My name is Zach and I'm in the Secondary Education program here at West Liberty
Today I want to show you what it's like to be in this program
We're gonna head to Mr. Hulewicz class for one of my block education classes
We're going to do a few things today
I want to start off by kind of refreshing on the assessments kind of
want to see what you guys have seen out in out on the field
So the Secondary Education program here at West Liberty
your first couple years it's gonna be
very generalized and all the students gonna be together
and that's pretty much we're gonna learn about classroom management learning
techniques everything that you need to be an effective teacher and then as you
get older that's we're gonna separate into your specializations and learn that
in more detail so I chose to be a science teacher because I had a really
big interest in science that I figured out I didn't really want to go into the
healthcare profession I want it to be interacting more with the younger
generations and trying to help inspire them and for them to learn science
content so that's why I combined both my interests of being science content
knowledge and to be a teacher
Co-teaching makes me think teamwork and strategy
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So the block semester takes
place during senior year and right now I'm in my block semester
and that is where we actually get to go out into schools pretty much for a
couple days a week for the whole semester and that's really your taste your
first taste of being a teacher what it's like really getting that hands-on
approach to teaching the semester after that in the spring semester is a full
semester of student teaching two different seven week placements for a
total of fourteen weeks and that is pretty much your first time in the
classroom being 100% the teacher where you do everything in terms of grading
papers making lesson plans interacting with the students all day all that stuff
takes place in the spring semester
Today I'm doing a presentation about different teaching strategies in the
science classroom
The capstone project also takes place senior year and that's
going to be definitely specialized for your content area so right now I'm doing
my capstone in general science ed and I'm doing pretty much a comparative
study of Science education throughout the whole United States and the capstone
semester pretty much it takes up the whole semester and then at the very end
is when you're going to present in front of your faculty
So today I'm teaching a science lesson to middle schoolers at Brooke Middle
On the opposite end of the spectrum we have what's called a learner behavior okay so a
really good example of a learned behavior...
So right now I'm placed at Brooke Middle School
I go there a couple days a week and I'm with sixth seventh and eighth
graders and I get the chance to once or twice a week go up there and actually
teach them certain lessons based on what my teacher wants them to know so the
reward for me for teaching is just seeing a satisfaction pretty much as
students get when they finally accomplish something or they understand
a certain content area or content knowledge I think it really just makes
all the hard work you put into teaching in terms of preparing the students and
making those lesson plans I think that satisfaction you get other students
finally understanding it it's a real big reward
And I also play quarterback on the football team and now about the head out to practice
So I think that football and teaching actually can tie in really well
to one another just because you know we know on the football field there's a
lot of interaction with your teammates and you're trying to help your teammates
grow not only as as players but also as people that's kind of what you're doing
in the classroom too you want your students to not only grow as students but also to
develop more maturely as people as well so both tie in together
I hope that gave you a good insight on what it's like to be in this program
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