Extracurriculars for Future Education Students

If you want to become a teacher, you can use extra curricular activities to demonstrate your commitment and pick up some useful experience. And they do make a difference, especially when you apply for admission to a College of Education and face an interview panel. They also make a difference to the kinds of opportunities you can get when you are placed in a teaching internship, and your extra curricular interests may set you apart from other applicants for teaching positions when you are looking for your first job.
 
What kinds of things are useful? Anything is helpful, but activities that emphasize helping others in your community will stand out. Here are a few random examples we have seen:

• Volunteering to help seniors learn how to send email to their grandkids
• Helping teach swimming lessons and aquafit classes  at the local YWCA or YMCA
• Distributing bundles of food at the local food bank
• Working at a day care
• Helping adults learn to read
• Volunteering to help new immigrants get acquainted with your city
• Teaching Sunday School
• Assisting with school and community plays and concerts

In short, do things that broaden you and connect you to your community. Expand your interests. Try new things. A teacher who writes poetry, bakes killer cheescake, and loves ballet and Tai Quan Dao equally is just the kind of person our profession needs.

Richard A. Schwier, Educational Technology and Design, University of Saskatchewan, and 3M National Teaching Fellow.

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Kurayuuki wrote:	Sweet'1 Thank you! Say any more ideas for volunteering or job? Posted on Mar 02, 2013 at 02:38
Quatonomy wrote:	Some good ideas! I'll be sure to "google" some of these extracurricular activities. Posted on Aug 25, 2012 at 12:35

 

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