gather the information you need to create a backlog for an Agile team. -
Allyship: Creating an Inclusive Workplace
Learn how to promote a workplace culture of inclusion and acceptance. -
Alternate Care Sites: An Introduction for Staff and Volunteers
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, plans are underway across the country to identify new ways to care for the thousands of patients who will become ill. -
Ambiguous Loss: Its Meaning and Application
Ambiguous Loss: Its Meaning and Application Description: -
American Indian Health and Wellness
*This Public Health Institute course will be online via Zoom and Canvas and will not be meeting in-person. Genelle Lamont, PhD, MPH Health Literacy Advisory Group Chair, Minnesota Department of Health -
Americans with Disabilities Act: Part 1
This online lecture discusses the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and how generally to determine if a person is considered disabled under the ADA. The lecture introduces the framework by which a person may be covered under the ADA. -
Americans With Disabilities Act: Part 2
This online lecture discusses reasonable accommodations and the reasonable accommodation process with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Work through a case study and see how the case is interpreted before and after the 2008 Amendment to the ADA.