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Recruitment of Students through Alternative Routes to Teacher Training
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Workshop for Teaching Students having English as a Second Language (ESOL)
In the Fall of 2003, we were once again fortunate to tap into the UNCG professional community and offer a two-day workshop to our RESTART students, undergraduate special education majors, and their internship supervising teachers as they explored teaching students with English as a second language with Dr. Janis Antonek. Dr. Antonek’s hands-on demonstration of teaching strategies to work with our increasingly diverse student populations captured our students’ imaginations as they considered the many ways to reach, teach, and include ALL children in the delivery of instruction.
PRAXIS I Workshops
One of the best-attended workshop activities Project RESTART has co-sponsored is our PRAXIS I preparation workshops.Offered in collaboration with the UNCG School of Education’s Student Advising and Recruitment Center, over 70 beginning education majors from most of the teacher licensure disciplines have worked with master teachers and professors in the areas of reading, written language, and mathematics as they prepared for this critical requirement for admission into the School of Education teacher education program.
PRAXIS I workshops are offered each fall and spring and are also open to community collage students who are considering transferring to UNCG teacher education program. Comments from participants indicate that, after completing the workshop, they had reduced test anxiety and a clear understanding of what content would be included on the PRAXIS I tests.
Presentations
Project RESTART and the results of what we have accomplished after our first complete year of service will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association this April 2004 in San Diego, California.Dr. Jewell Cooper, Dr. Stephanie Kurtts, and Dr. Carolyn Boyles will share the work of RESTART and what we have learned about nontraditional adult students and their return to a four-year teacher preparation program.