I have always tried to incorporate a lot of discussion and clarification within my math classroom. I want my students to know why they do something in within math class, rather than simply to how to do it. However, this year I have really taken it farther by assessing my students both formally and informally with much more open-ended activities. Within… Read more »
As I have said before, this fellowship has had a huge impact on me personally and professionally! It has pushed me to be a better teacher in so many ways. I have began to look at my instruction from a very different perspective. I know that the curriculum guides my instruction but the ways in which I pursue it is… Read more »
I was able to work at a local pickle plant in which my mentor directed me to other professionals within the company that were very knowledgeable in their job field. My mentor was the Human Resources director so he knew the contacts that I needed to be put in contact with in order to gain the most out of my… Read more »
The Professional Advancement Institutes have been very rejuvenating to me as a professional. They allowed me the opportunity to collaborate with others throughout the state that I would never have had the ability to do so otherwise. I think that it was as valuable as the internship experience itself. The first institute was the very best! Being able to work… Read more »
You are six weeks into the school year. Describe one new tool or strategy you have implemented. How and why you are using it? What impact is it having on you and your students? This school year I was really interested in allowing my students to write more within math class. I have always wanted my students to be able… Read more »
I have been exposed to so many new ideas throughout this summer that I almost feel overwhelmed by the wealth of knowledge that I have gained. I am going to try to start out by have my students to do more writing in math, this is an area that I have most definitely lacked in. I have already started my… Read more »
Within my internship, there were a lot of real world applications that can be brought back into my classroom in order to better prepare my students for future career chooses that do not necessary align to my math curriculum but are important none-the-less. However, I have decided to connect my experience through real-world applications of volumes of cylinders, spheres, and rectangular… Read more »
I learned that unlike education in which lots of teachers really stand alone, this industry is very different from that. There are numerous roles that lots of different people have to play in order to accomplish a common goal here. It has been my experience that within education at a smaller school in particular there is one teacher per subject per grade… Read more »
My internship experience has been such an awesome opportunity to learn about an industry that I had no prior knowledge of at all. I was able to experience the entire pickle making process from the time that it was delivered within the brine yard to when it was shipped out in cases from the warehouse. It was amazing to see… Read more »
Throughout this experience I have learned so much about the way in which a large cooperation is ran and all of the various roles that people play in order to keep the business operating successfully. It is very interesting to see the structure and hierarchy of positions within the industry. Things are ran so much differently than they are in… Read more »
