{"id":3871,"date":"2021-05-27T17:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/teaching-and-learning\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2021-05-27T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:21:56","slug":"coe-student-anna-barrett-receives-fulbright-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/coe-student-anna-barrett-receives-fulbright-award\/","title":{"rendered":"COE student Anna Barrett receives Fulbright Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8784 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/Anna-Barrett-768x512-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Northern Arizona University graduate\u00a0<strong>Anna Barrett<\/strong>\u00a0is the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award and will head to Asia for a year to further her education and immerse herself in South Korean culture.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett majored in elementary education with additional majors in history and sociology. She also graduated with a Gold Axe Award, which recognizes students for their dedication and commitment to academics as well as service to the NAU campus and surrounding Flagstaff community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy favorite thing about teaching is connecting with each student and seeing their \u2018aha\u2019 moment after they learn something new and master it,\u201d Barrett said.<\/p>\n<p>Come January, she will use the teaching skills she has learned at NAU and fly to South Korea to be an English teacher for elementary school-aged students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided to apply as a teaching assistant in South Korea because my brother was adopted from there,\u201d Barrett said. \u201cI love the country, and because of my brother, this culture has taught and shaped me so much as a person. I want to give back to a country that gave so much to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/fulbright-anna-barrett\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=5-21-21%20edition&amp;utm_campaign=NAUNews&amp;utm_term=internal&amp;utm_content=Barrett_Fulbright_L#.YLA2h_lKiUk\">here<\/a> from NAU News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Arizona University graduate\u00a0Anna Barrett\u00a0is the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award and will head to Asia for a year to further her education and immerse herself in South Korean culture. Barrett majored in elementary education with additional majors in history and sociology. She also graduated with a Gold Axe Award, which recognizes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-and-learning-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}