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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.
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Sample classroom floor plans
- Basic floor plans and explanations for a traditional classroom, discussions/debates, a horseshoe arrangement, and centers.
- By Mitch Katz.
- A successful day? Engaging your students may not be enough
- In The First Year, page 2.1
- To ensure that you meet your objectives, plan backwards from what you want students to learn.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Digging in the dictionary
- In this activity, first grade children 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.
- 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.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- 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
- Why problem-centered learning?
- In Problem centered math, page 2
- The world our students will live and work in will require them to gather, organize, and interpret data in the process of finding solutions to complex problems. Problem-centered learning creates a model where the student becomes the thinker.
- By Mike Kestner.
- Super shape shifter
- Students learn shapes and put them together to make other shapes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 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.
- Interior design: Designing my dream room
- Students will study interior design as a profession. They will integrate their study with math, writing, vocational education, and computer skills by designing their own dream bedroom.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Mathematics)
- By Paula Hightower.
- Creating a safe space for students to take academic risks
- In The First Year, page 1.6
- A classroom culture that encourages students to take academic risks starts with the teacher.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Ocean and You Marine Science Education
- Bring the ocean to your classroom and explore marine and environmental education with this innovative program created by an oceanographer and two science educators.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Carolina Online Teacher Program (COLT)
- Now you can earn a LEARN NC Certificate in online instruction through the Carolina Online Teacher program (COLT). In five core courses and two electives, totaling a minimum of 17 CEUs, you’ll master the component skills of online teaching: effective collaboration and facilitation, creating learning communities, navigating the virtual classroom, and developing student-centered instruction.
- Format: article/help
- Allison Woods
- Offers outdoor classroom educational opportunities at Allison Woods or in your classroom for students age 6 and up.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
