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Ritch Kelley

Ritch Kelley
Professor
Chair of Professional Ministries Division
Phone: 570.585.9293
Email: rkelley@bbc.edu
Office room number: 403 Jackson Hall
Personal Webpage: http://faculty.bbc.edu/rkelley/

Education
B.S., Liberty University
M.Ed., Ed.D., The Pennsylvania State University

Sample of Classes Taught
Development and Learning, Senior Education Seminar, Children's Literature, Child, Family, Community, and Reading in the Content Areas.

Personal
Family: Wife – Diana
Children – Patrick and Allison

About Dr. Kelley:
Dr. Kelley has taught at the early childhood level for nine years, directed a preschool and daycare for seven years, taught at the elementary level for three years, served as a K-12 reading specialist for seven years, and was an elementary principal for seven years. He has taught at The Pennsylvania State University and Maranatha Baptist Bible College. Within the local church, he has played the organ, interpreted for the deaf, sung in the choir, and taught in the children's ministries.

Insight Questions
1. What is your favorite book?
Other than the Bible, I would say my favorite book is “Savannah” by Eugenia Price.

2. What are your hobbies?
I enjoy reading, gardening, antiquing, and traveling.

3. Who has been your greatest spiritual influence?
The person who has been my greatest spiritual influence would be my father, Blair Kelley. My father lived Christ every day of his life. When you read about the fruits of the spirit, you are reading about my father. My father passed away May 30, 2008 and will be greatly missed.

4. What goals do you have for your students?         
I want my students to understand that as a Christian teacher you are dealing with more than the cognitive, social, emotion development of students. Students also have a soul and when they stand before God someday. Whether they can name the longest river in the world or compute the most difficult math problem will not be important, but their soul will matter.