{"id":3884,"date":"2022-04-26T21:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T21:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2025-02-06T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:15:52","slug":"wilmus-year-long-residency-making-students-into-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/26\/wilmus-year-long-residency-making-students-into-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"WilmU\u2019s Year-Long Residency: Making Students Into Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column3884_81994b-3d > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column3884_81994b-3d > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column3884_81994b-3d > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column3884_81994b-3d > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column3884_81994b-3d > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column3884_81994b-3d > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column3884_81994b-3d > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column3884_81994b-3d{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column3884_81994b-3d > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column3884_81994b-3d > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column3884_81994b-3d dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p>It\u2019s been about a year since&nbsp;Abbey DeJuliis&nbsp;earned her Bachelor of Science in Middle Level Education (Grades 6\u20138), and she\u2019s currently winding up her first-year teaching seventh grade English at Stanton Middle School in Wilmington. But it\u2019s not the first year she\u2019s spent in front of a classroom, and according to DeJuliis \u2014 a graduate of WilmU\u2019s Year-Long Residency student teaching program \u2014 that\u2019s made all the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany of the teachers at Stanton have told me that they would have never known it was my first year,\u201d she says. \u201cThe residency was incredibly challenging in many ways, but I honestly could not have been more prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Year-Long Residency program, pioneered at WilmU\u2019s College of Education, has revolutionized teacher preparation. It offers bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree students the option of co-teaching alongside a mentor teacher in select partner schools throughout Delaware for an entire school year as an alternative to the traditional 80-day student-teaching model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Managing the responsibilities of a full-time teaching job while also completing the college coursework embedded into the residency isn\u2019t easy. More than a few year-long student-teachers have discovered just how physically exhausting the job is. Plus, over the past two years, COVID-19 has required every teacher to adopt a whole new set of skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat difficulty did breed success overall,\u201d says DeJuliis. She\u2019d learned the benefit of practical, hands-on experience in her previous career as a hairstylist, and the year she taught eighth-grade social studies at A.I. DuPont Middle School in Wilmington with mentor teacher&nbsp;Brian Elliott&nbsp;enabled unparalleled opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are things, like special education practices and progress reporting, that are not learned as a student in a classroom,\u201d she says. \u201cYou have to be doing them as a teacher in a classroom in order to learn them. You can\u2019t learn those things from a book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Year-Long Residency helped her gain those advantages, and more. \u201cI have my systems, I have my teaching style, and I have my discipline style already established,\u201d says DeJuliis. \u201cI understand the population and the expectations of me as a teacher in Red Clay Consolidated School District. I could not be more thankful for the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WilmU Assistant Professor&nbsp;Tyler Wells, who oversees the Year-Long Residency, sees incomparable value in the program. \u201cThe fact that Year-Long Residents are experiencing success from day one of their careers as teachers shows that the College of Education\u2019s teacher preparation programs are preparing&nbsp;students well for the realities of teaching in today\u2019s public schools,\u201d he says. \u201cBut the key to success is the students. 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