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Project
TEACH
Hosts
Kirtland
Community College
and
Maine
University
On
Monday Oct 11th, visitors from Kirtland Community College in
Michigan and Maine University visited the GRCC campus to learn
more about
Project
TEACH.
The visitors from Kirtland were participating in a Phi Theta
Kappa/NSF teacher preparation grant.
Project
TEACH faculty members Steve Kinholt from Green River and Bruce
Palmquist from Central Washington University are serving as
mentors to Kirtland CC and two other community colleges during
this two-year project. Steve and Bruce recently visited the
Kirtland campus to help them implement teacher preparation
activities.
This recent
reverse site visit allowed the Kirtland faculty and another
visitor from Maine to learn more about Project TEACH firsthand.
The group first toured the Project TEACH Center and visited with
the Center’s Director,
Leslie
Heizer.
Next, they watched a demonstration of our student tracking
system conducted by
Marilou
Christiansen,
the
Project TEACH
Program Support Supervisor. After that they observed our
interdisciplinary science class taught by
Bob Filson
and
Ajay Narayanan.
They also had the opportunity to meet with Christie Gilliland
and Joyce Hammer to learn more about our math classes for
teachers and other aspects of Project TEACH. After a brief
tour of the campus led by Sam Ball and a welcome by
April Jensen,
five former
Project
TEACH students, now in the CWU @ GRCC, answered questions about
our Teachers of Tomorrow club, the Future Teachers Conference,
and their views about Project TEACH as a teacher preparation
program.
The PTK/NSF
program will come to a conclusion in March when all mentors and
mentees will meet in
San Antonio
for a Best Practices conference. |
