by Dan Wolthoff
I am currently student teaching for two weeks in a 6th grade classroom in order to prepare me for full time student teaching next semester. I think that this experience is priceless in preparing future teachers for student teaching and ultimately a career in teaching. Getting up and ready for school everyday is something that I was not looking forward to, but now at the end of the second week I have been waking up an hour before my alarm clock and going to sleep at times when I was 10 years old. I thought that this routine was going to be hard to get into after living the college life for the semester, but I found it was not and I think that this will help me next semester when I student teach.
Along with getting into the routine of being in a school everyday, the time spent in the school with the students and teaching is priceless. I remember being so nervous having to prepare and teach a lesson, but now I do not have to think about it twice. I have talked to friends in education departments from other schools and they do not have the education curriculum we have. And I am thankful for The College of New Jersey’s education curriculum because I could not feel more prepared or confident for student teaching and my teaching career.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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I definitely agree that this experience is completely priceless for us as future teachers. I have learned things in the past weeks which I never would have learned in a college classroom. Things I never would have even learned with once a week visits to the school. The experience has allowed us to understand what it means to teach more than just a lesson that stands on its own and allowed us to get to know what it is like to have to deal with various personalities in the classroom. We were even able to get a taste at being responsible for discipline in the classroom.
The chance at experience we get here at TCNJ is truly amazing and definitely worthwhile.
But I would not say that our class plan for the four years are perfect and as someone who only has student teaching left to complete, I can point out many disapointments and flaws in the curriculum and the system. TCNJ may have to deal with a lot of outside requirements but experience in this major has given me the right and the knowledge to complain about it.
But yes, the practicum experience has been amazing and truly priceless.
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