Why you? Why me?

This educational keynote will allow us to examine the joys and blessings of being called into the teaching ministry. Sometimes, those joys and blessings can be overlooked when we face various challenges along the way. The Master Teacher will guide us as we journey together and reflect upon all of the blessings, both joys and challenges, in our unique teaching ministries. May we humbly say every day: Thank you, Jesus, for the pleasure and privilege of serving you in the teaching ministry!

Dr. Cindy Whaley is a Professor of Education at Martin Luther College. She taught for fifteen years in two different congregations in Wisconsin before coming to D/MLC in 1993. Her elementary experiences were in multigrade settings teaching students in various combinations from grades one through six. She currently teaches courses in curriculum and instruction, literacy methods, psychology, and a graduate assessment course in the MLC master's program. She also oversees MLC's public school clinical and student teaching placements, the post-baccalaureate licensure program, is the edTPA coordinator, and serves as MLC's licensure officer. Dr. Whaley is president of the Southwest Minnesota Reading Council and serves as MLC's chief institutional representative for the MN Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and MLC's Unit Leader for the MN Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board.