Recent ActivityInstructor: Carol Ferguson, PhD, Supervisor of Instruction, NCLB Coordinator
The mission of Northfield City School District is to create a safe, supportive environment that promotes academic excellence in teaching and learning. Students are encouraged to reach their potential and become productive citizens and lifelong learners through excellent teaching, mentoring and modeling by faculty and staff. The Northfield Community School team joins parents and the community to foster each child's personal growth and self-esteem and to promote tolerance and respect for other individuals. In practice, students will:
Curriculum Office Contact information: Phone-609-407-4000x8519; Fax-609-407-9622
Curriculum and Technology Projects Page - workshops and resources!!!
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Demonstrate creative and critical thinking and effectively use them in academic and social settings
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Transfer learning thoughtfully and effectively to novel situations and problems
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Demonstrate effective habits of mind
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Demonstrate mastery of local and NJ core curriculum content standards
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Demonstrate respect for themselves and others
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Participate in a broad range academic success and involvement in extracurricular activities
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Demonstrate understanding of technology and use technology effectively
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Demonstrate the democratic living skills of consensus building and group problem solving in order to become active citizens in their community
Curriculum Office Contact information: Phone-609-407-4000x8519; Fax-609-407-9622
Curriculum and Technology Projects Page - workshops and resources!!!
Informational Pages Announcements and Highlighted Resources  Activities for the Beginning of SchoolThis is a useful website for activities, classroom management, ice breakers learning style inventories to use for the first days of school.
http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/classmanagement/firstday.html  NJASK Grades 3-8 Samples, Manuals
 Advanced ILA Summer AssignmentsYour advanced ILA Summer Reading Assignments and Activities are below. Your books are in the Middle School Office to borrow.
Mrs. Donovan's 6th Grade Assignment (for incoming 6th graders in 2009-2010) Mrs. Harris's 7th Grade Assignment (for incoming 7th graders in 2009-2010) Mrs. McDermott's 8th Grade Assignment (for incoming 8th graders in 2009-2010)  21st Century LearningFor a quick overview of 21st Century Learning Skills see Jackie Gerstein's overview. Also, review her page on Trends for 21st K-12 Education. Dr. Scott McLeod (widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading academic experts on K-12 school technology leadership issues) has created a very interesting video on 21st Century Education entitled "Shift Happens." Click here to view the video.
 Mathematics Curriculum is online!The Northfield Community School K-8 2008 Mathematics Curriculum is now entirely online! Please click the second link to the right.
 2008 Study Group ResultsAs part of our ongoing assessment of our professional learning community, our Professional Development Committee surveyed our faculty about the quality of our study groups. Click here for the survey results.
 Peter's Online Typing Course!Do you need to brush up on your typing skills? Try Peter's Online Typing Course!
Review of site*: "CONTENT: This site was created by Peter Hudson, Web developer and teacher, and provides free, online typing lessons and exercises for beginning typists. SITE DESIGN: The site has a simple easy to follow format with the links grouped into three categories (Preliminaries, Lessons and Exercises) that are listed in the left sidebar. Adobe Flash Player is required and can be downloaded from the site. REVIEW: Students, teachers or anyone interested in increasing their typing skills will find this site helpful. The site is self described as a place for "beginning typists and frustrated hunt-and-peckers who want to move from four-finger typing to full-blown touch typing." Users will want to begin with the "preliminaries" that provide information on how to use the course, typing ergonomics and principles of typing. The lessons begin with the basics of home row, top row or QWERT, bottom row and numbers row. The final section deals with exercises to train the fingers and improve accuracy and speed." *Review of site is by Education World.  Technology Integration WorkshopsTake some time to review our after school workshops in Technology Rich Teaching, Thirteen Ed Online, Integrating Technology with Marzano's Nine Instructional Stategies, Google for Educations, Web 2.0 Digital Imaging. Click here.
 Growing up OnlineParents and Teachers - What kind of Cyber Guide are you? Take this PBS online quiz.
Frontline has developed a series entitled Growing Up Online that discusses all of the dimensions of student internet use (social networking sites, trying on identities, cyber safety, cyber bullying). The series is extremely informative.
Super Monday!SUPER MONDAY!!! (CLICK FOR PODCAST)
On Monday, February 4, NCS 5th-8th grade students will vote in a special primary election! This event caps off a month of Election Review integrated into the curriculum! In Language Arts, every middle school student (5-8) has been busy writing a persuasive letter to their favorite presidential candidates on issues that are important to us at NCS - environment and poverty (homelessness). They have invited candidates to come speak to us on these issues. All 550+ letters have been mailed and emailed! Wow! They also learned about the candidates through websites that we provided (announcement below).  Attention Presidential Candidates!1/28/08 - Will they come? In Language Arts, every middle school student has been busy writing a letter to their favorite presidential candidates on issues that are important to us at NCS - environment and poverty (homelessness). They have invited candidates to come speak to us on these issues. All 550+ letters have been mailed and emailed! Wow. They also learned about the candidate through websites that I provided (see Lesson Plan) and also Mr. Vain found a great "Pick you Candidate" survey for our students. He is first polling students for their choice, asking them to go the Candidates website, taking the quiz (discussing the topics) and then polling the students again for their choice. Did it change? Let's wait to find out!
 NCS Curriculum and Techology Project PageI have added a new NCS Curriculum and Technology Project web page that feature our current projects such as the Math Curriculum Committee and our upcoming Visual Literacy Fair. In addition, workshop content is on this page! Click here to check it out! (http://NCS.district.googlepages.com/ )
Technology Rich Teaching Workshop12/19/07 and 1/03/08
If you missed our workshop with loads of technology integration material, please visit our online workshop and resources for Technology Rich Teaching!  New InformationNew! Spring Curriculum Newsletter (April 2008)
Fall Curriculum Newsletter (Nov. 2007) Also see Summer Curriculum Newsletter. Also Please review the dates for each link on the right - they are constantly updated! Make sure you review educational resources and PD opportunities (for brief overview of PD opportunities - see calendar!)  Family Involvement at Middle and HS LevelA new brief from the Harvard Family Research Project stresses the importance of parent involvement in their middle and high school students' education. See article for more details: http://tinyurl.com/35p7rn
 Summer Fun - Teacher Resources to review when you have the time!This is a great website to review over the summer! It is everything you ever wanted to know about blogs - with an amazing amount of resources: http://www3.essdack.org/socialstudies/blogs.htm
Learning Planet - a wealth of online activities and games for students, lesson plans - searchable by grade, subject area, teacher tools and much, much more!!!4Teachers - an amazing site for technology integration, online tools, many resources. You MUST check out teacher tackler and project based learning checklist tool that you modify based on your project!!!  File CabinetCheck out the File Cabinet resource, a series of cabinets with lessons for every subject area!
 Education Week/ Teacher MagazineGreat online newspaper and magazine, free registration.
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