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The College of New Jersey Magazine
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teacher is about creating an
environment where students can
grow and develop. I wasn't a great
student early on. In eighth grade, a
teacher told me I wouldn't make it
in a higher-level history class.
Amaly ElMenshawy: Being a
teacher is not some cakewalk of
glory where we fix every student's
life. That's how it is in the movies —
the teacher as the all-knowing savior
of the classroom.
Michelle Parkhurst: Teaching is
not really like that.
ElMenshawy: That kind of story
lessens the power the student has in
the situation. Being an effective
Getting schooled
Two senior education majors and close friends dish
on what the lead-up to graduation feels like.
By Amaly ElMenshawy and Michelle Parkhurst, as told to Kara Pothier
ElMenshawy and Parkhurst
are student teaching this year
at different schools.
2020
