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 * Pamela Hughes **, Jewish Vocational Services

Application -

Administrator's focus:

Please describe the applicant’s current assignment, technology experience and leadership qualities, as well as the program’s overall commitment to technology integration and to the nominee’s participation in TIMAC, and what area you would like them to focus on in their mentoring of other instructors in your program.

Pamela Hughes, our Education Coordinator, is tasked with supporting various vocational ESL, basic skills, bridge programs for transitional-age youth, and college support services for both adults and young adults. We describe her role as "matrixed" which means that she works across departments to provide instructors, program coordinators, and workforce staff with guidance and leadership relating to curriculum development, assessment strategies, instructional strategies, teacher professional development, as well as instruction. Her role requires her at times to be directly invovled in our education programming (teaching, designing curricula and assessments, etc) as well as guiding others in these pursuits.

Pam has strong technological skills in general and has exercised these skills in designing curricula and making use if our computer labs to teach students. However, JVS has not yet been equipped with more cutting-edge classroom technology until now. Thanks to a recent foundation grant that we received, we will be installing interactive white boards in our classrooms and Pam will be at the helm of learning and teaching others how to integrate this technology into our classrooms. Pam is highly motivated educator and enjoys planning and implementing new ways to achieve our goals in the classroom. She is also a supportive mentor and fellow teacher who has a strong understanding of the teachers' (and students')classroom experience. We're lucky to have her in the role of Education Coordinator.

As already indicated, Pam's participation in TIMAC would focus on how to integrate the interactive whiteboards into our VESL, ABE, Bridge, and transitional services programs for the young adults and adults that we serve. We are interested not only in how this technology can be used in our everyday teaching, but would also love to investigate ways that it can provide alternative ways of demonstrating student learning and performance.

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Three interesting things about me:

At one point in my life, I was a competitive weight lifter On my eighth birthday, an alligator crawled into my backyard and died I was on a few episodes of a show on MTV

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