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The Journaling Jackets and The Tiger Cubs celebrate. |
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Kerra Lundgren |
11/30/12
Ten Randolph-Macon College
education students recently participated in a course, Education 102: REAL Experiences, designed to examine the writing process through a cooperative opportunity designed by Ms. Lisa Talley, reading specialist at Henry Clay Elementary School, and R-MC Education Professor Leslie Roberson.
Utilizing correspondence journals that traveled back and forth between Mabry House (home of the Education Department) and Henry Clay Elementary School, the R-MC students, the Journaling Jackets, corresponded weekly with Ms. Cory Cox’s second-grade students. Cox is a 2003 Randolph-Macon College graduate.
Cox and Talley both agree that the journals were a powerful way to promote discussion and writing. Among the entries that the second-graders (known as The Tiger Cubs) recorded were “I really don’t want writing to you to end but it has to” and “I want to go to Randolph-Macon when I grow up!”
Education 102: REAL Experiences is designed for education minors and all R-MC students who are interested in local community service opportunities where they can really make a difference in the lives of children.
“The R-MC Journaling Jackets learned how the writing process develops with real students,” says Roberson. “They had an opportunity to model and teach what good writers do and—very important—they developed meaningful relationships with their second graders.”
The Education MinorR-MC has a strong tradition of preparing educators, and the education minor offers students a strong theoretical and practical introduction to teaching at the pre-K, elementary, middle and secondary-school levels, and in music education. Students completing an education minor fulfill all requirements necessary for pursuing teacher licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia.