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Monday, November 2, 2009
Ohio First Lady to visit innovative Wright State class
Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland will visit Wright State University on Thursday, Nov. 5, to observe the pilot class of a program on teaching science and math through music and art.
The class, “Teaching Science through Music and Art,” is the cornerstone of Wright State’s STEAM3 (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Music, Math and Medicine) program for a limited number of art education, music education and math/science education majors.
The program’s 12 students are learning how to teach science and math classes in Dayton area elementary and secondary schools using music or art as the methodology, according to Wright State officials. The course is taught by a team of instructors from the university’s art, music and math disciplines.
The students also work with area elementary and secondary school teachers, and the lessons they design are presented in the actual classrooms of these teachers.
Frances Strickland, the wife of Gov. Ted Strickland, is an educational psychologist with an interest in education issues, according to Wright State officials.
The STEAM3 program is funded by the late Edgar Hardy, a Wright State founder, chemist and former director of research for the Monsanto Company in Dayton. Hardy reportedly funded STEAM3 to demonstrate his interest in developing a program combining the visual arts, music and science.
Also on Thursday, a lecture on “Art in the Science Institution” will be presented at Wright State by JD Talasek, director of cultural programs for the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. in Wright State’s Schuster Concert Hall. Sponsors of the event include the STEAM3 program.
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