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(Bluefield)—Nearly 25 years ago, Anthony Harris was an all-conference basketball star, providing offensive firepower and defensive tenacity for Bluefield State’s title-contending teams. In the years since his graduation from BSC, Harris uses the same high energy approach to cultivate his students’ love for learning at Mount View Middle School and, in the process, develop the teaching skills of Jill Lockhart, a Bluefield State teacher education major involved in student teaching at the McDowell County school.
Harris, an eighth grade social studies teacher at Mount View Middle School, attracted the attention of Dr. Betsy Steenken, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at BSC. ”The first time I walked into his classroom, I knew he was one of those wonderful teachers who make learning exciting,” Steenken recalled. “His students love his class and his personality, and at the same time, have great respect for him.” Recently, Steenken invited Harris to visit her “Child and Adolescent Growth & Development” class at BSC. “I wanted my students to hear from someone who had taught for more than 20 years and was still enthusiastic and energized about his profession,” she said. “He cares about his students and is very interested in their social and emotional development, as well as their academic progress.” Harris was a two-time all-West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference player during his undergraduate years at BSC, recovering from a knee injury to lead the Big Blues to the cusp of the WVIAC title game in his senior year.
“I thought bringing Mr. Harris to our classroom provided a great opportunity for future teachers to meet a wonderful teacher who is also an alumnus of our College. He loves Bluefield State and has said many times that he owes much of his success to the education he received here and the faculty who touched his life while he was a student. “He makes us all proud of our profession and he reminds us of why we wanted to become teachers,” she concluded.
April 26, 2005
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