Kathleen Casson
Kathleen Casson worked with LEARN NC as a research assistant from 2002 to 2003. She has taught high school in the Atlanta area and middle school in Durham and holds a master’s degree from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Resources created by Kathleen Casson
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- Basic strategies for assigning homework
- Suggestions for establishing homework assignments and policies.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Communicating with parents
- To communicate successfully with parents, be caring, professional, open, and organized.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Conversations, questions, and answers for a beginning teacher
- A kindergarten teacher begins her career with an excellent support network.
- Format: article
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Don't put it down, put it up!
- In a fifth grade classroom based around projects, everything has its place. This classroom profile shows you the design and purpose of Debra Harwell-Braun's fifth-grade classroom.
- Format: article
- By Kathleen Casson.Commentary and sidebar notes by Lindy Norman.
- Instructional goals and classroom space
- Your classroom should be arranged to help you meet your pedagogical goals. Any setting, including your classroom, exerts many influences — frequently subtle — on the people in it.
- Format: article
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Looking for support
- An elementary special education teacher talks about finding support in challenging situations.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Managing a classroom with brain food
- Tina Maples' eighth-grade language arts students are serious about their work they do. When students work on projects they care about — what Maples calls "brain food" — they manage the classroom themselves.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Observing other teachers
- Learning from other teachers is an important means of professional development. Here are some suggestions for observing successful teachers in your school, in other schools, and on the web.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- One room, many uses
- Patty Berge converts her eighth-grade science classroom to suit multiple instructional methods. A classroom profile.
- Format: article
- By Kathleen Casson.Commentary and sidebar notes by Lindy Norman.
- A room for students
- A learning environment where students feel that they belong is the key to success for this eighth-grade language arts teacher. A classroom profile.
- Format: article
- By Kathleen Casson.Commentary and sidebar notes by Lindy Norman.
