Nevaeh Gomez on Thursday led kindergarten students through a literacy lesson, asking then to use their fingers to draw letters in the air as they made letter sounds before helping them write the letters on individual whiteboards.
Grace Wardle, 18, shared a colorful “wheel” she designed for young children to share their feelings.
“When they’re feeling something, I’ll be like ‘Get out your wheel, show me what you’re feeling and then what you need for that,’” she said.
Welcome to “Introduction to Early Childhood Education” it’s not your typical college-level high school class.
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High school student Grace Wardle, who is taking part in the Pathways to Teach program offered by the St. Vrain Valley School District, poses for a portrait outside Mountain View Elementary in Longmont on November 12, 2020.
Howenstein, an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Denver, gave feedback on the projects and encouraged the students to provide feedback to presenters, telling them school teachers don’t work in a vacuum.