Setting the Curve: College of Education’s Integration of Technology Prepares Graduates for New Challenges
KristiAnna Mathes ’19, teacher at Julia Lee Moore Elementary in Conway, engages her first-grade students with online learning resources her district implements for students, teachers and parents. Mathes’ time as a University of Central Arkansas College of Education student helped ready her for the teaching challenges that arrived with the COVID-19 pandemic.
In spring 2020, when travel, work settings and schools experienced major shifts in operation due to COVID-19, KristiAnna Mathes ’19 took her kindergarten class on a field trip to the San Diego Zoo a virtual field trip, that is.