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Undent teaching a leaniing experience
Education majors reap priceless
By Dawn Wilson
Staff Writer
-Jennie Starling still treasures her
golden goose.
Starling, a senior from Winston-Salem,
completed her student teaching
last semester at Eno Valley Elementary
School in Durham County.
A hyperactive child who had to take
Ritalin was a student in her fourth
grade class. "He was a sweet kid. I tried
to be there for him," Starling said.
The boy was from a low-income
family that didn't have much spending
money. Yet on Starling's last day of
class, he gave her a goose figurine. "I
only had $5, and I spent every cent of
it," he said.
Starling said, "That's why I didn't
need money," in reference to her unpaid
internship. "The job is a reward.
"I was so in love with the kids," she
said. "When I saw those light bulbs go
off in their heads, I didn't need money."
Required by the School of Education,
a semester of student teaching provides
students with the opportunity to apply
the textbook lessons to a classroom
setting, said Fran Jackson, director for
the School Practica in the School of
Education.
Once students are accepted into the
School of Education their junior year,
they submit applications to a committee
Teach for America exposes new teachers to ups and downs of education across the nation
By Mary Moore Parham
Staff Writer
In 1988, Princeton student Wendy
Kopp's senior thesis outlined aprogram
to recruit non-education majors to teach
for two years in areas where there was a
teacher shortage.
Kopp's thesis became what is now
Teach for America, a program which
has provided jobs for more than 500
graduating seniors and reached students
in 1 1 cities in its first year.
Kopp targeted corporations to fund
the program, raising more than $4 mil
lion in grant monies, which allowed for
an eight-week summer training pro
gram at the University of Southern
California and placement of teachers in
both inner-city and rural school districts.
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that works carefully with the public
school system and assigns internships
for the fall.
Gail Jones, a coordinator of the
middle grades program in the School of
Education, said supervising teachers
were carefully selected and matched
with students. Most teachers have par
ticipated in clinics that teach them to
train student teachers. Students are
matched by their area of certification,
the skills of the student and teacher, and
to some degree, their personality.
In the internships for elementary
education, students have the choice of
staying with one teacher for the whole
semester or participating in the "split
experience." In the split experience,
student teachers spend eight weeks in
one class of students in kindergarten to
third grade and the remaining eight
weeks in a class of grades four through
six.
Student teachers follow the schedule
of their assigned teacher and may have
to teach mixed grades if it is a part of the
schedule of their supervising teacher.
Tamsen Webb, clinical assistant
professor in the education school, said
that since students are certified to teach
kindergarten through sixth grade after
graduation, the split experience is good
because it gives insight to a widespread
level of child development.
"There is no substitute for teaching
It was during the training program
that the recruits took courses in class
room management and got to student
teach in area summer schools.
By the start of the school year, they
had 1 2 education credits and the hands
on experience required for teaching
certification.
"I had wanted to do something useful
after graduation, and Teach for America
appealed to me because of the contact
with people," said Lia Stuhlsatz, a Smith
graduate.
"Many entry level positions don't
allow for that."
Although Stuhlsatz plans to follow
her job as a seventh-grade social studies
teacher at New York City's Stitt Junior
High with law school, Stuhlsatz said
her experience with education has
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benefits from classroom efforts
to learn how to be a teacher," Webb
said.
Students involved in the middle
school education program are assigned
an internship dealing with their area of
specialization. In the middle school
program, students observe class from
the first day and are with the middle
school students until May.
Jones said this provided students not
only with a close relationship with the
students, but also with a supervised
atmosphere to practice teaching skills.
Kathy Rockett, a senior from
Conover, said being present on the first
day of classes at Neal Middle School
was helpful. "I got to gradually know
the kids, and it made a smoother tran
sition." Rockett taught three eighth-grade
math classes and one sixth-grade aca
demically gifted class. "The AG (stu
dents) are the biggest challenge because
they are able to handle more difficult
questions."
"I've enjoyed being in school and the
creative side of teaching, like making
bulletin boards and lesson plans."
Rockett said math was especially im
portant, because if middle school stu
dents could handle the kind of problem
solving involved in math, they would
be able to tackle more difficult problems.
"The internship definitely prepared
me for what I want to do. I got a lot of
challenged her beliefs.
"I always thought I was a pretty lib
eral person, and teaching has made me
put my money where my mouth is.
"I discovered that I don't have the
stamina for this, but it has really given
me a newfound respect for teachers,"
she said.
For MIT graduate Alison Lynch, also
at Stitt Junior High, teaching seventh
grade life science and math required
more than simply presenting her subject
matter in an interesting way.
"I tried to think about great teachers
I'd had and also those that were not so
good and figured that if I could be
excited about the subject matter, it would
rub off.
"I learned that this wasn't always
true," she said.
Discipline proved to be a problem in
many cases. It ranged from talking and
note-passing to more hormone-related
behavior.
"I had a 13-year old boy pull down
his pants in front of a girl, who then
started to cry," Lynch said.
"I grew up with brothers at home
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hands-on experience. Everything is very
relevant, and I go into a classroom with
more developed skills," she said.
There is also an internship program
for high school education.
Traditionally, most internships last
for ten weeks. Students observe classes
in the fall and actually teach in the
spring.
Education majors must prepare
carefully for the student teaching posi
tions. Juniors, through the model clini
cal collaborating program in partner
ship with the local schools, participate
in school board meetings and shadow
ing activities. They also become a part
of teaching teams and micro teaching,
where they teach in front of a video
camera and are critiqued by others.
Jones said studies have proven that
graduates indicate the student teaching
experience was the most important part
of their teaching preparation.
"The University has been very sup
portive in committing resources that we
need," she said.
Webb said that graduates of the
School of Education have a good record
of being hired. The internship program
also gives the professors an opportunity
to learn. "That's what I love," she said.
"Every semester is different. I am in 18
different classrooms, and I learn from
the college students and their students."
and realized it really hasn't been that
long since seventh grade and that kind
of behavior. The hardest thing is keep
ing a straight face."
Lynch also said she took and read
notes passed in her classes, but that they
were returned at the end of the period.
Her main goal is to get students to pay
attention.
"Notes are a good way to keep track
of students' personal lives, but for the
most part I get a lot of 'I heard so and so
likes you,'" she said.
Stuhlsatz found that a lot of rowdy or
loud behavior was done out of a need
for attention. She recalls asking a student
why he kept acting up and he told her it
was because she ignored him.
"It was so clear his actions were to
turn my head. Some of the parents of
these children are working two jobs and
there is simply not enough adult atten
tion in their lives," Stuhlsatz said.
In other cases, students do not have
the socialization necessary to function
in a school environment.
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Classes are taught in Spanish with one
hour a day allotted for English.
"I had a father, who had recently
come to New York, drop of f his daughter
and ask if she had to be at school (every
day)," Harris said.
"Often there is an education of the
parents as well as their children that
takes place."
For each teacher, whether in a rural
or inner-city school, there are stigmas
involved with the geography.
"After hearing that I'd be working in
a ghetto, my parents' friends imagined
the worst," Stuhlsatz said.
"But during a parent-teacher confer
ence, I had one mother that was so
horrified that I was living without my
family in New York that she baked me
casseroles which her child brought to
school," she said.
Lynch said that although there were
drugs, violence and child abuse in the
Washington Heights section of New
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not receiving adequate educations in
the fields of math and science and will
not be able to compete with whites in
special fields.
"The question we must answer is to
what extent we are going to participate
in the crucial sectors of the economy in
post-apartheid South Africa," she said.
"I cannot foresee an increased level of
(black) participation because of the built
in constraints we've seen for over half a
century."
Problems in education need to be
handled immediately, she said.
"Without an education, blacks will
continue to be inferior, even in post
apartheid. Whites with skills will still
be in control and dominate the crucial
sectors."
Mandela said people were concerned
about violence and anger in black
townships and what Western society
has called "black-on-black violence."
The reason for this violence often is
not explained, she said. The harsh po
lice treatment in response to peaceful
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York where she taught, there was also a
vibrant neighborhood with people who
were much like those she knew in Iowa.
Despite misconceptions about the
ghetto, Stuhlsatz found that telling a
child he or she could work hard in
school and be successful was not a fair
statement.
"When facilities are so unequal across
the board it's not true that an inner-city
student has the same opportunities as a
suburban one.
"You have to have books before you
can learn to read," she said.
Despite a lack of necessary facilities,
the predominantly black and Hispanic
backgrounds of the district's students
do offer a fresh perspective on subject
matter.
When asked by Lynch to cite one
example of how humans were like a
tree, she received the traditional answers
from the class' chapter on classification
as well as one student's observation that
they were both brown.
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demonstrations held by blacks created
an attitude of retaliation and violence
among young people.
Black youths grew up in the strife
and violence created in the search for
peace, she said.
"It is sad and painful to admit there is
black-on-black violence," she said. "B ut
ethnic violence exists in many parts of
the world."
Mandela gave examples of white-on-white
violence in North Ireland and
during the U.S. Civil War.
"This country was able to solve its
problems," she said. 'I do not foresee
any problems for blacks to solve their
own differences in the future."
Mandela said South Africans must
pressure government officials to hold
open talks. ;
"I do not see sanctions alone as a tool
to bring the government down. Blacks
are most affected by sanctions. I haven't
seen any difference in whites' standard
of living."
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