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The Norfolk County Teachers Association (NCTA) offers three graduate credit professional development online courses in the Fall, Spring and Summer.

Spring 2025 Course Registration is Closed!

Spring Dates:

Registration dates: Dec 22. 2024 - Jan 21, 2025 @ 11:00 AM

Course dates: Feb 3, 2025 - May 9, 2025

Registration must be completed by January 21, 2025.

Step one: Students must register on the NCTA website to obtain CRN#, PRDV# and course title. Make full payment of $639.

Step two: This step must be completed the same day as step one. Link to the Fitchburg registration site to complete the registration process. Have your CRN, PRDV number and course title ready to enter. You do NOT pay Fitchburg any money. Register as a first-time student, you will need to fill out the Non-Degree New Student Form. Once the form is submitted, you will receive an email with a link for you to click on to register for your classes. The email will indicate your student ID. Your password for logging in is your birthday (MMDDYY format). The email will also include step-by-step instructions for registering for your class(es).

**Please note that you will obtain the 5 digit Course Number (CRN) that you need to register from your Extended Campus partner, NCTA.

Policies:

There are no late registrations.

Refund only for courses that are cancelled.

Planning Ahead? Summer 2025 Dates:

Registration dates: March 31, 2025 - June 18, 2025

Course dates: July 7, 2025 - July 28, 2025

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What's Happening?

NCTA is now partnering with Fitchburg State University. We are proud to continue our longstanding tradition of supporting our colleagues in local public higher education while offering a wide range of quality graduate level course options at a discounted rate. As always, NCTA subsidizes a percentage of the course cost as we do our best to maintain affordability for our members.

The Norfolk County Bargaining Council held a summit on January 11th with several local union leaders and negotiators present. NCTA has partnered with MTA to offer this networking and organizing opportunity which is a tremendous benefit to our membership.

At the recently held annual NCTA All-Presidents dinner meeting, Union leaders from across our locals appreciated the chance to network, hear updates on our offerings, the newly formed NCTA bargaining council, as well as information and an address from MTA leadership. We are stronger together!

NCTA extends a warm welcome to the Norfolk Agricultural High School & Wellesley Educators Association who have recently rejoined as full members!

Fall Grants have been awarded! Congratulations to all of our recipients.

COMING SOON: Look for PDP only workshop offering(s) soon!

The NCTA has organized a Bargaining Council for our member locals. Reach out to Chris Brillant (NCTA President) if you have any questions or would like to come to our next meeting on September 16th.

Our Free Workshop on Strategies for Teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students proved very useful for all who attended.

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Our Graduate Offerings include topics like:

ELA & Literacy

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math)

Special Education

Supporting Students & Social-Emotional Learning

Pedagogy & Professional Growth

All courses earn 3 graduate credits from Fitchburg State University $639 and 67.5 PDPs. Visit our website (www.myncta.org) for more information including course descriptions, withdrawal and late registration policies, contact information and more!

EARN THREE GRADUATE CREDITS FOR LESS MONEY FROM ONE OF THE BEST LOCAL STATE UNIVERSITIES

NCTA is partnered with Fitchburg State University

NCTA provides professional development opportunities to help educators enhance their instructional skills, to share best practices, and to better understand and support their students while fostering confidence and independence. Our online courses cover a wide variety of topics to help professionals in education enrich and elevate their instructional strengths while meeting their re-licensure requirements a/o upgrading their salary. While taking our courses educators are able to access materials 24/7 wherever there is access to the internet. Educators will interact with their instructor and classmates throughout the duration of the courses dates. All assignments, papers, exams and final projects are graded and posted by the instructor.

What are NCTA participants saying about our courses...

A very worthwhile course.

Love these course offerings, especially Deb Merriam’s classes. Thank you!

Great Class. Thank you for offering these classes.

This is a fabulous class. I wish I had taken it over the course of a semester instead of a summer intensive so that I had more time to process what I was learning.

The instructor was accessible. Helpful and pleasant!

This was my first NCTA class- wish I hadn’t waited so long! Thank you!

GREAT CLASS! I loved it!

Look forward to the fall course offerings!

This class exceeded my expectations. I learned from both the resources and the other teachers taking it and will refer back to my notes to myself throughout the year(s).

I enjoy the course and it helped me look into how I can make my lit circles better for my students.

Great class, thank you!!

It was a quick pace but I got a lot out of the course. I would like to see more courses in the realm of social justice or anti-racist curriculum building.

The readings and websites offered were excellent. It was a fabulous course!

Erich did a great job setting up the course and letting it run without interference. He trusted his students to complete the work and follow the instructions. Kudos to him.

This course could not be needed more after this past year. I’m so grateful and plan to use what I have learned on day 1. In fact, I’m already using practices to prepare myself for a great new year. Thank you.

Loved the Silverman, ISeman, Jeweler reading. Considering the jargon-laden verbose and methodologically poor nature of most education reading I've seen, this book used concise clear language, and cited its evidence. MUCH APPRECIATED!

Great course!

One of the best classes I have taken in my 14-year teaching career!

Thank you! Great class to help armor me for the fall.

Contact dbarrett@myncta.org or jhayes@myncta.org if you have any questions about our Graduate Course Offerings

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