Student Practicum

I'll explain the student practicum I had mentioned earlier. As a an junior education major, students at Mount Marty College are required to complete a student practicum. It entails being in the classroom all day with your cooperating teacher for ten days, and then during the last five days, you are supposed to teach one lesson a day. It is a good way to really get a feel for a whole day of school and all that a teacher actually does throughout the day.

I began my practicum experience over Christmas break. I did it in Bancroft-Rosalie junior high and high school. I observed two senior government classes, two junior american history courses, a sophomore civics class, and a seventh grade civics class. I did the first seven days of my practicum already, and the last three days I will do over Spring Break.

Mount Marty College's Education Department prepares their students so well that when I went out to do my practicum, my cooperating teacher was floored with how well I knew how to do lesson plans, etc. I actually ended up teaching two lessons on my second to last day and three on my last day! So, I have already taught five and plan on teaching two more when I go back (the two sections of the senior government class!). I am very excited to get back into the classroom all day; I miss it!