student teaching
January 25, 2024
Navigating the student teacher experience
Before Goshen College students started thinking about returning to school, student teachers were already in full swing in the classroom last fall. Suzanne Ehst, director of secondary education, alongside Kathy Meyer Reimer, director of elementary education, oversaw the process and structure of student teaching. Ehst explained, “everyone gets oriented to the expectations, gathering all the information we need along the way, as well as running a few seminars that relate to what they are experiencing in the schools.” In the first weeks, the student teachers are doing small tasks to support the classroom teachers such as introducing themselves or doing...