fellow teachers to bring in unwanted magazines or check with your media specialist about throwaways. Another
possibility includes securing access to the internet so students can print e-articles.
Print material is necessary for creating collages and also useful for locating articles about current education-related
events. Also, borrow or bring several educational journals (e.g., Teacher, etc.) for your students to look through,
and challenge them to work together to develop and produce a ProTeam Journal.
Student Teaching Activities
Teachers will use a portion of their ProTeam class time to place students in teaching situations. Given the volume
of curriculum activities, this placement should probably be limited to a few days - no more than five. We would
encourage teachers and schools to search for opportunities for ProTeam participants to take part in teaching
activities outside of the time set aside for the course itself. Teachers can look for ways to involve students in
tutoring and teacher assisting whenever the school schedule might allow it.
Ideas about Student Teaching Activities: Here are a few ideas we've developed. Your own ideas, which will
grow out of your school's particular setting, scheduling, traditions, etc., are equally valuable.
1.
ProTeam students and teachers can sponsor an after-school tutoring program for peers or younger
students. The program might be called “The Homework Club” or something similar.
2.
Teachers might coordinate plans with other staff members to allow ProTeam members to “teach” minilessons of ten minutes or so to lower grade students. This could include reading stories, reporting on
interesting social studies or science items (explaining a holiday, talking about dinosaurs or other strange
creatures popular among young students, helping the students write poems or raps, etc.)
3.
Teachers might arrange for each ProTeam class member to serve as a teaching assistant a Ё