{"id":62159,"date":"2021-11-18T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=62159"},"modified":"2021-11-18T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:29:46","slug":"fort-hays-hosts-third-annual-future-educators-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=62159","title":{"rendered":"Fort Hays hosts third annual Future Educators Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This past October, Fort Hays State University\u2019s Admissions Office and the Department of Teacher Education hosted the third annual Future Educators Day. This event brings together area high school students interested in the teaching profession and the best teachers in Kansas. The goal of this event is to inspire the next generation of teachers through personal interactions, discussions, and examples of dynamic teaching.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s event brought over 70\nstudents and guests from 17 area high schools to the FHSU campus. These\npotential future educators, high school juniors and seniors, had the\nopportunity to observe and interact with the Kansas Teacher of the Year (KTOY)\n&nbsp;team, learn about teacher preparation at FHSU, meet with department\nrepresentatives and explore their programs, as well as participate in\nscholarship drawings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Chris Jochum, chair of FHSU\u2019s\nDepartment of Teacher Education, was excited to host so many area students in\nperson this year. \u201cIt is great to have so many students and from such a variety\nof schools visit this year,\u201d he said. \u201cWe hope to introduce students early to\nthe idea of teaching and demonstrate all the possibilities that FHSU has to\noffer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile\nthe teacher shortage within Kansas and across the country is a real concern, I\nthink it\u2019s also important to highlight events like these which demonstrate the\nimportance of the teaching profession and that there are high school students\ninteresting in teaching as a career,\u201d Jochum said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FHSU Provost, Dr. Jill Arensdorf, began\nthe day welcoming everyone. In her opening remarks, Arensdorf encouraged\nstudents to make a difference, noting that Kansas currently has over 500\nteaching vacancies that districts are struggling to fill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Paul Adams, Dean of the College of\nEducation at FHSU, encouraged students to embrace \u201ca life of adventure\u201d and\nchallenged them to be willing to explore, saying, \u201cYou don\u2019t know where\nteaching will take you.\u201d Adams recounted some of his own adventures since\nbecoming an educator, ones that have taken him across the United States and\naround the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 Kansas Teacher-of-the-Year\nteam, which includes the top eight teachers, provided an interactive\npresentation centered around the theme of making connections. Entitled \u201cTaking\nCulturally and Linguistically Diverse Students from Surviving to Thriving,\u201d the\nteam focused on the importance of teachers connecting personally with all\nstudents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One\nof the responsibilities of the KTOY team is to provide expert knowledge and\nexperiences to current and future teachers. This year, the 2022 team, including\nthe 2022 Kansas Teacher of the Year, Suzanne Stevenson, made its very first\nstop at Fort Hays State University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The KTOY team led many activities where\nparticipants connected with others at the event, demonstrating the relative\nease of making connections to others. Stevenson stressed to participants, \u201cyou\nwill need to step outside of your comfort zone and make these connections.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other activities at the event included\nopportunities for visitors to interact with current education majors. This\nquestion and answer session allowed potential future educators a real\nbehind-the-scenes look at the education program at FHSU. Additionally, students\nwere able to learn about FHSU programs, majors, and other campus opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nfinal activity of the day included a drawing for scholarships. The FHSU School\nof Education awarded four $250 and two $500 scholarships. The FHSU Admissions\nOffice provided three $1,000 awards. A fourth $1000 scholarship was awarded\nthanks to the generous donation by Barbary and Craig Ramsey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS This past October, Fort Hays State University\u2019s Admissions Office and the Department of Teacher Education hosted the third annual Future Educators Day.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62160,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62159\/revisions\/62160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}