"Mount" Up

Rory J. Koopmans, B. Admin., #203, 8912-156 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5R 5Z2

April Xth, MMXI

Hon. David G. Hancock, QC, MLA, Minister of Education, Progressive Conservative, Edmonton-Whitemud

Dear David:

English Professor Nicholas Mount knows how II engage a room of D (500) students. He knows how II draw them in. Having just won the IIIM (3M) Teaching Fellowship for excellence in University teaching & sponsored by Maclean's Magazine. One of only X teachers in the Dominion per year II receive this honour. At the University of Toronto, he regularly draws packed in crowds.

He includes his students & gets them II read literature & then learn to love it! He knows his material cold & so when he tells the students II embrace it, they know he already has. Prof. Mount is amazing as he at first didn't finish High School. But with encouragement he enrolled at the University of Victoria. So he truly knows the pressures & stresses of both non academia & starting out cold in the post-secondary world. This is why his students can respect him b/c they are what he used II be.

 

Plus he has Ph. D. students II help others students with tutorials. Truly innovative I'd say. Plus he chats at a pub with students as equals after each lecture. Now thats a true "pioneer" of education!

 

Shout It From The "Mount"aintop,

 

Rory

Source: Www.Macleans.Ca/OnCampus, Nicholas Kohler.