Deep breath in. And out. I’m done! Possibly. I’m assuming I’ll have some revisions to make, but other than that…I’m done with my product! Whenever I finish something and am wicked pumped about it, I think of that moment in Legally Blonde when Elle Woods is addressing her class at Commencement and just goes “We did it!” like in the… Read more »
One of my students had a “light bulb” moment that has stuck with me this entire school year. It didn’t have to do with the content, but with their learning in general. I try and stress to my students that physics is difficult, but it is something they can all master. I also make sure to let them know that… Read more »
The Kenan Fellowship has changed me in so many different ways it would be impossible to try and address them all. Below is my attempt at addressing some of the bigger changes I have experienced due to going through the Kenan Fellowship Program. Collaborating with peers: As the lone physics teacher at my school, working with a PLT is not… Read more »
I worked with a single mentor at SAMSI during my Kenan Fellowship. There were multiple other people that I interacted with, but my project experience was just with Dr. Witelski. As I have blogged about before, during one of our meetings together Dr. Witelski helped me discover what our project was truly about. It wasn’t simply that we were looking… Read more »
The Kenan Fellows Program is truly an experience unlike any other and I wish that it was the norm for all teachers. We got a chance to work with other like minded educators and be treated as the professionals that we are. The three Professional Advancement Institutes had a range of topics and priorities. We were given choices and the… Read more »
We learned a lot of new tools and strategies in our Kenan Fellows PD as well as our own internships, but the tool that I’ve been using more often, and with every unit, is reflection. I’ve always liked having my students reflect on their experiences, but I never had them do it frequently enough for it to truly have benefits…. Read more »
When I think about how my summer experience will affect my students over the next semester, year, and career, I really feel like it will be in small, but still helpful ways. There have been a multitude of opportunities for me to grow as a teacher and every step of the way to becoming the best teacher I can be… Read more »
This week’s blog post is going to be set up a little bit differently than usual simply because my internship was more about creating curriculum than other projects. This means that I have already addressed this week’s prompts in other blog posts. Below is an outline with links for more specific ways that I will bring my internship experience into… Read more »
My fellowship has really provided me with a much more specific outlook as a physics educator. I say specific because physics is a broad subject and the content covers many topics across all courses in high school so it is easy to have a general outlook. This specific outlook is focusing on making my content relevant. This is quite easy… Read more »
I have enjoyed my internship experience this summer. Tom is a really wonderful person and was a lot of fun to work with these past few weeks. On a typical day at SAMSI I would work on my curriculum product and if I had a meeting scheduled with Tom it would be about 2 hours long. The meetings were always… Read more »