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葡京平台线上教育研究生国家学术教学奖学金的一部分

Published on Feb. 26, 2024
Ashland University

布瑞恩·芬内尔就是这样一个学生,她完成了每一项作业,并把它应用到课堂上, said Jennifer Groman, Ph.D.她是芬内尔在葡京平台线上(Ashland University)攻读教育学硕士学位时的一位教授.

“She was enthusiastic about everything,” Groman said. “She took every reading, 每一次作业和每一次机会都能充分利用她在澳大学到的知识.”

Steve Paramore, superintendent for Ashland City Schools (ACS), where Fennell is a third-grade teacher, 说学区对她每天为学生所做的工作感到非常自豪.

“她是一位富有创新精神的教师,总是在研究如何为课堂内外提供新资源,” Paramore said.

All of Fennell’s hard work, 对教学的热情和激情在她的教学生涯中获得了许多荣誉, 包括在2021年被评为俄亥俄州第五区的年度教师.

上个月,她获得了最新的荣誉,被宣布为今年的学术教师研究员(Scholastic Teacher Fellows), which consists of only 12 educators nationwide.

 

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“这一荣誉表明,在知名文学公司眼中,她是多么令人印象深刻,” Paramore said. “这一荣誉将为她提供资源来提高课堂的读写能力,并让人们看到她作为里根小学教师所做的伟大事情.

“她将能够通过这一荣誉与同事分享,并继续发挥她的伟大领导作用,” Paramore added. “最终,亚什兰城市学校为她所表现出的卓越标准感到自豪. 这不是她的第一个荣誉,当然也不会是最后一个.”

According to a news release from Scholastic, a global children’s publishing, education and media company, 第二批有成就的K-8教师将与Scholastic Education Solutions的产品开发合作, 研究和出版团队在学年期间在他们的教室里测试课程, 调查同事和学生,分享痛点和成功经验,同时与教职员一起设计资源,以满足教育工作者的需求.

 

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“我们迫不及待地想看到下一届令人印象深刻的教育工作者将如何分享他们不同的观点和经验,以帮助我们继续满足当今教师的需求,并帮助我们开发创新和有用的课堂资源。,” Tara Welty, Scholastic Teaching Solutions高级副总裁兼总经理, said in the release.

最新的这批人被分为三组,每组四人.

芬内尔在谈到她的团队时说:“我们正在开发帮助教育工作者的数字资源. “我们正在考虑如何让教师更容易接受这些课程,以及如何让教师负担得起, 将他们最关注的阅读与其他学科如数学和科学相结合. 我们真的很想听到老师们的声音,找出老师们在课堂上需要什么来支持他们.”

 

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2010年,芬内尔从非盟大学毕业,获得儿童教育学士学位,开始教书以来,阅读一直是她非常关注的事情, with most of her time at Ashland City Schools.

“I am kind of known for my love of reading,” said Fennell, 她补充说,她很欣赏阿什兰城市学校对阅读的重视,比如通过拨款和读写教练提供职业发展机会. “如果我能把学生和一本书联系起来,让他们觉得自己是一个读者, then I feel I have done my job. I get so excited book matching with my students.”

Not only is her classroom full of books, 但它也包括一个作者的椅子,她让学生们分享他们几乎每周五写的文章.

 

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在她所有的书中,有三本是她出版的儿童读物. 芬内尔说,她对今年即将出版的第四本书感到非常兴奋,因为这是一本关于老师帮助学生的书.

“这是第一本不是以我的生活和家庭为背景的书,” said Fennell, 她在俄亥俄州东部的哥伦比亚纳县长大,现在和丈夫住在阿什兰, who works at Charles River Laboratories, and her two sons, who are in second and sixth grade at ACS.  

芬内尔说,早在一年级时,她就知道自己想要写书和教书. All her experiences at AU, which also includes earning a reading endorsement, really helped her develop those two passions, she said.

“我对亚什兰的教育项目感到非常兴奋, and I was definitely not disappointed,” Fennell said about her AU journey, 这是持续的,因为她的课堂上大部分时间都有来自大学的实地学生和实习教师.

 

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芬内尔说,她指导非盟学生的原因之一是回报大学, which provided her with many great mentors, particularly one of her undergraduate education professors, the late Jan Rinehart.

她对阅读的热爱以及通过图书订购和书展与Scholastic的联系, 芬内尔说,她不能错过申请该公司第二批教师研究员的机会.

在经历了个人面试和合作面试之后, 芬内尔说,能从数百名申请者中脱颖而出,她感到很荣幸.

芬内尔说:“今年7月,我们将提交我们的顶点项目. “我们要去纽约的学术总部做演讲.

“As a teacher who has been involved with writing,” she added, “I feel like this opportunity was very important to me.”

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BreAnn Fennell teaching in elementary classroom