Learning Through Doing: Service Learning in Teacher Education

All staff and students have pseudonyms.  3:55pm       I walk into Mrs. Smith's classroom; there is no one else inside the room. The woman from the small Foothills sign-in room comes to the door. She tells me that there is no English teacher here yet so I am in charge since I'm the only one. I tell her, from my inquiries two days ago, that Dr. Meyer said she would be here. The woman says okay and leaves the room. From my position at the table I'm sitting at, she stops another teacher in the hallway. The woman asks her if she is working Foothills this evening; the teacher replies that she is not but if they are short-staffed she would. They both head back down the hallway out of my sight and hearing.  4pm      Dr. Meyer comes in the room with Chromebooks and a rolling bag. She puts everything on the table she uses sits at. Two students come in the room and sit down at desktop computers. Dr. Meyer gets out her own laptop as another student...

All staff and students have pseudonyms  3:5 0pm           I walk into CCHS and sign in at the Foothills office. The woman inside asks me if I need to go to English and reminds me that the classroom I need to be in for English says Smith above the door. Before I leave she says that she doesn't know if Mr. Dodd, the instructor I worked with before, is here today. I thank her and walk to the first classroom down the hall on the left.           I walk into the math classroom, and the only person in there is Mrs. Smith, the math teacher during the regular school hours of CCHS. She is busy gathering papers, binders, and other items she wants to take home. We exchange hellos as I sit down at a table, the view in front of me the classroom.           A woman with a binder and a cup comes in the classroom. She is a Foothills teacher that I have not met yet. She says hello to Ms. Smith and sets her things at a des...