“Valuable, valuable, valuable”: A Fellow talks about mentoring

Teaching Fellow Sheila Pritchett describes what it was like to have veteran teachers mentor her during her year of clinical placement. That’s what the WW Teaching Fellowship calls student teaching, but it’s student teaching on steroids–for a full year, with expert mentors all the way. Sheila, who now teaches freshman bio and biomedical enrichment classes [...]

24 Aug 2012

First Days of School: That Red Hat…

Posted by sylvia

That red hat on the first day of school should have been a clue. On the first days of the school year, students introduce themselves, but with their personas in full effect — the image they want to project to the world. But at some point, the masks fall. Only then can we get to know [...]