Counselor Kevin Fields wasn’t surprised that several dozen students quickly signed up for 苏厄德高中’s two newest dual-credit courses while registering for their 2023-24 classes. The school offers a smorgasbord of college-level courses — AP and dual-credit, taught through partnerships with area colleges and universities — and students take advantage of them in both preparing for college and gaining cost-effective college credit.
“她(艾琳·梅), 澳门威尼斯人网址 director of extended learning opportunities] knew Seward High has a number of students who want to take college courses in high school,菲尔兹说. "而且他们会做得很好.”
The new courses are the Foundations of Education and Introduction to Exceptional Learners. They’re two of five courses offered as part of Doane’s Educator Pipeline Collaborative (史诗) dual-credit pathway, which provide high school students with an opportunity to explore teaching as a future profession.
The school is one of 12 – and possibly more — Nebraska high schools that will offer new Doane的双学分课程 今年秋天. 苏厄德学院的学生, 雷蒙德中心高中, 子午线公立学校, 三县公立学校, 比阿特丽斯高中, 克里特岛高中, 诺里斯高中, 阿尔玛高中, 金缕梅中央, 雪松崇, 悉尼公立学校和瓦胡高中, 还有在家上学的学生, 能上网上课吗, on-ground with Doane faculty at the high school or on-ground with high school faculty hired as Doane adjuncts to teach courses.
Doane currently has three course pathways for schools — and students — to choose from: the 澳门威尼斯人网址的核心, which offers a variety of gen-ed courses; the 史诗 pathway and Exercise Science.
All five courses in the 史诗 pathway are also available at no cost to any student enrolled at 克里特岛高中, or at a high school served by Educational Service Units 5 and 6. 苏厄德公立学校在第六特别行动组. The tuition waiver is funded by an Educator Shortage Grant received from the Nebraska Department of Education.
Free tuition is one of the reasons 苏厄德高中 added two of the 史诗 courses to its fall options for juniors and seniors. 但这并不是唯一的原因.
“We’re just very excited to have the partnership with 澳门威尼斯人网址 and ESU 6 through the grant to be able to offer this to our students,”医生说。. Josh Fields, superintendent of Seward Public Schools. “With the shortage of educators across our state, 我们觉得我们需要做点什么, and this was a great way to address that shortage within our own building but also for kids to get excited about the power of teaching and just the importance of education across our state.”
Seeing 40 students sign up was encouraging — if even just half of those students go on to become educators, Dr. 菲尔兹说:“那太棒了.”
“One thing I’ve always noticed with our kids is that they’re very good students and they’ve been taught by very good teachers. So they know what that looks like, and they want to emulate it,” Kevin Fields said.
That’s exactly why senior Camden Baldessano registered for the Foundations course. He’ll join 21 other students in the fall semester to learn basic educational principles directly from Doane faculty, who will teach the course in-person at a Seward High classroom.
“我想成为一名美术老师, so I thought it would be a good step toward becoming that,巴尔代萨诺说. “Art teacher has always been stuck in my mind because I’ve had a lot of good art teachers. I just want to pass that down and teach a new generation of people about art.”
Along with the students enrolled in the Foundations of Education course in fall, 11 additional students are enrolled in the Exceptional Learners course for the spring semester.
Dalaney Anderson hopes to add her name to the course roster, too. She and teammate Coral Collins — both are seniors and play softball for the Seward Bluejays — already took one education class through Seward and immediately knew they wanted to take the Doane courses.
“My dad, he’s a teacher too, so I’ve always had a good role model,” Anderson said. He also attended Doane, she said, so it would be cool to start on the same path as him.
They both appreciated that a Doane faculty member would be teaching the courses at Seward, and that they’d be in a classroom full of students similarly motivated to go into education. And it’s a great head start on the courses they’ll take once in college.
“I like having it all year round, versus just one semester. 我夏天有几个月的假期, 然后我在大学里又跳回去了,柯林斯说, 两门课都报了.
