School:
McKean High
District:
Red Clay Consolidated School District
Reflection on the DTI experience:
“I am a 5-time Yale Fellow since 2007, and a 7-time DTI Fellow (since it began); also part of the . . . Planning Committee to start DTI!
Teachers Institutes are the BEST Professional Development I have ever participated in. It is all of the best things about teaching ? collaborating with other teachers from different schools, states, grade levels, learning content, finding ways to help your own students, and ‘walking out’ with a product I can use in my classroom.
One highlight comes from my unit on Nanotechnology. My vocational students did research about a use of nanotechnology in their career areas and presented their findings to the class. The presentations were excellent and there was a lot of excitement and support during the presentations. They found similarities in the properties that made nanomaterials useful from one field to the next. Nanotechnology is an emerging field and my students are leaving high school with some background knowledge they can apply in college or to what they see or hear in the news.”
