Upstairs in a lecture hall, and dotted around nearby classrooms, fellow students are curled up on the floor asleep.
School board member Armond Aghakhanian recommended better training for teachers using technology in the classroom, and fellow participants acknowledged that some teachers are much more savvy with technology in the classroom than others.
"What we're trying to do is assess whether the student is going to be successful in the classroom with his fellow graduate students," says James C. Wimbush, dean of the Indiana University Graduate School and chairman-elect of the G.R.E.
As long as he could remember, the female sex had been sending out combative, formidable scouts in his direction, mothers and grandmothers and teachers, and Barbara and Linda stealing his cap on the way to school, and fellow classroom goody-goodies like Mamie, and here the surface of femininity, that towering mystery in whose presence his life must be lived, yielded to a slight pressure.
Whether it is helping a teacher to troubleshoot a kit in the classroom, helping a fellow scientist to find an age-appropriate science activity to do with an eighth-grade classroom, or telling funders why our programs are worth funding, writing and communication skills are key to our work.
This model retains the basic component of in-classroom time for fellows plus time for planning (i.e., summer workshop).
When her illness kept her away from the classroom, her students and fellow teachers came to visit her.
Ms. Gupta was heavily influenced by these political events, she said, made particularly poignant by the empty classroom chair of a fellow student who never returned.
"If NSF really wants to learn the best way to improve science education and communication skills through the use of graduate fellows in the classroom, it would be helpful to have common benchmarks [for measuring success]," says Scowcroft, who will work with an outside evaluator assigned by NSF.
The recruits then received a summer crash course before being sent into classrooms under the New York City Teaching Fellows program.
