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Need
more information?
Call
Kay Crouch 828.726.2366
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Caldwell Community College
and Technical Institute is pleased to host the 17th
Annual North Carolina Great Teachers Retreat to be held
February 25-28, 2010 at the
Kanuga Conference Center in
Hendersonville, NC.
As with
its many counterparts across North America & beyond, the
retreat focuses on innovations and problems of instruction
in teaching. Although originally started in the community
college environment, others from public schools,
universities, and private institutions of learning have
successfully participated. In spite of what the name might
suggest, the retreat is not so much an assembly of great
teachers as it is a group of dedicated educators in search
of the Great Teacher within themselves. Educational
institutions are encouraged to send faculty who would
benefit from and actively contribute to this search.
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Any North Carolina educator - experienced or
inexperienced; fulltime, part-time, or adjunct - is invited
to take advantage of this unique professional development
opportunity. Please plan to attend for the
full seminar (Thursday evening through Sunday lunch). You
will be experiencing a process that requires your full
participation from the very beginning to the very end.
A Registration Fee ($TBA)
includes all lodging, meals, and retreat expenses (Thursday
supper through Sunday Lunch). Single rooms are available
for an extra fee. Participants will be comprised of
faculty from
community colleges and other educational institutions
throughout North Carolina and elsewhere. The NCGTR is an
OPEN RETREAT. We welcome educators from ANY institution
of learning.
When your registration is
received, you will
receive further details VIA E-MAIL and directions to
help in your planning.
If you send in your
registration and do not receive a prompt confirmation,
please contact
Kay Crouch
immediately at 828.726.2366.
Your registration payment will confirm your participation in
the NCGTR! We are unable to accommodate
guests.
Pets are not allowed in the Kanuga Inn. Retreat
fees & room rates are based upon double occupancy. As
noted, single rooms are available for an extra fee and
guaranteed with payment.
Each participant will bring
to the seminar two very brief (1 page max) papers for
discussion: 1) an innovation in classroom teaching
and 2) a specific problem encountered while
teaching. Seminar staff will lead sessions centered around
the special interests and problems of each group.
The North
Carolina Great Teachers Retreat is an energizing &
refreshing event that brings teachers from diverse teaching
fields together to explore teaching and learning innovations
and solutions to problems encountered in the classroom. The
NCGTR is open to all full-time, part-time, and adjunct
faculty in both curriculum and continuing education in the
community college system. Faculty from other educational
systems are also welcome. The North Carolina Great
Teachers Retreat is run as a self-supporting event and is
not subsidized or financially supported by any organization.
In 1969, David
B. Gottshall founded the Great Teachers Seminar based on
earlier staff development experiments of the late Roger H.
Garrison. The many state and provincial Great Teachers
Seminars and Retreats, which take place annually throughout
North America and abroad, continue to have a profound
influence on faculty development in higher education.
Noticeable differences include: the improvement of teaching
skills, the adjustment and analysis of teaching methods, and
the modification of behavior and attitudes as teachers of
diverse fields.
The focus is
not on the teaching of specific disciplines, but rather on
the ART of teaching itself. The emphasis is on the
universals of teaching and on the special nature of those
who are and will be great teachers. It is based also on the
notion that, if properly tapped, the collective wisdom,
experience and creativity of any group of practicing
educators far surpasses that of any individual expert. The
structure of the retreat evolves from an ongoing needs
assessment as the seminar progresses. Underlying all
activities of the retreat is the perpetual challenge to
characterize and to define the GREAT TEACHER.
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To
celebrate good teaching.
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To
venture beyond the limits of our own specializations
and environments in search of transferable ideas and
the universals of teaching.
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To
develop an atmosphere of introspection and
self-appraisal by providing a relaxed setting and
straightforward process where participants seriously
review and contemplate their attitudes, methods, and
behavior as teachers.
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To
practice a rational analysis of instructional
problems and develop realistic, creative approaches
and solutions that address those specific problems.
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To
exchange information and ideas by building an
expanding network of communication among teaching
faculty in higher education. |
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To
renew ourselves professionally and personally |
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