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- Communicating with parents, colleagues, and administrators
- Effective communication is often about avoiding problems rather than solving them. These resources on communicating with parents, participating in a mentoring relationship, and working with colleagues and administrators will help you communicate effectively in a number of situations.
- Format: bibliography/help
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 'Tis the season...for observations
- In The First Year, page 2.8
- When you're facing an observation, keep your focus on your students, and think of it as an opportunity to work with administrators and gain a new perspective on your teaching.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- 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
- Mentor's guide
- My first words to any veterans, mentors and administrators reading this section should be “thank you.” The support and counsel you offer new teachers is invaluable. It is my hope that The First Year will assist you...
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- English language learners
- An introduction to LEARN NC's resources for teachers and administrators working with students with limited English proficiency.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Snow days
- In The First Year, page 3.2
- Don't make assumptions about school policies, and remember that not all “rules” are written down.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- A Crash Course in ESL: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the course A Crash Course in ESL which provides a concise overview of strategies and best practices for administrators working with English language learners.
- Format: syllabus
- Our students: Not just ours, and not just students
- In The First Year, page 3.7
- Often, your difficulties with students will have nothing to do with your actions, your classroom management, or your school.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- If he's in danger of failing, at least three people need to know it
- In The First Year, page 4.1
- Get in touch with parents to prevent students' failure, not just to report on it.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Looking for support
- An elementary special education teacher talks about finding support in challenging situations.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Improving your technology utilization
- A quick review can help you determine whether your school is making the most of its technology budget.
- By Chris Hitch.
- Mentoring matters
- How mentors can serve as role models, helpers, and colleagues.
- By Evalee Parker.
- Templates to help you with paperwork
- In The First Year, page 1.2
- Templates for a parent contact log, discipline log, multipurpose log, sub plan, in-school-suspension plan, IEP notebook, grade book, and locker log.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Assessing the learning process
- In Math for multiple intelligences, page 3
- Assessment, like instruction, needs to be geared toward various learning styles, and teachers can create rubrics for ongoing assessment that keep a formal daily record of what students are learning.
- By Gretchen Buher and David Walbert.
- An introduction to teacher research
- Every day, teachers develop lesson plans, evaluate student work, and share outcomes with students, parents, and administrators. Teacher research is simply a more intentional and systematic version of what good teachers already do. This article explains the basic process of teacher research, including formulation of a research question, data collection and analysis, and writing up your findings.
- By Amy Anderson.
- 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.
- Team teaching
- Also known as co-teaching or collaborative teaching, team teaching is an instructional strategy used across subject areas primarily in middle grades in a variety of methods. Teams are typically composed of between two and four teachers...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
