APPLICATION FOR CONSIDERATION
AS A
2016 – 2017 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION’S TEACHING FELLOW
Name: ______Month/Year of Graduation ______
Address:______
Telephone: ______Email: ______
Degree Status (Circle): B.S.Ed. M.S.Ed. Certification Studies
Certification Area(s): ______
Instructions:
Submit the following materials as indicated:
- Faculty Recommendation
Please provide the name and e-mail address and/or phone number of a full-time School of Education faculty member who will attest to your worthiness for this award:
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* The School of Education will contact the faculty member to solicit this recommendation.
- Student Teaching Supervisor Recommendation
Please provide the name and e-mail address and/or phone number of your Student Teaching Supervisor ______
* The School of Education will contact your student teaching supervisor to solicit this recommendation.
* Please list three qualities or skills you believe are essential to a teacher, and that you feel you excel in. I will then use these as the bases for your ratings from the people you listed above.
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- School and/or Community Volunteer Service
Please provide the following information regarding noteworthy school and/or community volunteer service projects or activity. (Please type out all responses on a separate sheet.)
Organization: ______
Describe volunteer service: ______
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Contact Person: ______Telephone: ______
Organization: ______
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- Essay Section
You will choose one quote from each category below, and write a short essay on how this quote correlates with your development as an educator and your growth from when you began your studies at Duquesne University.
Please type this statement on a separate sheet.
Leadership
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
- John Quincy Adams
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
- Steve Jobs
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
- Lao Tzu
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
- John F. Kennedy
Diversity
“We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.”
- Max de Pree
‘Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.”
- Jacqueline Woodson
“What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.”
- Hillary Clinton
‘Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.”
- Muhammad Iqbal
Technology
“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.”
- Steve Ballmer
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
- Bill Gates
“Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.”
- Jonathan Sacks
“Men have become the tools of their tools.”
- Henry David Thoreau
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