Going to our partnership school (a local high school) in our freshman year was a blast!! By teaching portions of the class you begin to see yourself not as a student, but as a future mentor, role model and teacher. > Hazel Guerrero, Consumer & Family Studies Education '07
A candidate in the Business/Marketing or Consumer and Family Studies Education Program is involved with teaching in the high schools starting in his/her first year of college. The candidate will gain more than 205 hours of experience teaching before starting his/her final practicum experience in the senior year. During the student teaching experience prior to graduation, the candidate will work with an expert coordinating teacher, one employed in a high school, gradually assuming all of his/her teaching responsibilities over an 18-week period while gaining an additional 595 hours of teaching experience; all before accepting a full-time teaching position!
I
know that when my students ask about the industry I will be able to answer
their questions with real life examples because I'm required to gain more
than 4000 hours of work experience in my field before graduating. >
Rachel Simmons, Consumer & Family Studies Education '07
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