UA program draws science professionals into teaching
Lisa Zickefoose, a participant in the training of teachers excellerated, training students in her class of biological chemistry at the University of Akron.
But friends and family kept saying that it would be a good teacher.
Therefore, Lisa Zickefoose, 44, took the gamble of the State on a program to transform the origins of science teachers.
So far, she thought he did a good bet.
”I fell in love with her,’’said Zickefoose, whose daily work is as a financial administrator at the University of Akron. Worked in a laboratory at an enterprise environment.
”I began to see changes in students in the three weeks of teaching students”, he said. ”What could be done with a semester or a year?”
Zickefoose, a resident of Kent, said one of the main advantages of this program is still provisional teaching certificate – the entry level license for teaching – in about a year.
The program is also free. (Cost would have been a problem for Zickefoose, anyway, as an employee of the AU, who have not paid taxes.)
The restoration of adult workers, the program offers courses online, evening and weekend.
Students who complete the program receive 24 credit hours – a dozen less than a master’s degree in education.
Zickefoose was one of 22 participants who began the training of science teachers from the UA in August. Only 15 were still in the program during the school year ended in June.
It is a”very intense’’said Tim Sisson, coordinator of the science program of teacher education at UA.
Sisson said no wonder that the dropout rate.
Some decide”who just want to concentrate on their careers and their families. It is a moment of tension.”
The state program began in 2006 as part of the meat of the curriculum and graduation requirements from high school.
Hundreds of candidates in science, mathematics and foreign language classes 7-12 teachers participated by attending one year in the various programs of public universities in Ohio. AU has proposed the program in two areas: science and foreign languages.
The’’science was an area of high demand,”Sisson said, grateful that the candidates this year could have more difficulty landing in the middle of teaching the weak economy.
Zickefoose did not enter the teaching labor market immediately, even if she volunteers with the Early College High School Program on the campus of the UA.
It is unclear whether the state – facing a budget crisis – to continue the programs.
Which refers to Sisson.
”They are very passionate about science, about the resolution of problems and you want to share,”Sisson said. ”This can be very motivating for students.”
Candace Bates earned a degree in biology and coordination of education programs in the Akron Zoo, before deciding his vocation was teaching science in the classroom.
”I knew I had a very good teacher,’’said Bates. In addition, she wanted a career with the mesh on the lists of their two young children.
The free education offered by the AU with the program helped to decide to take the leap.
The 34-year resident of Akron received its provisional license two years ago and is now a science teacher at Akron Archbishop Hoban High School.
Their students, “said Bates was inspired by his experience, it refers to science courses.
It is”to realize that the connection is the future of someone’s career”, he said,”that the science of learning is not just words in a book. It is the action. Does the observation and put things together to find the best answer.”
This spring, students design their zoo exhibits, models of design.
”They had to learn about veterinary care, animal safety, security, which is good for animal feed. . . and how to share this information with the public.”
Ed Savitski, 41, holds a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and received his degree in education through the UA a year ago, said that free education was a great encouragement.
”I was really contemplating between education and other career options,’’said a resident of Akron.
Savitski was a researcher before becoming a father at home, caring for three young children. His wife is a doctor.
When he decided to return to work, he said,”I wanted to find a career to the value and effect.”
Earlier this month, which completed its first year of school mathematics and science school of St. Augustine in Barberton.
”Part of the deal was health education and religion,’’said Savitski, who is Catholic.
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