12th
Annual
Great Teachers Retreat --
Richmond Community College will again host the 12th Annual North Carolina
Great Teachers Retreat to be held at Camp Kanuga in Hendersonville, NC
on February 24-27, 2005.
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Richmond
Community College will again host the 12th Annual North Carolina Great
Teachers Retreat to be held at Camp Kanuga in Hendersonville, NC on February
24-27, 2005. David Gottshall, founder of the National Great Teachers Movement
will serve as Director of the retreat.
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.
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 recently in Japan, 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.
Purposes of the retreat include the following:
To celebrate good teaching.
To venture beyond the limits of our own specializations and environments
in search of transferable ideas and the universals of teaching.
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.
To practice a rational analysis of instructional problems and develop
realistic, creative approaches and solutions that address those specific
problems.
To exchange information and ideas by building an expanding network
of communication among teaching faculty in higher education.
To renew ourselves professionally and personally.
For registration information:
Contact Steve Smith, Coordinator of the NC Great Teachers Retreat
at
(910) 582-7191 or by e-mail at steves@richmondcc.edu.
Richmond
Community College will again host the 12th Annual North Carolina Great
Teachers Retreat to be held at Camp Kanuga in Hendersonville, NC on February
24-27, 2005. David Gottshall, founder of the National Great Teachers Movement
will serve as Director of the retreat.