Author: Stephanie Titzel

Well, my final product isn’t totally done. I was naive to think it would be done in a year. Every one of my “great” lessons have evolved over several years, honestly. I have a rough draft and I have presented

A-ha moments happen on daily basis, whether it is large scale or small scale. One smaller A-ha moment happened a couple of days ago when we were talking about embryology. The students said, “There is no way to tell them

My fellowship has changed me because I know more about the local community and jobs available in my local area. I have lived in Wilmington most of my life and I can honestly say I did not know about all

The best thing about my fellowship, is the connections I made will all of my mentors. I was blessed to have MANY mentors and not just one. At Dr. Watanabe’s research facility, on Harbor Island, I had to opportunity to

Developing my PRL plan this summer, I assumed that I would go to one of favorite PD offerings of the year, the NC Science Teachers PD. Unfortunately, this did not happen. I was left scrambling to find “free” opportunities to

So my “new” tool isn’t actually new- but I have added Twitter and Remind to my Parent Communication plan. I felt like I was pretty good at communicating with parents with emails and calls, but I can now use many

This year, I came back to classroom more motivated and more excited than any other year. I came back to classroom really dedicated to having my students understand what agriculture means to our county, and our state, and the amazing

My summer internship will directly correlate my classroom because I already teach one 9 weeks of hydrology and one 9 weeks of ecosystems. I also teach about alternative energy and evolution in other 9 weeks and I learned more about

In my interview for this fellowship, I made it clear that this fellowship was made for me. I truly believed that this experience was made for the 8th grade curriculum (what I teach!) and it was based in Wilmington (where

I think the biggest challenge of this process is deciding how you will transfer the intonation to students. I am learning from some of the smartest people in their fields and i need to be able to take the information