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Students Get Their Feet Wet

esigned to give when I arrived at Palm helps to build confidence for

future teachers Harbor, the school assigned the students' internship.

opportunities to me to a kindergarten class. Nanette Guikema feels

observe veteran Through watching my practicum has helped her

teachers and cooperating teacher, I have because "all the projects

apply their seen how to use discipline I've done can be kept and

studies, the and run an effective used after I graduate."

education classsroom," comments Putting education into

practicum Jenn Mullenix. This course practice is the key.

provides students

with on-the-job

training. The

majority of

students teach in public

schools for their practicum.

This provides an experience

which some students would

never have if they had

taught only in private or

Christian schools.

They receive their

placement at random.

Sometimes students are

pleasantly surprised. "I was

expecting sixth grade; but,

Physical education practicum class

major Kim Hester helped me see what

instructs Wendy being out of the

Benitez's class in a college setting and

game of over-under into the elementary

relay. "Before I classroom with the

started my internship, children was really

taking the education going to be like."

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