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Preparing Tomorrow's Science and Math Teachers Summer
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Ozarka College's team - Joan Stirling, Brenda Jones, Linda Morgan, and David Koch of Lyon College - reports that the teacher education initiative is currently fast-paced at Ozarka College with much happening for the first time ever on campus! Last fall there were twenty-seven students enrolled in the Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT) degree when it was offered for the first time and this spring semester the number has risen to over fifty. A Student Arkansas Education Association (SAEA) club was introduced on campus and currently there are twenty members. Ten of these students with their two sponsors attended the state meeting of the Arkansas Education Association in Little Rock where special sessions were held for the SAEA members. Ozarka has developed and is offering two education courses for the first time this spring, Introduction to Education with forty-seven students enrolled and Introduction to K-12 Technology with fifty-three students enrolled. Plans are finalized to offer two education courses in fall 2003 from Arkansas Tech University (ATU) that are at the junior level with negotiations well underway for ATU to offer the final two years of a four-year education degree at Ozarka. Also happening at Ozarka for the first time ever was a Future Teachers Conference in February. Over one hundred high school students attended with their Teachers of Tomorrow sponsors. In addition, approximately forty Ozarka AAT students attended with many of the SAEA members assisting in the registration process and in moderating the sessions. In September, Lars Kjeseth, El Camino Community College, and Laurie Fathe, George Mason University, Ozarka's mentor and resource person, visited our campus. In addition to lending their expertise to the teacher education movement, they led a discussion with science and math faculty that was most stimulating and will help our faculty to inspire math and science education majors. Receiving this Phi Theta Kappa grant has been key to catapulting Ozarka College to its present status with teacher education. Joan Stirling: jstirling@ozarka.edu
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