McDowell County teacher Sandra Queen and more than 30 teachers from the North Carolina Governor’s Teacher Network recently were at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching in Cullowhee.
August will be here before we know it and we hope you will make plans to join us for this program ...
13948 - Engineering Design: Literacy Through Problem Solving in Cullowhee
NCCAT understands that every school situation is different.
While many schools find our campus-based trainings to be very effective, we realize that, by providing onsite training at your school or district facility, our School-Based programming will
- Be more convenient
-Have an immediate impact on a larger number of your teachers
NCCAT has faculty members available to assist with planning and facilitation in the center of the state, too.
We hope you will join us for "Promoting Learning and Literacy Through Arts Integration" in Cullowhee. Although this program is designed for K–5 educators, any and all pre K-12 public school educators including those specializing in the Arts subject area and/or teacher leaders for arts integration in the curriculum are welcomed to register for this seminar that is being offered on both the Cullowhee and Ocracoke campus in 2015.
Check out our Spring 2015 science and math seminar listings below. Visit our website for a complete listing of our professional development programs at www.nccat.org or for more information, contact Teacher Services at 828.293.5202 or email [email protected].
NCCAT covers lodging, meals and programming. Participants are responsible for travel cost and substitute teaching fees unless otherwise noted. Applicants must be employed full-time in North Carolina public schools.
Edutopia recently published this great reminder of the important work teachers do and how it makes a difference.
From Edutopia ...
We hope you have a very happy Holiday Season, and we've got some great ways to hit 2015 running with professional development with us in Cullowhee or Ocracoke or Online. NCCAT’s vision is to help North Carolina teachers grow in knowledge, skills, compassion, and professionalism so that every student becomes engaged, self-motivated, and successful. NCCAT helps to retain the most caring, highly qualified, and skilled teachers necessary to positively impact the quality of public education in North Carolina.
The 2013-14 North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching annual report has been released. NCCAT remains focused on impacting students, supporting teachers and responding to state initiatives. NCCAT served more teachers in 2013-14 than in 2012-13.
In 2013-2014, NCCAT served more than 100 school districts in North Carolina. In the center's history, NCCAT has served every county and district in the state of North Carolina.
Here is some interesting news for history teachers looking for resources ...
"WASHINGTON — History can come alive in classrooms around the country under a new project that enables students to access a trove of old data that can help them discover their own places in the broad sweep of the American story.
The for-profit online family history company, Ancestry.com, has opened its collection of historical documents to schools for free, drawing on help from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to guide teachers in using them in their classrooms.
Responding to a request from North Carolina educators we were pleased to host EdCamp WNC on Nov. 15 in Cullowhee. It’s exciting for me as a life-long educator when I think about the 54 teachers and administrators who took part of their weekend after long hours during the week, to explore how to use digital learning to improve education for the children of our state.