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8 Sunday, March 19, 2017 Hawaii Tribune-Herald Join UH Hilo Learn & Experience… Academic Excellence Dedicated faculty from quality universities such as Cornell, Harvard, Stanford and UC Berkeley enhances your learning. Outstanding research in numerous areas such as climate change, water quality and marine life, further enriches your knowledge. Great Opportunities To Excel Whether it’s the Microsoft Imagine Cup, Model United Nations, Business Strategy Game or Marine Option Symposium, you’d be inspired by the experiences of your fellow UH Hilo classmates. Local, statewide, national and international competitions allow you to learn beyond the classrooms and sharpen your competitive edge. Student organizations allow you to learn teamwork DQGUH¿QH\RXUOHDGHUVKLSVNLOOV National Exchange and Study Abroad If you want to live and learn in a different country OR in another state on the mainland while earning your degree, you’d be amazed by the many options you have! From China to Brazil, from New Zealand to Sweden, from Alaska to Florida, from New York to California, the life-changing opportunity awaits you!!! APPLY NOW for Fall 2017 hilo.hawaii.edu UNIVERSITY TOWN HOLLYN JOHNSON/Tribune-Herald Keaau High School Principal Dean Cevallos and UH-Hilo instructor and field experience coordinator Colby McNaughton bond with Masters of Education students during a get-together with various state Department of Education principals and employees for the students’ program at UH-Hilo. Preparing for the noble profession Agood teacher can make even the most mundane subject “click.” At least, that’s according to 23-year-old Koa Rodrigues, a Maui native who can still conjure to mind his fourth-grade math teacher, someone he says helped foster his love for the subject today. “A lot of people, when they hear a subject like math, they groan or get apprehensive,” Rodrigues said. “But the teacher can make it fun and exciting. If math is taught by a fun teacher and presented in a way that’s understandable, students can love it.” It was teachers such as those who ultimately spurred Rodrigues to forge a career in education. He’s now a student in the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Kahuawaiola program, one of two graduate-level teacher education programs offered at the Hilo campus that prepares budding teachers for licensure. The other program — a Master of Arts in Teaching — is offered through the School of Education. The UH-Hilo programs are among at least 13 teacher preparation programs statewide. But the campus says they are invaluable because they provide an easier way for local students to forge careers teaching Hawaii’s keiki. “(These programs) are a way to provide teacher education for students without needing to leave the island,” By KIRSTEN JOHNSON Hawaii Tribune-Herald See TEACHERS Page 9


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