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professional development: Educational opportunities for school teachers and administrative personnel with goals of personal and professional growth, and school improvement. Professional development is often called staff development.
Pervasive development disorder: Children with this disorder lack socialization, communication, and other developmental skills. Five pervasive development disorders are autism, Apserger's Syndrome, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Rett's Syndrome, and Pervasive Development Disorder, not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS).
English language development: Curriculum of instruction for English language learners.
zone of proximal development: The gap between what a learner has already mastered (the actual level of development) and what he or she can achieve when provided with educational support (potential development).

About the Professional Development Directory: The North Carolina Professional Development Directory provides information about organizations offering professional development to teachers, administrators, and staff of North Carolina public schools. The directory is a joint effort of NC DPI, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and LEARN NC.; Format: article/help

Math Common Core resources: This edition contains resources for teachers, administrators, and parents to learn more about the implementation of the Common Core Mathematics Standards.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

Drop/add policy for online professional development courses: Guidelines explaining when a teacher may be permitted to register for or drop out of an online course.; Format: article/help

Writing for the Web: How teachers can more effectively communicate information and ideas via the World Wide Web, to students, parents, colleagues, administrators, and the world.; Format: series (multiple pages)

DESTINY Traveling Science Learning Program: The DESTINY (Delivering Edge-Cutting Science Technology and Internet Across North Carolina for Years to Come) Traveling Science Learning Program is Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s formal science education initiative serving pre-college teachers and students across North Carolina.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Grassroots Science Museums Collaborative: Grassroots museums annually serve millions of citizens through general visitation, teacher training and special programs. Programs include both onsite and offsite presentations and reach students in every North Carolina school district.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Finding best practice resources using the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards: This video demonstrates how to find best practice resources that are aligned to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards on the LEARN NC website. For best viewing, use full-screen mode, which you can turn on with the button to the left of the volume...; Format: video/demonstration

Fostering learning with digital portfolios: This course will give you an in-depth look at the power of digital portfolios to document student learning.; Format: article/online course

Email updates from LEARN NC: LEARN NC sends out monthly email updates to subscribing educators. These updates contain summaries of new articles, information about new resources, and announcements of online course offerings and upcoming professional development opportunities.; Format: article/help

LEARN NC Local Coordinator Job Description: This page explains the duties expected of district-level coordinators for LEARN NC.; Format: article/help

Writing for the web: In Writing for the Web, page 1; Why teachers need to think about how they communicate on the web.; By David Walbert.

Teaching electricity and circuits through inquiry: Participants in this online course will learn about the science behind electric circuits and how this content can be taught through inquiry. The workshop will help teachers gain a better understanding of electricity and circuits, including conducting and insulating materials, open and closed circuits, and series and parallel circuits.; Format: article/online course

Teaching writing in the elementary classroom: In this course, participants will explore how to teach their students about the traits of good writing through mini-lessons and writing workshops, and how to use established criteria to evaluate writing.; Format: article/online course

Moodle training: Want to teach an online course yourself? Learn the basics of teaching in Moodle, LEARN NC’s course management system, to customize one of our courses for your own classroom.; Format: article/online course

Teaching online courses — Carolina Online Teacher Program: Take your teaching into a new realm—the online classroom. You’ll learn the pedagogy of online courses, experience the realities and complexities of online learning, and discover specific techniques for successfully building an online learning community.; Format: article/online course

Promoting reading comprehension skills in the elementary classroom: Researchers have identified the strategies that expert readers use to understand text. Develop your students into active, purposeful readers by teaching these strategies in your classroom.; Format: article/online course

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

African American history to 1950: This course explores African American history in the contexts of United States, North Carolina, and world history.; Format: article/online course

Invest in Teachers Award: Application tips: This page provides helpful strategies for applying for the Invest in Teachers Award, a program to provide funding for online professional development for North Carolina public schools.; Format: article/help

A crash course in ESL for administrators: Grasp pedagogy, policy and procedure for teaching and working with English language learners. This course will prepare administrators to work with ESL parents and create a welcoming environment for ESL students.; Format: article/online course

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