Originally published in TEACH Magazine, January/February 2016 Issue
By Meagan Gillmore
You’ve likely been a student-teacher. You’ll likely have a student-teacher too. But you’ve probably never been given training about how to host one well. Here’s some advice.
Susan McQuay had just delivered the best lesson of her first teaching placement. And then she wanted to quit. More than 30 years later, the kindergarten teacher in Waterloo, ON, admits she doesn’t recall every detail about the lesson. It involved playing with balls in the gym. She connected with her students, a Grade 2/3 split class in a low-income Toronto neighbourhood, and they were “eating out of [her] hand.”
Meagan Gillmore is a freelance writer in Toronto, ON.
