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First-Ever Summer Program Teaches Students to Learn Urban Education Strategies


A group of MCC’s select students learned distinctive behaviors of children in a city school system and how to create effective lesson plans during the first-ever Urban Education Institute, last week at the Damon City Campus.

The one-week summer program helped about a dozen students gain a greater appreciation of and interest in a teaching position in the Rochester City School District. The institute was designed to give students an understanding of best practices as related to math, science and social studies, and of managing multiple learning styles in the classroom.

The program included panel discussions with experts from Rochester City School District, sessions on writing successful lesson plans in math, science, and social studies, and examination of national standards for education.

The institute helped these prospective teachers develop 12 lesson plans that they will be able to use during their student teaching and for their future classrooms that will address their students’ needs directly.

The institute was made possible through a internal Strategic Planning grant, initiated by DCC Academic Dean Barbara Connolly and is being implemented by the MCC Department of Education.



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Kristy Guerra
Public Affairs
07/16/2007