Jacob Newsom
Teaching is a way to have employment where you know you are working for the betterment of your community.
Teaching is a way to have employment where you know you are working for the betterment of your community.
Thank you for supporting Jacob Newsom in this year's competition. Your donations and participation will benefit The Planetary Society in their mission to advance space exploration, inspire discovery, and empower the next generation of innovators.
I became a teacher because I had a fantastic instructor, Dr. Karl Roider, in college that made history and teaching come alive and feel accessible. I was a history major at the time and he showed me the importance of a good social science instructor.
Tell us about your most memorable teaching experienceWhen I started out, I was teaching middle school and I had a student that was functionally illiterate; at the end of the semester, she wrote me a note about how my support for her lead to her finishing her first chapter book and how much she enjoyed reading it.
What would you do with the $25,000?Pay off my few debts so that I could provide more for my family, my wife and I are both educators and the lack of pay makes of finances tighter than they should be.
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