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WHAT’S
IT ALL ABOUT?
This is an immersion experience in the rural education environment.
Participants will spend three weeks working directly with students.
They will have extensive opportunities to assist skilled educators
and to plan and deliver their own lessons. Each participant will
work directly with students all day long. Evening meetings will
be held to share success stories and explore ways to address problems
experienced during the day.
WHO MAY PARTICIPATE?
This class is open to all students who have completed Educational
Psychology (ED 220/221) by the end of Spring Semester, 2008. Some
students choose to take this course early in their program to get
a better feel for what it is like to be responsible for planning
and delivering lessons to students and to understand the many facets
of being a professional educator. Others choose to take it shortly
before their student teaching experience to have a chance to apply
the methods they have learned and to build confidence for their
upcoming placement.
HOW DOES IT HELP ME GRADUATE ON TIME?
While a few students use the Rural Education program simply as
an elective for the classroom experience it offers, most choose
to also use it as a substitution for a General Education major
or minor requrirement. See Professor Yelding to explore how you
might use the Rural Eduation Program to meet your graduation requirements.
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WHERE?
For the first time, this year’s
program will be held in the Covert Public Schools. Covert is
a small rural community
located about 15 miles southwest of Holland, Michigan. The total
enrollment in the district is approximately 750 students. It is
a community of very modest economic resources. It is rich in racial
and ethnic diversity and has a long history of a spirit of self-reliance
and pride in its traditions.
LODGING?
Program participants may choose to make arrangements
to stay on-campus/in cottages during May Term or opt to make other
arrangements to stay in the Greater Holland Area.
COST?
The cost of the course:
(excluding tuition)
$125 + personal expense
IMPORTANT
DATES
Thursday, February
7
Informational Meeting
4:00 p.m. in VZN 244
February
8 - $100 deposit due
TUITION DUE -
MAY 2
These are tentative
dates for deposits & payments. The Registrar's Office will
establish the schedule of due dates.
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