Ms. Kate Whiting teaches us our past and our present

Madie Dockstader
SJHS Staff Writer

Ms. Kate Whiting is currently a student teacher for Mr. Rob Bentley, a geography teacher at Springville Junior High School. She loves learning, teaching geography, and she loves kids. Mr. Bentley said “I think Ms. Whiting will be an excellent teacher. She has great enthusiasm and interest in history and culture. She also has a positive attitude toward all students with a commitment to helping them learn and progress.”

Ms. Whiting grew up in a small beach town, in Hawaii, called Kailua. She went to Kailua High School, home of the Surfriders. She was involved in a student government class and almost every club Kailua High could offer.

Right now she is attending BYU. She is done with all her classes because she is student teaching right now, but her favorite classes at BYU were Floral Design, Art History, and International Political Economy. She said, “I am a little sad about graduation in April because I love being a student.”

Ms. Whiting served a mission in Taipei, Taiwan, where she learned to speak Mandarin Chinese. She studied it for three months and lived in Taiwan for a little over a year. Then she took a year of Mandarin Chinese at BYU. She has been to the world’s tallest building, Taipei 101, and also ate some of Taipei’s interesting foods.