As many may know, Central’s staff and faculty are always encouraging students to live up to their full potential and find a passion for something. Beverly Hollingsworth, Teaching as a Professions teacher here at Central is doing just that, but going a tad further.

Teaching as a Profession or TAP,  is a class for students who want to pursue teaching as a career in the future. It helps the students that are in the course learn how to teach and guide other students. It also teaches them to be responsible and organized teachers, while also finding what grade level and subject is best suited for them to teach.

This project of teaching their classmates is very beneficial according to the students that were interviewed in TAP. What are some of the benefits? What skills and techniques will they learn? How long has this project been around?

All questions were answered by students taking the course and everyone seemed pleased with the class.

“This project will benefit us because in the long run we will have the great skill of being well prepared and organized teachers,” said Taya Crowder, a student taking TAP at Central.

“Some skills and techniques we are learning from our project are the different learning and teaching styles that all of us have, the different instructional strategies we can use, and how to always be one step ahead in the teaching game,” shared Amanda Ray, who is also currently taking TAP.

“This is the first time that I have done this project,” explained Kerri Sylvester, TAP student. “The results have been good so far because everyone has their own teaching style to use so everyone can benefit from the lessons taught in the class.”

This project and the Teaching as a Profession class in general, appears to be something all students who want to pursue the teaching profession need to look into when selecting classes for next school year. It has proven to be very beneficial and could potentially change the lives of future teachers in America.  If interested, speak to Mrs. Hollingsworth in room D-103!