A student's perspective

Teresa Smock explains why she chose the College of Education and Human Development and talks about studying with professors who "wrote the book."

Video transcript

I chose this school because it was surrounded by diversity. I love being in the cities. I love living here. I wanted really to learn from professors who are leading their fields in their specific area.

When I had to take a science class, I took it from Roger Johnson who is a huge guru in cooperative learning and so I got to learn first hand from him how to do cooperative learning in groups successfully and different aspects I could use of that. And then I would take another class and they would refer to this cooperative learning and there’d be articles by Roger Johnson and his brother.

I had lots of projects that I was able to focus on diverse cultures. I did my master’s project on homelessness in education and how mainstream teachers can really reach out to out to homeless students and help them better.

So I’m very excited ’cause I don’t want to… I’m very glad I’m not a teacher going in there going, you know, I hope I can just manage this class. I’m looking forward to sharing all the ideas that I gained here at the University.