2020 Montana Traffic Education Conference
Building the Thinking Driver
April 26-28, 2020
Heritage Inn, Great Falls, Montana
April 26-28, 2020
Heritage Inn, Great Falls, Montana
The annual spring Montana Traffic Education Conference--jointly sponsored by the Montana Traffic Education Association (MTEA) and the Office of Public Instruction--is open to traffic education teachers, traffic safety professionals, and anyone interested in traffic education and teen driver safety.
This year's theme is Building the Thinking Driver with sessions on Creating the Thinking Classroom with Will Dunn, Crash Dynamics with Griff Jones, tire safety, 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey results, an interactive CDTP Workshop; and more! Meet the new OPI Traffic Education Director, Tara Ferriter-Smith. If this is your first MTEA conference, you can enter to win one of three $150 David Huff Scholarships!
PRE-REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE STARTING IN MARCH 2020: All attendees must pre-register with MTEA by Monday, April 20, 2020. The registration fee is $205 and includes three meals. Walk-in registrations are strongly discouraged. Cancellation policy: Upon written notice of cancellation, $135 of the $205 registration is refundable. The registration form will be available in March.
LODGING AT THE HERITAGE INN: The Heritage Inn is located at 1700 Fox Farm Road, Great Falls, MT. https://www.gfheritageinn.com/ In March, we will post details about the group rate and how to book your room.
COLLEGE CREDIT OR RENEWAL UNITS: Register for one semester credit through MSU-N at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 26. The cost is $150. OPI will make available, at no additional cost, up to 15 renewal units which can only be used with your Montana educator license renewal. You may register for college credit OR renewal units, but NOT BOTH.
SCHEDULE/AGENDA: Registration packets will be available beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 26. The first general session will begin at noon. The conference ends at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday April 28.
DOOR PRIZES & SILENT AUCTION: Please plan to bring an item to give as a door prize and consider donating items for the MTEA silent auction!
PRE-REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE STARTING IN MARCH 2020: All attendees must pre-register with MTEA by Monday, April 20, 2020. The registration fee is $205 and includes three meals. Walk-in registrations are strongly discouraged. Cancellation policy: Upon written notice of cancellation, $135 of the $205 registration is refundable. The registration form will be available in March.
LODGING AT THE HERITAGE INN: The Heritage Inn is located at 1700 Fox Farm Road, Great Falls, MT. https://www.gfheritageinn.com/ In March, we will post details about the group rate and how to book your room.
COLLEGE CREDIT OR RENEWAL UNITS: Register for one semester credit through MSU-N at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 26. The cost is $150. OPI will make available, at no additional cost, up to 15 renewal units which can only be used with your Montana educator license renewal. You may register for college credit OR renewal units, but NOT BOTH.
SCHEDULE/AGENDA: Registration packets will be available beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 26. The first general session will begin at noon. The conference ends at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday April 28.
DOOR PRIZES & SILENT AUCTION: Please plan to bring an item to give as a door prize and consider donating items for the MTEA silent auction!
What participants like about the Montana Traffic Education Conference:
- Love sharing ideas and the Lesson Slam.
- Really connected with other teachers.
- Excellent group of people.
- Always organized, informative and fun!
- I learned more about tires in five minutes than I’ve known in my lifetime.
- Certainly the best conference I've been to in 40 years of teaching.
- I always take a lot away from the conference and feel that it is a good value for my time.
- Teacher networking and presentations by colleagues.
- Nicely organized.
- Informative, interesting and useful.
- Ideas for hands-on activities.
- Keeping it simple and scheduling workshops so we didn't miss out on anything.
STAY INFORMED ABOUT THE MONTANA TRAFFIC EDUCATION CONFERENCE AND MTEA!
- Read about past conferences in the MTEA Newsletter
- Download past conference presentations and handouts.
- Like MTEA's Facebook page to be notified of conference registration and upcoming events.
