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Dr. Richard Biffle, left, a professor of education at Thomas College, gives students building blocks Friday and instructs them to build something that reflects science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics at the college's Future Teachers Academy.
High school students from around the state attended the Future Teachers Academy at Thomas College on Friday. Here a group molds muscles in an exercise designed to test their approach to education.
Dr. Richard Biffle, a professor of education at Thomas College, works with a group of students who aim to be teachers at the Future Teachers Academy on Friday. He said that using the blocks to build something that reflects science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics allowed them to be creative.
Eric Brown, who teaches biology, physiology and anatomy at Lawrence High School in Fairfield, used an exercise on building a prototype of a muscle out of clay as a way to illustrate different approaches to education at the Future Teachers Academy at Thomas College on Friday.