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New teachers often get stuck with the toughest teaching assignments. Even experienced instructors can get thrown for a loop if they’re tasked with teaching an unfamiliar subject. If you’re an inexperienced biology or civics and economics teacher who’s worried about how you’ll fare in the classroom, turn to LEARN NC’s Virtual Mentoring program for guidance. You’ll get expert help. Your time commitment will be minimal. It’s available at any hour, day or night. You progress on your own schedule and at your own pace. And best of all, it’s yours at no cost to you, your school, or your LEA.

Experience and expertise

You’ll work with an expert mentor who has successfully mentored teachers both online and face-to-face. In addition, you’ll join a statewide Professional Learning Community (PLC) of instructors teaching the same subject as you, each sharing his or her successes, challenges, and unique perspective on how to confront instructional issues.

Full curriculum access

Participants in LEARN NC’s Virtual Mentoring program receive access to a fully developed, online curriculum plan aligned to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study to use as a year-long course template or a reference for individual lessons.

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LEARN NC is seeking teachers to write a second round of 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 in Asia and Latin America, and we’ve built slideshows around some of these photographs, as well, 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 your ideas for using our media resources for global education. If we accept your application, we’ll ask you to complete the lesson plan(s) by August 31, and we’ll pay $500 for each completed lesson plan.

Now you can earn a LEARN NC Certificate in Online Instruction through the Carolina Online Teacher program (COLT). In five core courses and two electives, totaling a minimum of 17 CEUs, you’ll master the component skills of online teaching: effective collaboration and facilitation, creating learning communities, navigating the virtual classroom, and developing student-centered instruction.

Take the courses in this program of study at your convenience and build the knowledge to create a dynamic learning community, one where learners separated by a few feet or many miles can collaborate and share ideas. With the possibilities for using web-based content and multimedia, online courses can be exciting and inspiring for teachers and students alike.

For more information and descriptions of COLT courses, click here.