The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) Board of Trustees will convene the regularly scheduled NCCAT Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, October 14, 2022, at 9:00 a.m., in person at the NCCAT Cullowhee campus.
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Currituck County teacher named NCCAT Career & Technical Teacher of the Year
Missy Swain, from Currituck County Schools, was named the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) 2022 Career & Technical Education (CTE) Teacher of the Year. The runner-up is Robert Ballard a teacher with Chapel-Hill Carrboro City Schools.
NCCAT Faculty Tip - Trying New Technology
Are you considering using a new technology tool in your classroom instruction? The first time you have students use a new tool, it’s totally ok to do something silly and fun with it. Remove the pressure of having to create something related to your content or an upcoming assignment to help students become more comfortable. Then, when you use it again, you’ll get better products!
NCCAT Faculty Tip - Procedures and Strategies
Getting the year started includes teaching procedures and strategies to students. Use The Teacher Toolkit to find tools, templates to use with the tools, and some video examples. The tools fall into several categories including: classroom management, group practice, and games, For more visit Theteachertoolkit.com
NCCAT Faculty Literacy Tip - Remember the 3 Bs
When early writers are “making a picture to tell a story”, encourage them to make a bold statement with their crayons. Remember the 3 Bs: Big, Bold, and Bright!
NCCAT Faculty Math Tip - Intentional Images
Choosing intentional images to share in the math classroom is a great strategy to jumpstart thinking and encourage collaboration about mathematical ideas. Check out these images and routines from the Multiplicity Lab.
Successful NCCAT Curriculum Leaders Conference at NCCAT
Educators from around North Carolina joined the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) for the NCCAT Conference for Curriculum Leaders Sept. 14-16 at the Cullowhee campus.
NCCAT October professional development programs
NCCAT has a variety of high-quality professional development programs coming up in October. For more on them visit https://bit.ly/3QgOqxr
NCCAT helps North Carolina teachers grow in knowledge, skills, compassion, and professionalism so that students become engaged, self-motivated, and successful.
NCCAT Fall Registration open now for applications
North Carolina educators have several opportunities from September through January to attend the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT), a recognized national leader in professional development programming for teachers.
Welcome back to school! NCCAT is here to help
Best wishes to all teachers for a great school year from your friends at NCCAT! Thanks for all you do for students in NC. We're here to help. Find out more about our professional development opportunities at https://www.nccat.org/programs.
NCCAT Career Technical Education Teacher of the Year Finalists Named
Twenty-four teachers from across North Carolina have been selected as finalists for the first North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) 2022 Career Technical Education Teacher of the Year Award.
"Crafting Social Studies Inquiries" with NCCAT
Join NCCAT to focus on developing supporting questions, gathering and evaluating sources, and using evidence to develop claims in the social studies classroom. Apply now for "Crafting Social Studies Inquiries"
Grades 6-8 in August apply at https://bit.ly/3yCWWSx
NCCAT Ocracoke Campus Long-Range Facility Planning Committee Meeting
The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) Ocracoke Campus Long-Range Facility Planning Committee Meeting will convene a meeting on Monday, August 15, 2022, at 9 a.m.
NC Rethink Education Podcast - Education Empowered
Did you know that NCRethinkEd has a podcast? You can access the NCRethinkEd podcast via Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts from the main site. The Dr. Catlin Tucker episode (Part 1) will be released soon.
Teaching the Holocaust: Resources and Reflection in Washington, D.C.
The aim of this program Nov. 11-18 is to gain an understanding of the precursors, events, and consequences of the Holocaust and to grapple with the problem of how best to convey this history and the meaning that it can have in the lives and civic practices of our students. To accomplish this goal, we will explore the exhibits and other resources of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Participants will meet our bus at predetermined locations across the state and then journey together to Washington for this intensive week.