F E AT U R E
ABOUT THE AUTHOR While I currently serve as the Interim Dean of Education, I am a classroom teacher at heart. In order to be truly connected to what is happening in the classroom, it is as important that ethnically and linguistically diverse teacher candidates are taught by professors with the same characteristics. As a result, I recently had the opportunity to teach a course to Warner Pacific’s very first cohort of adult students earning a Bachelor of Education. Teaching a classroom full of working paraprofessionals is unlike anything I have done in my career as a professional educator.
