“Okay, we’re going to get our workbooks out now so you can leave your books open ‘cause you may need to go back and process some of the information you just read.”
Screen switches to full color. Students face the camera and say in unison, “We’re not that kind of school! Petit Park rocks!”
Tara Kingsley, Assistant Professor, School of Education, speaks to the camera: “Petit Park is a one-to-one technology academy school so therefore all students at that elementary school either have a notebook for kindergarten, first, second grade and
As Tara Kingsley and the narrator continue speaking, various teachers are shown interacting and working with students in the classroom setting at Pettit Park.
Words appear on the screen and are read by the narrator: “Not only do IU Kokomo’s pre-service students work with Pettit Park’s students and new technology, they are also immersed from the start of their education in local schools.”
Tara Kingsley: “Students will leave the pre-service preparation program having approximately 200 hours of field exposure and field work before they even student teach. So it’s definitely an advantage for IU Kokomo that we place our students in the field and we place them in the field a lot.”
Ashley Spraker, Elementary Education, speaks to the camera and is shown working with students: “We work with students one-on-one, we work with them in small groups, we get to do assessments with them and just things that normal teachers get to do.”
The narrator reads the words on the screen: “And what do the students think of pre-service teachers?”
Paul Dorisse, Pettit Park Elementary, IU Kokomo Alumnus is shown speaking to the camera from his classroom: “They love it. They absolutely love it. They look forward to Tuesday every week, wondering when they’re going to be coming in. ‘Can I be with this person today? Can I be with this person today?’ It’s a constant struggle to let them share because they all want to be a part of that.”
As Paul Dorisse speaks, more scenes are shown of IU Kokomo pre-service teachers working with students in the classroom.
Kaden Stevenson, 5th Grade, and Sadie Walls, 5th Grade, speak to the camera at the same time: “’Cause they help us! Yeah, that! Because they help us! They read with us and they’re really nice. And they help us bring up our reading grade.”
Donte Brown, 5th Grade, speaks to the camera: “Yeah, they help us. They help all of us out a lot with our math and history and stuff.”
Erin Jones, 5th Grade, speaks to the camera: “They help us with adding and subtracting fractions because, like, I didn’t really understand it and Miss Jewell, she helped me understand it better.”
Tyler Keck, Elementary Education, speaks to the camera and is shown working with a student: They’re so much more different than the book, what the book says they’ll tell you what they’re gonna be, how they’re gonna be. But we are here right now; this is
Casey Hendricks, Pettit Park Elementary, IU Kokomo
Allyson Jewell, Elementary Education, speaks to the camera: “Real-life application, I think, is the key. Here at IU Kokomo, they want you to have that experience with students and being in different school systems with different grade levels, it will prepare you.”
A small group of students with laptops look and wave at the camera and say, “At Pettit Park Elementary, we love IU Kokomo! Bye!”
The words, “For more information on the School of Education at Indiana University Kokomo, please visit: School of Education, Special thanks to Pettit Park Elementary, Produced by the Office of Media and Marketing Indiana University Kokomo, IU Kokomo, Edited by Mike Glassburn, Music by: “Something Elated” by Broke for Free (http://brokeforfree.com/) ”
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