Welcome to LEARN NC!
LEARN NC gives you what you need for K–12 teaching and learning, when and where you need it. Here’s how to get started.
Classroom
Lesson plans? Sure, we've got 'em — but also learning materials from slideshows to digital textbooks, all correlated to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
Professional
Learn on your own from articles and multimedia best practices, or take an instructor-led CEU course — all correlated to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards.
Projects and special collections
- North Carolina History
A “digital textbook” of primary sources, background readings, and multimedia.- World Cultures
Photographs and audio with historical and cultural context and related lesson plans.- Critical Languages
Digital textbooks for Mandarin Chinese and Arabic.- Environmental Science
Virtual field trips, lesson plans, and classroom content for a variety of grade levels.- Field Trips
Find educational opportunities in your county or region.
- New Teacher Support
Resources and guides to LEARN NC for beginning teachers and their mentors.- COLT: Carolina On-Line Teacher
A certification program for online instructors.- Differentiated Instruction
Teaching all students in the 21st-century classroom.- Technology Integration
Best practices for making innovative and meaningful use of classroom technology.- Education Reference
Background articles and research summaries on key topics in education, from A to Z.
Most popular
Emailed
- The interactive whiteboard in your classroom
- Critical literacy
- Debates in the middle school classroom
- Transition words and phrases
- Classroom routines and procedures
- Interpreting a short story
- Walking in the woods with Owl Moon
- Becoming an online teacher
- Zone of proximal development
- Bartering - A system of exchange
Tips & tools
- Getting the most from your search
- Tips for searching LEARN NC’s new website, and how to use our advanced search form.
- Flyers, brochures, and workshop tools
- Whether you’re adding to your own toolbox or arranging staff development, these tools will get you started.
- Teaching an online course
- What you’ll need to teach one of LEARN NC’s online professional development courses.
- LEARN NC wallpapers
- Put us on your desktop!
Here’s what’s new.
Just published
- Analyzing wills and inventories
- Teaching suggestions: The North Carolina Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack
- Graphic organizer: The well-ordered family
- Report of Vice-Consul R. E. Heide on the Resources, Trade and Commerce of North Carolina (1875)
- Graphic organizer: Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening
CEU courses
- Facilitating Online Collaboration - COLT (Aug 3–Aug 30)
- Moodle Training - COLT (Aug 3–Aug 23)
- A Crash Course in ESL (Aug 4–Aug 31)
- Teaching Online Courses - COLT (Aug 4–Sep 7)
- Practicum in Online Teaching - COLT (Aug 5–Dec 31)
From our blogs
News & updates
- Digital textbook webinar 8/9
- Good seats are still available for the webinar on our digital textbook for North Carolina history Monday, August 9.
- Follow Instructify on Twitter
- We’ve started a new Instructify Twitter account that we’ll use to briefly spotlight things that we think are useful or interesting but don’t merit a full article.
- Blended learning information and resources
- We've just published an article about blended learning in our education reference. It explains the characteristics, history, features, and benefits of this teaching and learning method.
- Preparing Chinese language teachers for American schools
- The Asia Society has released a report what's being done to increase the supply of Chinese language teachers. The report mentions LEARN NC's work in developing NCVPS's Mandarin online courses and digital textbooks.
- Get a free copy of the LEARN NC fall professional development catalog
- Our hard-copy catalog of online professional development courses for fall 2010 will come out in early August. Sign up for your free copy today.
Instructify
- This is your month: July 2010
- Here's a look back at the most popular Instructify posts from July.
- Play games and make the world a better place at Games for Change
- Games for Change uses video games to directly affect positive change in the world. The games are free to play, and serve to inform and enlighten as well as entertain.
- MyFootprints: What online tracks are your students leaving?
- We all leave behind a trail of digital footprints when we use technology, whether it is from searching with Google or logging into a social network. MyFootprints helps students understand that what they are doing today with technology might have ramifications tomorrow.
- Twitter updates for 2010-07-28
- Daily updates from Instructify on Twitter.
- Expand your vocabulary with EasyWords
- EasyWords runs in the background and, at an interval that you set, presents you with a vocab question. Once you select the correct answer, it goes away again.
