Education department
Missouri S&T education department earns a 2024 DEWEY Award
Missouri S&T’s education department has earned a 2024 Developing an Educator Workforce that Expands Yearly (DEWEY) Award. With this award, Missouri S&T can better support approximately 60 students studying to be K-12 teachers. The funding will help pay for S&T students’ field experiences and pay their mileage for student teaching.
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S&T alumna earns teaching award
Latosha Mulhall, who earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Missouri S&T in 2023, won a Missouri Teacher Leaders of Tomorrow award from the Missouri Milken Educators on Friday, April 19. Mulhall teaches at Belle Elementary School in Belle, Missouri.
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Beth Kania-Gosche is Missouri S&T’s 2024 Woman of the Year
Missouri S&T honored Dr. Beth Kania-Gosche, professor and chair of the department of education at Missouri S&T, as the 2024 Woman of the Year today (Thursday, April 4) during a reception at Hasselmann Alumni House.
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Back to where it all started
Tanner Beistel remembers that as far back as kindergarten, he tried to hurry up and finish his work so he could go help other kids with their schoolwork. By the time he was in fifth grade, he knew that he wanted to be a teacher. Now he is realizing that dream as a student teacher at Rolla Middle School, where he teaches science and social studies.
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Grants enable continued expansion of child care center at Missouri S&T
The Child Development Center at Missouri S&T has continued to grow since opening in January 2022. In its second year of operation, the center was able to hire a new teacher and take on 10 more students with the help of grant funding.
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Planning for the future
Brooke Tharp plans to become an elementary school teacher in the Rolla area. She is originally from Rolla, Missouri, and hopes to stay locally and make a difference with young students. “I love the STEM focus here at S&T, which will give my students an advantage in the future,” says Tharp, a senior in education. […]
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S&T welcomes new faculty
Missouri S&T welcomed more than 30 new faculty members this year. They bring a wide range of expertise that includes artificial intelligence, astrodynamics, energy economics, energy storage, flood prediction, military history, quantum physics and wearable wireless sensors. The new faculty are:
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S&T faculty earn statewide awards from MACTE
Two teachers from Missouri S&T have recently earned Educator of Excellence awards from the Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (MACTE).
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Learning through teaching
In 2021, student teacher Sarah Darknell was cutting her teeth in the classroom in Newburg, Missouri, learning how to gain and keep student attention while presenting lessons in biology to high schoolers. Little did she know that only months later she would be taking the reins as a teacher in the classroom before she has even completed her Missouri S&T degree.
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