{"id":8252,"date":"2019-08-16T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accinsweb8366.wpenginepowered.com\/tledupdates\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2022-12-09T22:27:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T22:27:29","slug":"teaching-learning-champions-laura-tabor-huerta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/2019\/08\/16\/teaching-learning-champions-laura-tabor-huerta\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching & Learning Champions: Laura Tabor-Huerta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching & Learning Champions are faculty & staff who contribute to student learning<\/i><\/b> (Guided Pathways Essential Practice #4)<\/i><\/a>. We share their stories to celebrate their dedication to instructional excellence & innovation in a series of spotlight articles. <\/i>#ACCExcellence<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\"LauraMeet Laura Tabor-Huerta, Faculty & Instructional Support Specialist at the Riverside Campus<\/b><\/h1>\n

Tell us a little bit about what you do!<\/b><\/p>\n

I provide advanced software and peripherals support, training, and assistance to faculty and staff.<\/p>\n

Three words that best describe you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inquisitive, kind, dependable<\/p>\n

How do you support faculty at ACC? Why is this work important?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am the immediate point of contact for general daily classroom support at the Riverside campus. If faculty are in a classroom and have an emergency need for equipment restoration or substitution I am quickly responsive. I am available for consultations, recommendations, training, and direct support as needed with the usage of equipment on campus for such things as video conferencing.<\/p>\n

If you had a fun or silly unofficial job title what would it be? Explain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prime Minister of Prank & Jank: I deserve this title because I like to sometimes play pranks on people. I have a small, plastic monkey toy that someone rascally gave me. It makes an obnoxious beep and a blinding blue light comes out of its eyes. If the office gets too boring, I like to have it peek around a corner at someone and squawk! I do other pranks too, but never cruel ones.<\/p>\n

Where did you grow up? What was it like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio. All my grandparents were immigrants, 1 illegally here. I like that I can recall the two different cultures as a young child. I heard the Czech language daily until I was four years old. I recall the Italian culture of my other side and one of my earliest memories is of a large group of women speaking English and Italian and we are making noodles and laying them to dry on the backs of chairs in a kitchen. After that, my family moved a lot to Seattle, then Texas, Arlington, and San Antonio. I respect the different cultures I found myself suddenly in. Sometimes I experienced frustration with another move, but mom always taught me how to look on the bright side. I went to six different elementary schools but things slowed down and I went to just one junior high and high school.<\/p>\n

How do you define success and how do you measure up to your own definition?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Success to me is to live up to the ethical values I was raised with and support myself. Keeping in mind that I feel very lucky to have a job that I enjoy. Keeping promises to my family is very important and I would feel very unsuccessful if I had not fulfilled all my promises through action and support to my brother, mother, and father until their deaths in the past nine years. I measure up quite well by my own definition. I feel no need to live by anyone else\u2019s definition of success.<\/p>\n

Connect with Laura via email: <\/b>ltabor@austincc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Recommend a Colleague:<\/b><\/h3>\n

Do you know someone who is a champion of teaching & learning? Send their name & why you\u2019re nominating them to TLEDcomms@austincc.edu<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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