Tonganoxie High School junior Kizer Morando recently attended the Kansas Future Teachers Academy at Emporia State University. Sponsored by The Teachers College, this immersive five-day course has graduated more than 1,200 high school students since its inception in 1989. Selected students have the opportunity to learn in-depth about what being a teacher entails, including the challenges and rewards of teaching and what it takes to accomplish this professional goal.
Says Kizer, “At KFTA, I learned all about what it takes to be a teacher. I learned about how to engage students and getting to know them. My final project was all about engagement, but that’s not everything I learned about. I learned about how make to make projects and assignments fun and how to handle high school and middle school kids. I learned about inclusion in the classroom and accommodations.... Finally, I learned about the importance of teaching, and all of this reinforced my own idea of wanting to be a teacher.”
Well done, Kizer!