NCCAT

On November 9th and 10th, I had the wonderful opportunity to work with a group of teachers at NCCAT located in Cullowhee, NC.  NCCAT stands for North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching. According to their website: 

The NCCAT Mission: To Advance Teaching as an Art and a Profession

NCCAT's mission is to keep high-quality teachers in the classroom, advancing teaching beyond that of a simple job to an art form and a profession.  Be renewing their love for teaching, and improving the quality and enthusiasm of the teachers themselves, NCCAT ultimately improves student engagement in learning and academic achievement. 

NCCAT's vision is to help every North Carolina teacher grow in knowledge, skills, compassion, and professionalism so that every student becomes engaged, self-motivated, and successful. 

NCCAT helps to retain the most caring, highly qualified, and skilled teachers necessary to positively impact the quality of public education in North Carolina.  Dedicated to enriching the professional lives of our state's public school teachers, NCCAT provies support for the entire spectrum of their teaching career.


While at NCCAT, I had the opportunity to work with teachers on web 2.0 tools and integrating technology into the Common Core and the teachers' classrooms.  We had a wonderful week and I was so impressed with how much the teachers were able to accomplish in 1 week.  We had teachers who created wikis, blogs, and websites for their classes to use.  While others created lessons using eduglogster, blabberize, voki, animoto, and many other web 2.0 tools.

Many teachers took the opportunity to share with their colleagues what they had learned during NCCAT by creating an animoto video.  Below is Charisma Arbogast's video.  I was so impressed with all of the hard work the teachers put in for their students!  Thank you teachers and thank you Barb for a wonderful week!

Charima Arbogast's animoto video: http://animoto.com/play/XLX7bRYRSuBV0OK4DGNZzg