I attended a conference held by the New York City Department of Education. It was held to inform new members of the SVA (Substitute Vocational Assistant) program on their policies and procedures. The SVA program allows select High School graduates who are interested in pursuing a career in teaching a vocational subject; the opportunity to gain hands on experience and a nice salary. They place the members in a high school with a mentor to teach the vocational career they are knowledgeable in while earning 90% percent of a starting teacher’s salary and studying to become a full fledged license teacher. The conference was held in the New York City College of Technology (NYCT) and consisted of many different workshops. The one in which I will write about was said to be the most important of them all, because it covered all the necessary information on the program itself, what to expect and how to go about teaching a class
After the reading we were called to attention, by Ms. Harris, after she noticed that a lot of us were beginning to drift off. At this time she decided to split us up into groups and have us create a model lesson plan from a template that was issued in the handbook. After the allocated time that was given to create the lesson we were asked to volunteer one person from the group to present it – and so it persisted. When everyone was done, the two then went on to give a critique of each. They then went through the different parts of the template they gave us, and ways in which we can brainstorm ideas into effective lessons. The brainstorming an idea into a lesson was very similar to what we learned in class about brainstorming for a speech.
Lastly, Ms. Harris and Mr. Houser then went on to going over the rules, regulations and code of ethics that were mandated by the Dept. of Educations. They also then went over the
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