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Service Opportunities
The UNCG Teaching Fellows program offers many unique service opportunities for participants. Examples include: the Children's Festival, Young Writers' Conference, Holiday activities, 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 Activities - 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 assisted the Salvation Army’s Boys and Girls Club in Greensboro during the holiday by supplying school supplies for the students in that program.
Student input is essential for the success of UNCG's Teaching Fellows program formal service requirements and "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, the following committees are designed to co-ordinate 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). Also in the spring semester the fellows will act as ushers and marshals at the Office of Multicultural Affairs Scholars program. Participation in one of these three events is required of all Teaching Fellows as they are able to interact with the UNCG and Greensboro communities. 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 visiting high school Future Teachers of America Chapters upon request during the fall semester, organizing a phone-a-thon when regional finalists are made available in January, and hosting the UNCG Open House and Interview Skills workshop for regional finalists.
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 Dance. Living and working with one another sometimes necessitates planned fun! The Social Committee also chooses the design, supervises the screen printing process, and handles the sale of Teaching Fellows T-shirts.