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- 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.
- Our students: Not just ours, and not just students
- In The First Year, page 3.7
- Often, your difficulties with students will have nothing to do with your actions, your classroom management, or your school.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Snow days
- In The First Year, page 3.2
- Don't make assumptions about school policies, and remember that not all “rules” are written down.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Looking for support
- An elementary special education teacher talks about finding support in challenging situations.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- 'Tis the season...for observations
- In The First Year, page 2.8
- When you're facing an observation, keep your focus on your students, and think of it as an opportunity to work with administrators and gain a new perspective on your teaching.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Running records and you
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.1
- If you teach in North Carolina, you are already "doing" running records. Your school mandates them as a means of assessing student reading. Hopefully you received some training for these assessments, but if your experience was like that of many teachers, you...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- If he's in danger of failing, at least three people need to know it
- In The First Year, page 4.1
- Get in touch with parents to prevent students' failure, not just to report on it.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Benchmark assessments
- This reference article discusses the concept of benchmark assessments, including arguments for and against standardized benchmark testing and best practices in creating teacher-developed benchmark assessments.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Plan for a panel discussion regarding the validity of the Lincoln Administration
- This lesson encourages students to investigate all sides of the issues within the context of the Civil War era. Students will become “experts” on the Lincoln administration and accept the responsibility of sharing their expertise with their classmates through oral communication in a panel discussion.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- The Binational Migrant Education Program
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 3.1
- The Binational Migrant Education Program helps students, teachers, school administration, and parents manage the education of students who move between the United States and Mexico.
- By Jennifer Whytock.
- Managing paperwork: top priorities for organization
- Suggestions for keeping track of your teaching materials, your students, and their work.
- By Mitch Katz.
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, affirmed and remanded (1955)
- In Brown II the court delegated the task of carrying out the desegregation to district courts with orders that desegregation occur “with all deliberate speed.”
- Format: court decision/primary source
- Western Carolina University Mountain Heritage Center
- The Museum provides exhibitions and programs that illustrate many of the complex issues and concerns of Appalachia's diverse people and cultures. Students discover how history relates to their own lives as they explore the many themes relevant to western North Carolina's past, present, and future.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Learning from new teachers
- Mentors can share in the hope and enthusiasm of new teachers.
- By Joy Jenkins.
- Mentoring matters
- How mentors can serve as role models, helpers, and colleagues.
- By Evalee Parker.
- North Carolina State University
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.2
- North Carolina State University was founded in 1887 as the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, a land-grant institution that would provide teaching, research and extension services to the people of the state. This article gives a brief history of the school from its founding to the present day.
- Format: article
- 4-H and Home Demonstration during the Great Depression
- During the first few years of the Great Depression, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service agents focused on emergency relief for adult farmers rather than the 4-H program. By 1933 club enrollment fell to its lowest levels since 1925, and the summer...
- Format: article
- By Amy Manor.
- A timeline of North Carolina colleges and universities, 1865–1900
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.1
- Timeline of colleges and universities founded in North Carolina between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century.
- Format: timeline
- By Jill Molloy.
- Keys to success for English language learners
- Tips that any teacher in any classroom can use to help ESL students learn the curriculum while learning English.
- By Audrey L. Heining-Boynton.
- The Federalist Papers: No. 68. The mode of electing the president
- In Election 2008, page 4.5
- In this essay, written as a letter to the New York Packet in 1788, Alexander Hamilton argues for the method of electing the President spelled out in the original United States Constitution.
- Format: letter
