{"id":13000,"date":"2016-11-30T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13000"},"modified":"2016-11-28T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T22:25:02","slug":"know-your-profs-camosuns-kathie-ross-doesnt-want-to-see-students-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/11\/30\/know-your-profs-camosuns-kathie-ross-doesnt-want-to-see-students-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Profs<\/em>: Camosun\u2019s Kathie Ross doesn\u2019t want to see students give up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Know Your Profs<\/i> is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better.<\/p>\n

If you have an instructor you\u2019d like to see interviewed in the paper, but perhaps you\u2019re too shy or too busy to ask them yourself, email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we\u2019ll add them to our list of teachers to talk to.<\/p>\n

This issue we caught up with Business prof Kathie Ross to talk about dry humour, students who give up too soon, and being a \u201cguide on the side.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun College Business prof Kathie Ross (photo by Jill Westby\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1. What do you teach and how long have you been teaching at Camosun?<\/i><\/p>\n

I teach accounting and tax courses. I started at Camosun in 2008 teaching some continuing education courses and have continued to teach courses on and off since then.<\/p>\n

2. What do you personally get out of teaching?<\/i><\/p>\n

I love it when I see that the students have grasped a concept. In education they often call it the \u201caha moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

3. What\u2019s one thing you wish your students knew about you?<\/i><\/p>\n

That I always want every student to do their best, and I\u2019m always hoping they do.<\/p>\n

4. What\u2019s one thing you wish they didn\u2019t know about you?<\/i><\/p>\n

Sometimes my sense of humour gets very dry; not all students appreciate it.<\/p>\n

5. What\u2019s the best thing that\u2019s happened to you as a teacher here?<\/i><\/p>\n

Seeing a student that I taught years earlier in a business situation and having them remember me as one of their favourite teachers. Of course, they could say that to all their teachers, but it still made me feel special.<\/p>\n

6. What\u2019s the worst thing that\u2019s happened to you as a teacher here?<\/i><\/p>\n

When students give up too soon. Accounting sometimes takes a little longer before it starts to make sense for some students. I feel a huge sense of loss when a student gives up on my class when I think they are just beginning to understand it.<\/p>\n

7. What do you see in the future of post-secondary education?<\/i><\/p>\n

I think we will see more and more flipped classrooms making greater use of technology and the internet for students outside of class time. This is great for me because I love teaching in a flipped-classroom environment and spending time with students to help them understand their work, being a \u201cguide on the side\u201d rather than a \u201csage on the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

8. What do you do to relax on the weekends?<\/i><\/p>\n

Ballroom dancing and motorcycle riding.<\/p>\n

9. What is your favourite meal?<\/i><\/p>\n

My husband makes BBQ baby back ribs where he is at the BBQ for hours. I only get them once a year, usually on my birthday.<\/p>\n

10. What\u2019s your biggest pet peeve?<\/i><\/p>\n

Students who come to class unprepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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