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•Curricular Innovations
•Service Learning
•Community Mapping
•Urban Placements
•Involving Interns
•Prison Visit
•Action Research
•Technology |
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Service learning
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Community Mapping
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Urban placements in a co-teaching model for
all secondary science interns.
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This year’s secondary science interns have
all been placed in urban schools (West HS, Fulton HS, and Austin-East
HS, South-Doyle MS) in co-teaching clusters. Dr. Claudia Melear is
coordinating the effort to introduce this model and study its impact.
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Involving interns in human service agencies.
Dr. Bob Kronick has helped several faculty members incorporate linkages
with community agencies to help develop an awareness of the nonacademic
needs of children and families. He has incorporated full service school
theory and practice as well as opportunities for our preservice teachers
to learn about human service agencies through first hand experiences.
During the 2000-2001 academic year, pre-interns spent four weeks working
in a variety of human service agencies. For the 2001-2002 academic year,
this component of the field experience program is being expanded.
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Prison Visit. Dr. Bob Kronick and Dr. Cheryl
Kershaw took two cohorts of elementary and secondary interns to Brushy
Mountain Prison to hear the “voices” of inmates about their school
experiences. The purpose of this visit was to “put a face to the
statistics that say we’re basing prison building projection figures on
second grade failure rates and third grade test scores. Inmates
described poignantly how they felt when they could not keep up
academically or lacked a sense of belonging. Included in this section is
an article being published by UNITE (Urban Network to Improve Teacher
Education) on this visit. Plans are underway to expand the accessibility
of this component of the coursework.
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The IECE faculty have worked closely with
Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Technology Academy to refine the urban teacher
preparation program for elementary teachers.
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Expanded role of technology in urban
schools. In conjunction with…
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