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October 2011 > Students
MACSME Students Earn Teaching Fellowships
Candice Director
Monica Sircar
Johanna Langill
Three Master's and Credential in Science and Mathematics Education (MACSME) students -- Candice Director '11, Monica Sircar '12 and Johanna Langill '13 -- have received Knowles Teaching Fellowships in support of their efforts to launch successful teaching careers.
"MACSME has a 20-year tradition of luring the very best prospective teachers and providing them with preparation for careers as teacher leaders," says MACSME co-director Alan Schoenfeld. "It's delightful to see the Knowles Foundation recognize the quality of the students and the program."
Director, who earned UC Berkeley's Alpha Delta Kappa Excellence in Student Teaching Award as well as an outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award, started her first full-time teaching position at High Tech High Media Arts High School in San Diego this fall after focusing her student teaching on a student-centered curriculum last year.
"Teaching has reaffirmed my belief that education can and should be used as a practice for freedom, inspiration and innovation," says the UC Berkeley graduate (M.A. and B.A.).Sircar wants to build on the new teaching methods that she has learned through her MACSME student teaching assignment when she graduates from the School of Education in May. "I see teaching as a lifelong opportunity to deepen my understanding of science and scientific thinking," says the Stanford graduate. "I cannot imagine more enriching work."
Langill combines a love for mathematics and teaching. She studied mathematics at UC Berkeley, international perspectives on math education at Cambridge University and has volunteer taught in Central America. About those experiences, she says: "I was especially aware of the aspects of mathematics that I enjoyed, as well as the characteristics of teachers that I found inspiring."
The Knowles Science Teaching Foundation awards annual fellowships in the areas of biological sciences, mathematics and physical sciences. Valued at $150,000, the Knowles Science Teaching Fellowships' sole purpose is to support the best and the brightest high school math and science teachers from the onset of the credentialing process through the early years of their careers.
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