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Roland-Grise Middle School Teachers Attend Summer Staff Development

Five educators from Roland-Grise Middle School attended a North Carolina Teacher Academy at the Radisson RTP in Raleigh, NC, June 22-26, 2008. The participants included Elin Reuben, Erin Brown, Louise Miller, Connie Soles, and Margarete Fedora.

The North Carolina Teacher Academy is a professional development program established and funded by the North Carolina General Assembly. The mission of the Teacher Academy is to enrich instruction and impact student achievement by supporting the growth and retention of highly qualified teachers through research-based professional development in the areas of school leadership, instructional methodology, core-content, and technology.

The teachers from Roland-Grise attended the module, Differentiated Instruction in K-12 Classrooms. Understanding the need for differentiated instruction is a key part of instruction that will help every student to reach success. This module provided teachers key principles of differentiation, strategies such as flexible grouping, and an implementation plan to successfully apply differentiation in today's classroom. Not only did teachers learn from the instruction given in the module but the interaction and sharing among teachers from all across the state allowed teachers to learn from each other.

This sharing of ideas will continue online in both the fall and the spring with follow up activities. Teachers will try the ideas, strategies and activities explored in the session with their students during the school year, and then discuss the experiences with other participants on Blackboard.

Elin Reuben said, "Learning how to help my students become more successful is such an exciting part of teaching and I can't wait to apply the new strategies I have gained this week!" Another teacher, Erin Brown, stated, “In these days of standardized testing, teacher academy showed me how I can still successfully create an environment where learning is not “one size fits all.”

Other residential teacher academies are taking place at Appalachian State University, Chowan University, Elon University, Lenoir-Rhyne College, NC A&T State University, and Western Carolina University. This year educators had the choice of selecting from twenty-one topics. All modules have been designed to include a combination of current theory complemented by direct hands-on activities.
 

 

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7/17/08