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Camas students, teachers describe hands-on Teaching Academy and preschool internship pathway
Summary
Students and staff presented the Camas High School Teaching Academy, Child Development A/B classes and Papermaker Preschool internships at the May 12 district workshop, highlighting college credit, STAR certification, and expanded internship placements.
Students and staff from Camas High School’s Teaching Academy and child development pathway described how classwork and on-site preschool internships give high‑schoolers early teaching experience and college credit at a May 12 Camas School District workshop.
Student speakers said the sequence — Child Development A and B, Papermaker Preschool internships and the Teaching Academy — combines classroom study with sustained time in a licensed preschool and placements in K–12 classrooms. “I was also able to leave that classroom in June with 12 college credits,” Shelby Baldwin, a junior at Camas High School and a Running Start student, told the board. “As a Running Start student, I am now over halfway towards earning my associate’s degree as a junior because of this class.”
Board members and administrators who attended described the program as a long‑running district pathway that prepares students both for careers in education and for parenting. “It’s really important to look at our future teachers, our future leaders,” a board…
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