The First Days of School Experience is an intensive, comprehensive, full-time experience beginning in early August. The experience begins before the opening of the Andrews University academic year during which students will have their student teaching experience.
The Andrews University School of Education subscribes to the philosophy that pre-service teachers need both a theoretical and experiential knowledge base to become competent, compassionate, committed teachers. Thus, the course integrates the study and application of (1) strategies for classroom and pupil management, (2) approaches for successfully beginning the school year, and (3) field-based classroom experience. Students gain theoretical understandings from university classroom instruction and personal study. They develop experiential understandings through observation, participation, and assistance in selected Michigan public and private school classrooms as well as through becoming acquainted with the instructional and managerial materials and the techniques practiced by supervising teachers. In most instances these teachers will later supervise the university students' pre-service teaching experiences.
The Andrews University School of Education subscribes to the philosophy that pre-service teachers need both a theoretical and experiential knowledge base to become competent, compassionate, committed teachers. Thus, the course integrates the study and application of (1) strategies for classroom and pupil management, (2) approaches for successfully beginning the school year, and (3) field-based classroom experience. Students gain theoretical understandings from university classroom instruction and personal study. They develop experiential understandings through observation, participation, and assistance in selected Michigan public and private school classrooms as well as through becoming acquainted with the instructional and managerial materials and the techniques practiced by supervising teachers. In most instances these teachers will later supervise the university students' pre-service teaching experiences.
- Teacher: Bacchiocchi, Michelle