From engineer to math teacher
09/18/02 - TappedIn.org


Derrel (Derrelf) Fincher spent fifteen years in engineering prior to becoming a teacher in 1998. He switched careers when he found himself in front of a class of sixth grade math students for nine weeks in 1997 and realized he liked it! Now with certifications in K-12 Mathematics and Elementary Education he is a Math and Technology teacher at the American School in Japan. He discovered TAPPED IN when it was a requirement for his coursework in Pepperdine University's Online Master of Arts in Educational Technology (OMAET) program but he found it so useful he now uses it with his middle school students as well as using it for discussions with other professionals.

Derrel's Perspective
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"The most significant learning for individuals occurs within a social context, whether it's an engineering team trying to create a new product or authors discussing writing. I try to give my students the same experience of learning within a social context I enjoyed as an engineer."

Read all of Derrel's perspective online at http://www.tappedin.org/info/perspectives/dfe.html.

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