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Shelby's Page
Hi and welcome to my page! I'm Shelby Bowen, your course facilitator and fellow educator. I teach a great group of students in fifth grade at Crozet Elementary.

I chose a career in education when my oldest child was at Crozet Elementary. I was intrigued by the classroom environment and began looking for an answer to the question, "How do children learn?". I discovered later that what I was really asking had more to do with gifted brains and the way gifted kids make sense of the world. In 2006 I added a Masters degree in education from Mary Baldwin college to my undergraduate degree in archaeology. Time flies and my oldest is now beginning his "teenoid" years and my youngest is nine.

After a few years in the classroom, I'm now interested in the way teachers learn. I'd like to help educators explore ways to engage their 21st Century learners and prepare both teachers and students for a future most certainly tied to technology. I hope this course will lend positive encouragement to teachers who sometimes feel "left behind" in the race for all things technological.

sbowen@k12albemarle.org


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