Notes
Spring
2010 Professional Learning Day Conferences Scheduled
Spring 2010
Site Coordinator Forms
Upcoming PDS
Training Events
PDS Partnership Application
Super Site
Seminar Tips
Spring 2010 Professional Learning Day Conferences
Mark Your Calendars!
For Site Coordinators to share with teachers currently
hosting spring interns in their school.
Conference flyer containing detailed information to be sent shortly.
* Wednesday, March
3, 2010:
Middle
Grades/Music/PE/Secondary
Professional Learning Day Conference for Partnership Teachers Hosting
Spring 2010 Intern.
* Tuesday, March
23, 2010:
Elementary/EYC
Professional Learning Day Conference for Partnership Teachers Hosting
Spring 2010 Intern.
Conference
Location: WCE 162
Conference Time :
8:30am - 3:30pm
Spring 2010 Site Coordinator Forms
Just A Reminder!
Site Coordinators need to fill out forms for the
informational as well as reflective seminars held for interns.
Diana Mintz will be emailing you attachments for these forms to compile
information needed for us to complete our report to the state.
Please use these forms to enter information after each site seminar.
Upcoming PDS Events
http://www.uncw.edu/ed/pds/news.html
PDS Partnership Application&
Thanks For Your Help!
We are continuing our process of having ALL PDS
Partnership Teachers/Site Coordinators complete our new ONLINE PDS
Application so that their PDS record in the Watson College of Education
Database contains information current to the academic year and is aligned
with the NC Professional Teaching Standards.
Site Coordinators will be sent a list (if you have not already received
one) of partnership teachers at their school with their unique user name
and password needed to log in to the application. This log in
information is not to be used by anyone other than the PDS partner as it
is linked to their database record.
This critical process is necessary for us to move ALL PDS partners into
the New Online Teacher Application to maintain a current database.
Thank you for your assistance!
Link to the application:
www.uncw.edu/ed/pds/application.html
Super Site Seminar Tips
(If you have had
an opportunity to use the below tip, we would be interested to know how it
was helpful to you.)
Looking for great ideas for Site Seminars to encourage
interns to make classrooms more student-centered utilizing higher
thinking skills? Here are a series of fantastic ideas from Inspiring
Teachers columnist Jeri Asaro for you to help interns and teachers add to
their tool box of classroom activities!
Use a Jigsaw strategy to have interns pair up and discuss
2-3 Great Active
Learning Strategies from the below site and then teach their
strategies to the rest of the interns. Reflect on how these strategies
promote HOTS!
Great Active Learning Strategies
Diane Calhoun,
PDS Director
UNC Wilmington
Watson College of Education
601 South college Road
Wilmington, NC 28403-5991
Tel: 910-962-7244
Fax: 910-962-7400
www.uncw.edu/ed/pds/
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NEWS
Welcome Back
Site Coordinators!
We hope that you all had a wonderful holiday and were able
to take some time for you to reflect and renew!
At December graduation, our fall interns walked across the
bridge and down the stairs of the Watson College of Education. This
celebration of joy and accomplishment was exciting and rewarding to
experience. It gave thought as to what your role is all
about...mentoring and coaching new teachers by:
* GUIDING them to develop and grow into
knowledgeable, skilled, compassionate teachers,
* ENCOURAGING them to appreciate
differences as they build positive relationships with students, and
* SUPPORTING them as they become
reflective and responsive instructional decision makers.
As we enter the spring semester with a new group of
interns, it is important that we make their entry into our schools,
classrooms and lives as smooth as possible. A well-planned
orientation will help interns feel welcomed and comfortable in their new
school setting. There is an excellent outline of an internship
orientation available for you on the PDS Website:
http://www.uncw.edu/ed/pds/participants.html
Once in the site, select "Site Coordinators" and
enter User Name (pds) and Password (participants). Scroll down to
"Materials and Resources" to view sample plans for intern
orientations.
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Congratulations
Site Coordinator, Fran Antinori!
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The Fall WCE 2009 Roy E. Harkin Teacher Recognition Award
Recipient...Fran Antinori, 1st Grade Classroom Teacher from Dixon
Elementary School.
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The award is rotated each semester to a
different PDS School System. This fall Onslow County was selected
for receiving this award. A university/ district team reviewed
nominations and selected a recipient.
Ms. Antinori, Onslow County recipient, states that playing
a part in the development of young teachers has been one of her greatest
pleasures in life. She thrives on their energy, their enthusiasm,
and the new ideas they bring to her own teaching. She makes it
clear to young teachers that she is their coach, their mentor, their
sounding board and their friend. She endeavors to have young
teachers in her care see the big picture of education and encourage
having family and teachers partner together to make learning happen.
Ms. Antinori represents all that is valued in our education of young
teachers and our educational system as a whole! As the recipient of
this award, she received a certificate of recognition and an award of
$150 for purchase of classroom supplies. Ms. Antinori's name will
be added to the Roy E. Harkin Teacher Recognition Award plaque located
in the atrium of the education building.
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Networking
A New Vision of
Teaching for the NC Professional Teaching Standards...
The different demands on 21st Century education dictate
new roles for teachers in their classrooms and schools. The
following document is a guide for us as educators that helps frame what
student success will look like in the new global economy.
The Framework!
It is designed to help practitioners integrate skills into
the teaching of core academic subjects through a unified effort of
business/states collectively visioning learning. The Framework for
21st Century Learning describes the skills, knowledge and expertise
students must master to succeed in work and life; it is a blend of
content knowledge, specific skills, expertise and literacies.
Within the context of core knowledge instruction, students
must also learn the essential
skills for success in today's world, such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration.
Try This
Idea!
You can play a critical role in helping your interns and
teachers embed these understandings in their daily instruction by
engaging in reflective dialogue in a site seminar using this framework or
aspects of this framework. Let us
know about your successes!
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