The Norfolk County Teachers Association (NCTA) offers three graduate credit professional development online courses in the Fall, Spring and Summer.
Fall Registration: August 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025
REGISTRATION IS A TWO STEP PROCESS
REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED BY CLOSING DATE
Course dates: September 29, 2025 - December 19, 2025
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Step one: Students must register on the NCTA website to obtain CRN#, PRDV# and course title. Make full payment for course(s) when registering with NCTA.
Step two:
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NCTA students, taking Fitchburg State courses for university credit, need to register online for their courses with Fitchburg State by the registration date given to them by NCTA.
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Directions to register for Fitchburg State courses.
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First-time users must create a student account by submitting a Non-degree New Student form. Your university credentials (username and password) will be emailed to you. You only need to go through the “first time non-degree student registration” process once.
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If you are a returning student, meaning you already have a student record with Fitchburg State (i.e. have been admitted into a degree, are an alum, took courses with us in the past, applied to FSU, but did not attend, or otherwise have earned credit from FSU), you cannot create a new student record (you aren’t new☺). If a student needs assistance logging in, please contact the IT Helpdesk at helpdesk@fitchburgstate.edu or call (978) 665-4500 for guidance.
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Once your student account has been created and you have set up your multi-factor authentication, you then go to My Falcon to register for your courses.
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DO NOT pay Fitchburg State University when you register for your courses. You will pay NCTA Fitchburg State will invoice NCTA for payment
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Step-by-step course registration tutorial.
NCTA will give you the five-digit course number (CRN) that you will need to register for your course. (on the registration page)
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What's Happening?
Click Here to Check out NCTA's Interactive WEBSITE
Read the latest President's Blog Post Here
Our free PDP Workshop on Using AI to Create Formative Assessments was a huge success! Let us know what else you would like NCTA to offer in the near future to earn PDPs.
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. See more information in the "About Us" tab above.
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.
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
- A very worthwhile course.
- 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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