The Department of Early Childhood and Special Education is a community of professional educators dedicated to the preparation of teachers and other professionals who have the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to work with young children birth through kindergarten, students with special needs, and their families. It values the integration of current theory, research, and professional expertise from multiple disciplines and perspectives to inform practices that enable diverse learners to reach their potential.
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The Department of Elementary, Middle Level, & Literacy Education is dedicated to the preparation of teachers and other professionals to work with elementary & middle grades children as well as promoting reading, language development, cognition, and learning skills.
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Middle Level, & Literacy
Education >
The Department of Instructional Technology, Foundations and Secondary Education prepares educators/professionals for leadership positions in instructional technology and secondary education. Our commitment is to the development of highly competent professionals to serve in educational leadership roles.
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Technology, Foundations, and Secondary Education >
The Department of Educational Leadership is committed to the preparation, support and collaboration with educators who seek or hold leadership positions in schools, school districts, boards, state and federal departments, agencies or higher education. The department hosts the Watson School of Education’s Master of School Administration program (MSA), the Curriculum, Instruction and Supervision Program (MED in CIS), the undergraduate Leadership Minor (LED) and the proposed Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Administration (under development).
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PDS is a system
of relationships among the Watson School of Education and 95 public schools.
PDS improves the quality of teacher and administrator preparation and performance
through rigorous entry and program standards and an array of application experiences,
including site-based seminars, a coaching and supervision model that involves
pairing interns with trained partnership teachers and principals, and classroom
and school- level research.
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more about PDS >
The Science and Mathematics Education Center (SMEC) as a unit of the University
of North Carolina at Wilmington assists in fulfilling the University's mission
to encourage public access to its educational programs and its commitment
to regional service.
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the SMEC website >
The North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project is a collaborative project
between the NC Division of Child Development and other institutions of higher
education across the state. NCRLAP's purpose is to conduct voluntary assessments
for child care centers and homes attempting to earn three or more stars within
the NC Star Rated License system.
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the RLAP website >
Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-on-one
tutoring for low-achieving first graders. The intervention is most effective
when it is available to all students who need it and is used as a supplement
to good classroom teaching. In Reading Recovery, individual students receive
a half-hour lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks with a specially trained
Reading Recovery teacher. As soon as students can read within the average
range of their class and demonstrate that they can continue to achieve, their
lessons are discontinued, and new students begin individual instruction.
Please contact Laurie Howell at 910.962.7039
for updated fee information. We are currently reorganizing our
materials and website.
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website >