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Classroom management: A guide to LEARN NC's collections, designed especially for new teachers.; Format: bibliography/help

Classroom environment: the basics: Your classroom is "home away from home" for you and your students. Make it attractive, comfortable, and functional.; By Denise Young.

Reaching every learner: Differentiating instruction in theory and practice: This series of articles, which balance theory, research, and practice, address a variety of topics within differentiation through text, graphics, and video.; Format: series (multiple pages)

The First Year: Essays on the author's experiences in her first year of teaching: the mistakes she made, what she learned from them, and how she used them to become a better teacher — and how other first-year teachers can, too.; Format: book (multiple pages)

Alternative discussion formats: Class discussions often take one of two forms — either question-and-answer sessions, in which the teacher throws out questions and students answer them, or debates. Both of these formats are useful, but adding a few more ideas to your teaching repertoire can make for more variety in the classroom and provide more opportunities for engaging discussions. This edition explains how to manage dicussions in the form of a public relations campaign, a trial, a talk show, or the design of monuments, memorials, and museum exhibits.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Algebraic thinking in elementary school: This online course will enable participants to learn how to include opportunities in the upper elementary curriculum for children to think about basic algebraic concepts, and to appreciate the importance of algebraic thinking.; Format: article/online course

Interior designers: Working with area: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.4; In this lesson for grade seven, students will act as interior designers, and will measure the walls of the classroom to determine the area of each wall.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.

Radial symmetry design: Students will study the carving of 18th century America and create a rosette design using radial symmetry.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education); By Lisa Mitchell.

Creating and using meaningful rubrics: This course will help you use your own content knowledge and the wealth of information available about assessment to create, analyze, and critique rubrics.; Format: article/online course

Sample classroom floor plans: Basic floor plans and explanations for a traditional classroom, discussions/debates, a horseshoe arrangement, and centers.; By Mitch Katz.

Project-based learning in the 21st Century: In this course students will collaborate with peers from across North Carolina to share ideas, learn about available resources, and discuss different perspectives of project-based learning, student achievement, interdisciplinary curriculum, and standards.; Format: article/online course

How does tiering benefit teachers?: In this video, teachers at Raleigh's Baileywick Road Elementary School discuss how creating tiered assignments has benefited them as teachers. Includes classroom footage. This video is one in a four-part series about tiering. The other videos include: ...; Format: video/video

New Teacher Support: Ok, so it's not all fun and games. Now what? When you decided to become a teacher, what did you think about? If you're like most people, you thought about making a difference in children's lives, about helping them learn, making them think, "touching...; Format: article/help

Lesson planning for English Language Learners using the WIDA/ELP Standards: This course provides ESL and regular K-12 classroom teachers an opportunity to plan lessons using the new NC Standard Course of Study for Limited English Proficient students known as the WIDA/ELP Standards.; Format: article/online course

Digging in the dictionary: In this activity, students will learn to use an age-appropriate dictionary to find a word, write its definition, write a sentence using that word, and report their results to their classmates.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills); By Mary Waldrup.

General contractors: Working with area: In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.10; This activity for grade six combines math, art, and writing, as students design a floor plan for a house and use calculations of area to arrive at a cost estimate.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics); By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.

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.

Week 6: Completing the invention: In Invention convention, page 16; In this Invention Convention lesson, students finish constructing their inventions.; Format: lesson plan; By Briana Corke Pelton.

Super shape shifter: Students learn shapes and put them together to make other shapes.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics); By Becky Woolard.

Bulletin boards and other displays: Using your bulletin boards as a teaching tool — not just as decoration.; By Denise Young.

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