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Practicum in Online Teaching - Carolina Online Teacher Program
Teach your online course with a pilot group of students or teachers. An experienced online-learning mentor will guide you through typical problem areas. The Practicum in Online Teaching may be done in conjunction with your school or county, and even as part of your normal teaching load.
Take this course: Begins January 5.

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site-based management
Organizational structure that decentralizes authority and increases the autonomy of individual schools. Responsibility and accountability are at the school level, and the decision-making process includes teachers, administrators, parents, and community members.
site-based management
Organizational structure that decentralizes authority and increases the autonomy of individual schools. Responsibility and accountability are at the school level, and the decision-making process includes teachers, administrators, parents, and community members.

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LEARN NC moves courses to Moodle
In the summer of 2008, LEARN NC switched to the Moodle Learning Management System, replacing our Blackboard service.
Format: article/help
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)
Defending the shoreline
In Evidence of rising sea level: Coastal erosion and plant community changes, page 14
Owners of property on both the peninsula and the barrier island are not pleased when rising sea level kills their trees and increases the likelihood that their land and buildings will be flooded during storms. There is a continuing controversy about whether...
By Dirk Frankenberg.
Fire!
In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 9
Figure 8 shows what you have probably been wanting to see from the beginning: a fire in the longleaf pine savanna. This photograph was taken in the spring of 1999 when controlled burns during the growing season were carried out at many sites within Camp Lejeune....
By Dirk Frankenberg.
Classroom management
A guide to LEARN NC's collections, designed especially for new teachers.
Format: bibliography/help
Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna
This Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” examines the role of fire in maintaining the longleaf pine savanna as well as other rare plant communities found in Camp Lejune, North Carolina.
Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
Math for multiple intelligences
How a middle-school math teacher realized she was boring and jump-started her career — and her students — by using thematic planning, emphasizing problem solving, and teaching to multiple intelligences.
Format: series (multiple pages)
LEARN NC Blackboard hosting
This page explains the changes made as a result of switching from Blackboard to Moodle, LEARN NC's new learning management system.
Format: article/help
Water Conservation/Public Education Programs
A wonderful service provided by the city of Durham Water Management Department to inform the community and K-12 students about the importance of conservation of our most important natural resource - water.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Adaptation to frequent fires
In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 4
In addition to fire-resistant bark, longleaf pines have a number of other adaptations to their frequent-fire habitat other than their fire resistant bark. For example, their seedlings have a growth cycle that helps them escape fires. After seeds are shed from...
By Dirk Frankenberg.
Rough-leaf loosestrife
In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 15
Figure 14 shows another rare plant from the savanna/pocosin ecotone, the rough-leaf loosestrife. While not as spectacular as the Venus flytrap, the loosestrife is even more rare. Staff of the Environmental Management Division yell at each other (but not their...
By Dirk Frankenberg.
James and the Giant Pencil: Lessons in classroom management
In The First Year, page 2.7
Don't back your students into a corner, and don't make discipline the focus of your class.
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
“I am very sorry. It is going to happen again”
In The First Year, page 4.2
Maintain your commitment to classroom organization and management all the way through the end of the year.
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
Basic strategies for assigning homework
Suggestions for establishing homework assignments and policies.
By Kathleen Casson.
Controlled burn
In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 10
Figure 9 shows a longer distance view of the same controlled burn shown in Figure 8. Note that visible fire can only be seen behind the mature tree in the center. Otherwise, the only indication of the fire is the smoke in the background....
By Dirk Frankenberg.
After the burn
In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 11
Figure 10 shows the forest after the controlled burn illustrated in Figures 8 and 9. There are now signs of wire grasses here because the stems have been burned, but the roots and rhizomes are alive and well under the soil surface. Look back at
By Dirk Frankenberg.
Issues in archaeology: Introduction
In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.1
Most lessons in this part provide opportunities for students to explore and sometimes wrestle with their values concerning archaeological resources and their protection.
Beginning Teacher Success: Online course syllabus
Syllabus for the online course Beginning Teacher Success designed to support beginning teachers with assignments and reading materials to guide and scaffold learning the best teaching practices.
Format: syllabus
Currituck Banks
One of the four North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserves, Currituck Banks operates as a living laboratory for research, education and management.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
LEARN NC Virtual Mentoring Program
LEARN NC mentors are experts in their subject matter and have effectively mentored teachers in their own school systems. Whatever the challenge, LEARN NC will be there from the first day of class through the final bell of the year.