Social media on an district level comes down to legal policy. If a district’s legal council feels they can support potential problems from using social media such as cyber bullying, inappropriate language, etc. the district will allow it. If the…
Remind 101
There are two on-line resources I have added to my school and classroom that I am excited about! I have used ARIS to make a virtual tour of the Durham School of the Arts campus for parents. This solves…
Influence from my Externship
My externship in the Hassan lab will influence the intricacy of lab skills that I teach my chemistry and physical science students. Students not going to college can benefit from training in simple lab skills and math associated with those…
My Biggest Aha Moment
The biggest Aha moment for me during my externship so far was how many basic high school skills and facts combine to make the current cutting edge technology. In the lab I am working in, the only process skills that…
Common Core and Technology
Standards and technology are two separate pieces of teaching. Both can be taught completely separately or together. In the current STEM pedagogy, its seems there is a push to incorporate more technology into lessons. As long as the technology is…
Lab work in the classroom
For my externship, I am working in lab in which is studying salmonella by plating different organisms onto selective media. What I am noticing is that for this work to be accomplished in a quickly and orderly manner, lab technicians…
Technology in my Classroom
The greatest challenge to leveraging technology at Durham School of the Arts is actually having the technology to leverage. All the teachers in the science and math building are able to integrate lots of technology into their classroom, but the…
NCCAT institute!
The first thing we did after meeting as a group was to play some ice breakers… I got my photo taken during one of these! The highlight of the NCCAT institute was the rafting trip. It was very…
What do you hope to gain from this Kenan Fellows Program experience?
I hope to gain an understanding of the curriculum development process from the regional and national 4-H. I look forward to honest feedback from professional curriculum evaluators as well as the feedback from parent focus groups next summer!
NC Climate Fellows
In addition the Kenan Fellowship, I am also doing a North Carolina climate fellow partnered with NASA and UNC Institute for the Environment. The fellowship is designed to write a lesson pertaining to climate change and be published by NASA.…