Teaching Fellows - School of Education
Teaching Fellows
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Learn about the benefits of becoming a Teaching Fellow.
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 sponsored by the UNCG-School of Education and Teaching Fellows.
Young Writer's Conference - UNCG Teaching Fellows lead small groups of more than three 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 - In the past the UNCG Teaching Fellows have adopted Mary’s House for the Winter Holiday. The Fellows gathered at the Holiday Social to wrap the gifts they have collected and then celebrated 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.) Teaching Fellows also assist other charities during the Winter Holidays.
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. Students coordinate the service activities that Teaching Fellows want to accomplish during the academic year. Other activities include a tutoring program, working with many charities during the holiday season and hosting campus tours for young children.
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 postcards 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 freshman a Big Brother or Big Sister who is an upperclassman Teaching Fellow. This Committee plans events for the "Bigs and Littles", the Freshmen Luncheon 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. 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.