CENTERS
The National Teachers College has established two centers through which it provides on-going education for teachers and administrators throughout the greater metropolitan area. The Centers provide professional development opportunities that can be tailored to specific needs and designed in various formats including courses, workshops, seminars, symposia and summer institutes. The College offers Continuing Education Units (CEU) credits, hour verification for local school committee approval, or graduate credit for its professional development programs.
TNTC offers a variety of non-degree academic programs conducted as workshops, individual courses, symposia and seminars through its centers.
The Center for Cultural Competence and Teaching
The mission of the Center for Cultural Competence and Teaching is to enhance the educator’s abilities to respond positively to student differences and to interact in ways that promote all students’ learning and success in school settings.
Goals of the Center
Six essential elements contribute to a school’s ability to become more culturally competent:
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Value diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
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Have a capacity for cultural self-assessment
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Establish cultural knowledge as its institutional ethos
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Become conscious of the dynamics inherent when cultures interact
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Develop culturally responsive teaching strategies
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Develop institutional goals to meet diversity needs
The Center for Curriculum and Teaching
The mission of the Center for Curriculum and Teaching is to bring essential foundations and the latest research and evidence-based practice in teaching and learning to area teachers and administrators.
Goals of the Center
These essential elements for the core of the Center's work:
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Foundations and innovations in human development & learning
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Classroom organization and management within a context of student self-responsibility and empowerment
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Creating academically rigorous and engaging curriculum
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A concept-based teaching model that integrates student development, students as individuals, and content in ways that relate to the world in which students live
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Differentiating curriculum, particularly in inclusion classrooms
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Authentic assessment where students explore, learn and demonstrate knowledge in meaningful and realistic ways
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Emphasis on STEAM fields including Active Inquiry, Project-Based Learning and Problem-Based Learning
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​Nationally recognized presenters
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Opportunities for research
TNTC Professional Learning Programs 2026
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Check frequently for posted offerings.
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