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Crossing Cultures: An Introduction to Cross-Cultural Understanding: Increase your effectiveness in interacting with people of different cultures. You will gain a greater awareness of your own cultural background, as well as acquire tools to interact appropriately and effectively with people from a variety of cultures.; Take this course: Begins April 21.

Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium: A consortium of state and national education agencies and organizations focused on the preparation, licensure, and professional development of teachers. INTASC is guided by the belief that student learning standards should drive the preparation and development of teachers.
teacher research: Intentional and systematic inquiry by a teacher or teachers in order to improve classroom practice. Teacher researchers begin with a question about classroom life, design and implement a research plan, collect and analyze data, and adjust practice to better meet the needs of students.
alternative teacher certification: Certification of teachers by means other than traditional four-year college and university education degree programs. Candidates for alternative certification hold a degree in the subject matter they will teach and meet abbreviated pedagogical coursework requirements, often during the first two years of teaching.

Building a support network: Every teacher needs support networks, both formal and informal. This guide to LEARN NC's collections will point you to resources that show you how to build your own and get the help you need.; Format: bibliography/help

Defining tyranny: Students will focus on gathering support for and elaborating on ideas for an essay of definition on tyranny. Students will use examples from history and from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts); By Bethany Hill.

Looking for support: An elementary special education teacher talks about finding support in challenging situations.; By Kathleen Casson.

Foreword: Developing online resources for beginning teachers is not easy. What new teachers need most of all is a mentor — an experienced, thoughtful, successful teacher who can take the time to guide them through their first year. They need someone to steer them...; By David Walbert.

Self-corrections: In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.5; Although self-corrections may seem less important as a diagnostic tool than errors, they demonstrate the way in which a reader is working to make sense of a text and allow the teacher a glimpse into the child's thinking. Teachers can identify patterns of a...; By Jeanne Gunther.

LEARN NC white paper: An introduction to virtual mentoring: How to support new teachers with an online mentoring program.; Format: document/document

The end (for now): In The First Year, page 4.5; I was a first-year teacher, driving to school and thinking about a thousand things I should have done yesterday and a thousand more that required my attention as soon as possible. If I hadn't needed both hands on the steering wheel, I would have started adding...; By Kristi Johnson Smith.

Selecting evidence to support an argument: This is a strategy lesson to teach students how to select evidence from a text to support an argument for an essay. It was designed to take two class periods and is comprised of three mini-lessons; these lessons include teacher modeling strategy to large group, student practice with strategy in small groups, and student practice with strategy individually on what will ultimately be the essay that they write.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); By Caroline Sain.

Communication: The key to successful mentoring: Building support systems begins with asking for help — and giving it.; By Diane Gore.

Mentoring matters: How mentors can serve as role models, helpers, and colleagues.; By Evalee Parker.

Maya Angelou: Study and response to "Still I Rise": Students read biographical information on Maya Angelou and her poem, "Still I Rise." Students identify support and elaboration in poem, then respond by either writing a letter to the author or his/her own poem in response.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts); By Barbara Groome and Jo Peterson Gibbs.

The Wish Giver: Cause and effect: Through a discussion of the characters in the novel The Wish Giver, by Bill Brittain, the teacher will teach the students to identify and analyze the cause/effect relationship and its importance in reading comprehension.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts); By Becky Ellzey.

Conversations, questions, and answers for a beginning teacher: A kindergarten teacher begins her career with an excellent support network.; By Kathleen Casson.

Mutual support among beginning teachers: Beginning teachers share similar concerns and problems. Communication can help them share solutions, too.; By Katie Bond.

Building your own support network: How to take charge of your own professional development and break through the isolation of the classroom.; Format: article; By Denise Young.

Pumpkin punctuation: Students will identify different end punctuation marks that are used in a book they read, and then use those punctuation marks in sentences they write.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Sherry Harris.

1869: A report on schools in North Carolina: In this lesson, students use a guided reading to look at a report on the status of education in North Carolina in 1869, and discuss the reasons given then for why the Governor and Legislature should support educating North Carolina's children. They are provided an opportunity to compare and contrast the 1869 document against their own ideas about the civic duty to attend school through age sixteen, and its relative value to the state and the country.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies); By Victoria Schaefer.

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

Wife inheritance and the AIDS epidemic in Africa: When an African man dies, it is the responsibility of his brother to inherit his widow. This has become a key factor in the spread of the AIDS virus. This plan looks at this tradition and the AIDS epidemic in African countries and students will discuss possible solutions in a Paideia seminar.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Greg Mitchell.

Invest in Teachers Award: Help fund teacher professional development in your school or school district with LEARN NC's Invest in Teachers Award.

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