Teaching Fellows Requirements
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Requirements for mainting the Teaching Fellows Scholarship at UNCW:

  • Attend a Teaching Fellows seminar course each semester and complete all of the requirements listed within each course syllabus.
  • Be an active participant in a Teaching Fellows approved committee.
  • Be an active participant in the implementation of class projects.
  • Maintain grade point average and credit hours required by the scholarship.
  • Admitted to the Watson School of Education by the start of Junior Year; students must have a GPA of 2.7 or higher for admission.
  • Teach in a North Carolina public school for every year loan accepted or repay the loans with the interest rate set by the state.
  • State requires fulfillment of the teaching obligation within 7 years of graduation.
  • Students are required to graduate from one of the 14 campuses with licensure.


Below are links to syllabi for the Seminar Courses, links to the summer activities from the Teaching Fellows Organization and descriptions of the Committees the students participate.

 

UNCW Teaching Fellows Seminars

Teaching Fellows Summer Enrichments

Teaching Fellows Committees

  • Recruitment: Members of the committee must collect information around campus and create packets for students to visit schools during Fall Break and hand out the packets to the school representative.  Committee also work with the Open House chair to send off invitations to Open House.  Committee also attends the reruitment fairs sponsored by the university.
  • Social: Committee plans social events for the other UNCW  Fellows. Recent events include a bonfire, bowling night, and Halloween Carnival.
  • Community Outreach: Committee is designed to set up volunteering opportunities on campus and throughout the community.  The goal is to offer several different opportunities with local charities to set up days for UNCW TFs to come and help.
  • Travel: Committee is responsible for planning a social trip for the Fellows.  The trip is to be for comrade ere and to help promote mingling between the classes.
  • Conferences: Committee publishes conferences by talking to the classes, registering for the conferences, following up, etc.
  • Publicity: Committee designs Teaching Fellows displays, Discovery t-shirts, brochures, web pages, bulletin boards, etc.  Committee advertises for various committee events.
     
 


If you have any additional informational needs or requests regarding the
Watson School of Education Teaching Fellows Program at UNCW,
please contact us at (910) 962-4001 or E-mail us at Teaching Fellows (tfellows@uncw.edu)