OCRACOKE (June 28, 2016)—North Carolina Teacher of the Year Bobbie Cavnar brought his message of giving back and caring deeply for students to the “North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching Teacher Leadership Institute” in Ocracoke in June.
Cavnar, a South Point High School English and journalism teacher from Gaston County, and 19 other teachers took part in the program examining teacher leadership held at NCCAT, a national leader in professional development for educators.
Happy to report the IT work we mentioned earlier is complete. We look forward to hearing from you about our programming or what we can do to help!
The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, a national leader in professional development for teachers, has established the William J. Miller Honored Educator Scholarship to honor an educational leader who served more than 30 years in the school district he attended as a student.
We were pleased to hear from Rhonda Carr of Piedmont Community Charter School about what she learned during “The Role of Questioning” NCCAT Online course. The course was designed by NCCAT faculty members Elizabeth Joyce and Amy Jo Spencer.
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Participants in NCCAT Online can now receive digital badges as part of the program.
Digital badges are a way to capture and communicate what an individual knows and can demonstrate in any given field. While this electronic method of recognizing an individual’s knowledge and skills has been around for several years, it has recently gained momentum as a way to recognize individual’s learning. Digital badges are a way to certify the skills of a learner in basic education programs that are valued in schools.
Open to teachers in their first, second, or third year of teaching, “Success From the Start: How to Survive and Thrive Your First Three Years in the Classroom” supports motivated beginning teachers by strengthening their knowledge base and classroom expertise.
The program will be offered by the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, a national leader in professional development for teachers, in Cullowhee and Ocracoke.
Centropa, a non-profit dedicated to preserving 20th Century Jewish history and culture, in collaboration with NCCAT, is providing a limited number of professional development opportunities to North Carolina teachers. During this summer academy in Central Europe, teachers will work with historians, Holocaust survivors, museum educators, and officials to develop challenging and engaging projects for the classroom. The positions will be funded through an endowment made possible by the Development Foundation of NCCAT, Inc.
Click here for link with full description of program.
Teachers will need to complete both an NCCAT application and a Centropa application.
The application deadline is June 9, 2016.
For costs and other questions, please contact: Lauren Granite, Education Director, North America, [email protected].
Happy to see the work of Jacksonville Commons Middle School Principal Gail Pylant, who has attended NCCAT, and others providing this opportunity for students.
From The Jacksonville Daily News