TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR OWN CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Design your UGA curriculum

• UGA English courses that include a pedagogical component
• Writing-intensive courses and writing services
• Collaborations to Improve Teacher Education (CITE)
  

Advising

• Help for advisors
• Advising help for English or English education students
• English language education advising sheet
• Franklin College's Office of Academic Advising

Choose your extra-curricular activities

• Early Experiences: By the end of your 5th year you should have a minimum of 100 hours working with children and/or families prior to your supervised clinical teaching experience. These hours should include encounters with a range of cultures, communities, businesses and schools. This list of community organizations will help you identify and contact organizations willing to work with you as you accumulate your early experiences. It is up to you to make these experiences meaningful, to choose them according to your own interests and deficiencies rather than at random. Click here for more information on Early Experience Opportunities in Local High Schools for Spring 2004.
• UGA reading groups
• Recommended readings
• UGA organizations you should know
• Local and campus activities at UGA you should be aware of
• Mentoring program for new Education and English majors and minors
• Recruitment

Join the professional community of Language Arts teachers

• Professional organizations . . . what they do and how to join them.
• Standards: National, state and University of Georgia teaching standards
• Resources to help you meet the standards. . . national, state, and your own!
• The Georgia Department of Education