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Ibrahim Mesanovic

Undergraduate major or graduate field of study: Master of Arts in Teaching Program

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

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

Name of Noyce institution:
Pacific University

Current academic or teaching status:
8 years teaching experience

School and school district:
Reynolds School District

Background:

My academic background is in Science, for which I received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Technology Engineering. I was a chemistry teacher for seven years in my country, Bosnia. I taught high school students, 9-12 grade level. In 1992, when I was a refugee in Germany, I taught Bosnian refugee students. I taught them science, math and the Bosnian language. In the U.S., I worked in high technology companies for five years. Since 2003 and until now, I have been working for the Reynolds School District as an Educational Assistant. At Reynolds High School, I worked with math, science and ELL teachers. In the last three years, I worked in Glenfair Elementary as a EA Title I. Mostly I supported the teachers in the math sections.

Why do you want to teach:

Because of my previous teaching experiences and my experience as an Educational Assistant, I like teaching, and I like to work with students.

Describe a memorable teaching experience:

My most memorable teaching experience is of all pleasurable and wonderful moments that I will always remember when I was in Germany in 1992. At that time, I organized the school for students who were refugees from Bosnia. I worked in the school in the year 1992-1993. I had 30 students in my classroom in the grade levels of 1-12. I didn’t have experience working with students in a combination of classes, but I mastered it very well. As a result, my student were very successful in math and science in the regular German school. I was very happy, and the parents of my students were very satisfied with the students’ progress and my teaching ability.

What does the Noyce program mean to you:

The Robert Noyce Scholarship STEM Program is a great achievement. It’s a great deal of tasks in the field of prosperity, effectiveness and trustworthiness. I’m really very thankful and happy that I qualified in the Pacific Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. It’s really financially manageable and inspiring to my studies–I’m now in the STEM MAT Program. It’s high value, and I work with well motivated science and math professionals. Furthermore, it will be helpful for me to find a job teaching students in my field, chemistry.

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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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