{"id":19679,"date":"2018-04-03T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=19679"},"modified":"2018-04-03T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:13:48","slug":"tartan-spotlight-anne-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2018\/04\/03\/tartan-spotlight-anne-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"Tartan Spotlight: Anne Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0Anne Henry has been a professor of geology at Sinclair since the fall of 1992. Henry started as part time faculty, but later in April of 1994 she accepted a full time teaching position. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Henry originally went to school for geophysics. Her dream job at the time was to work with nice computers at a big oil company and tell them where to drill. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0She said she\u2019d always had a \u201ctypical nerdy science fascination,\u201d that\u2019s part of why she chose the field she did. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Additionally, Henry has always had a love for rocks and how the Earth worked. She used to have a shoe box full of rocks she had collected, hidden behind the couch as a kid.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI would go to school and my mom would throw the rocks back in the driveway, and I would get home and go find them again.\u201d Henry said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Throughout Henry\u2019s educational career she kept hold of the dream of working in geophysics, but over and over people kept telling her she should teach. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0In high school Henry tutored math and latin, and in college she tutored business classes and calculus. Repeatedly her students asked her if she was going to teach, and when she said no, they would say \u201cBut your so good at it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Continuing into grad school Henry was a teacher’s assistant for a lab section, and once again students insisted she should teach. Then in her last year of grad school an opening popped up to teach an Earth science class at Sinclair. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBeing a penniless college student I thought; are they gonna pay me? Yep, alright I\u2019ll do it.\u201d Henry explained. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0And two years later when a full time faculty position became available, Henry decided she was good at it and the pay wasn\u2019t bad, so she would give it a try. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Even though it isn’t a comfy office job at a big company, with a big salary and fancy machines, Henry doesn\u2019t necessarily regret her decision to become a teacher. Working at Sinclair allows for a flexible schedule, let\u2019s her stay local and she enjoys working with her students. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cIt’s one of those things where you have to do what you enjoy doing, you can’t be just in it for the money, because the money don’t mean as much unless you enjoy it.\u201d Said Henry. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0When asked about her favorite part about being a teacher, Henry laughed and said, \u201cIt\u2019s not grading, I\u2019ll be honest with you.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Henry enjoys the \u201cAh-ha moment,\u201d as she describes it, that she sees in her students.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s when she sees utter confusion on the faces of her class, and then she explains it more or in a new way, and all of a sudden the wheels start turning and the students begin to understand the concept. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cSo many students come in so science phobic, and they think they can\u2019t do it, or they have been told they can\u2019t do it, and to see that confidence come out\u2026 I enjoy doing that.\u201d Henry explained. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Henry is also quite known for her analogies in the classroom. These analogies range from food items such as fudge or marshmellows, to cats. She said one of her favorites was using making rice krispies to explain the texture of molten rock. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Henry enjoys teaching because she enjoys helping her students learn, her witty analogies and one liners engage a class in the topic and lighten the mood of a lecture day. One such topic Henry manages to make engaging is the importance of dirt, and in the words of Anne Henry \u201cDid you appreciate your dirt this week?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cerridwyn Kuykendall<\/strong>
\nAssociate Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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