More recently, Alhambra High School asked for GCU students to help during summer school. These students earn practicum hours as they observe experienced teachers, help students, tutor, and teach lessons. Overall, the Alhambra/GCU College of Education partnership has been a great success for both GCU and Alhambra. Most importantly, the students have benefitted.
To learn more about GCU teachers in the field, check out our recent blog post, Inspiration: 2015 Teacher of the Year.
More About Dr. Mostofo:
Jim Mostofo, EdD, received his doctorate in educational leadership and innovation from Arizona State University. His two master’s degrees are from Northern Arizona University and are in educational leadership and counseling. His bachelor’s degree is from Grand Canyon University in secondary education with a math emphasis. Dr. Mostofo’s experience in education includes 17 years of teaching middle school and high school mathematics before going to Arizona State University to teach and mentor new math teachers for three years. He returned to GCU four years ago to teach secondary math methods, classroom management and other secondary methods courses.
Dr. Mostofo’s research interests have been focused on using the Japanese Lesson Study with pre-service secondary mathematics teachers here at GCU. He has done multiple cycles of this research and is currently involved in a partnership with Alhambra High School in his latest research project.