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What Makes a Good Teacher?

Anthony Pitts

Just about everyone who's gone to school has had at least one great teacher. But what, exactly, makes a teacher great? Is a student's "favorite teacher" necessarily a good educator?

KEDM Public Radio will lokk at the making of a good educator in its "Good Teaching" series during the week of May 21, at 7:35 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. each day. Southern Education Desk journalists will file stories exploring the topic at length.

The broadcasts will cover the wide-ranging story that asks important questions about how the most successful educators do what they do.

The team of reporters also inquires into the best way to support the best young teachers in the classroom, as well as constructive ways for teachers to balance competing expectations of students, parents and administrators.

KEDM Celebrates 21 Years

The first sounds of KEDM Public Radio were heard in Northeast Louisiana 21 years ago.

Supporters celebrated with a reception on the anniversary of the occasion, Monday, April 23, at the KEDM studios on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

With a combination of community and university support, together with federal funding, a steering committee of community leaders succeeded in bringing the citizens of Northeast Louisiana and Southeast Arkansas a high-quality Public Radio service twenty-one years ago.

Bayou-Diversity: Now in Stores

Naturalist Kelby Ouchley has collected his feature stories on KEDM Public Radio from the last 16 years and compiled them into a new book, Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country.

Bayou Diversity can be heard every Monday at 9:00 a.m. and Thursday at 1:00 p.m. Past segments of the program can be heard in the KEDM Listening Room.

Follow KEDM in Social Media!

You can now become a fan of KEDM on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. By becoming a fan you will be able to follow along as we periodically post updates about the station and other tidbits of information of interest to public radio listeners.

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