On or before February 1, 2025, please email Ronda Hawkins at hawkinsr@sandhills.edu the following documents:
Two very brief (one-page max) separate “papers” for discussion. Please include your contact information on your papers so participants can contact you after the seminar. You can include both papers in one document as long as they are on separate pages.
The North Carolina Great Teachers Seminar is an energizing & refreshing event that brings teachers from diverse teaching fields together to explore teaching and learning innovations and solutions to challenges encountered in the classroom. Seminar staff will lead small group sessions centered around the special interests and challenges of each group.
In early February, you will receive a link to upload a short bio including a photo (individual or family) to Padlet which will be shared with registered participants and staff.
Please also bring the following to the seminar:
ANY single Teaching Device or Strategy, NATD (non-astounding teaching device), homemade or commercial, subject-oriented (but not necessarily subject specific) or universally applicable, which has enhanced your teaching effectiveness. Bring and/or be prepared to share anything from your “bag of teaching tricks”. This doesn’t have to be a physical “thing,” but can be sharing an activity or idea that has made teaching more effective for you and is a “little thing” that works in your classroom. Presentation time of this device or strategy is limited to 1 – 3 minutes. We do not have projectors or computers available for sharing so, these are generally low tech, but you are free to bring handouts if you want to share with the group.
One copy of a book relating to teaching which you have found helpful or inspiring. Your selection will become part of a Browsing Library at the Seminar that will be available for all participants during the seminar. At the conclusion of the seminar, participants take home the book they brought.