Teaching Colleagues and Aspiring Teachers Look to MPI

This is an especially busy semester at the elementary with aspiring college students majoring in education spending some time in our teachers' classrooms. For the past two years, students in the University of Hawaii's teacher education program have worked with their mentor teachers (our elementary faculty). Each semester of three semesters we have a new cohort of teaching candidates. In the fourth semester, another cohort settles into new roles as student teachers doing precisely what their title suggests -- students actually teaching classes over a period of time, always under the guidance of the mentor teacher and a university faculty supervisor. This spring we welcome eight University of Hawaii teacher candidates who are in our classes all day every Monday and Tuesday. We also have two UH student teachers who hope to receive their teacher certifications and teaching degrees in May. Another classroom teacher is mentoring a student teacher from the University of Reno, Nevada. Even the preschool faculty will have their share of teacher candidates from UH West O`ahu College this semester.

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