Tag: Teaching
7 article(s) found with this tag.
Some of the most important things your science teacher taught you are wrong
Fall 2011
There’s the science most of us learned as kids. Then there’s the science that scientists actually do.The K-12 variety is more like a cooking class, but with chemicals,
goggles, an occasional Erlenmeyer flask, the unforgettable smell of
fo...
Categories: Education
Tags: Teaching, Science education
Rhonda Kromm ’86, ’05
Fall 2011
Rhonda Kromm wouldn’t let car problems keep her from going to
college. Since her old vehicle wouldn’t make the drive from Moses Lake,
she hitchhiked to Spokane and hiked up the hill to Spokane Community
College to enroll. Then she hik...
Categories: Alumni, Education
Tags: Alumni Association, Teaching
Joey Nelson - What he saw
Winter 2008
In the rough-hewn world at Columbia Vista Corp.'s lumber mill
near Vancouver, the sight of Joseph "Joey" Nelson '00 pushing
spectacles into place might invoke visions of Clark Kent there
among the conveyor belts and screeching saws.
But if the wo...
Categories: Alumni, Business
Tags: Lumber mills, Teaching
Cell phones help students and parents stay close—Sometimes too close
Spring 2006
Michael Johnston ('08 Bus. Admin.) switched his cell-phone plan in
October. And the incentive wasn't just the free, high-tech phone or
the low text-messaging fees.
"I can get those mobile-to-mobile minutes with my family now,"
says Johnston. "Now...
Categories: Campus life, Communication
Tags: Teaching, WSU parents
Ideas, Buildings, and Mirrors
Winter 2004
Torn between respect for its natural surroundings and a desire for
cosmopolitan sophistication, Spokane lends a unique perspective to the
notion that works of architecture reflect what a community thinks of
itself.
Categories: Architecture and design, WSU Spokane
Tags: Education, Teaching
Opening minds, setting lives on course
Winter 2004
Some believe that the ability to teach and inspire is simply a gift
that you either have or don't have. But WSU isn't just leaving it to
chance.
Categories: WSU faculty, Education
Tags: Research, Teaching
No Hollow Promise
Fall 2004
Half of all new public-school teachers quit within five years, and the
best and brightest are often the first to go. Worse, the attrition rate
at high-needs schools is even greater. The CO-TEACH program at WSU
decised to change this situation.
Categories: Education
Tags: Children, Teaching