For College of Education undergraduate Marjorie Baker and master’s student Kelsy Weber, the path to becoming a teacher goes through remote Kotzebue, Alaska.
Baker, who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in education through Oregon State’s double-degree program, is from Kotzebue, a town of 3,200 people known as the gateway to the Arctic. She had planned to be in Corvallis this fall, but as public health conditions worsened, Baker and her advisors concluded she would be better off completing her student teaching at the elementary school in her hometown, where there was some hope of teaching in person.
Weber, a native of Vale, Oregon, earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics at Oregon State in June and immediately started the master’s program to become a middle/high school math teacher. Just days before she was supposed to begin student teaching, Weber’s placement in Salem fell through. Her scramble to find a new placement led her to Kotzebue, where a family friend knew of an opening teaching math at the high school on the same campus where Baker is student teaching.
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