Trisha A. Ainsa , Ph.D.
Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Teaching Award; Burlington Resources Foundation Distinguished Award for Teaching Excellence; University Distinguished Teaching Award; University Distinguished Service to Students Award; Professor of Early Childhood Education and Special Education
College of Education
UT El Paso
My students begin their journeys with their own inner gifts and talents, most often hidden in a place where they cannot find them-deep inside.
UTEP students are known as Miners. It is fitting that their scholarship should involve mining for those nuggets of inner wisdom that taken together, become a cohesive whole for each. There are thousands of teaching and learning ideas that are yet to be discovered. My students will have some of those ideas, and I will have the proud pleasure of learning from them so that I continually get better at what I do.
