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Zachary Chandler

Undergraduate major or graduate field of study: Secondary Education

Subject area(s) and grade level teaching focus: Physics, grades 9-12

Category of scholarship/fellowship:
Noyce Scholar

Name of Noyce institution:
Towson University

Current academic or teaching status:
Senior

School and school district:
N/A

Background:

I grew up in Glassboro, New Jersey and attended Glassboro Public Schools all the way to high school graduation. I graduated fifth in my class and came to Towson University in the Fall of 2008. I knew I wanted to major in Physics, but didn’t realize until my senior year of high school that I wanted to teach physics.

Why do you want to teach:

There is no short answer for my reasons to teach, however, the most brief reason would be that I came to enjoy learning, physics in particular, from my high school physics teacher. He made learning extremely interesting and valuable. I started to tutor and help out fellow peers shortly after graduation and enjoyed the reward of them learning to enjoy the subject as well. From that point on, I knew I wanted to teach, and show students the beauty there is in learning.

Describe a memorable teaching experience:

I have not been in the classroom yet, but there are a couple of outside teaching experiences that hold strong in my memory. The first was my senior year of high school when I taught a boy with autism how to dive off the diving board at my local pool. The second would be tutoring a friend of mine for 3 days before her physics final. She received her first “A” in the class on that final.

What does the Noyce program mean to you:

Noyce has offered me the opportunity to lower the monetary burden of student loans. It has also provided me with an established teacher community in which I can compare and reflect with other students/teachers in my same position.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Numbers DUE-2041597 and DUE-1548986. Any opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of its authors and do not represent the views of the AAAS Board of Directors, the Council of AAAS, AAAS’ membership or the National Science Foundation.

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