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Student organizations hand out apples
Cynthia Foster
Issue date: 11/12/07 Section: News
Members of the Student Education Association and Kappa Delta Epsilon will hand out apples Wednesday from 8 a.m. until noon in the lobby of DeGarmo Hall to launch American Education Week.
"An apple for a teacher is to remind people about teachers and everything teachers have done for them," Colleen Herald, coordinator of clinical experiences, said.
Everyone will also have the opportunity to write the name of a teacher on an apple cut-out that had a lot of influence on him or her, according to Herald.
"We will be sticking [the cut-outs] around DeGarmo," Herald said.
"This is a week to honor teachers," Herald added.
All the local schools that work with our education students will also receive baskets of candy for the teacher's lounge to thank them for all they do, Herald said.
There are other events planned to celebrate American Education Week.
One event is "Celebrating the Lab Schools" on Nov. 13. The event is open to the university community.
Thomas Metcalf School and University High School will host an in-school open house from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.
"Metcalf will open up its library for people to come look at yearbooks," Stefanie Lee Berardi, director of college advancement and communications, said.
University High School will have tours of the building, including their all-laptop classrooms, according to Berardi.
"They have classrooms that are pretty much paperless," Berardi added.
Another event is "Education Then and Now: Lessons in a One-Room Schoolhouse" from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 15 at Eyestone School Museum on the corner of College and Adelaide.
The event is free and open to the public. The event will feature a demonstration by one of our student teachers at University High School, Berardi said.
"He is going to be teaching the same lesson two ways. The first as it might have been taught in 1857 in a one-room schoolhouse, such as the one at Eyestone School," Berardi explained.
"Then he's going to teach it with more contemporary theory on how it can be taught with laptops and Internet research," Berardi added.
Other features at this event include students from the University High Film Club who will videotape the lesson and a public viewing of the 150th anniversary celebration video with Thomas Metcalf School.
Herald and Berardi said they encourage students to think about the impact of teachers.
"It all starts with education," Berardi said. This campus began as a teacher education college, Berardi said.
"We continue along those lines with a strong tradition of producing teachers for Illinois and for the world," Berardi added.
For more information about all the events planned for American Education Week, visit the Web site at coe.ilstu.edu.
"An apple for a teacher is to remind people about teachers and everything teachers have done for them," Colleen Herald, coordinator of clinical experiences, said.
Everyone will also have the opportunity to write the name of a teacher on an apple cut-out that had a lot of influence on him or her, according to Herald.
"We will be sticking [the cut-outs] around DeGarmo," Herald said.
"This is a week to honor teachers," Herald added.
All the local schools that work with our education students will also receive baskets of candy for the teacher's lounge to thank them for all they do, Herald said.
There are other events planned to celebrate American Education Week.
One event is "Celebrating the Lab Schools" on Nov. 13. The event is open to the university community.
Thomas Metcalf School and University High School will host an in-school open house from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.
"Metcalf will open up its library for people to come look at yearbooks," Stefanie Lee Berardi, director of college advancement and communications, said.
University High School will have tours of the building, including their all-laptop classrooms, according to Berardi.
"They have classrooms that are pretty much paperless," Berardi added.
Another event is "Education Then and Now: Lessons in a One-Room Schoolhouse" from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 15 at Eyestone School Museum on the corner of College and Adelaide.
The event is free and open to the public. The event will feature a demonstration by one of our student teachers at University High School, Berardi said.
"He is going to be teaching the same lesson two ways. The first as it might have been taught in 1857 in a one-room schoolhouse, such as the one at Eyestone School," Berardi explained.
"Then he's going to teach it with more contemporary theory on how it can be taught with laptops and Internet research," Berardi added.
Other features at this event include students from the University High Film Club who will videotape the lesson and a public viewing of the 150th anniversary celebration video with Thomas Metcalf School.
Herald and Berardi said they encourage students to think about the impact of teachers.
"It all starts with education," Berardi said. This campus began as a teacher education college, Berardi said.
"We continue along those lines with a strong tradition of producing teachers for Illinois and for the world," Berardi added.
For more information about all the events planned for American Education Week, visit the Web site at coe.ilstu.edu.
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