“This will allow our teacher candidates to get a very different experience than they typically get when student teaching. Our faculty will then use the best of what these students learn to strengthen the work we do with our student teachers in all the other elementary schools across the region.”
“Depending on the school culture at the site where they student teach, our teacher candidates are either very involved in faculty meetings and workshops, or they are not involved at all. We want to improve this because one of the most critical parts in laying the foundation for a quality teaching career is the student teaching experience.”
“It is huge that the district has agreed to redesign this school based on this concept. This did not happen before because there is a huge resource question with this.”
“Many of our students from Southwest Riverside County and the Poway area prefer to student teach where they live, and many of our students from the coast prefer to student teach there.”
