[…]with the subject. I love watching students have the same fascinations and wonders that I once had.” Professional Experience During college, Tracy led a Literacy through Photography program at her local middle school. After graduation, she worked in biology and physical science classrooms while earning her master’s degree. Tracy will begin her second year of teaching at Fayetteville High School during the 2022–2023 school year. Hobbies Tracy loves anything to do with the ocean and has her SCUBA license. She also recently grew her own sourdough starter and bakes often. Tracy enjoys running, volleyball, and spikeball and gets involved with […]
[…]physics and chemistry teacher at East Boston High School. She is a member of the leadership team for ComSciCon, a national workshop for graduate students interested in science communication. She is also the director of education for BiteScis, an organization that generates lesson plans that integrate current science research by creating teacher-graduate student partnerships. Reach Shannon at shannon.morey@knowlesteachers.org. Marna Eckels is a physics and engineering teacher at Dearborn STEM Academy in Boston, Massachusetts. Before becoming a teacher, she worked as an electrical engineer and software test engineer on technical projects including an implantable artificial heart, satellite communication systems, and airfare search engines. She loves seeing her students build creative projects; they use lots of hot glue and electrical tape […]
[…]Story Teaching Discipline Biology and Earth Science Why Science Science is a lens through which we observe and come to understand of the beautiful and wonderful world around us. I believe that all students deserve the opportunity to experience and understand their worlds. Professional Experience With a goal of teaching at the collegiate level in mind, Kristin started working as a Research Technician at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to gain more experience before enrolling in graduate studies. She worked in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division of the center, conducting research on the immunological response to HSV-2 infection […]
[…]parties, using claim/evidence/reasoning, and whiteboarding word-bank responses. I’m looking for new structures and different ways of getting students to produce academic language, so if you have suggestions I’d love to hear them! – Micaela Kaye, 2018 Teaching Fellow I am looking forward to being more patient with my students and more willing to spend additional time on topics with which they struggle. Rather than push ahead and focus on the amount of content covered, I will focus more on the actual understanding of students, regardless of outside pressures. – Marissa Lehmann, 2016 Teaching Fellow I am trying pull-out groups to work on specific skills. – Erin […]
[…]themselves in a clear and concise way. Students researched locations around the world, looking for places as diverse as the best areas to see migratory birds in South America to the most gay-friendly cities in Asia. Our implementation of proficiency-based teaching and grading has allowed us to be more flexible with our content, giving more choice to students and letting their interests drive what they are learning. This has pushed us to focus our attention on what is most essential: the skills students will be using in the future long after they have (perhaps) forgotten the content through which they practiced and developed these skills. In this new approach, we always […]
