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Freshmen West Scholars Visit Two Schools Freshman West Scholars are enrolled as a
cohort in the spring section of EDUC 2000 - Introduction to Teaching and Education
Technology, taught by Dr. Cynthia Osterhus.
The ’10 Cohort traveled to two schools this spring to get a sense of the
differences that exist, and the particular successes these schools have
achieved. A third school visit with
the Northview IB Candidate School in Statesville, NC had to be cancelled due
to extreme weather conditions and power outages. The Cannon School, Concord, NC -- Tuesday, March 1, 2011
BLOG: Allison Andrews, ’10 West Scholar, Sherrills Ford, NC. On
March 1, 2011, the 2010 West Scholars Cohort visited the Cannon School
located in Concord, North Carolina.
The Cannon School is an application only, independent college preparatory school that serves
Junior Kindergarten through 12th grade.
There are roughly 825 students who attend Cannon School and 150
faculty and staff members who work at Cannon School. Because the Cannon School is independent,
they have no state funding and are a completely tuition based school. There are a variety of sports, languages,
and arts programs that Cannon students can participate in including football,
basketball, baseball, softball, Chinese, Spanish, French, choir, band, and
the visual arts. During
our tour of the school, I was drawn in by the unique set up of the
campus. The campus is separated into
three separate schools, Lower (JK-4), Middle (5-7), and High (9-12), yet the
students are integrated. Each Junior
Kindergartener is matched up with a Senior student and they act as a Big
Brother/Sister program throughout the year.
Because I am highly involved in the Performing Arts program at Catawba
College, I was intrigued by Cannon School's advocacy for the Arts. While on the tour, my group stepped in on a
music class where first grade students were reading music and learning about
terms that I did not learn about until middle school. Madison McKinney, fellow West Scholar and music
lover, and I could not believe the passion, knowledge, and drive flowing from
the students at such a young age. Overall,
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit with the Cannon School. Visiting the school opened my eyes to a
completely different school system that I am highly interested in.
The KIPP Academy, Charlotte, NC -- Tuesday, March 29, 2011 KIPP Charlotte is a
tuition-free, open-enrollment, college preparatory middle school serving 350
students in grades five through eight. Ninety give percent of KIPP
Charlotte students are African-American, 4% Latino/Hispanic, and over 70%
qualify for the free and reduced meal program. KIPP Charlotte serves
communities that are traditionally underserved and marginalized in education.
BLOG:
by
Caroline Bostian, ’10 West Scholar, Pfafftown, NC KIPP
“Knowledge is Power Program” School - The
2010 West Scholar Cohort visited KIPP Middle School in Charlotte on Tuesday
March 29. KIPP School is a charter school that includes grades fifth through
eighth. This school meets the needs of children who need extra help outside
the classroom that public schools are not providing and most of the students
are one to two years below grade level. KIPP is a member of a National
Network of charter schools. The
networks of KIPP schools were founded in 1994 because fifth grade teachers
were noticing problems with certain students transitioning into middle
schools. The KIPP School that we visited is the only one in Charlotte and was
founded in 2007. Students attend school Monday through Thursday, from 7:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. On Fridays they only
go to three in the afternoon, and they attend school every other Saturday.
The extra long days give students time for remedial attention with teachers. Students who are caught up get to be
involved with enrichment programs like the school newspaper. This particular
KIPP school has 350 students total and they plan to keep the same amount of
students otherwise there would be an overflow. The KIPP school receives state
and local funding. They also raise
money, request grants, and have a money discipline system. When we were touring, we saw that all
students wore a uniform that consisted of khakis and a KIPP shirt. On many of the school shirts and on each
classroom wall was an African Proverb, “I am who I am because of what we all
are.” This demonstrated a sense of
togetherness and school unity.
Senior Reflections
Kelli Ferguson, ’07 West Scholar, Raleigh, NC My four years at Catawba have been nothing short of
amazing. Through Catawba's supportive
and nurturing employees and students, I've grown from being a 17-year-old
high school graduate wanting to change the world, to a 21-year-old who knows
she can. At least in the worlds of my
future students, that is, and after all, they are our future. I've learned countless things in my time at
Catawba, but there are a few I will definitely take with me. 1. Stop and smell the roses. 2. Count your blessings - it's all in how you look
at it. 3. Get your girl-time in. 4. Call your parents. To me, the most obvious thing about this list is
that none of the items are academic.
While Catawba did challenge me and helped me learn a lot on the
academic side of things, that isn't why I love my soon to be alma mater. The relationships and lessons learned are
what are irreplacable. My plans after
graduation are to move back home to Raleigh, NC, and hopefully find a job as
a middle school math teacher. Right
now that horizon is looking bright. It
would also be over-the-top fantastic if I could find a school that is in need
of a softball and/or cross country coach.
I could not have chosen a better launch pad for success than
Catawba. Thanks! Senior,
Teacher Education major presents program at West Scholars meeting – Thursday,
March 17, 2011
BLOG: by Cristin Ritchie, ’10 West Scholar, Salisbury, NC On Thursday
March 17, Mark Ketterer, a student teacher at Erwin Middle School and for the
North Carolina Virtual Public School, addressed the West Scholars. During his
time with us he discussed the structure of a virtual classroom and how he
interacted with his students never seeing them face-to-face. Within this
online classroom there are many different ways to communicate with the
students. These include public announcements, Wimba, an interactive white
board in which both the student and teacher can work problems together, and
Pronto, an instant messaging system for the teacher and student to
communicate quickly, if both are online. He also showed us how each unit is
laid out. Within each section there are lessons, explanations, examples,
homework, quizzes and tests. Each is weighted with points, and many of them
are self-graded by the computer. The flaw that does appear in this technique
of releasing the quizzes and other assignments over the internet, is that tests may be retaken as many times
as the student chooses until they receive all the points for that section.
The school is looking into this issue. This virtual public school may be the future
of learning, and it currently exists with many different and diverse subjects
for students in middle and high school to take. We are moving into a more
technological and advanced age so it only makes sense that schools should
move with us.
Mark
Ketterer Presentation to West Scholars “All Cohort Meeting” Mark
demonstrates virtual teaching with a real student at the NC Virtual Public
School
Senior Reflections
Elizabeth Sloop, ’07 West Scholar, Salisbury,
NC Four years ago, I don’t
think I realized how many amazing experiences I was going to have during my
college career. Of course, no one ever knows what lies ahead, but I feel
especially blessed and thankful for what I have learned in such a short
amount of time! I’ve had many opportunities to work with students, and every
single one of them has been rewarding in a unique way. Before the beginning of my
sophomore year, I was asked to take on the two children’s handbell groups at
my church. The oldest group consisted of middle and high school students,
while the younger group’s age range was up to my discretion. I decided to
open the younger group up and take on third through fifth graders.
Wow! What a challenge! These kids came in knowing next to nothing about
music, and trying to explain a very abstract concept to students who think on
a concrete level was, at times, more than I bargained for. Now, almost three
years later, the students who didn’t know quarter notes from whole notes are
reading music that challenged my middle/high school group when they started
playing. My older group is now playing music that is on the same level as our
adult choir. These two groups are my pride and joy, and my stress relief. I
know that when I go in to teach these groups, my kids will have me laughing
so hard I start crying and will somehow still manage to progress leaps and
bounds on a piece in a single hour. The past two summers I was
lucky enough to be chosen to be a part of the Lutheridge+Lutherock Ministries
summer camp staff. It is impossible to sum up my experiences at camp in this
short space. I had the chance to meet so many wonderful children and teach
them about God’s love for them. I was challenged by cabin groups that didn’t
always get along. I was challenged by diversity, by working with kids from
inner city churches. I was covered in markers by a homesick camper who
thought making her counselor “living art” was the coolest thing ever. I was
covered in shaving cream more than once during messy relays. I was the
counselor who helped a homesick kid get to sleep on their first night away
from home. Simply put: I was blessed. (Sloop Reflection – continued)
My student teaching
experience can be summed up in one word: incredible.
Mrs. April Williamson was a wonderful cooperating teacher and mentor. I
learned so much from her and I will forever be indebted to her for her
insight and encouragement. The staff at Millbridge Elementary was supportive
and always willing to lend a helping hand. My students were beyond anything I
could have imagined. Not only were these kids ready to learn, they were so
full of love! As with any class there were a few challenges. Writer’s block
seemed to be this group’s biggest problem, but we solved that by utilizing
different types of thinking maps. Once we jumped that hurdle, many who were
really struggling to complete a paragraph in an hour began producing simply
mind-boggling work. The students were each
assigned a person or event from the Revolutionary War. Some of these
characters were familiar, while others were a little more challenging. I made
sure to differentiate my instruction based on varying ability levels. My students did such a great job with this
project, and they seemed to have fun completing it as well! I’ve worked in other capacities with
children (volunteering with Bible School, working on staff for North Rowan
High School’s Marching Cavaliers, tutoring students from my church,
volunteering as an advisor for my church’s youth group) and these are just
some of the highlights. If you have a couple of hours and would like to know
more about any of my students, I’d be glad to sit down and tell you. Just a
heads up though, you might want to bring a snack. I tend to get really
excited when I talk about what I love doing! Now I’m wrapping up my
time at Catawba by taking a few classes and subbing two days a week at local
elementary schools. Although it is bittersweet knowing this is the end of
college, I am ready for my next adventure. I hope my future students are
ready to be loved, because I plan to love them like crazy … and maybe teach
them a thing or two while I’m at it. WHAT
SCHOLARS ARE DOING! West Scholars are telling us what
activities they’ve been involved with – or what their plans are for the summer. Meet Lauretta! Lauretta
Andrews Overfield, ’09 West Scholar Kannapolis,
NC
SPRING SEMESTER: I'm a commuting Music Education major, so most of my
campus time is spent in the practice rooms or rehearsal halls of Hoke and
Williams. I have signed up for the April 1 performance hour in the Chapel at
3pm. My Sophomore Review is this year and I'm very nervous about that. I will
be one of the members of Catawba's first full member marching band in years.
At the moment I'm not sure whether I want to audition for a piccolo (baby
flute) position or to be on the colorguard (dance and flagwork). The Catawba Wind Ensemble and Pride Pep Band will go on tour just
before final exams. The Pride Pep Band
will perform at Busch Gardens, and the Wind
Ensemble is slated to perform at various high schools in North and South
Carolina in order to pique the interest of high school instrumentalists
looking for a closer to home higher education option.
I have enjoyed and learned much from the Campus
events I’ve attended this year - (this
year's Lilly Colloquium was amazing). One night I attended a theatre
production entitled 'Fatal Matrimony.' That was quite interesting; our
theatre department is very talented and full of amazing hard workers. LIFE IN GENERAL: Aside from school duties
(like trying to maintain a 3.0 GPA for scholarships and having enough
practice time for multiple musical instruments), I am a full time wife and
mother. My husband just got home from
Afghanistan this past December (just in time for Christmas, yay!). My son is 8 months old, crawling all over
the place and I wish I had things he could climb over. He knows how to do it, but nothing at home
has ledges low enough for him, so I've been thinking of buying a beanie bag
chair for him to play on (it's really an excuse; I've wanted one for years). PLANNING AHEAD: To broaden my musical
horizons a little, I have entered negotiations with the worship director at
my current church, Concord Christian Church, to audition and hopefully begin
playing my flute, and perhaps some piano, during worship on Sundays. This will be volunteer work. EXCITEMENT: I won a week long trip to Florida with $200
Disney dollars that I can use within the next 17 months, so my husband and I
are thinking of taking advantage of that at some point, most likely during
the summer before attending my family's first family vacation since I was
born. Going Green – Center for the Environment Speaker
BLOG: by Daniel Couchenour, ’10 Scholar, Fort Mill, SC On March 31, 2011, I attended a speech by David
Walters at Catawba College’s Center for the Environment. Walters is a British architect who has
been working in the United States as a professor at the University of North
Carolina-Charlotte. He is a national
award winner for urban design as well as a national award winner for his
master plan work. Even though this
senior urban designer has written many books, his one-hour presentation hit a
home run in the minds of everyone that attended. His seven-signpost presentation covered
many important values and answered questions for those of us wondering how our
community can go greener. The first signpost was recognizing the energy waste
in this country and how energy waste is influencing more and more
pollution. Starting the presentation
with this signpost was a good introduction because it immediately got the
audience’s attention. Signpost two and
three were very community oriented.
Walters explained that how and where we build our communities is
important because if our communities are more transit friendly they can be a
waste catalyst. Signpost number four
states we should use more research that is academic in our studies toward
more sustainable neighborhoods. Walters’s signposts five and six were easily linked
into one major signpost in my mind, because they both related to population: in density and travel. First, the smartest population distribution
is a dense city population that feathers out into lower density residential
areas. It would make sense to live as
close as possible to large cities compared to farther away. Based on travel distances to large cities,
we must be open to new ideas, which is why Walters believes that high-speed
rail is the future of travel. The rail
system can utilize power other than fossil fuels thus reducing
pollution. Also in being open to new
ideas, signpost number seven states that we must learn from other countries
in order to be more energy efficient. Walters made some excellent points and I was very
pleased with this speaker. I would
personally like to recommend that he return every year if he is willing. As future teachers we should be focusing on
having a voice in our students’ environment as well as their education. Teaching students to go greener will have
benefits long after we are gone because without this instruction, the next
generation could be keeping the planet more abundant with resources that are
not re-usable. Our promotion of going
green could potentially expand the earth’s timeline. Also teachers can share their voices about
a greener school. Schools have one of
the communities’ largest ecological footprints, so having a greener school
that is very easy to travel to, can
benefit the community in more ways than imaginable. Two West
Scholars are part of The Catawba Singers
The
Catawba Singers, Catawba's highly regarded and auditioned concert choir, took
their Spring 2011 Tour, which
coincided in part with Catawba's spring break and included performance stops
in Huntington, W. Va.; Evansville, Ind.; Springfield, Ill.; Chicago, Ill.;
Louisville, Ky.; Bristol, Tenn.; and Hickory, N.C. Read more at: http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2011/03/07/blog_11choir1.aspx
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 3:00 in the Chapel - Brent Messenger, percussion-marimba Junior - Music Education Major - ’08 West
Scholar, Kannapolis, NC Catawba's First Online Registration
BLOG: by Jessica Everett, ’09
West Scholar, Winston-Salem, NC When I
learned that Catawba College was headed toward having a registration process
that was online I was initially afraid. Technology has its perks but it also
has its kinks, and something as serious as registering for classes needs as
few road bumps along the way as possible. However, since taking the
registration class and learning the ins and outs of registering online, I
feel very optimistic about this move forward for Catawba College. I know that
online registration eliminates long lines and saves time for all parties
involved. I also know that faculty and administration have been
troubleshooting this system for the past several months and have already
found and fixed the issues they encountered. When my fellow RA's and I did a practice run
we were able to see the ways this new system avoids key issues, such as
registering for too many or too few classes or how to keep from registering
for the same class multiple times. The
online system also provides information about fines, and other issues that
have previously presented registration roadblocks. The Invisible
Children Movement
BLOG: by Heather Cheek, ’09 West Scholar, Ramseur, NC On March 18, I attended the presentation of The Invisible Children Movement, in Tom Smith Auditorium. This non profit group raises awareness about
the longest running war in Africa. For the past 23 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army
(LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GoU) have been waging a war that has left
nearly two million innocent civilians caught in the middle. The GoU's attempt
to protect its citizens from this rebel militia has largely failed, resulting
in an entire generation of youth who have never known peace. It is estimated that more than 90% of the
LRA's soldiers were abducted as children. Presently, children are still being abducted
from their families and forced to fight in this war. The Invisible Children Movement's goal is to
make a life safer for the people of Uganda and areas that are safe where the
LRA are in movement. They also want to make it possible for the people of
Africa to live independently. The presentation started with a
movie about a boy named Tony from Uganda. The movie showed the initial meeting between
Tony and the guy who ended up creating Invisible Children. Throughout the movie it showed Tony and many
other children leaving their homes to sleep in abandoned parts of the city to
hide from The LRA. This movie truly
left an impact on me. It was
heartbreaking to see how much destruction and fear the LRA was causing for the
people of Uganda. Being someone who
wants to make a difference by educating children, I found it sad that while
many of these kids should be in school, instead they are being forced to
fight in this war. The movie showed
how much of a difference Invisible Children made to the area of Uganda. Since the movie was filmed back in 2003,
Uganda has been very close to obtaining the peace they have been so long
without. In the last two years, an
estimated 900,000 of the 1.8 million displaced and abducted have returned to
their homes. The program has also introduced
scholarship programs for children to be able to pay for an education. While Uganda is starting to
recover, the LRA has since moved to other parts of Africa (The Congo, South
Sudan) bringing the same destruction and kidnapping that were happening in
Uganda. Invisible Children is currently trying to raise enough money to set
up programs to help these regions. This
includes radio towers to inform civilians of when the LRA is in their
vicinity and also rehabilitation centers for children who escape the LRA, and
need a place to go for help getting back to living their lives. There are many ways to get involved with the
numerous projects and programs Invisible Children sponsors. I encourage everyone to go to the website http://nightof.therescue.invisiblechildren.com/homepage and see all the ways this
group provides support, and how you
can help. Tales from the Field -
Jamaica
BLOG: by Sarah Morse, ’08 Scholar, North Berwick, ME I attended the faculty colloquium, "Tales from
the field - Jamaica" that featured Dr. Connie Lowery with students
Jessica Bound, Travis Bruner, Sarah Robinson, and Justin Smith. This colloquium was especially exciting to
me because I went on the trip with them.
The students talked about the different experiences that we had in
Jamaica. They highlighted the various organisms we caught or saw (with a
lovely picture of me holding a pufferfish).
They had some gorgeous pictures of fish and anenomes that we saw while
snorkeling. There were pictures of our
drives through the country side, at which they discussed the local culture
and our experiences of playing with the kids and talking to the locals. The presentation was well done and attended
by students, faculty, and our new president, Dr. Oxendine. Faculty Colloquium
BLOG: by Daniel Couchenour, ’10 Scholar, Fort Mill, SC On
March 25, I attended a Catawba Faculty Colloquium by Dr. Lowery regarding her
science group who went to Jamaica over spring break to study in the
Caribbean. During their presentation
“Tales from the field – Jamaica”, I learned many things about the species and
life of those in Jamaica. There are
many small, simple houses filled with polite, friendly and active
people. In addition, while on the
North Shore of the Island, the students encountered many island and coral
reef species, anything from birds to lizards, octopi, squid and puffer
fish. However, the students did not
get to travel to the capitol of Jamaica because of all the excessive garbage burning. The city has some of the islands’ worst
living conditions. The students had a
great time traveling abroad in the Caribbean and while having fun still
accomplished some education and study time. Experiences
like these are important to teachers of all aged children, because it gives
the future teachers a chance to study in the field and offer the best hands-on
experience. Keeping our students
interested in their own education is the most important thing. Field experiences help teachers find ways
for the content they teach to stick with their students. When Dr. Lowery took the students to
Jamaica, she set a great example for teachers everywhere. The presentation showed how much fun the
students had learning while in the field. West Scholars Are Always Winners!! Congratulations to Door Prize Winners at a
StressFest held on March 24th ! Rachel Abbatiello $10.00 iTunes gift card Heather
Cheek $10.00
iTunes gift card Arsherres Jenkins $10.00 iTunes gift card Bridgett
Henderson $15.00 Walmart
gift card Ana Cooke $15.00 Walmart gift card Sarah
Morse $25.00
IHOP gift card Brandi Cockerham $25.00 Cracker Barrel gift card The StressFest was sponsored by theDirector of Counseling and Disabilities Services.
Heather
Cheek Bridgett
Henderson Sarah Morse WEST SCHOLARS –Athletics! Follow all athletic activities, by clicking the link
to the CATAWBA
ATHLETICS WEBSITE. Here
are our spring semester scholar athletes! http://gocatawbaindians.com/index.asp
Softball
# 7 Casey Baucom, Marshville, NC and #
6 Amanda Terry, Cordova, NC Casey
and Amanda are both sophomores, and ’09 West Scholars. Men’s Soccer
Men’s Lacrosse
Baseball
Swimming
David
Garcia, ’10 Scholar, King, NC and Caroline
Bostian, ’10 Scholar, Pfafftown, NC Women’s Golf
Samantha
Lackey, ’08 Scholar, Seville, OH
and Jana
Burkhardt, ’10 Scholar, Willoughby, OH This is the sport
of BEING a sport -- the Kazzoo! Senior West Scholars: Laura Ritchie, Zach Poole, Phillip Russ and
Kelli Ferguson
Final Follow-up
Academy held for the 2010 Catawba Conservation Camp at the Mary L Farm in Mt.
Ulla, NC The Catawba Conservation Camp
is sponsored by the Ritchie Academy for Teaching and the Catawba
Center for
the Environment through a grant provided by the Burroughs-Wellcome
Fund. Dr. Cyndi Osterhus and Dr. Joe
Poston are co-Directors for the camp.
BLOG: by Jessica Everett, ’09 Scholar, Winston-Salem, NC C-3
Campers began their journey with us in July 2010 with a week-long, residental
science camp experience on the Catawba campus. There could not have been a better way to
conclude the 2010-2011 chapter of the second Conservation Camp than to take
the young group of middle school girls to the Mary L. Farm. This organic dairy farm gave the campers
the ultimate field-trip experience.
We arrived
early in the morning and split up into two rotating groups that jumped to
different areas of the farm. My group
of girls began with a lesson on soil and plants in which they dissected the
earth and various fruits and vegetables to learn about what it takes to grow
crops organically. They learned about
the effects that inorganic farming has on the environment.
Instructor, Amanda
Lanier with campers C-3 campers analyzing
plants and examining soil
We then
got to all enjoy a picnic with some special guests. Ann Ellis and Lisa Wear from Horizons
Unlimited in Salisbury, Kiersten (Kacy) Cook, a Land Conservation Biologist for
the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, Cynthia (Cyndi) Hill an ARCB Certified
Reflexologist and NCRA President, Mandy Moore Bloom, a Catawba alumna and
full time mom and volunteer for Catawba Lands Conservancy, as well as Tabitha
J Whitson, a Catawba alumna and Lab Analyst II for Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Utilities all joined the campers for lunch.
This was an excellent experience as the campers got to meet and talk
with women who had graduated from college and gone on to hold positions in
careers for Environmental Science and volunteerism in the field. It was essential for our young campers to
see the opportunities that they have, not only as females, but as student
scientists on their way to a bright future full of possibilities in the
workplace. Counselors and
campers having lunch with our visiting “Women in Science”
Reflexologist,
Cyndi Hill demonstrating pressure points
The group
then headed on to learn about one of the more overlooked essential
ingredients to running a farm - manure.
Between the giggles about the importance of "poop" and how
it is used to fertilize the soil of the Mary L Farm, the girls actually got
to apply the terms of H.I.P.P.O to fertilization and the importance of using
it correctly.
The day
ended with a brief tour of the milking facilities. While the dairy is equipped with automated
milking machines; the girls even got
to milk the cows, which I learned was an acquired skill and harder then it
looks.
The exchange of farewells, phone numbers. and
addresses was bittersweet as our journey with this group of C3 Campers came
to an end. I could not have imagined a
better way to learn about organic farming than to literally visit it where
the girls could touch and feed and see all the components come into
play. I'm sure our 2010 C-3 campers
have created life-long connections with each other and I hope they will
remember this experience for the rest of their lives because, as a counselor
for the camp, I know I will.
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House – Green Pig Day April 2, 2011 - Regional
NC Teacher Cadet Advisor’s Meeting April 2, 2011 - The
KIPP Academy ’10 Cohort School Visitation March 29, 2011 - Northview
IB Candidate School ’10 Cohort School Visitation April 5, 2011 – CANCELLED
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Kelli Ferguson, ’07 West
Scholar Raleigh, North Carolina Catawba Senior Middle School Mathematics Major
Salisbury, North Carolina Elementary Education Major
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Tyler Howe, ’07 West
Scholar Salisbury, North Carolina Catawba Senior Music Education Major
Senior Reflections My time at Catawba College was one well spent and that I will never regret. As a Music
Education major, so many times did I have to balance all things in my life
from rehearsals, to when I am going to find time to practice, to getting my
assignments done for all of the classes I was taking during any semester.
Deep down, I know I made the right choice to come here and I am prepared to
take on the world. When I look back on my time here at Catawba, I know that
in the world of education, what I accomplished here will speak great volumes.
The professors in the Education Department were always close by to help and
to prepare me for the profession in which I plan to spend many years. Saying
“thank you” is simply not enough, so I hope that what I do in the field will
be the best way to truly thank my professors. I encourage all of the West Teaching
Scholars to continue doing their best, because in the end, you
feel you are on top of the world and ready to conquer any task. To all of
those who aren’t West Teaching Scholars, I can’t wait to teach alongside you
and learn from one another.
Fun
Photos! Looking through the hundreds of photos we have –
it’s amazing what you don’t notice the first time you look! We hope you enjoy a few random pictures
taken over the years.
Kelli looking ….. serious.
Kelli and Hannah Thomas during the DC trip
in 2010.
Kelli possibly
applying for the job of morning anchor on the set of Good Morning America in New York City?
The ’07
Cohort in NYC!
The ’07 female West Scholars on the
set of Good Morning America in
2010.
Kelli and Elizabeth in NYC.
Elizabeth, Stephanie and Laura
Inseperable and friends for life!
Elizabeth
Sloop at CNN in
Atlanta.
Elizabeth embracing
the beauty surrounding Ft. Pulaski National Monument in GA.
Elizabeth
Sloop, Stephanie Hill and
Laura Ritchie ’07
West Scholars
’09 West
Scholars Hannah
Gagnier and Lauretta
Overfield
’09 West
Scholars, Brittany Myers, Amanda Terry, Whitney Corriher, Denise Grissom,
Lauretta Overfield, and Amelia Baity
Stephanie
Riddle, ’08 Scholar being pinned by Dr. Lou Ann Kasias in 2010
Laura Ritchie, ’07
Scholar at Cohort
Mtg.
Elizabeth
Sloop - Lunch in
Savannah, GA
Elizabeth
Sloop in her
Academy colors!
Lauretta
Overfield in
Wilmington, NC
A little high stepping with Aubrey
and Maggie
on their fall retreat
David
Garcia and Allison Andrews,
’10 Scholars at last fall’s Lilly Center Retreat.
Tyler,
Zach, Hannah, Phillip and Dr. O!
Jarrett
Jackson, doing the
“Ninja” and Jordan
Farmer – saying “no way.” (both are
’09 Scholars)
Maggie
McKee, ’09 Scholar
Amanda
Terry, ’09 Scholar
Amanda
Terry, ’09 Scholar
Daniel
Couchenour, ’10 Scholar
Samantha
Lackey, ’08 Scholar
Faculty Leading
by Example Dr. Jim Stringfield, Dean of the
Goodman School of Education and PE
Dr. Rhonda Truitt, Chair,
Department of Teacher Education
Dr. Lou Ann Kasias, Department of
Teacher Education, Graduate Program
Dr.
Cynthia Osterhus,
Director, Ritchie Academy for Teaching
Dr. Bonita
Bloodworth,
Associate Director, Ritchie Academy for Teaching
Dr. Tiffany Hunter, Department of
Teacher Education, B-K Program and Mrs. Amanda Bosch, Director - CMC
Teacher
Education News Dr. Martha West was presented the Adrian Shuford
Award on Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in Hedrick Little Theatre. This award, which is the highest award
Catawba College bestows, is in recognition of the many years of service Dr.
West has given to our college. Congratulations Dr. West!
Graduate Program Dr. Lou Ann Kasias, a Catawba College professor of education and
coordinator of the college's graduate program, believes teachers in the region need to know just what Catawba offers
in its Master of Education in Elementary Education. "We go out of our way to make this
personal," said Kasias, a 20-year veteran in Catawba's sole graduate
program. "We actually visit the graduate students' classrooms and give
feedback to our students regarding their implementation of best practices. Moreover, despite this extra attention our
program is affordable – only $160 per semester hour." Please read the remainder of the article
at: http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/
2011/03/10/gradprogram2011.aspx The Academy for Teaching and The Center for the Environment
announce: The Catawba Conservation Camp for middle school girls, from Rowan,
Davie, Davidson, Cabarrus, Iredell and Stanly Counties in NC will be held during the
week of July 10th
through July 15th, 2011
Camper selections for the 2011 camp
week have been completed and announcements will be sent by mail to every girl
who applied. Selected campers and their parents
will be invited to an administrative meeting in Ketner Hall, scheduled for Tuesday, April 19th.
The
Academy for Teaching Conservation
Camp Office (704)
637-4499 Camper
hayride on the Mary L Farm
The Ritchie Academy for Teaching wishes you a Happy Spring Season! |
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