Students Receive Grants for Teaching Experience

Fifteen Knox College students received grants from Knox's REACH Fellows Program to work as teaching assistants with this year's session of Knox College4Kids from June 14th through June 25th.

Six REACH Fellows taught courses in Knox College4Kids: Clare Hines, Elementary Spanish; Sarah Carlin, Elementary French; Jordan Lanfair, Mathematics; Derek Larosa, Renewable Energy and Green Alternatives; and Andrea Kang and Angie Rosa, Hip Hop and Modern Dance.

Photo above: To teach concepts in geometry, REACH Fellow Jordan Lanfair had the students in his College4Kids mathematics class make sidewalk chalk maps of the Knox campus and other neighborhoods in Galesburg.

Nine other REACH Fellows -- Lisa Blagg, Ed Davis, Christian Mahone, Sean O'Keeffe, Chris Legge, Rose VanGrinsven, Leslie Kang, Logan Willits, and Danny Gonshorek -- served as teaching assistants to College4Kids faculty.

In addition to working in the classroom, the REACH Fellows participated in a seminar on creativity in education, led by Knox College faculty in educational studies.

Established in 1975, Knox College4Kids is a summer academic program for gifted, high achieving, and talented local grade school students. The curriculum this year offered more than forty courses in the fine arts, humanities, social sciences, languages, science and mathematics.

Developed by the Knox College Educational Studies Department, Project REACH -- "Recruiting and Enlightening through Access to and Communication with High-need schools" -- receives funding from the United States Department of Education's Teacher Quality Enhancement Program. The grant is administered through the Associated Colleges of Illinois Center for Success in High Need Schools.

Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 45 states and 48 countries. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.