NC NTSP - A Podcast

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!

In this episode, you'll learn why it's important to create spaces where all students feel safe, included, and ones in which ALL students feel as if they actually belong!

In this episode, we’ll discuss the “thing” we all need more of but will never get….time!  Listen and learn about two habits that will move you towards being a better time manager and a teacher who experiences work-life balance!

We all know that person who has been undeterred from their goals for as long as we’ve known them. Can you picture such a person? Is it you? What does it mean to persevere toward a long term goal in the face of personal challenges? How does it look at various stages of our lives - from childhood, through adolescence, and into adulthood? In this episode, we explore the questions: what does it mean to have grit? How can we spot it in our students? And how can we encourage students to become more gritty?

This episode focuses on the critical components required to have positive and impactful relationships with students.  One key ingredient to being an effective teacher is learning how to cultivate and establish positive relationships with your students. Join us in this episode and learn about the power of positive teacher-student relationships. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nEHjHOXDRdxnIbJ12cKH9iX_qm_PUN-LJZ4NstTQSns/edit?usp=sharing

In this third installment of the Classroom Management series, we discuss ways you can plan for students to work - in isolation/individually, cooperatively, or collaboratively, focusing on the impacts these choices have implications for student learning.

Get to know the hosts of the NCNTSP Podcast. This week, meet Okema Simpson. Full episodes start next week!

Get to know the hosts of the NCNTSP Podcast. This week, meet Vanita Beavers and Angela Hill.

Get to know the hosts of the NCNTSP Podcast. This week, meet Denise Hunt and Adreian Pitts.

Get to know the hosts of the NCNTSP Podcast. This week, meet Lindsay Lewis, and Wayne Williams.