Day 4 School Visit

Today I visited a middle/senior high school.  The middle school is grades 7,8 and 9 and the high school grades 10-12.  This school specializes in the arts.  This is where students from this area may choose to come to prepare for national dance,ballet, and gymnastic competitions and even train for the olympics.  I even got to participate in a ballet lesson.  

This school is also know for its visual art program and  music.  Especially, opera singing and playing piano.  I asked the principal about how many hours each student will spend in their specific pathway program, they said a minimun of 2 hours per day up to four hours.  They also have a mock kindergarten classroom, where all 12th graders who want to be kindergarten teachers in their future will spend 2 hours of their day.  No little children will actually attend, however, they develop lesson plans,activities,as well as read and write children stories.  They must create an atmosphere as if it were their own classroom.. They spend time weekly, acting as the teacher and teaching their peers nursery ryhmes and vocabulary etc...