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Noyce Scholar Profile

Pam Josifek

Undergraduate major or graduate field of study: BS Industrial Engineering

Subject area(s) and grade level teaching focus: Mathematics - Middle School/High School

Category of scholarship/fellowship:
Fifth year or post-baccalaureate Noyce scholar

Name of Noyce institution:
UW Oshkosh/Act! to Teach

Current academic or teaching status:
1 year K-12 teaching experiece

School and school district:
Lineville Intermediate and Bay View Middle Schools / Howard Suamico School District

Background:

After earning my BS Industrial Engineering I had the opportunity to work in a plastics packaging mill, a paper mill, and an energy utility. While working in these industries, I held the following positions: Shift Supervisor, Department Manager, Graphics Coordinator, Packaging Engineer, Energy Marketer and Scheduler, and a Team Leader for the Energy Desk. During this time I also completed my Master Degree in Business Administration.

I began working in the field of Education teaching adult continuing education computer classes in the evenings. My interest in education continued as I began teaching classes in Business, Mathematics, and Engineering for local colleges. It was during these experiences that I decided I wanted to have a greater impact working with students in the K-12 schools.

Why do you want to teach:

While I was teaching at a local college I had students tell me stories of how they were very discouraged taking math in high school and that I was making a difference in their ability to learn it at the college level.

My goal is to make a difference helping middle school and high school students become excited about math.

Describe a memorable teaching experience:

I work with a group of 5th grade advance math students once a week. The last week of school they were so disappointed that our last class would be canceled due to a school wide assembly they put together a petition to have me meet with them on a different day and for more time.

What does the Noyce program mean to you:

The Noyce program helped me to reach my dream of teaching Math to Middle School and High School students. The opportunity came at a time when I needed to make a decision about continuing my pursuit of the teaching license or go back into the business world to financially support my family.

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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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