Autobiographical Statement
Currently, During Jami’s years as a technology educator, she came to realize how vital technology education is in the preparation of people, young and old, to achieve success in all endeavors set before them. Jami’s professional goal is to take her education experience, technology experience, and management experience and combine them into a trichotomy of expertise to share and utilize in other fields among the education world. Jami believes that education curricula should be implemented utilizing best practices related to their use in school programs based on research, pilot programs, and state/national standards. In her quest for a successful and meaningful course infrastructure, she has worked with administrators and school leadership teams to provide access to resources that ensure student success. It is important to facilitate community partnerships with parents, schools, and home school groups to support academic successes. Jami has worked with district facilitators to provide continued education, lesson plan development, and information resources for district communities.
As a teacher of fourteen years, Jami has seen technology needs for students to grow from a luxury into a necessity. A multiple award-winning educator and honor student, Jami has taught students in core classes as well as technology classes ranging in ages 5-17. Students’ learning styles have changed in the way they see and process information, delivery of content, and the way they reciprocate the information or talk. Current times have shown that students’ success is based on their ability to master technology and grow into a creative and competitive member of society.
During her time as a K-12 classroom teacher, Jami taught and designed a curriculum centered around video production, broadcast, 3D animation, 2D animation, digital graphics, photography, and graphic design in a middle school setting. In addition, she taught elementary self-contained core curriculum classes. She has witnessed children that otherwise struggle academically or behaviorally in their core classes, thrive and grow in technology classes. She centers her lessons around the theory of project & problem based learning thus not only teaching the students skills that can be utilized in the future but also the most important skill of all; ability to problem solve and think for themselves. As an educator, her passion is guiding students into a world of self-actualization and creativeness. During her tenure in the K-12 environment, she worked cooperatively to develop a curriculum that has been adopted district-wide throughout Frisco Independent School District., McKinney Independent School District, and Union Public Schools. She has also developed and taught many professional development sessions for other teachers in the various districts. In the past, Dr. Woychesin served as Director of Technology and Instructional Technology for Pilot Point ISD, Director of Technology as University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and currently Instructional Technology Specialist at University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth.
Jami has a Master’s of Science in Telecommunications Systems Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a Bachelor’s of Science in Education from Oklahoma State University. While a Ph.D. student in the Learning Technologies department at the University of North Texas in Denton, her research was focused on the effects of producing other knowledge through game-based learning such as Minecraft. Her belief is that technology education presented in a problem-based learning style environment will improve a student’s ability to problem solve and think independently. Jami graduated with her Ph.D. in May 2015.
As a teacher of fourteen years, Jami has seen technology needs for students to grow from a luxury into a necessity. A multiple award-winning educator and honor student, Jami has taught students in core classes as well as technology classes ranging in ages 5-17. Students’ learning styles have changed in the way they see and process information, delivery of content, and the way they reciprocate the information or talk. Current times have shown that students’ success is based on their ability to master technology and grow into a creative and competitive member of society.
During her time as a K-12 classroom teacher, Jami taught and designed a curriculum centered around video production, broadcast, 3D animation, 2D animation, digital graphics, photography, and graphic design in a middle school setting. In addition, she taught elementary self-contained core curriculum classes. She has witnessed children that otherwise struggle academically or behaviorally in their core classes, thrive and grow in technology classes. She centers her lessons around the theory of project & problem based learning thus not only teaching the students skills that can be utilized in the future but also the most important skill of all; ability to problem solve and think for themselves. As an educator, her passion is guiding students into a world of self-actualization and creativeness. During her tenure in the K-12 environment, she worked cooperatively to develop a curriculum that has been adopted district-wide throughout Frisco Independent School District., McKinney Independent School District, and Union Public Schools. She has also developed and taught many professional development sessions for other teachers in the various districts. In the past, Dr. Woychesin served as Director of Technology and Instructional Technology for Pilot Point ISD, Director of Technology as University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and currently Instructional Technology Specialist at University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth.
Jami has a Master’s of Science in Telecommunications Systems Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a Bachelor’s of Science in Education from Oklahoma State University. While a Ph.D. student in the Learning Technologies department at the University of North Texas in Denton, her research was focused on the effects of producing other knowledge through game-based learning such as Minecraft. Her belief is that technology education presented in a problem-based learning style environment will improve a student’s ability to problem solve and think independently. Jami graduated with her Ph.D. in May 2015.