Life After DS 106

Since I’ve gotten questions about how Practicum and the Education Department work, I think I’ll use this post to answer those questions. First, you have to apply to be in the first Education class, which is just an intro class that’s meant to teach you the concepts and theories of teaching. All the elementary and [...]

Preschool love. It’s crazy. In practicum on Tuesday, I walked in and this boy, we’ll call him lady’s man, had his arm around one girl and another girl was leaning on him. I heard there names many times that day in a questioning, disappointed teacher tone. At recess, one of the girls, we’ll call her [...]

First week of Practicum at Headstart =  overwhelming, hilarious, and messy In all the classrooms at Headstart there are 2 teachers, 1 main teacher and 1 assistant teacher…one is intimidating enough for me. It turns out that having 2 teachers is extremely beneficial for my purposes in Practicum. When I need to talk to the [...]

I was talking to Sadie about what I was going to do my project/theme by blog around for the rest of the semester, and I think I finally figured it out. I am in the Elementary Education program so each semester I am required (but really, allowed) to go into local schools and do Practicum. [...]