Kathryn Silvers To All Instructors

Kathryn started teaching in 1981 in Tulsa at Grace Christian Academy and found a love for helping students discover and learn.  In Minnesota she homeschooled her daughter between 4th and 10th grade, and is delighted to have the opportunity to come alongside parents, who are their child's first and best teachers.  She served as a Children's Pastor and Worship pastor over the years, but being a mother was always her highest calling.

After her daughter left for college, Kathryn returned to college to get her BS in Education (with a minor in science), started to teach in Burnsville School District for over 20 years, and got her Master's in Education with Saint Mary's University (focusing on how the brain learns).  She taught from kindergarten through college, as a science specialist, classroom teacher, instructing other teachers to teach science, math, reading and writing. She developed science curriculum for Burnsville and has a passion for making science student-friendly.  

Her philosophy of education is constructive, believing students learn more when they talk rather than listen (although some information to begin with is necessary), and students learn more when they "do", rather than watch.  It is her intention to facilitate Earth Science classes and Engineering and Technical writing classes that provide maximum student engagement and high, rigorous learning that is fun.  She wants to feed students' innate curiosity and develop higher level thinking through open ended questions and students' articulating their ideas and connections.  

When she is not planning lessons or teaching, she loves to garden, travel, host prayer and worship times, and do things with her eight adult grandchildren, like rock climb, hike, kayak, go to art museums, paint, camp at the North Shore or just hold and gaze at her new great grandson. 

Current Classes
Apologia Elementary Science - Zoology - Land Animals (1 - 2) – Instructor (closed)
Apologia Elementary Science - Zoology - Land Animals (3 - 4) – Instructor (closed)
Apologia Elementary Science - Zoology - Land Animals (5 - 7) – Instructor (closed)
Strategies for Higher Level Thinking & Speaking (5-7) – Instructor (closed)