{"id":814,"date":"2011-12-01T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=814"},"modified":"2011-12-01T08:20:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:20:35","slug":"preparing-future-teachers-during-the-elementary-methods-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2011\/12\/01\/preparing-future-teachers-during-the-elementary-methods-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing future teachers during the Elementary Methods Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/soewashington201112.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-815\" title=\"soewashington201112\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/soewashington201112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cBefore anything else, preparation is the key to success.\u201d &#8212; Alexander Graham Bell<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>UW-Stevens Point has been preparing outstanding teachers since 1894, so it&#8217;s no surprise graduates from the UWSP School of Education are some of the most talented teachers the country.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the educational training includes the Elementary Methods Block, which is taken the semester prior to student teaching. EMB allows students an opportunity to spend seven weeks working full-time with a veteran teacher in an elementary school setting where the students apply the theories and methodology learned in their coursework to real-life classroom teaching.<\/p>\n<p>One of the partner schools, Washington Elementary School in Stevens Point, is home to numerous UWSP students each semester; we visited with three of them on Thursday, Dec. 1. UWSP student Kia Her (pictured above) worked with words in Mrs. Cheryl Behnke&#8217;s second-grade classroom, Kim Hooyman taught Mrs. Laurie Hansen&#8217;s sixth graders mixed numbers, and Marcus Kral read &#8220;Two Bad Ants&#8221; to third graders in Mrs. Jodi Tuskowski&#8217;s class.<\/p>\n<p>Watch as Marcus and Kim take the lead in their classrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBefore anything else, preparation is the key to success.\u201d &#8212; Alexander Graham Bell UW-Stevens Point has been preparing outstanding teachers since 1894, so it&#8217;s no surprise graduates from the UWSP School of Education are some of the most talented teachers the country. Part of the educational training includes the Elementary Methods Block, which is taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,12,19,20],"tags":[127,321,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}