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Best practices
From simple articles to multimedia tutorials and entire books, our best practices provide teachers (and administrators) with a wide range of self-guided professional development.
Hot topics and special collections
- Classroom management
Resources on building classroom culture, organization, classroom design, and more.- Formative Assessment
Resources to help you integrate more ongoing assessment into your teaching.- Reading
Learning to read, reading comprehension, content-area literacy, and studying literature.- Writing
The five features of effective writing, the writing process, and writing across the curriculum.- Mathematics
Student-centered math, teaching to multiple intelligences, formative assessment, and more.- Teaching with Primary Sources
Process guides, model lesson plans, and teaching strategies.
- Education Reference
Background articles and research summaries on key topics in education, from A to Z.- New Teacher Support
Resources and guides to LEARN NC for beginning teachers and their mentors.- Differentiated Instruction
Teaching all students in the 21st-century classroom.- Technology Integration
Best practices for making innovative and meaningful use of classroom technology.- COLT: Carolina On-Line Teacher
A certification program for online instructors.- Visual Literacy
Strategies for teaching students to read and interpret photographs, maps, charts, and other images.
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We’re working on correlating our best-practice resources to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards. As we continue this process, you’ll be able to find them here.
