Dr. Caroline Beam shares her thoughts and experiences concerning understanding what students know, what they have yet to master, and what we as educators can do to address student needs as a result of looking at their work. She references Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson in her closing thoughts, whose work you can find at https://differentiationcentral.com/what-is-differentiated-instruction/.

Join Ike Smith and Cameron Gupton as they discuss what constitutes high-quality social studies instruction.

Today we are joined by Paige Laurain, an NCNTSP teacher alumna and now Instructional Coach. She talks with Wayne about procedural, conceptual, and application-centered understandings of mathematics, and ways we might achieve them in our classrooms. 

Kim Davis and Wayne Williams discuss incorporating pictures into instruction, as well as other ways to get students engaged and deepen their thinking about our subject matter. 

Sites suggested in this episode for picture sources include:

https://artsandculture.google.com/

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-whats-going-on-in-this-picture

https://wonderopolis.org/

In this episode, Carrie Brewington and Jami Graham reflect on five suggestions that can make your classroom a place where students want to engage in your instruction. 

The environment in which we learn is a complex system. As teachers, we play a critical role in ensuring that students feel respected, safe, and supported in their learning. In this episode, Dr. Denise Hunt joins Wayne Williams to discuss some thoughts on how we as teachers can create such an environment for our students.

No matter what you teach, how you use vocabulary, syntax, and discussion conveys to your students how your discipline gets done. Join Dr. Mark Meacham and your host, Wayne Williams, for this episode, in which we explore what is planning to use academic language effectively in your classroom. 

If we want our assessments to tell us usable information about what our students know and can do, we need to plan them. In this episode, Wayne sits down with Ike Smith of the App State region. We discuss ways to expand our assessment options while still preparing students for the accountability-driven summative assessments at the end of the school year.

This session will discuss ways to use Knowledge of Students to improve planning instruction, and features a guest principal with insight into ways to successfully accomplish this.

Here is what you can expect in Season 2 of the NC NTSP Podcast. We are so excited about this upcoming season!