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UTeach RGV Spotlight

Master Teacher Elizabeth Goldberg teaches about How to Not Take Things Personally...or at Least Try.


2021 Live Virtual College of Sciences Q&A

 Spring 2021 UTRGV UTeach Graduation


Virtual High School Inquiry-Based Demo Lesson Spring 2021


Fall 2020 UTCH 1101 (Step 1) Maker Projects


Fall 2020 UTeach Recap


 UTeach Half Time Interview with Elizabeth Goldberg


Fall 2020 UTeach Graduation Ceremony - Science Graduates


 Fall 2020 UTeach Graduation Ceremony - Mathematics Graduates 

How to Teach Inquiry Remotely


Live Virtual College of Sciences Q&A


How to Teach Inquiry Remotely Google Meet Version


 TI Navigator Grant 2019-2020 Winners 


How do UTeach?


Bianca Marroquin Commencement Speech


The UTeach Spring 2020 Graduate Ceremony


 How to Teach Inquiry Online

UTRGV HESTEC Spring 2020

RGV STEM Education Conference Poster Presentations


 How to make it through Step 1!

 


 UTeach Step 1 Maker Projects


What's Your Advice for New Teachers?


 Fall 2019 UTeach Graduation Banquets


Mock Interviews with AT Students


Math Conference with UTeach Students

 


 Fall 2019 Adopt a Game - UTRGV Men's Basketball


 PBI Saturday Challenge November 2, 2019


 

CDC Fall Festival 10/31/2019


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A year ago, one of the entries for the annual student organization dance-off at UTRGV Madness as a group of five clowns.

But they weren’t clowning around.

 Dressed as clowns, the UTeach RGV Student Organization earned Best Rookie Organization honors despite only two weeks of practice leading up to the event.

 This year, with more than a month of practice time, the seven-person dance squad of biology majors Valeria Alanis, Thamara Hernandez and Jacob Wolf, math majors Brendalee Hernandez, Jasmine Loredo and Crystal Vega, and chemistry major Dani Martinez look to take the university by storm at UTRGV Madness on Friday at 9 p.m. at the UTRGV Fieldhouse.

 This competition, however, isn’t just about winning. The students of UTeach have found that dancing has made them better at teaching.

 “I had always been very shy and dancing helped me to open up,” said Martinez, who is minoring in dance. “Without the dancing experience that I had in high school, I don’t think I would have been in the UTeach program, to begin with, because I was always too shy to be in front of or meet new people.”

After performing in front of over 2,000 students and community members, it’s hard to be nervous when performing in front of 25 students in a middle or high school classroom. The opposite is also true.

“Being part of UTeach has helped me in the sense that I’m not nervous about performing because I’m already kind of used to being the center of attention as a teacher in a classroom,” Thamara Hernandez said. “When we teach lessons, I have to speak to large crowds, and although dancing at madness is in front of a bigger crowd, I’m effectively speaking through dance. It’s a lot of fun.”

Martinez and Hernandez say that dancing will help them to relate to their students as well. For some kids, the dance experience will make their teachers more relatable and able to understand what they’re going through outside of the classroom.

Martinez and Hernandez also point to dancing as a necessity because it is critical to not get painted into a box of just being the person you are assumed to be based on your major.

“When we get to college, people like me often think we need to focus mainly on what we want to do, our science and our math,” Martinez said. “One of the things we need to remember is not to lose our creative outlets and passions. That was one of the things one of my chemistry professors told me when I first started college. She said, ‘don’t be square because you’re a scientist or a mathematician. You can still be creative and do these wonderful things.’”

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