Outreach: Blending science and Spanish
“ESCI 4420: Science for Elementary Education” brings preservice teachers in the Mary Frances Early College of Education to science classrooms in a Clarke County elementary school.
First taught in the spring 2024 semester, the course provides both teaching experience for preservice teachers in the College and an exchange of teaching strategies with classroom teachers in Clarke County School District (CCSD). Taught on-site at Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School, a dual language immersion school in the district, students also gain experience teaching in a Spanish-language classroom.
“It’s really an interesting idea that there could be this two-way exchange, that the teachers can actually learn from the students, the students can learn from the teachers, and we can learn from the community,” said Emily Adah Miller, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education who teaches the course.