December 5, 2004: Headlines: COS - Malaysia: Chicago Tribune: Marie Urbanski's first teaching job was as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia in the early 1970s
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December 5, 2004: Headlines: COS - Malaysia: Chicago Tribune: Marie Urbanski's first teaching job was as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia in the early 1970s
Marie Urbanski's first teaching job was as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia in the early 1970s
Marie Urbanski's first teaching job was as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia in the early 1970s
Reaching students in multiple languages
Published December 5, 2004
BROOKFIELD -- Marie Urbanski's first teaching job was as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia in the early 1970s. It required her to speak to students in Malay, Malaysia's official language, not English, which is widely spoken there.
After two months of intensive language training, she devised her lectures and lesson plans on math, general science and biology by working with two versions of the course textbook, one in each language.
"Even then," she said, laughing, "I discovered that some of my students could not speak Malay."
Her tenacity, sense of humor, and enthusiasm paid off earlier this year when the National Association of Biology Teachers named the Brookfield native Illinois Outstanding Biology Teacher of the Year.
"I like working with students and want them to be excited," said Urbanski, who spent 30 years teaching biology, health, and environmental science at Oak Park and River Forest High School.
Urbanski's Peace Corps stint wasn't her only experience in Asia. In 2001, she was one of 600 U.S. teachers selected to travel to Japan for three weeks as a guest of that country's Fulbright Memorial Fund.
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