LA Students Go To Preschool

For the past week, students in the HeadStart Winterim have been helping out as classroom teachers for three to four year-olds through the National HeadStart Organization. Each day, the large group of students, along with the four Winterim leaders (Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Bates, Mr. Gagnon, and Mr. Woo) head out to nursery classroom located in schools in Lowell, MA and Lawrence, MA. While in the classrooms, each student operates as a solo teacher, with the help of a professional and an aide, to lead and teach a group of around twenty children both in the classroom and on the playground.

Each day, after helping in the classrooms, the HeadStart group meets for a discussion of what they saw during their day of assisting teachers in the classrooms and how that affected them. The students also then keep a daily journal in which they reflect on their experiences that day.