The Community Foundation of Elkhart County awarded a grant of $57,000 to Goshen College for the education department to recruit and retain diverse teachers from Elkhart County over the next two years.
Alex Bouwman '07, a Philadelphia math teacher, is a 2019 Lindback Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award winner. He works as assistant athletic director and helped start the Bicycle Coalition Youth Cycling Club at his school.
As a teacher with an active lifestyle, Liz Martin '07 loves living and working in Goshen.
Scott Lehman '09 is an elementary school music teacher and well-known face in the Goshen music scene.
Alejandro Rodriguez '15 talks about being a young teacher in Goshen, English language learners and the Goshen community.
Renee and Anne Buckwalter, twin seniors from Wellman, Iowa, will both be honored by the Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education with the Outstanding Future Educator Award on April 12.
About once a month, 24 students from the Goshen College Laboratory Kindergarten class — a partnership between the college’s education department and Goshen Community Schools — spend the day climbing trees, building shelters and making mud pies in Witmer Woods, through Merry Lea’s Kinderforest program, the first of its kind in Goshen.
Wilma Marie Springer '56 received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award after 45 years of teaching.
When Hannah Cole decided to attend Goshen College to finish her degree in American Sign Language education, she didn’t expect the rest of her family to follow her to Indiana.
This past year, Goshen College offered an 11-month program for full-time teachers to get an English Learner’s license, also known as TSOL or ENL. The license provides teachers with background of how a second language develops. Teachers learn specific strategies for instruction, assessment, and identifying areas of concern.
