Educators Rising is a program that gives high school students the chance to explore the world of education and discover what the requirements are and what it’s like to be a teacher.
Rebecca Burnfin is a world history teacher in the Public Services, and the adviser who can make it all possible.
“I like seeing kids fall in love with teaching, especially at a younger age because there are so many more opportunities, It’s very helpful for these kids to get the opportunities that they have so they can be stronger at helping kids at this age,” Burnfin said. And through Educators Rising, students get to experience what it’s like to work with children and be in the classroom setting.
“Also watching these same humans want to be teachers and get to things easier than I did, like being able to job explore and kind of fall in love with it now,” Burnfin said.
This program also allows students to job shadow and get to see if it’s something they would enjoy. Gabriella Delgado, Arts & Comm. junior, got the opportunity to shadow.
“For a couple days I shadowed the principle of Florence Wilson and I got to see what it was like to be an administrator and I really enjoyed it,” Delgado said.
But Delgado was not the only person that got this opportunity, Alondra Agluara, Public Service senior, said she got a job shadow.
“I shadowed a teacher that goes to different schools and I liked that because I got to explore other schools.” Agluara said.
Not only do kids job shadow, they get to go to other places to experience more. They get to go to Wichita state for a confrence.
“ So they attend two sessions, students run the sessions typically juniors and seniors, they get a tour of campus, they get to eat on campus and then they start competing. We have 10 competing from anywhere writing preschool books in English or Spanish, or juniors and seniors who have planned lessons and then they teach them,” Burnfin said. Doing these things can help train kids and get them prepared for the teaching world.
“I really enjoy it, I would recommend people to do it because if you genuinely put your effort into it, you can find out if you actually want to be a teacher in the future, because if you might not enjoy it, you might be leaning towards doing something else.” Agluara said.
