Mr. Feay's school e-mail address: portermiddle39@springmail.com

Mr. Feay has had over 30 years of experience teaching science, technology, and mathematics at the elementary, middle school, college, and adult levels. His innovative hands-on approaches to teaching science have earned him nationwide recognition.

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY:

Teaching is most successful when students understand the goals, are interested in the subject content, involved in the development of their studies, and recognize the real-life applications of their work. Learning must be a rigorous, hands-on, self-involved, integrated experience. Education should be thinking based, a discipline of 'doing' - questioning, hypothesizing, researching, solving, and applying. All resulting in a program that makes education a relevant, positive, and 'personal' experience for each learner.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Member, Commission for the Establishment of Academic Content and Performance Standards, State of California, Department of Education, to draft the current California Science Content Standards.

Member, California Framework and Criteria Commission, California Science Framework Development, State of California, Department of Education to write the current state framework for science.

Member, Instructional Materials Advisory Panel, State of California, Department of Education to review and select current science texts used in public schools in California.

LAUSD Mentor teacher for 9 years.

Multi-graded marine biology, summer academic program, California State University, Northridge.

College Extension teacher, CSUN, UCLA - Natural History of the Sierra Nevada, Natural History of the Caribbean.

GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS

Toyota TAPESTRY grants for teachers - 2000, linking scientific, environmental, and political studies

GTE GIFT, interdisciplinary environmental science program recipient - one of 50 nationwide.

SDB fellowship to write, "Improving Student Teaching in American Colleges," Claremont/McKenna College - one of 15 in the United States.

Nine - Los Angeles Educational Partnership, science/technology classroom project grants.

AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS

NSF/ Chevron, California Academy of Science - Top middle school science lesson series in the USA, 1996.

Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth (CTY) - Top 25 programs in the United States for able learners, 1992.

Business Week (July) - 'Top 100 Innovative Teachers in America' - for hands-on investigational approaches to teaching science, 1990.

"Marine Biology - A Total Classroom Concept"- Published in Blueprint For Success, (McGraw/Hill. 1990) - one of 100 teachers honored nationwide.