NCCAT has several programs coming up in Science and Math. Here's a quick look at the programs. Hope you can join us!
13860 Learning to Read While Reading to Learn: Early Grades Literacy in Science
Ocracoke
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Monday, February 9-Thursday, February 12, 2015
Today we mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and #WeRemember the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jews.
On January 27, 1945, Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, discovering the largest Nazi killing center in Europe. Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Holocaust, representing the depths of man's inhumanity to man.
#neveragain
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.
We hope you can join us from the upcoming program "Reading, Writing, and Ready by Third Grade." It will be held April 6-9 in Cullowhee.
Here's more about the program ...
NCCAT alumna Allison Stewart is a third grade teacher at Frank Porter Graham School in Chapel Hill. She and another educator have written a grant in hopes of winning some money for the school library.
Both NCCAT campuses are closed today in honor and celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. NCCAT Center Fellow Dr. Ernest H. Johnson takes this look at Dr. King's life in this recent LinkedIn post below. Today we will pause to remember Dr. King and all that he did while participating in acts of service in our communities.
Congratulations to the the newly named regional Teachers of the Year! The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction announced the nine teachers this week. The state winner will be named in April.
North Carolina Regional Teachers of the Year are
Region 1: Jami Dickerson, Eastern Elementary (Pitt County Schools);
Region 2: Joshua Gaskill, Pamlico County High (Pamlico County Schools);
Region 3: Jeremy Tucker, James B. Hunt High (Wilson County Schools);
Region 4: Mariel Barker Sellars, East Columbus High (Columbus County Schools);
The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching was happy to host educators from several school districts at the OpenClass and IAM training in Cullowhee this week. We appreciate educators from ArtSpace Charter School, Buncombe County,Charlotte Choice Charter School, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Clay County Schools, Jackson County Schools, and Madison County Schools for joining us.
We were excited to read about NCCAT alumnus Joshua Gaskill in this recent article from the New Bern Journal Sun. The story begins ...
"Students in Joshua Gaskill’s history class find out quickly that his plan is about more than just memorizing dates and events.
He wants them to know the story behind the historical line scores and to give thought to how events even hundreds of years ago relate to today’s world.
His own story is compelling – a 2003 Pamlico graduate who looked at engineering and medicine before settling on a career as an educator.
From a teaching perspective, using 3DGameLab and quests simplifies learning and assessing for me and motivates students to make choices that I want them to make, often without them realizing it. If I design and write a quest carefully with a specific objective in mind, I can camouflage the learning as something fun, eccentric or teen brain-oriented.