Collaborative Grants
Special InitiativesCoalitions 4 Success is designed to help fulfill the mission of the federal “No Child Left Behind” legislation by providing partnerships between the Watson School of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences as well as with school systems with large population of students in poverty. The goal of Coalitions 4 Success is to ensure the success of at-risk, diverse student populations, specifically those identified as Limited English Proficiency (LEP). The partnership project will focus on improving teachers’ and principals attitudes, knowledge, skills and abilities in working with at-risk students and diversity..
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more about the C4S program >
The Coalition for Transition to Teaching (CT3) is a teacher preparation program
designed to enable mid-career professionals, especially military personnel,
to become educators through alternative pathways to licensure.
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more about the CT3 program >
The purpose of this project, Middle Grades Educators Empowering Learners, is to unite a coalition of educators, including education and college of arts and sciences faculty partnered with public school educators, to build the region’s capacity to ensure the success of middle grades students, particularly those who are at risk of being unsuccessful in classrooms and traditional school environments.
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NCTeach is a program designed to provide mid-career college graduates with the opportunity to become teachers especially in high demand areas. The program provides coursework that consists of six modules delivered during one summer (totaling 210 contact hours) and sessions throughout the fall and spring semester (40 contact hours each semester). Persons completing this program are expected to complete the initial licensure requirements at their host sites, adding content area coursework as needed.
The NCTeach curriculum modules focus on the foundations and pedagogy for
teacher preparation. These are organized in six strands: 1) the professional
role of the teacher, 2) understanding the learner, 3) effective teaching in
general, 4) effective teaching in the content area, 5) technology, and 6)
the school environment.
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more about NCTeach >
NC Quest is a joint-sponsored program between the University of North Carolina at Wilmington’s Watson School of Education/College of Arts and Sciences, and coalition partner school districts in Southeastern North Carolina.
NC Quest is designed to help fulfill the mission of the federal “No
Child Left Behind” legislation by assisting middle school math and science
teachers in increasing their knowledge in both content and instructional practice,
and by increasing the number of skilled mentor teachers to promote teacher
development and retention.
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more about NCQuest >
Praxis One workshops are designed to give an overview of both the PPST and
the CBT followed by breakout sessions in math, reading and writing. Additional
tutoring times with the presenters (if desired) will be provided.
Please go to our Academic
Advising website to get the latest information for Praxis I Workshops.
Prepare for the Praxis II test. Learn strategies for successful test-taking,
writing essays, lesson plans, and other areas that are essential for this
test. Presented by Rodney Estrada, a well-known national consultant for Praxis
preparation.
Please go to our Academic
Advising website to get the latest information for Praxis I Workshops.
The Watson School of Education's "National Board Certification Support Program" for educators in our partnership districts began in 2001 and has continued to be a valuable resource for participants. The Watson School of Education will provide support for National Board Candidates throughout the 2005-2006 certification cycles.
We have structured the activities and delivery sequence to provide increased
support for all candidates and to address the changes implemented by the National
Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
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Teachers website >
Watson School of Education is one of five institutions nationally to be showcased
in a newly established AACTE
institute that has been organized in collaboration with Western Oregon University.
The institute will be offered both as a preconference session during the annual
AACTE meeting and during the summer of 2004.
Our model to be disseminated during the institute, "Designing Evidence-Based
Teacher Preparation Programs: Connecting Teaching and Learning through Work
Samples" will demonstrate to institutional teams from across the nation,
a technology-enhanced assessment system to connect teaching and learning and
provide effective vehicles for collecting and assessing performance evidence
to inform faculty and student decision making.
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the Pre-Conference presentation materials >
The K-8 Reading Institute is sponsored by the Watson School of Education's
PDS University-School Partnership and SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education
(SERVE).
30 Contact Hours: Exploring Effective Ways to Support Growth in Research Based
Reading Instruction
The Watson School of Education supports its graduates in the first three
years of their teaching career through the 1st Years of Teaching Leadership
Program. This program engages teachers in reflective decision-making focused
on developing instructional practices that increase student performance.
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website >
Beginning with the 2005,fall semester, the Watson School of Education requires
that all students enrolled in EDN 200, 203, 301 and/or 303 maintain an active
account on TaskStream, a web-based curriculum builder and portfolio toolset.
Students will use their accounts to store specific evidence from each course
and to build a Foundations Portfolio from these courses to take to their methods
courses and internship. TaskStream is a versatile tool that allows candidates
to develop curriculum, correspond, assess, and store multiple sources of evidence.
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website >
An Award for Distinguished Service to the Children and Youth of North Carolina
Since 1993, the Watson School of Education has honored individuals whose
vision, tenacity, courage and sacrifice have made a difference in the lives
of young people in our state. Many of these individuals have overcome great
obstacles and taken significant professional risk to support the education
and health of children and youth.
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website >
The mission of PDK International shall be to promote quality education, with
particular emphasis on publicly supported education, as essential to the development
and maintenance of a democratic society.
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The North Carolina Science Olympiad (NCSO) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to improve the quality of science and technology education in all North Carolina schools. The NCSO accomplishes its mission through professional development workshops, summer institutes, after school programs, summer camps and intramural, regional, and state tournaments that are rigorous academic interscholastic competitions that consist of a series of individual and team events that are well-balanced between the various science disciplines of biology, earth science, chemistry, physics, and technology.
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