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Teaching students take apprenticeships
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Posted on Jan 12 1999
Andrew Borja stepped into the classroom yesterday and ceased being a teaching student — he got a taste of what’s it like to be the professional he wants to be.
On the first day of his teaching assistantship, a requirement to become a teacher, Borja helped sixth-graders at San Vicente Elementary School with using a computer and reviewed their assignments.
“It’s really fun and interesting. It brings back a lot of memories,” Borja said.
Elsewhere, 40 other students under the Teacher Academy Program of the Marianas High School perform similar tasks.
They were required to undergo that sort of apprenticeship for three weeks. That would earn them $5 an hour.
The Public School System pays both their salary and college tuition fees out of a federal grant, according to Federal Program Coordinator Tim Thornburgh.
They are expected back at MHS when classes resume in February and will continue to attend NMC, where they will earn their degree in education.
At the end of the day as a real educator in a real classroom, Borja’s resolve to be a teacher has grown stronger, a conviction that may have been fed by the well-behaved attitude shown toward him by students.
