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Teaching: Elementary and curriculum specialist

Context	I began working at Ellettsville Elementary in 1994 while I was still a graduate student in the Astrophysics department at Indiana University. At that time I was considering a minor in Education, but as began working with the students, I quickly discovered that I enjoyed teaching a lot. Shortly, thereafter I transferred to the School of Education and began to work more and more at Ellettsville Elementary.
Conditions	When I first began working at Ellettsville I was working with a single class consisting of 30 students. However, I quickly began to work with more classes until I was working with multiple classes for extended periods of time and spending significant amount of time in the school. At the current time I am currently working closely with three teachers in the school. I have developed several instructional projects and have assisted in integrating technology such as the World Wide Web into classroom activities.
Scope	I have been working with Mrs. Judy Morran for the past seven years. My work started off as simply working with a single class once a week, but over time I have taken a larger and larger role in the classroom. Specifically, I have developed several instructional projects, conducted formative research on these projects, and fed the findings back into the next iteration of the project. Some of the projects that I either developed or assisted in the development of include a water quality curriculum unit, a wildflower unit, and several space science units.
Role	I have been a co-teacher and have assisted in the design of curriculum science projects that support students in doing inquiry-oriented science. My primary roles have been to support students in learning science content and to help students learn the processes of doing science.