
Resources for K-12 Educators
Faculty and staff in the NC State College of Education draw on research, best practices and, in many cases, their own experiences to support in-service K-12 educators. Among the support they provide are resources, tips and professional development opportunities for educators at all levels.
Resources You Asked For
We asked, you answered! We gathered tips and research-based resources related to the topics K-12 teachers told us they wanted more support with.
COUNSELING AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING
LITERACY AND WRITING
- Addressing Issues of Childhood Trauma Through Picture Books
- Exploring the Benefits of Screen-based vs. Paper-based Literacy Learning
- Helping Bilingual Students Become Proficient Readers
- Helping Students With Reading Comprehension
- How Subject Knowledge Strengthens Reading Skills
- Reading Comprehension Hinges on Building Knowledge.
- Science, Social Studies classes can help young English-learning students learn to read and write in English
- Strategies for Implementing Effective Literacy Instruction
- Transforming Reading Instruction in North Carolina: Lessons from the Classroom
- Utilizing Phoneme Videos for Phonemic Awareness Practice
MATH
- Getting Comfortable With Integrating Technology in the Math Classroom
- Helping Students Better Understand Math through Innovative Ways of Teaching
- How Teaching Math From a Strengths-based Perspective Help Students Succeed
- InSTEP Offers Free Personalized Professional Learning in Developing Expertise in Teaching Statistics and Data Science in Grades 6-12
- Knowledge of Students Plays Important Role in Teachers’ In-the-moment Noticing of Students’ Mathematical Strategies
- Math Tips to ‘Make it Make Sense’
- The Importance of Discourse and Social Interaction Important in Statistics Lessons
- The Importance of Helping K-12 Students to Understand Data and Statistics
- Using Technology to Enhance Math Instruction
MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS
- Advice for Teaching Literacy to Multilingual Learners
- Helping Bilingual Students Become Proficient Readers
- Science, Social Studies classes can help young English-learning students learn to read and write in English
- Supporting Multilingual Students in Rural Schools
- The Importance of Translanguaging Pedagogies
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Developing Strong Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) to Help Teachers Better Engage Their Students in Science Learning
- InSTEP Offers Free Personalized Professional Learning in Developing Expertise in Teaching Statistics and Data Science in Grades 6-12
- Recontextualizing personally meaningful practices from professional development
- Using Social Media for Professional Development
SCIENCE
- Addressing Climate Change in the Classroom
- Developing Strong Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) to Help Teachers Better Engage Their Students in Science Learning
- Five Tips for Engaging in Citizen Science as a Classroom Teacher
- Helping Students to Understand How Scientific Decisions are Made
- Science, Social Studies classes can help young English-learning students learn to read and write in English
- Using Argument to Reason about Science Practices
- Using Virtual Reality to Better Help Students Understand Size and Scale in Science
- Why Tinkering is Important for Kids
SOCIAL STUDIES
SPECIAL EDUCATION
TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Designing High-quality Distance Learning Experiences
- Digital Safety Concerns, Strategies in Elementary Schools
- Four Tips About How to Use AI in NC classrooms
- Getting Comfortable With Integrating Technology in the Math Classroom
- Helping Students Be Digitally Safe?
- Helping Students Manage Cellphone Use in Schools
- How Game-based Learning Can Improve Student Achievement in STEM
- Integrating New Technologies Like AI Into the Classroom