6/25/15
What do you hope to gain from your fellowship experience?
- Describe how being a Kenan Fellow could elevate your teaching career. Being a Kenan Fellow has the potential to elevate my teaching career in many ways. I will be exposed to many resources, websites, applications and forms of technology. My goal is to incorporate many of these tools into my class as a means to improve and enrich my current pedagogy. As I incorporate these tools, I will take time for reflection, analyzing their usage for my students. I will assess if these tools help my students meet the criteria for mastery of the content and modify them or discard them as needed. I also already shared knowledge of some of these resources with my AP to lead the way for professional developent for our faculty. I fell very confident to assume this role and know that our school will experience growth because of my efforts. I am not shy in this approach because I have the support of the Kenan Group, including the fellows to bounce ideas and brainstorm approaches. My personal use of technology will increase even more, because of the daily incorporation into our training and products.
- Give examples of how being a Kenan Fellow could improve your skills as a teacher and as a leader in your school and community.
- I am already using technology to complete assignments, such as this blog, creation of a new website, research involved in our fellowship and other future assignments. Being a Kenan has a lot of implications for professional development.and practical applications in the classroom and school where I work, as well as other teachers outside of the state with whom I am affiliated. As a teacher, I have always been of the mindset to share my resources and knowledge with others. Our students all benefitted from this partnership. This fellowship provides the platform to take that sharing to another degree. I will use my leadership skills to encourage and lead teachers to further hone their skills while increasing the variety in their classroom. The incorporation of the many resources and websites, working with fellow Kenan colleagues while sharing information with others holds great promise for teaching students, teachers and even our leaders.I am also fortunate to have administrative leaders who welcome and support my efforts for personal and professional growth and are willing to allow me to share my knowledge with others in the school community.
- This fellowship also provides cutting edge research from university colleagues that has technological implications for the future. My students will be provided the Engineering Design Process and real-life applications. They will use this information to design their own experiments, which are open-ended. This process will facilitate their personal and professional growth as they train in the skills of engineers and use that knowledge to prepare for the 21st Century skills needed for their success.