>> Violence has an elementary education degree and you do a junior internship
and then you move into a senior internship.
And in your senior year you'll do a half-day internship, typically, and then you'll follow it
up with a full day internship, and it's really important to get the right internship placement,
so that the supervising teacher that you work with can really help develop you as a teacher.
It's really important when you're doing your student teaching internship
that you make connections with a lot of people on your school campus, because if you're looking
for a job after your internship you want to be able to turn those relationships
into a good lead for a position on a school campus,
and the more people you form relationships with the easier it will be for you to get in contact
with someone that's looking to hire you.
I would suggest talking to your professors, because they'll know which schools
in the area have special needs programs, so that you could go in volunteer.
And you'll want to check with the specific school with the rules about volunteering.
A lot of them need you to sign up, and so I would definitely recommend signing up as soon
as you can so that you can start volunteering with any of the schools in the area.
To be a successful educator you have to be pretty well versed in technology.
We use a lot of technology on our campus.
We have laptops and iPads, and the students now are definitely looking
for that technology piece.
And also you have to be really good at working with parents and communicating with them
in a lot of different forums, email and phone.
Parents are always looking for feedback about their students and we definitely want to give
that to them so that they no know how to help at home as well.