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Farrell Rogers

Undergraduate major or graduate field of study: B.S.-Zoology/M.Ed. Secondary Science Ed.

Subject area(s) and grade level teaching focus: Middle School Science(6-8)

Category of scholarship/fellowship:
Master Teaching Fellow

Name of Noyce institution:
University of South Florida/Noyce Master Teacher Fellowship

Current academic or teaching status:
22 years teaching Middle School

School and school district:
Marshall Middle School, Hillsborough County Schools, FL

Background:

I graduated from the University of Florida with a BS in Zoology. I continued through at UF to earn my M.Ed. in Secondary Science Education. Although I had originally planned to teach Highschool, my first position ended up in Middle school and I fell in love with teaching science to this group of students. I am just completing my 22nd year of instruction. I earned my National Board Certification in 2000 and renewed in 2010. I have been the Science Dept. Chair at my current school for the last 14 years, however for the last five years I have also functioned as a Science resource Teacher/Science Coach. This role expects me work with teachers to help them improve and have a positive impact on our State Science Scores. I have done various trainings for my district and the state. I have also been fortunate enough to have participated in 6 RET experiences at various universities around the country. Several years ago, I started and designed a Robotics Program at my school. I was a large part of getting that program implemented in various other Middle schools.
I do have a life outside of teaching. I have a wonderful wife, son, dog,4 cats and on my spare time teach and try to compete in medieval sword fighting.

Why do you want to teach:

To be successful at teaching, one must be continually learning. I LOVE learning new stuff about the universe. AND I also love the feeling I get when an activity or explanation I give causes a light bulb to turn on in a kid’s head.

Describe a memorable teaching experience:

After completing an RET experience at a University, I taught the lesson/unit I had created. Because of the time I was allowed to put into the creating of the lesson over the summer, the lesson was a huge success the 1st time I tried it and has been ever since. It was so rewarding to see a lesson go so smoothly after putting that much time into it. I have since shared that activity with the entire grade level and it has been used by other teachers. Gravy!

What does the Noyce program mean to you:

Being awarded the Noyce Fellowship has excited me in two specific areas. As a resource teacher, my role is to assist teachers and help them improve. I feel there are areas I can improve in this. The other area is a bit selfish. Whenever accomplished science teachers get together in a setting such as Noyce provides, ideas and knowledge are shared. I am always looking to learn more specific ways to integrate math and science. When I teach, I have a theme…”Science is using math to measure the universe”. The merging of the math and science teachers in this program will be a great benefit. Although I am only starting the MF Program, I am very excited for what the next five years will have in store.

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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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