Teaching Fellows - School of Education
Teaching Fellows
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For more information about the Teaching Fellows at School of Education contact:
Annette Cline
Assistant Director
Office: 341F Curry Building
Voice: (336) 334-3410
Email: rwcline@uncg.edu
Service Opportunities
The UNCG Teaching Fellows program offers many unique service opportunities for participants.
Examples include: the Children's Festival, Young Writers' Conference, Holiday Social, homeless shelter volunteer time, tutoring programs, committee involvement, and much more.
Children's Festival - UNCG Teaching Fellows use booths to entertain children with items that can be taken home. More than three thousand children are led by Teaching Fellows through more than thirty different activities including mazes, jewelry making, and face painting. This festival is co-sponsored by the Guilford County Health Department and two other community businesses/agencies.
Young Writer's Conference - UNCG Teaching Fellows lead small groups of more than six hundred creative grade-school students through a day of sharing their writing with others in order to spark aesthetic ideas. A famous author is usually present to read one of his or her books to the children.
Spring and Fall Lectures - This program brings in speakers from the public school system and education arena to share their experiences in teaching and the public school system with Teaching Fellows.
Holiday Social - The UNCG Teaching Fellows adopts Mary’s House for the Winter Holiday. The Fellows gather at the Holiday Social to wrap the gifts they have collected and then celebrate the season with the women of Mary’s House and their children. (Mary’s House is a house for women who are recovering from addiction. They offer support in order to aid women in the rebuilding of their lives.)
Student input is essential for the success of UNCG's Teaching Fellows program in order "to provide opportunities and experiences that encourage the development of leaders and decision makers". The UNCG Teaching Fellows program must be the program of the Fellows. To this end, committees are designed to do the work of the Teaching Fellows.
Public Relations Committee - Teaching Fellows help coordinate the Children's Festival (in the Fall) and the Young Writer's Conference (in the Spring). These two events are mandatory for all Teaching Fellows as they are able to interact with children in the community.
Philanthropy Committee - Students coordinate service activities Teaching Fellows want to accomplish during the academic year. Activities include, but are not limited to: walk-a-thons, homeless shelter volunteer time, tutoring programs, etc. The Holiday Social is coordinated by this committee.
Communications Committee - Teaching Fellows have an e-mail account, and weekly newsletters are sent via the internet. This is a place to congratulate Teaching Fellows for their accomplishments, share areas of concern, discuss educational dilemmas of interest to all, notify Fellows of upcoming events, and other things Fellows would like to see in print. From this weekly "in-house" newsletter, the committee designs an alumni newsletter.
Recruitment Committee - Students brainstorm ideas to actively recruit new Fellows. Recruiting activities include hosting campus visits for high school Future Teachers of America Chapter, organizing a phone-a-thon when regional finalists are made available in January, and sending letters to potential UNCG Fellows.
Mentoring Committee - New Freshmen enter every year with many questions. This committee helps ease the transition from high school to college for new Teaching Fellows, by assigning each Freshmen a Big Brother or Big Sister who is an upperclassman Teaching Fellow. This Committee plans events for the "Bigs and Littles" and the Freshmen Retreat.
Social Committee - Students help to produce events which enhance a sense of community among the Fellows. This committee plans the annual Teaching Fellows Semi-Formal and other fun events, such as Bowling Nights. Living and working with one another sometimes necessitates planned fun! The Social Committee also chooses and supervises the screen printing process, and handles the sale of Teaching Fellows T-shirts.