In the old days, we had a teaching program which included, among the traditional class work, three teaching related experiences. In the sophomore year the student visited public school classrooms in a group with an instructor, and observed teaching in a most “unnatural setting” (large group of college students in the back of the public school art classroom on chairs). In the junior year, the student participated as a classroom assistant in the Saturday kids programs, getting increasingly more experience and in the end, taking over the teaching responsibilities. In the senior year, the student had a traditional student teaching experience.
Today I have a tale about a third year student, who was assigned to a Saturday class, and in the end of the classroom experience, as an experiment, an opportunity to fill our a report card for the kids. While we never graded the kids in the Saturday programs, we felt this would be a good opportunity for the student teachers to have a chance to complete evaluations.
The idea was that the report card experience would be a learning experience, and the cards would remain with the college as helpful examples in the college students learning experience.
One of the students, not clear on the concept, wrote about a child, “ Grade C- . She is not a particularly good student, but you can understand why if you met the mother”.
She then copied all the report card forms, kept a copy for our records, and sent the other one home with the child…..
Today I have a tale about a third year student, who was assigned to a Saturday class, and in the end of the classroom experience, as an experiment, an opportunity to fill our a report card for the kids. While we never graded the kids in the Saturday programs, we felt this would be a good opportunity for the student teachers to have a chance to complete evaluations.
The idea was that the report card experience would be a learning experience, and the cards would remain with the college as helpful examples in the college students learning experience.
One of the students, not clear on the concept, wrote about a child, “ Grade C- . She is not a particularly good student, but you can understand why if you met the mother”.
She then copied all the report card forms, kept a copy for our records, and sent the other one home with the child…..
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