UA seniors pursuing a degree in secondary English education teach local students in place of taking a traditional class on campus. Can you imagine that instead of sitting in a classroom on campus, going to class meant getting real-life experience? For nearly 30 years, this has been the reality for UA seniors majoring in Adolescent Young Adult Integrated Language Arts Education. A collaboration with Barberton High School allows UA students to get hands-on experience as academic mentors in junior and senior English classes. For an entire semester prior to student teaching, UA students take over a classroom at Barberton where they are responsible for all of their mentor teacher’s typical duties. This includes planning and executing lessons, taking attendance, grading papers, and making phone calls home. The collaboration was founded by Dr. Hal Foster in the early 1990s when Paulette U’Rycki, a teacher at Central-Hower High School, approached him saying that the college was not training urban teachers very well. U’Rycki offered to open her classroom to Foster’s students. For the first few years, UA students served as tutors and worked with Central-Hower students in small groups. Then, one of Foster’s students realized something was missing and asked why […]
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