Biology professor named Governor’s Teaching Fellow for 2017-2018
Associate Professor of biology Edward Mondor, Ph.D., has been named a 2017 Governor’s Teaching Fellow for the academic year symposium program.
As one of 15 faculty members from institutions of higher education across the state, Mondor, the 2014-2015 Wells-Warren Professor of the Year, was selected after a highly competitive application and selection process.
The Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program was established in 1995 by former Georgia governor Zell Miller to provide Georgia’s higher education faculty with expanded opportunities for developing important teaching skills. Miller envisioned this program would address faculty members’ pressing need to use emerging technologies and instructional tools that were becoming increasingly important for learning in today’s society.
To date, more than 84 different disciplines, professions and teaching areas have been represented by the more than 600 Fellows from more than 71 public and private institutions statewide.
Mondor began his fellowship in September, and has spent the first Wednesday-Friday of each month at the University of Georgia, discovering new techniques to apply to his teaching.
“The best thing about this program is learning about cutting-edge techniques that I can actually use in the classroom — techniques that are based on educational theory,” said Mondor. “We learn about how to encourage students to read, how to construct better test questions, how to apply metacognition theories. We cover a wide range of topics.
Mondor has already begun integrating what he’s learned into his lectures and cannot wait to continue through the program to learn more.
“I’m very excited to be part of this program and can attest to how highly my colleagues have spoken of it,” said Mondor. “I hope to be able to revise many of my courses to incorporate activities that help students interact with the course content a lot more than they currently do.”
To learn more about the Institute of Higher Education and the Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program, including information on how to apply, go to http://ihe.uga.edu/outreach/governors-teaching-fellows/.
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