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Jennifer

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Noyce Scholar Profile

Jennifer Traxel

Undergraduate major or graduate field of study: MSEd, Chemistry Education

Subject area(s) and grade level teaching focus: General Science and Chemistry, grades 7-12

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

Name of Noyce institution:
SUNY Cortland

Current academic or teaching status:
Graduate 1st Year

School and school district:
Field experience-Whitney Point HS, Homer HS, Dewitt MS; Student Teaching-Homer HS, Cortland JHS

Background:

I am from a small town (Clinton, NY) and love to go camping, hiking, watch movies, travel, and especially love chemistry. I graduated from SUNY Cortland in 2010 with a BS in Adolescence Education Chemistry and loved my department so much that I decided to stay there as a graduate student!

Why do you want to teach:

I knew I always wanted to be a teacher, but never knew what to teach. When I took Chemistry in 11th grade, that changed. I love Chemistry and even more, I love getting other people to love Chemistry too! This is why I want to teach.

Describe a memorable teaching experience:

During my student teaching experience at Homer High School, on my last day, I was given two bouquets of flowers and a cake that said, “We’ll Miss You.” All of those were amazing gifts and made me feel like I had done my job, but when a student came up to me at the end of the day and told me that he truly understood everything I had taught him and made him see Chemistry as a cool subject, that’s when I knew that I actually could make a difference and made me excited to be a Chemistry teacher.

What does the Noyce program mean to you:

The Noyce program has been great to me. I have had the opportunity to go to the National Conference during the summer, meet and talk to other Noyce scholars, and have learned a lot of new ways to make Chemistry fun in my classroom. Any program that could help me be a better teacher means the world to me, and the Noyce program has done just that.

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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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