Teaching
Mead taught middle school in Rochester, NY, and on the advanced level at Western Michigan University.
She has been a tenured professor at the University of Iowa since 1989 and was a recipient of the Collegiate Teaching Award from the university. She and nine of her students were chosen to perform at a conference honoring D. Stanley Hasty at Ohio State University.
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Famous quotes containing the word teaching:
“Mrs. Zajac knows you didn’t try. You don’t just hand in junk to Mrs. Zajac. She’s been teaching an awful lot of years. She didn’t fall off the turnip cart yesterday. She told you she was an old-lady teacher.”
—Christine Zajac, U.S. fifth-grade teacher. As quoted in Among Schoolchildren, “September” section, part 1, by Tracy Kidder (1989)
“Like a prophet, you are possibly teaching us about the workings of the divine mind, but in the process you are ruining the human mind, dear friend.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)