Freshmen Teaching Fellows below at Anderson University are beginning their two- day training on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People with Mr. Connley Skeen, trainer for Franklin Covey. Participants in the training will continue their assignments throughout the school year working with their accountability partners in developing a mission statement and completing other activities and projects relating to the “7 Habits”. Freshmen students will also discuss the relationship of the 7 HABITS to the characteristics the effective teacher. The goal of the Teaching Fellows program is to train the freshman in the 7 HABITS each year when they enter the program. (Photo 1)
Each fall, the Teaching Fellow sophomores at Anderson University conduct a four- day Storytelling Festival for elementary students in the Anderson Area. During this event some nine hundred elementary students are able to hear professional storytellers such as Tim Lowry below, who is being introduced by AU Teaching Fellows. Elementary students were bussed from Calhoun Elementary School, Midway Elementary School, Nevitt Forest Elementary School, Homeland Park Elementary School, Concord Elementary School, Whitehall Elementary School, Centerville Elementary School, and North Pointe Elementary School for the event this year. Planning and conducting this storytelling program was the responsibility of the sophomore Teaching Fellows class. The Teaching Fellows at Anderson University have been conducting this Storytelling Festival for the last ten years.n (Photo 2)
Lexys Baker, freshman Teaching Fellows, at Anderson University was elected president of the freshman TF class. She received the Pickens County School District Teacher Forum Scholarship, AMVET Scholarship among several others. She was also a member of her schools National Honor Society for two years, and an honors graduate. Lexys was involved in her community and received two Presidential Service Awards for many hours of community service. She was also selected to be a part of the Junior Leadership of Pickens County.
Lexys stated, “It is truly an honor to be a part of this amazing program, and I am ecstatic to be elected to such an important role in our Teaching Fellows cohort. Being president is something I will not take lightly.”
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The Junior Teaching Fellows at Anderson University enjoyed four days of professional development and educational workshops in Charleston. The cohort worked in teams with an Advisory Council member. To study Covey’s book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and focus in on a different HABIT. Through further research and group preparation, members of the junior cohort became more educated on these habits and grew closer as a group. They also had an afternoon of shopping, dining, and taking a carriage ride in historic downtown Charleston.
--Mary Lesslie Culp, Junior Teaching Fellows President
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Lexys stated, “It is truly an honor to be a part of this amazing program, and I am ecstatic to be elected to such an important role in our Teaching Fellows cohort. Being president is something I will not take lightly.”
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The Junior Teaching Fellows at Anderson University enjoyed four days of professional development and educational workshops in Charleston. The cohort worked in teams with an Advisory Council member. To study Covey’s book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and focus in on a different HABIT. Through further research and group preparation, members of the junior cohort became more educated on these habits and grew closer as a group. They also had an afternoon of shopping, dining, and taking a carriage ride in historic downtown Charleston.
--Mary Lesslie Culp, Junior Teaching Fellows President
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On Nov. 10th, over one hundred and fifty veterans and guests were treated to breakfast along with a special program honoring veterans. Veterans from World War II, the Korean Way, the Vietnam Way, and the Gulf were represented and recognized for their service. An education classroom was dedicated by the Anderson University Teaching Fellows in memory of SSG Charlie Pannell who lost his life due to wounds received in Mosul, Iraq. His mother (education faculty member), wife, and his children, were present. A number of veterans after the meeting stated that it was one of the best Veterans Day program they had attended and were greatly impressed with our Teaching Fellows. The Anderson University Teaching Fellows were honored to organize and present this program. (Photos 5, 6, 7)
