CULLOWHEE (January 6, 2015)—A meeting of the board of trustees of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, January 15, at the Public School Forum Building in Raleigh.
NCCAT Center Fellow Dr. Ernest Johnson and his wife Mattie Perry Johnson, M.L.S, recently wrote this piece on children and reading for LinkedIn. They wrote, "Just as your reading preferences are important to you, children also have preference about reading. Here is what we have learned about what children want to read.
What Do Children Want To Read?
Children Want Mysteries—They want books with heightened suspense and excitement.
Children Want Humor—They want to laugh, giggle, and have fun with books.
Welcome to 2015! Are you looking for ways to make this the best year ever? Here's some help from edutopia ...
"You don't accidentally climb Mt. Everest. People who set out to ascend that peak often make it to the top. Some don't. But I promise this: if you don't try to climb Mt. Everest, you won't.
You don't accidentally have an awesome year. You don't accidentally learn something new (not usually, anyway). People who put themselves in the position to learn end up learning.
St. Jerome says, "Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."
Both the McDowell News and Watauga Democrat recently published information about the upcoming "Daylong programs" at NCCAT.
North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, a national leader in professional development for teachers, will once again offer “Daylong Programs” at the Cullowhee campus in January to help teachers meet one of the challenges of a busy school year—leaving the classroom to participate in professional development.
Thanks to your support, NCCAT alumni continue to be more effective teachers and, subsequently, their students are better prepared for life.
Take for instance, NCCAT alumna, Virginia Spaventa, who teaches ESL students at Frank Morgan Elementary in Winston-Salem/Forsyth Schools. She had a challenge:
- Her student population needed help in accessing homework. She decided to attend the NCCAT seminar, Catching up with your Students: Digital Learning
- She learned to create electronic homework to adapt classroom assignments into an easy-to-use format for mobile phones
The opportunity to attend the Holocaust Seminar through the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching was truly a life changing experience. As a high school history teacher, I thought I knew a great deal about the Holocaust and the events surrounding this historical atrocity. However, after visiting the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., I found out that there was so much I did not know.
Gaining new vocabulary is necessary for fluid reading and writing. Help students build word knowledge in a variety of ways using audio supports, flashcards, terms in context, and clever game play. Here are 20 digital resources for helping students build their vocabulary at the link below from Graphite.
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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.
Join the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching this Spring for high-quality professional development in Early Grades Literacy!
3797: Supporting the Literacy of Gifted Children in the Early Grades
January 11-15, 2015, Ocracoke
By Ernest H. Johnson, Ph.D. and Mattie Perry-Johnson, M.L.S
With the Christmas season upon us, if you are not aware of it by now, let us make it clear to you: We have a reading epidemic in America! Learning to read is a challenge for more than 40 percent of children.