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- Accommodations for students with disabilities in online courses
- This document explains how students with disabilities can request accommodations when taking LEARN NC's online courses.
- Format: article/help
- The law and disabilities
- A brief overview of two major laws — the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 — that protect students with disabilities in schools.
- By Margaret P. Weiss.
- English language learners and special education testing
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 3.4
- English language learners are often incorrectly labeled with learning disabilities because of inffective diagnostic tests. A more effective model of testing and instruction would be based upon the educational concepts of scaffolding instruction and the Zone of Proximal Development.
- Format: article
- By Mary Faith Mount-Cors.
- Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools
- These articles provide background on Latino immigrants in North Carolina, administrative challenges in binational education, and strategies through which teachers can build on what Latino students bring to their classrooms to create a learning environment that meets the needs of all students.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Creating an inclusive environment: Understanding feelings
- The students will learn about feelings and how to get along with others in group situations. Children will discuss what makes a friend, how friends make each other feel, what friends do together and how to resolve differences between friends. They will identify the qualities of friendship.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance and Social Studies)
- By Dianne Prohn.
- Nothing exceptional
- For teachers, the task is to determine which strategies will help students with learning disabilities succeed, both in our classrooms and beyond.
- By Janet Ploghoft.
- Special education in Mexico
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 3.3
- In the 1990s, the inclusive education movement gained ground in Mexico, which resulted in the mainstreaming of special needs students into regular classrooms. The effects of this movement can be seen in the educational policies and services focusing on special needs students in Mexico.
- Format: article
- By Mary Faith Mount-Cors.
- Integrating computer use into a Trainable Mentally Disabled Level IV curriculum.
- Students involved in the Trainable Mentally Disabled program will use computers to supplement reading and personal information skills being taught as part of the implementation of student's Individual Education Plan. This activity will also allow students to reinforce fine-motor, visual-motor and behavioral skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Suzanne Morris.
- Looking for support
- An elementary special education teacher talks about finding support in challenging situations.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Quality standards for online professional development courses
- Standards for curriculum, student assessment, design, management, and evaluation of online courses offered to K–12 teachers, administrators, and support personnel through LEARN NC.
- Format: article/help
- LEARN NC goals and guiding principles
- This document describes LEARN NC’s guiding principles and lists our short-term goals for 2009-2010.
- Format: article/help
- Imaginative writing
- This plan addresses emerging writing skills by engaging the student's interest in creating original drawings.This plan is for Special Needs students, non-readers with limited writing skills, and reluctant learners.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- By Ann Franklin.
- Teaching phonological awareness to LD students
- This lesson is designed to help students understand the part/whole word relationships at the sentence level. It enables students to relate the 44 phonemes of the English language to words in print (reading) better. Although this lesson is written based on first-grade goals and objectives, it is designed for second-grade students who are not reading at a first-grade level. This lesson should be taught only with a small group.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Cynthia Bumgarner.
- We read every day!
- Students will, through observation outside of the classroom, gather and bring to class five items that exhibit different sources of information comprised of more complex vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- An apple a day: Understanding halves and simple addition
- This is a hands-on lesson which uses apples to introduce the concept of "half" and to teach simple addition. This lesson was taught to a group of 1st grade EC students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Janet Acorn.
- Quality standards for online K–12 courses
- Standards for curriculum, design, student assessment, management, and evaluation in online courses offered to K–12 students through LEARN NC.
- Format: article/help
- Translations, reflections, rotations
- This lesson will allow students to explore translations, reflections, and rotations using a resource of Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. Permission has been granted for the use of the materials as part of the workshop Interactivate Your Math Students. Students explore the world of translations, reflections, and rotations in the Cartesian coordinate system by transforming squares, triangles and parallelograms. Parameters: Shape, x or y translation, x or y reflection, angle of rotation. (Italics are a direct quote from Shodor.org.)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
- By Deborah Bourne.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression
- Images and text from a report in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting tobacco bag stringing work in North Carolina and Virginia in 1939.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Modeling
- Modeling is an instructional strategy in which the teacher demonstrates a new concept or approach to learning and students learn by observing. Theory of modeling as an instructional strategy Research has shown that modeling is an effective instructional...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Thanksgiving story: Stone Soup
- This lesson is for K–5 Exceptional Children who are mild to moderately disabled. This lesson will incorporate listening, daily living, fine motor, and augmentive communication skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- By Christina Pond and Sarah Boling.
