Teaching

In May of 2020 Anna accepted an offer to teach English and French at the Pennington School.  It is a private, coeducational school serving day and boarding students in grades 6 through 12 just a few minutes down the road from Princeton.  And like at Princeton, she'll be living on campus and getting three meals a day in the dining hall - but this time as a residential faculty member.  Anna is excited for the small classes and the chance to teach two subjects that she loves!

Kanoa Mulling ’15 is currently teaching EFL and English literature classes at Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand through a Princeton in Asia fellowship. Now in his second term, he has enjoyed developing his own Modern American Literature, including a range of texts and authors. He also assists with spelling bees, poetry recitation competitions and other student activities. He will continue teaching at Payap through May 2018. In addition to classroom teaching, Kanoa also tutors SAT, SATII, ACT, and AP students in many subjects, focusing on math.

Kanoa enjoyed his student…

After graduating from Princeton in 2012 with a classics degree and certificate in teacher preparation, I spent one year teaching at Eton College in Windsor England through the Annenberg Fellowship. While there, I had the opportunity to teach 8th and 9th grade Latin (F and E Block) for all three "halves" and trimester long courses for 11th, and 12th grade (C and B Block) on current events, the history of American Sport(s), Conversational Latin, and Alexander the Great, as well as prepare four students for their Oxford and Cambridge interviews. After an excellent experience teaching in a…

My favorite memory of my time at Teacher Prep was when I conducted my final orchestra concert at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North as my unit for student teaching. I composed a 10-minute rhapsody specifically for the orchestra to premiere, and it was a rewarding collaboration opportunity to not only practice my teaching skills but also to share my gift in music composition. Since graduating TPP, I spent the first summer (2014) in Seattle interning at the Seattle Children's Theatre as a music directing intern.

Fall 2014 I was employed full time at the Lewis School of…

After graduating in 2009, I took a round-about path back to the profession of education, including a brief stint as an au pair for a family in Spain and a 3-year stretch as human resources specialist in Silicon Valley, before ultimately finding my way back to a school setting, in Boston. I first teamed up with nonprofit Scholar Athletes, founded in Boston and dedicated to providing academic support through athletic participation. I served as the coordinator at Boston International Newcomers Academy (BINcA), an urban public high school that serves an entirely low-income immigrant community…

TPP was always about the people. I had the blessing to be there with the legendary Henry Drewry, to be mentored by Ruth Wilson, and taken care of by Jacqui Swain!

For years after my graduation, whenever I was at a crossroads in my career, I would set up a time to go visit Ruth and talk it out. And when I wasn't at a crossroads, I would stop by her office, introduce my (then new) wife, and my young son, and just enjoy being with Ruth for a bit.

Today (5/20/22) I learned a new bit of math from my students. I've been teaching at the highest of high school levels for 44…

Eunice completed her student teaching at Princeton High School during the Fall 2020 Semester.

She is currently in the NYU Teacher Residency Program and doing another year of student teaching at a charter school in the Bronx. The program is a year-long accelerated Masters in Teaching, and after completing it, Eunice will be teaching at the same school for a year or two.

Anna was a Religion major with a focus on Buddhist Studies in America.  She completed her teaching certification in Social Studies after student teaching in Trenton Central High School during Fall 2018.  She is currently the 7th grade level lead at Aurum Preparatory Charter School in Oakland, CA, a position she took on at the start of the 2021-2022 school year.  She taught US History for the past two years, and taught 8th grade English during her first year.  Building relationships with her students keeps Anna motivated and excited about her work.

While student teaching, I designed an original unit that was far too difficult and incorporated almost every pedagogy we had learned in 401 creating no cohesion throughout the unit. That failure in the classroom, however, gave me an incredible opportunity to reflect on my shortcomings as a teacher, clarify my educational philosophy, and grow as a holistic educator. As such, my biggest piece of advice to current TPP students is to try out as many things as possible in the classroom, because the TPP community is so positive in helping you reflect and grow from all these experiences.

I have a passion for music that definitely shows when I teach. Other teachers and observers have noted that I appear very comfortable in front of classes and that I share my love of music with students through my teaching methods. This is really my goal; I don’t want students to simply learn information. I want them to learn about music intimately, and I want their experiences in music classes to be significant. I always do my best to communicate my enthusiasm about music so that my students can see how worthwhile it is to study and…