Learn NC Courses beginning this month

There is a limited amount of funds at each school to take a limited number of courses through Learn NC. All courses which request funding must come through the principal in order to access the funds and initiate the registration process with Learn NC. The participant must also register in the Staff Development Manager – http://staffdev.ucps.k12.nc.us/ . Please contact Sheila Chaney if you are interested in enrolling one of your teachers in a course through Learn NC.
LEARN NC and North Carolina e-Learning for Educators have several online professional development courses open for enrollment for February 2011. Each course was created using a researched model of effective professional development, and the online format allows participants to work at a time and place most convenient to them.

New courses

Creating and Using Meaningful Rubrics — February 9 - March  8

Many rubrics are mere checklists—they’re useful, but don’t leave much room for student growth. This course will help you use web tools, your own content knowledge, and a wealth of assessment information to create your own dynamic rubrics, as well as to analyze and critique existing ones.

Teaching Effectively with an Interactive Whiteboard — February 9 – March 22

Learn innovative strategies to maximize your interactive whiteboard’s capabilities, and integrate time-tested strategies into this technology. This course provides an overview of an interactive whiteboard’s potential for student engagement, as well as ample opportunity for teachers to research and develop strategies specific to their classroom needs.

Visual Learning Strategies — February 9 – March 22

Seventy to 90 percent of all brain inputs are visual, so it pays to develop instructional strategies that use strong visual inputs. In this six-week course designed for teachers of all grade levels, you’ll learn several concrete, technology-enhanced visual learning strategies.

Working With Students With Cognitive Disabilities — February 9 – March 22

Collaborate with other professionals to understand the nature of cognitive disabilities and how to design lessons to accommodate for these students. You’ll gain hands-on experience to include students with cognitive disabilities in any setting in which the student is placed.

Promoting Reading Comprehension Skills in the Middle School Classroom — February 9 – March 29

Researchers have found that teaching specific reading strategies leads to better reading comprehension. This workshop will help you prepare your students to become active and purposeful readers who think about their text before, during, and after reading.

Additional courses starting February 9

• Adolescent Literacy for Middle Grades
• Adolescent Literacy: English Language Arts Comprehension Strategies
• Algebraic Thinking in Elementary School
• The Civil Rights Movement in Context
• Designing a Virtual Field Trip
• Developing Your Online Course - Carolina Online Teacher Program
• Discovering Linear Functions Through Technology
• Getting Started in the 1:1 Classroom
• Innovate to Transform the 1:1 Classroom with Web 2.0 Tools
• Integrating Primary Sources into the Social Studies Classroom
• Introduction to Online Learning
• LEP Training 102
• Lesson Planning for English Language Learners Using the WIDA/ELP Standards
• Modern Math Teaching: Creating a Culture of Curiosity through Multimedia
• Moodle Training - Carolina Online Teacher Program
• Planning Instruction with the National STEM Digital Library
• Promoting Reading Comprehension Skills in the Middle School Classroom
• Reading, Writing and Research: Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum
• Scientific Inquiry for Elementary Teachers (formerly Elementary Science Learning)
• Teaching Online Courses - Carolina Online Teacher Program

About North Carolina e-Learning for Educators

North Carolina’s leaders in online professional development have collaborated on a series of courses that will bolster content knowledge and classroom technology integration at an affordable cost, with the convenience and flexibility only possible online.
North Carolina e-Learning for Educators is a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, UNC-TV, LEARN NC, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University College of Education, and the North Carolina Virtual Public School. This program is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Education under Grant No. U286A050018.
For a full list of available courses, please visit our online courses page.