Looking for Exciting Professional Development Opportunities for NC Public School Teachers at NO COST to Your School System?

Are you looking for more FREE professional development to attend this summer? The K-12 Social Studies team and the Department of Public Instruction has just what the doctor ordered!

Attached is a Save the Date regarding an upcoming social studies Advanced Placement Institute for teachers at the high school, middle, and elementary level.
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The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching Advancing Teaching


Attention North Carolina Public School Teachers:

Looking for Exciting
Professional Development Opportunities
for NC Public School Teachers at
NO COST
to Your School System?

We want you to know that we are here to support you! As you know, public schools depend on the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching to help provide professional development for our state's teachers. With the current economic climate, many school systems have drastically reduced, and in some cases eliminated, professional development funding.

NCCAT's instructional programs are a vital means of improving the quality of teaching in North Carolina's schools. Programs are interdisciplinary and span a multitude of subject areas, including environmental and physical sciences, technology, humanities, arts, mathematics, leadership, communication, and health. All NCCAT seminars incorporate the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards.

NCCAT provides North Carolina's teachers with meaningful and effective professional development that is essential to the 21st century classroom. NCCAT covers all program costs including seminar expenses, meals, lodging, and pay for the substitute teacher.

We currently have a few openings in the following NCCAT professional development seminars: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
13227♦ Connect to Your Future: Celebrating Success in the Classroom June 28-July 2: Cullowhee Designed for beginning teachers in their second or third year of teaching.
Teaching is an art, a science, and a profession supported by best practices of extensive educational theory and research. But what tips, tools, and techniques help teachers promote student success? Do children of poverty have different and unique learning needs? How do you determine and meet the learning styles, multiple intelligences, and cognitive levels of all students in the classroom? This seminar supports motivated beginning teachers in their second or third year of teaching by strengthening their knowledge base and classroom expertise. Through experiential learning, teachers will explore pedagogical concerns including differentiated instruction, brain-based research, communication, and classroom management. Come prepared to build professional competencies and confidence, improve student achievement, and reinforce your commitment to this critically important profession.
13229♦ Make Thinking Visible: Integrating Art into the Curriculum July 7-11: Cullowhee Utilizing the full spectrum of the arts, learn strategies that will engage even your reluctant learners. Research has shown that the arts help level the learning field across socioeconomic boundaries and increase overall academic performance for youth at risk. An expansive cultural and global view will serve as a vehicle to explore effective teaching strategies for today's diverse classrooms. 13215 ♦ Everyone Needs a Little Mystery: CSI in Your Classroom August 2-6: Cullowhee Was it really Colonel Mustard in the billiard room with a knife? After this seminar, you'll know for sure. Our survey of forensic science techniques will span from fingerprinting and impression analysis to forensic entomology, bite mark analysis, the physics of blood spatter, and much more. Use the equipment that the professionals use and hone your powers of observation and deduction as you assume the guise of expert CSI-Crime Scene Instructor. You will process a crime scene and explore DNA forensic analysis in a state-of-the-art laboratory. Middle and high school science teachers are encouraged to apply. 13218 ♦ Get the Picture? The Math, Science, and Art of Photography August 9-13: Cullowhee Shutter speed, aperture diameter, depth of field...who knew there was so much math and science involved in taking a high-quality photograph? Discover how this unique art form can provide an ideal vehicle for strengthening math and science skills while enhancing creativity in all students. Understand how photographers not only record what is visual but also create and preserve a sense of time and place. No prior training in photography is necessary; however, participants are encouraged to provide their own 35mm film single-lens reflex (SLR) camera.

How can I apply?
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Step 1: SELECT up to three seminars; for a full list of seminars, visit NCCAT's website.

Step 2: CONTACT NCCAT Teacher Services by calling 800-922-0482 or email the registrar. We will need your name, home phone number, social security number, the number of years you have taught in North Carolina, school name, and your seminar choices. Step 3: SUBMIT the application with your principal's signature and your brief personal statement (200 words minimum) to NCCAT Teacher Services.

FAX your completed application to 828-293-3740, Attn: NCCAT Teacher Services. Once your completed application is received and approved, NCCAT will notify you of your placement status.

FIND FULL SEMINAR DESCRIPTIONS AND DATES by clicking here and visiting NCCAT's websitewww.nccat.org/s/1099/start.aspx