How the Kenan Fellowship Will Change Me as a Teacher

The Kenan Fellowship has given me new inspiration to work harder and that we can make a difference! It was so wonderful to be in the room with educators that still love teaching and have so many great ideas that have led to  positive changes in their students. This has inspired me all over again to work harder and do more for the kids.  I also learned more ideas I plan to use in the classroom from; a new lab template format to websites. These ideas will help me provide high quality instruction to my students. I plan to add more Engineering Design Process to my labs which I think will be a great benefit to my students. It also has inspired me to keep on learning and seek out more PD opportunities so I can learn more science content, technologies and educational tools to continually improve as an educator. I also plan to incorporate more real world jobs in each unit not just real world examples to help students see the connection to what they are learning to future opportunities. I have so many ideas I plan to add to my classroom. I developed two units which have 7 lesson plans on Wearable Technologies which  I plan to use in my classroom. I also plan to have Dr. Jur visit our classroom, plan a field trip to NCSU and EPA. My students will participate in the One World One Health Competition too. The Kenan Fellows has become my new Team to help me throughout the year with ideas and support. I think the changes will be great and I look forward to utilizing all I learned throughout the year.