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Tracy Robinson was losing them. The lesson for her fourth-grade class at Cincinnati's Vine Elementary School on this Friday afternoon was fractions, and as she stood at the front of the room with her textbook, explaining why 1/3 is larger than 1/4, she saw blank stares. No hands were raised. She drew shapes on the blackboard, shading in parts of them, but that didn't work either. The kids were wiggling in their seats. "I was getting so nervous," Robinson recalls. "I was feeling like, 'O.K., now what...
Robinson is the first in her family with a college degree, as are many teachers. She says she knew she wanted to be a teacher when she was in kindergarten. Like every other CITE intern, she is strongly encouraged to keep a journal of her year at Vine Elementary--whose students have the highest rate of poverty among the city's schools--to reflect upon her worries, her triumphs and her progress...
Often the lead teachers use the journals in their mentoring. Early in the school year, Karon Jacob, another intern at Vine, wrote, "We try to get parent participation by sending home the weekly behavior charts of the students to be signed. However, no parents have sent their child's back. Also, homework given to the children is never brought back." In her response, mentor Cheryl Hilen wrote, "Offer bonus points, an incentive, or special privilege for kids who bring them back. Make a big deal about...
...rigorous approach than most to "alternative certification," which is sometimes just "a fancy name for emergency licensing," says Karen Zumwalt, dean of Columbia University's Teachers College. CITE offers a two-year program for those who choose teaching as a second career. Carolyn Toney, a fifth-grade intern at Vine, is a former research scientist for Procter & Gamble. She decided to enroll in CITE after her two children graduated from college. Toney spent one year taking education classes and substitute teaching. Now, in her second year, she is teaching fifth-graders, with the help of Luebbe. "I'm working harder...
...hands-on approach worked that day in a fourth-grade class at Vine Elementary. The same method seems to be working in Cincinnati...