Sara Walsh, assistant professor for the School of Education and Counseling, has always felt the call to teach. She is a mother of seven, soon to be eight, and is well aware of how to mold minds in education.

“I really like working with people and helping people,” Walsh said. “I had a really great science teacher in ninth grade, and she really showed me what a difference a teacher can make. I want to do the same for my students what she did for me bringing excitement into science.”

After graduating from Newcastle Public School, Walsh went Briar Cliff University, where she majored in secondary education and biology with a minor in chemistry.

“I really liked all areas of science, so I thought teaching was way that I could be around all those different areas of science,” Walsh said.

Walsh later got her master’s in curriculum and instruction at Wayne State. In the fall, she plans to work on her doctorate at the University of South Dakota.

She taught for 11 years at Elgin in the science department before she began teaching a number of classes at WSC. Teaching ED 150 or introduction to education, science methods elementary and middle school are just a few of the classes she teaches.

“My mom is a high school math teacher,” Walsh said. “So I kind of grew up around teaching.”

Teaching, it would seem, was always Walsh’s future.