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My name is Evren and I'm a junior at Haverford and a Math major and Physics minor. I'm taking this course because I am considering pursuing a career in teaching. My whole life I've been surrounded by educators. My grandparents, parents, and aunts and uncles, on both sides of the family, are all teachers ranging from Turkish rural elementary school to deans at Princeton. In high school I participated in a program at the College of New Jersey called the "Urban Teacher's Academy," which focused on the adversities facing students and educators in urban schools and how to overcome these adversities. While that program focused a lot on the politics of education and how shaping policies can improve urban school systems, the Noyce science and math teacher internship that I participated in over this past spring break offered a classroom view of education. I saw different and unorthodox teaching methods regarding curriculum and how teacher-student relationships can be developed to maximize learning.

While I've participated in several programs regarding teaching, this is the first education (and biology) course I've taken, so I expect to be made less ignorant with respect to both pedagogy and biology.