"Michelle": A Case Study Relating to my Student Teaching Experience
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Lunquist, Tracy
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1991
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I spent my student teaching internship at the Chicago Public High
School for Metropolitan Studies, more popularly known as "Metro High."
The school is located in Chicago's "river north" area, a few blocks from
Michigan Avenue's "Magnificent Mile." Metro is not a typical public
school; in the 21 years of its existence the staff and administrators of Metro
have striven to create an unusualleaming atmosphere, utilizing the entire
city as their classroom. When Metro opened, it was located in the very
heart of Chicago's Loop business area. Since then the school has been
moved twice because of economic difficulties.
Students at Metro today can take such classes as "Walk-Write," a
class that involves keeping a journal while touring the city on foot several
times a week, and "Dunes English," a creative writing and ecology class
that spends one day a week at the Indiana Dunes. Other classes that
students take include Career Planning, Drug Education, and "This Old
House," a class that works to refurbish individual classrooms and improve
the school building. All Metro students are trained in basic skills as well as
more creative efforts, all with the goal of learning to think and act as
responsible individuals. Most Metro students plan to attend college.
Metro High School is currently led by principal Nina Robinson and
assistant principal Olindo "Lee" Alo. I taught under the supervision of
three different teachers, Elizabeth Conlon, Leo Gorenstein, and Judy Reed.
These teachers and administrators, and all the faculty and staff of Metro,
operate on a fIrst-name basis with their students. They find that students
prefer this to the more traditional addressing system, because it creates a
more cordial atmosphere and allows students and teachers to view each
other as "real people."
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