{"id":976,"date":"2011-09-13T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/?p=976"},"modified":"2011-09-13T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T12:22:44","slug":"butler-block-a-students-to-begin-practicum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/2011\/09\/13\/butler-block-a-students-to-begin-practicum\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler Block A Students to Begin Practicum!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Block A Students Pose for Photo in the Courtyard<\/p><\/div>\n

A key feature of the IPS\/Butler University Laboratory School is our collaboration with Butler University.\u00a0 A part of that collaboration includes a 15 credit hour course\u00a0called Block A.\u00a0 This teaching methods course focuses on young children, literacy, math, Reggio inspired practice and project-based learning.\u00a0 The course takes place on-site at our school in a classroom designed for college students, but the students will also have a practicum experience in our classrooms.\u00a0 The preschool classroom will have three Butler students while each of the k-1 classrooms will have four students assigned to them.\u00a0 The Butler students will (with a few schedule changes) be in our classrooms\u00a0every Wednesday for the entire day.\u00a0 Wednesday, September 14th will be the first full-day for the Butler students in our classrooms following a brief visit yesterday.\u00a0 The teachers and children are as excited as our Butler students for this experience to begin!\u00a0 The following comments by Block A students summarize how they are feeling about this opportunity:<\/p>\n

“I walked into the classroom today and the children just put me at ease.\u00a0 I felt so comfortable in the room; almost like it was my own.\u00a0 I cannot wait to jump in!” – Katie Jones<\/p>\n

“As soon as I walked into the classroom, a child ran up to me and gave me a huge hug.\u00a0 That was the beginning of many hugs during my visit!\u00a0 I have found my home for the semester!” – Colleen Wilson<\/p>\n

“I can’t wait to start working with the kids!\u00a0 I know I will learn so much from them as we learn together.\u00a0 I was estatic today when I met two young girls whose interests are after those of my own heart – weddings, singing, dancing and family.\u00a0 I am excited to make more connections with the kids.” – Amy Gaisser<\/p>\n

“I am so excited to begin working with the students.\u00a0 They were so full of wonderful energy and excitement.\u00a0 I can’t wait to see what they are going to teach me!” – Kaitlyn Love<\/p>\n

“I am overwhelmed with emotions.\u00a0 Emotions of joy, happiness and excitement.\u00a0 Emotions of unsure possibilities and unplanned paths.\u00a0 I cannot wait to start this journey and to experience more and more of these emotions.” – Courtney Boyle<\/p>\n

“How blessed I am to have the opportunity to work with these amazing students.\u00a0 I can’t wait to start learning from them.” – Elyse Estridge<\/p>\n

“Even though I only spent a few short minutes in Mrs. Argus’ classroom, it is clear to me that this is a special community.\u00a0 They are not just a teacher and her students, but friends.\u00a0 I’m so excited to grow together with them.” – Megan Rogg<\/p>\n

“You know those moments when something good is about to happen…yeah, this is one of those!” – Chris Henderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A key feature of the IPS\/Butler University Laboratory School is our collaboration with Butler University.\u00a0 A part of that collaboration includes a 15 credit hour course\u00a0called Block A.\u00a0 This teaching methods course focuses on young children, literacy, math, Reggio inspired practice and project-based learning.\u00a0 The course takes place on-site at our school in a classroom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}