Theresa Bieg

Bieg’s innovative teaching idea, “Mastermind Mania,” is focused on providing students with a curriculum, taught during dedicated classroom time that enables students to be innovators and young leaders, eager to discover new ideas. The grant will enable the school to purchase materials and technology that allow students to create and design through inquiry-based learning rooted in critical thinking and problem solving. Bieg believes this approach promotes the development of cooperative learning, social competency, communication skills, thinking processes and independence. Equally as important, she thinks it also teaches students not to fear failure – because out of failure comes the opportunity to learn, invent and create original ideas, which she believes will develop real-world skills in St. Alban Roe Catholic School’s students.