Professional Development
Effective teachers commit to furthering their own learning as well as their students’ learning. Practicing educators take part in regular professional development opportunities in order to be effective and engaged teachers. The College of Education fosters this career-long commitment to learning and professional development by requiring our undergraduate students seeking initial licensure to complete a series of Professional Growth Units, or PGUs.
All undergraduate students in licensure majors who entered NC State in fall 2011 or later must complete a minimum of 4.5 PGUs prior to graduation. All MAT students must complete a minimum of 2 PGUs prior to graduation. It is recommended that all undergraduate students complete a minimum of 1.5 PGUs per year and MAT students complete a minimum of 1.0 PGU per year. You cannot complete all of your PGU requirements in one academic year.
The College holds a variety of professional development events each semester that offer PGU credit. Qualifying events lasting 45 minutes to one hour earn 0.5 PGU, with longer events earning additional PGU credit. The maximum number of PGUs a student can earn for a single event is 1.5. We expect students to have completed a variety of opportunities within their required PGUs. Therefore, attending the same PGU experience every year will not be accepted. For example, all PGUs coming from conference attendance will not be accepted.
This semester’s events are listed below.
Please check back frequently as new events will be listed as they become available.
During October’s monthly TEECA club meeting, we will be hosting a career panel featuring multiple STEM professionals and TDE educators! Join us to learn more about their jobs and experiences, and ask questions about their journeys going from college graduate to being highly sucessful in their field.
Date: Monday, October 7th, 2024
Time: 6:30 – 7:30 PM
Location: Lampe Hall, Room 101
Audience: TDE and GC students in the College of Education
Contact: Lauren Shackleford
Credit: 0.5
This three-workshop series is designed to help teacher candidates reduce stress and manage their mental health. The group provides a supportive space for educators to share their experiences and challenges and learn stress-relief activities, mindfulness practices, and open discussions.
Dates: Wednesday, October 2,9, and 16
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: Online
Audience: Teacher Candidates
Contact: Dr. Jared Stewart-Ginsburg
Credit: 1.0
This three-workshop series is designed to help teacher candidates develop organization and planning skills to promote success in academic courses and fieldwork placements. Topics include strategies for time management, goal setting, and task completion.
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 9, and 16
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: Online
Audience: Teacher Candidates
Contact: Dr. Jared Stewart-Ginsburg
Credit: 1.0
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, it’s probably Copyright. This course will introduce Copyright ghosts such as Fair Use, the TEACH Act, and Creative Commons. Learn how to bust them all with best practices to keep your classroom infringement-free.
Date: Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: DH Hill Learning Lab
Audience: Undergraduate Students
Contact: Emma Giles (eigiles@ncsu.edu)
Credit: 0.5
This three-workshop series aims to enhance teacher candidates’ understanding of ethical standards, effective communication, and continuous professional development. Participants will engage in interactive sessions to explore best practices, case studies, and strategies for fostering a positive learning environment.
Dates: Wednesday, October 2, 9, and 16
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: Online
Audience: Teacher Candidates
Contact: Dr. Stewart-Ginsburg
Credit: 1.0
Join us for dinner and discussion about contemporary issues facing public education. We will pose a few questions/ scenarios, utilize various protocols that can be used in your future classroom, and provide dinner with our discussion. Hope you can join!
Date: Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
Time: 5:30 – 8:00 PM
Location: Witherspoon Student Center, Sankova Room
Audience: Pre-Service Teachers
Contact: Crystal Espey
Credit: 1.0
Join us on Friday, October 11, 2024, from 4.30-6 pm for Dr. Ofelia García at the Linguistic Diversity Speaker Series hosted by Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Educational Equity Maria Coady. Her talk, Translanguaging as Practice and Pedagogy, will be from 4.30 to 5.30 pm, followed by a short reception and book signing. The first 100 participants (must be present) will receive a free copy of her book.
Date: Friday, October 11, 2024
Time: 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Location: The Friday Institute
Audience: Educators, student teachers, or those interested in equitable education for multilingual students
Contact: Cassie Rubinstein (crubins@ncsu.edu)
Credit: 0.5
This event includes panels on Leadership for Dual Language Immersion (DLI), workshops on coaching, translanguaging, and Multilingual-DLI family engagement.
Date: Saturday, October 12, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Wake County Public School System’s Professional Development Center. The address is Crossroads III, 111 Corning Road, Cary, NC 27518.
Audience: Educators, pre-service teachers, or those interested in equitable education for multilingual learners
Contact: Cassie Rubinstein (crubins@ncsu.edu)
Credit: 1.5
This three-workshop series is designed to help teacher candidates reduce stress and manage their mental health. The group provides a supportive space for educators to share their experiences and challenges and learn stress-relief activities, mindfulness practices, and open discussions.
Dates: Wednesday, October 2,9, and 16
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: Online
Audience: Teacher Candidates
Contact: Dr. Jared Stewart-Ginsburg
Credit: 1.0
This three-workshop series is designed to help teacher candidates develop organization and planning skills to promote success in academic courses and fieldwork placements. Topics include strategies for time management, goal setting, and task completion.
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 9, and 16
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: Online
Audience: Teacher Candidates
Contact: Dr. Jared Stewart-Ginsburg
Credit: 1.0
This three-workshop series aims to enhance teacher candidates’ understanding of ethical standards, effective communication, and continuous professional development. Participants will engage in interactive sessions to explore best practices, case studies, and strategies for fostering a positive learning environment.
Dates: Wednesday, October 2, 9, and 16
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: Online
Audience: Teacher Candidates
Contact: Dr. Stewart-Ginsburg
Credit: 1.0
This event will consist of a panel of veteran teachers and administrators to talk about their experience navigating difficult parent interactions. Learning how to advocate for yourself as a beginning teacher and knowing the resources that the administration can provide to help handle these situations.
Date: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
Time: 7:30 – 8:30 PM
Location: Online
Audience: Pre-service teachers (undergraduate and MATs)
Contact: Cambria Rotondo (ckrotond@ncsu.edu)
Credit: 0.5
In recent years, literacy rates in many school districts have either stagnated or fallen, leaving many teachers wondering what to do. Literacy is formed in the classroom, but also at home and out in the world. School and public libraries have a unique role in supporting literacy outcomes outside the classroom. This lesson and its resources will teach you how to collaborate with libraries and parents to get your students the support they need to read!
Date: Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: D.H. Hill Learning Lab
Audience: Undergraduate Education Majors
Contact: Emma Giles, Scott Summer
Credit: 0.5
This event includes presentations from the NC Superintendent of the Year, NC Principal of the Year and NC Teacher of the Year as well as a panel for pre-submitted questions and an open Q/A session.
Date: Monday, November 18th, 2024
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Location: TBD
Audience: College of Education Students
Contact: Cambria Rotondo (ckrotond@ncsu.eduprof)
Credit: 1.0