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“I feel like
I was very prepared for teaching because I had wonderful
student-teaching experiences. I appreciate how we were
required to be in schools starting our second year of
college. We were continuously immersed.” |
Bethany Brown
teaches Spanish to kindergarten through eighth graders at St.
Joseph St. Elizabeth School in Fort Wayne, Ind. All of her
classes include students with varying exposure to
Spanish, and
that requires Bethany to do a balancing act.
“I have been diligently trying to come up with curriculum for
the beginner students, and the advanced students,” says the 2007
alumna. “I have a class with a couple students who don’t even
know what the word ‘the’ is in Spanish, and then I have students
who can understand a great deal of Spanish.”
In addition to her full-time position, Bethany volunteers two
nights a week teaching English as a Second Language classes for
adults.
She appreciates the practical experience she received both at
Huntington and abroad.
“I think those four months were the best in my life,” Bethany
says of her semester in Seville, Spain. “I gained confidence in
my Spanish ability, learned leadership skills and met many
wonderful people.”
“My Huntington University education has helped me in many ways,”
she says. “I feel like I was very prepared for teaching because
I had wonderful student-teaching experiences. I appreciate how
we were required to be in schools starting our second year of
college. We were continuously immersed.”
Bethany says she valued her professors reinforcing faith as a
foundation for learning.
“They shared new insights in Scripture where Jesus was a teacher
and ways He taught and really challenged us as educators to
follow Jesus’ example.”
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