Teachers needed to write lesson plans on world history/culture, multimedia

LEARN NC is seeking teachers to write innovative lesson plans that use multimedia to teach world history, culture, literature, and religion. We’ll provide the multimedia; you provide the teaching ideas, and we’ll pay you for your time.

Over the past two years we have built a collection of photographs and audio recordings from various countries, including Vietnam, Nepal, Bali, Turkey, Ecuador, Mexico, Thailand, and Malaysia. We’ve build slideshows around some of these photographs, including a retelling of the Ramayana.

To make these resources more useful to teachers, we want to build instructional resources that integrate them into North Carolina’s curriculum. We’re looking for detailed instructional plans that make innovative and meaningful use of the media to promote students’ understanding of other cultures. The plans can address any curriculum area, not just social studies. (Science, anyone?)

If you’re interested, please contact us and tell us a little about yourself, including your teaching experience and how you use multimedia in the classroom now. If you have ideas for using our media resources or thoughts about global education, share that with us as well. If we accept your application, we’ll ask you to complete the lesson plans by summer, and we’ll pay $500 for each completed lesson plan.