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Program gives students opportunity to explore career

Cadet Teaching provides the chance for students to have a hands-on learning experience.The program is a class that allows high school students to go to an elementary or middle school in the Francis Howell School District for an hour each day to be a student teacher.

These students have the chance to make lesson plans, work one on one with students and actually be a teacher.

For students who are undecided about their future, this program is the chance to find out if teaching is what they want to do.

 

“Cadet Teaching is helping me decide that I really want to do with the rest of my life,” senior Nicole Hopp said. “I get to act like a teacher and see if it’s right for me.”

According to Kim Coil, the facilitator of the program, Cadet Teaching offers several advantages to students who want to become teachers.

“First of all, it’s a great experience,” Coil said. “It’s also involvement versus observation. In college you sit and observe teachers where this program lets you participate in the classroom.”

Many people said that they would keep Cadet Teaching exactly the way it is, but Coil has only one change in mind.

“I used to be at the schools for two hours, but the schedule got messed up and now we only go for one,” Coil said. “I wish we could go back to two hours, but that’s the only thing I would change. It’s really a good program.”

Students involved in this program get more out of it than just the teaching experience.

“Cadet Teaching made me look at things from a different perspective,” junior Katie Coffey said. “I may not show it, but i actually respect my teachers a lot more. Lesson plans are hard and I get mad when the kids don’t listen to me.”

Working in a classroom can give you an experience that will follow you for the rest of your life.

“They teach you more than you know,” Coffey said. “You wouldn’t think that a 7-year-old could do that, but they do and it’s absolutely amazing.”

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