Following a 2014 that saw major initiatives in digital learning the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching Digital Learning is focused on creating more online resources for educators.
The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching continues to respond to the state initiative of improving digital learning with the appointment of a Senior Digital Learning Specialist.
The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching continues to respond to the state initiative of improving digital learning with the appointment of a Senior Digital Learning Specialist.
We hope you can join us for 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 ...
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.
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.
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.