Episode 010: Miriam Windham
Miriam Windham, Professor of English and TESOL - Photo by Michael Gowin
This week’s episode of Inside LCCS features Miriam Windham, Professor of English and TESOL in the college. Miriam has taught at Lincoln since 1987 and initiated the school’s TESOL program in 1996. Listen as she describes:
- Growing up in Texas
- How she and her husband-to-be Neal Windham endured a long-distance dating relationship
- Completion of her undergraduate degree at Elizabeth City State University, then a historically black university
- Beginning her teaching career part-time at LCC while a young mother
- “Chicken,” a childhood game with pocket knives (also mentioned in her spring chapel sermon)
- Teaching literature and art in IDS courses and directing the TESOL program
- How she chose English over math as a major while in college
- Favorite books
- Her pioneering work in teaching hybrid, online, and distance classes at LCC
- Where TESOL graduates are serving
- How she prepares for speaking engagements at workshops and conferences
- What she really enjoys about teaching
- A trip to the Ravinia festival this summer as well as planning for her daughter’s upcoming wedding
- Some favorite stories from childhood and from raising children
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I LOVE MIRIAM WINDHAM!!!!!!!