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by April Bayer

From Math Club to Sigma Tau to the Student Activities Council, our campus offers a wide variety of student organizations to choose from. Here’s a look at some of the bright minds responsible for running them: Concordia’s student officers.

 

Name: Taylor Brockhaus

Class: Senior

Hometown: Lincoln, NE

Organization: Concordia’s Association of Students in Education (CASE)

Position: CASE Co-Chair

What is your program/major?

“I’m going into middle level education with emphases in math and natural sciences, and I’m getting my Lutheran Teacher’s Diploma and a minor in psychology.”

How long have you been a co-chair of CASE?

“I really started the fall of my sophomore year, so about two years.”

What are some of the different jobs you do for CASE?

“My role in our co-chair system is to send out emails to the CASE students…updating them on various events and what’s going on and sending out volunteer opportunities for CASE. Janelle (List), my co-chair, emails presenters and gets them to come to meetings which we plan in May. We plan the whole year in advance, and I handle more of the logistics and keep track of people’s email addresses and programs…so that we can best fit the needs of (the students in) CASE.”

What is your favorite CASE event?

“I love doing the St. John Fun Fair because you get to interact with the kids, so that’s my favorite volunteering event that we do because you kind of get to almost be a kid again when you’re playing with them…My favorite meeting that we’ve had was probably an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher that we brought in last year who led us through a lot of the activities that she does with her students. I really just enjoyed her personality…and I really took a lot from that meeting and what she shared with us that I could implement in my own classroom.”

What have you learned from having this position and from being a part of CASE during your time at Concordia?

“It’s really taught me how to be a leader and be involved in the education world because you have to reach out to all these different principals and administrators and teachers, and you have to start at that professional level earlier than you would expect.”

What would your ideal classroom be?

“I really want to teach in a Lutheran school. I love seventh grade. I just think that they’re at an age where they still want to learn and they still want to be there, but they’re still so goofy and funny, and so it’s a blast to just hang out with them. My preferred teaching subject would be math…I just love that age group that they are at that time and seeing them develop…There’s just so much that changes.”

If you could be any animal, what would it be?

“Probably a cat because you can be so lazy, just sit around and sleep and eat. People love on you, and that’s…quite the life.”

If you were stranded on a desert island, what would be the one thing you’d want to have with you?

“I think I would want some kind of food. I don’t know what kind of food. Just food so that I don’t starve.”

 

 

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