Dr. Taja WelchDr. Taja M. Welch is a Pre-K-3 teacher at Fair Garden Early
Learning Center. She has taught preschool for 5 years and has taught at Fair Garden for the last 3 years. Prior to teaching at Fair Garden, she taught 1st grade at Sunny View Primary, and private Pre-K at Garden Of Discovery Learning Center, housed in Mount Olive Baptist Church. Dr. Welch has been with Knox County Schools since 2006. She received both her MS degree in Curriculum and Instruction and her EdD in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Leadership from Lincoln Memorial University in 2011 and 2016, respectively. Dr. Welch's research interests include Student Learning Styles and investigating how African American Single Mothers' Perceptions affect the education of their preschool-age children. She has presented her research at LMU's 1st Annual Research Day in 2016 as well as several research presentations for the undergraduate classes of her dissertation chair. Most recently, Dr. Welch was asked to participate as a presenter in a series of panel discussions entitled Courageous Conversations sponsored by LMU with her mother Dr. Olga M. Welch, Professor and Dean Emerita, School of Education, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. For 2 years, she has been involved with the CRRAFT program and had a project funded by Donor's Choose. Over 10 ten years, she has also provided private tutoring to elementary and middle school students in language arts as well as students with learning disabilities in language and mathematics. |