Beginning teacher success
"Beginning Teacher Success" is designed to support beginning teachers with assignments and reading materials to guide and scaffold learning the best teaching practices.
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Course description
Start your teaching career knowing LEARN NC is here to support you. Learn to manage your classroom, develop effective lesson plans, and refine your practice to best meet the needs of your students. The activities and assignments in this course are designed so that what you are producing in this course can be used in your classroom the next week.
This course is designed to support you as a beginning teacher. Assignments and reading materials will guide and scaffold learning in best teaching practices. You will be expected to reflect on your current practice, explore and learn what research and experienced teachers say about specific topics, and develop effective ways to incorporate what you have learned into your individual teaching and learning environment.
Course objectives
The goal of this course is for beginning teachers to explore what current educational research says, learn about best practices, implement effective strategies and tips, and become the best they can be in the educational world, impacting the lives of students. Course topics include: classroom environment, community of learners, planning, assessments, communicating with parents, and time management.
Although there will be a variety of activities and readings designed to help you improve your teaching skills. There are six areas we will explore in this course:
- Creating an Effective Learning Environment
- Creating a Community of Learners
- Planning and Multiple Teaching Strategies
- Assessments
- Communicating With Parents
- Balancing Your Life: Time Management Tips
Course information
- Syllabus
- You can view full the course syllabus here.
- Audience
- This course is appropriate for first-year teachers.
- Time commitment
- 3-5 hours per week
- Prerequisites
- You must be a first-year teacher to enroll in this class.
- Duration
- Six weeks
- Credits
- 3.0 CEUs
Standards alignment
North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards (2009)
- Goal 1: Teachers demonstrate leadership.
- Objective 1.05: Teachers demonstrate high ethical standards.
- Goal 2: Teachers establish a respectful environment for a diverse population of students.
- Objective 2.03: Teachers treat students as individuals.
- Objective 2.05: Teachers work collaboratively with the families and significant adults in the lives of their students.
- Goal 3: Teachers know the content they teach.
- Objective 3.01: Teachers align their instruction with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
- Goal 4: Teachers facilitate learning for their students.
- Objective 4.01: Teachers know the ways in which learning takes place, and they know the appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of their students.
- Objective 4.02: Teachers plan instruction appropriate for their students.
- Objective 4.08: Teachers use a variety of methods to assess what each student has learned.
- Goal 5: Teachers reflect on their practice.
- Objective 5.01: Teachers analyze student learning.
