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 »
I am not going to lie…I was definitely worried that our #kfpchat was going to be a one time deal. The second week I tried to host it, so many of the fellows were all out to dinner together that it just didn’t make sense to even try. I got discouraged and thought people weren’t as into the idea as… Read more »
Creating a product from my internship experience started out quite easy. My mentor and I spent the first two working meetings going through all of the ideas we could investigate and working through the physics of it all. We started big and whittled it down to smaller pieces. My internship experience has followed a different pattern than a lot of… Read more »