Educators to discuss the meaning of their work
Karin Dienst
Four educators will address the question, "What does it mean to be a teacher?," at a convocation Tuesday, Nov. 14, in the Frist Campus Center.
The event, sponsored by Princeton's Teacher Preparation Program, will run from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Multipurpose Room B.
The four panelists, all teachers at New Jersey schools, will be asked: "Why did you choose to teach?" and "What has prompted you to stay in teaching?" The audience then will be encouraged to join the discussion.
The panelists are: Lamont Fletcher of Johnson Park Elementary School in Princeton; Peter J. Horn of Westfield High School, who is a 1997 Princeton graduate; Elizabeth Marquez of North Brunswick High School; and Theodora Smiley-Lacey of Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Teaneck.
Approximately 50 students participating in the Teacher Preparation Program will attend, along with teachers and superintendents from 10 New Jersey school districts, many of whom are alumni of the program. Invitations have gone out to about 20 principals from the schools with which Teacher Preparation Program students work. Princeton faculty and administrators as well as other students considering teaching as a career also are encouraged to attend.
"It is appropriate for Princeton to offer the opportunity for all of us involved in education to come together to consider what it means to be a teacher," says John Webb, Teacher Preparation Program director. "It is a chance for us to have an evening devoted to teaching, and to bring our students together to hear why we are proud of our decision to become teachers and to remain teachers."
For more information, contact the Teacher Preparation Program at 258-3336.
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