DEDICATION RECIPIENT MC: As opposed to a normal classroom setting where you are teaching a student a subject, what makes teaching people to teach unique? AH: I think since the students J have know that they are going to be teachers, that I feel like I am able to share more stories with them. I teach content, but it is not strictly content. I teach content in a way that hopefully they will go out, they will see me modeling to them how to teach that to their future students. It is more of a, "we are going to do it like this in my class and that's how you can do it in your classroom." MC: l111wt made you want to be a teacher? AH: I enjoyed high school a lot. I had kind of a leadership position there so school was fun to me. I did not decide right away. I kind of bounced around (majors), but once I chose education and started teaching in a classroom that's great. It's like you have an audience every day and it can be a little silly sometimes, but it is fun. MC: What has been yourfavorite role at Harding? AH: Well teaching, obviously, is the best. But advising... I love getting to know 20 or so people that are in our major and spending time because most of my teaching classes are juniors or seniors. l have them one semester, most ofthem, and then that's it. But when you're advising, you're seeing the same students two or three times a semester, hopefully, for the whole time that they're here so I get to know them a little better. That's more like how it is in high school and junior high. You've got the same kids every day, sometimes for several years. MC: What was the biggest difference between teaching younger students in public schools and transitioning to a university where you are teaching teachers? AH: The biggest difference is discipline. I may have to get on to my class once in a while, but it's not an everyday occurrence like it is in junior high and high school. So students behave better, they're older (so) they should, and that's the biggest thing. And then it's more challenging here because students are older, they're more knowledgeable. They know technol_ogy, their questions are better. You have to be better prepared, I think, to teach college classes. DEl>IC.\TIO, IB7
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