How this Professoriate Fits Into my Career Goals Frederick Douglass was a great human rights advocate who used his oratory and writing skills to address the inhumane conditions that African Americans faced in the United States. Indeed, African Americans and minorities still face a great deal of discrimination and injustices in American society. In particular, data and statistics reveal a historic trend of dehumanizing African American students in their pursuit of an education. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), African American students often score lower than their White counterparts do. The NAEP is scored using plausible values, which provide additional weight for belonging to certain demographic groups.
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While holding those faculty positions, I was able to learn a multifarious array of teaching methods to increase the academic engagement of remedial students taking mathematics. My experiences have shown me that when students teach other students, they retain more knowledge and have higher rates of success. I have also learned that a successful teacher connects to the lives and experiences of students. I have a passion for teaching and I believe that the Frederick Douglass Doctoral Scholars Fellowship program is the ideal program to help me to achieve my goals to become a college professor and to teach data analysis/statistics and research courses in a school of …show more content…
It will enable me to undertake studies at Howard University while contributing to the university through teaching and scholarship. It will be a great honor for me to receive this award to matriculate through this program. During the application process, I have had an opportunity to learn about the Howard faculty members and my research interests closely align with the research interests of the faculty members. I would like to study and work with Dr. Kyndra Middleton because she has expertise in psychometrics and measurement bias. I would also like to study with Dr. Constance Ellison, who has expertise in socio-psychological relationships as they relate to forms of instruction. I would welcome an opportunity to work with Dr. Hakim Rashid. His work on examining concepts of self and self-esteem is of particular interest to me, especially as it relates to academic performance. Frederick Douglass said that “it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”. I would like to enroll in Howard University’s Educational Psychology doctoral program so that I can continue to enrich the lives of the next generation of scholars. Thus, I will be able to join the ranks of those who have adopted Frederick Douglass’s philosophy to build strong children through
While holding those faculty positions, I was able to learn a multifarious array of teaching methods to increase the academic engagement of remedial students taking mathematics. My experiences have shown me that when students teach other students, they retain more knowledge and have higher rates of success. I have also learned that a successful teacher connects to the lives and experiences of students. I have a passion for teaching and I believe that the Frederick Douglass Doctoral Scholars Fellowship program is the ideal program to help me to achieve my goals to become a college professor and to teach data analysis/statistics and research courses in a school of …show more content…
It will enable me to undertake studies at Howard University while contributing to the university through teaching and scholarship. It will be a great honor for me to receive this award to matriculate through this program. During the application process, I have had an opportunity to learn about the Howard faculty members and my research interests closely align with the research interests of the faculty members. I would like to study and work with Dr. Kyndra Middleton because she has expertise in psychometrics and measurement bias. I would also like to study with Dr. Constance Ellison, who has expertise in socio-psychological relationships as they relate to forms of instruction. I would welcome an opportunity to work with Dr. Hakim Rashid. His work on examining concepts of self and self-esteem is of particular interest to me, especially as it relates to academic performance. Frederick Douglass said that “it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”. I would like to enroll in Howard University’s Educational Psychology doctoral program so that I can continue to enrich the lives of the next generation of scholars. Thus, I will be able to join the ranks of those who have adopted Frederick Douglass’s philosophy to build strong children through