The Rampage

Kenzie Baldwin Feature Editor             Teacher Academy students present a small lesson plan to a group of the students that they are student teaching. They could pick whatever their teacher and they had talked about for activities in class and the teacher academy teacher (Jenny Crawford) would observe it.             “For my small group I made flash cards with money word problems on them,” said senior Nicole Craig.             Each teacher academy student is assigned a day where they have to present their small lesson plan, it is informal and is just helping them prepare for the large lesson plan that will be later on in the semester.             “I think the experience of being up in front of the kids is what we are aiming for,” said Craig.      ...

Kenzie Baldwin Feature Editor       Teacher Academy students are currently going inside classrooms to get experience teaching younger students. This class gives students the opportunity to see if teaching is what they want to do as a profession.       "I think it is beneficial because if you want to teach or are considering it, this program is exactly what students need to help them be more sure," said senior Katelyn Hoenig.       This semester, the class is focusing on teaching and getting involved in classrooms. The students can choose any grade level from kindergarten to eighth grade they want to observe and teach in to see if that certain grade level fits them.       "This class has helped me decide which grade to do. First I had kindergarten and I loved it, then when I had eighth grade I was always bored. So it helped me decide the younger grades were what I wanted," said Hoenig.       Stud...