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Energizing teachers is key
Educator speaks to Hudson City School’s curriculum task force
By Andrew Amelinckx
Hudson-Catskill Newspapers
HUDSON — An education expert from the College of St. Rose in Albany shared her knowledge of teaching with the Hudson City School District’s Task Force on Student Academic Performance recently.
Patricia Price, the chair of the Education department at the College of St. Rose in Albany, has been a principal, an elementary science teacher and a K through 12 science director. She was also with the NYS Education Department 6 1/2 years.
“I can bring all perspectives to the table,” she said of her job at the “biggest department at St. Rose.”
The Clifton Park resident has been with the College of St. Rose for 11 years.
Bob Conte, a retired HCSD teacher, asked about what preparations teachers received at the college in regard to student behavior as well as dealing with parents.
“They look like deer in headlights,” he said of many young teachers when they first arrive in the district.
Price said there was a course in classroom management, but that much of the knowledge comes from “practical experience” teachers get in classrooms.
Price seems to approach teaching with a hands-on methodology.
“I try to teach them to become critical thinkers,” she said.
This, in turn, is passed down to the students they teach.
Price focuses on three areas with St. Rose students — teach, reflect, refine.
“We have high standards,” she said. “Tell them they can get there and they will.”
During her time with the NYS Education Department she wrote a $1 million grant for an “in-school” science training that included a video and written materials that demonstrated her approach to teaching.
The video was shot in New York’s East Harlem with a third grade class that was learning about electricity.
In the video one can see the methodology Price uses on the college level being utilized with the young students, with an emphasis on observation and communication, between both teacher and pupil as well as between students.
Peter Meyer, a HCSD board member who heads up the task force, asked Price afterwards what the “take away” was for them in regard to curriculum.
She said energizing the teachers was key.
“Teachers first have to make it real for themselves,” she responded “so they are able to translate it to the students.”
According to Price, St. Rose graduates 600 graduate and undergraduate students in education a year.
The education department encompasses a number of education areas, she said, including educational psychology, childhood education and communications sciences and disorders, which she called a “very rigorous program.”
Another area is special education, which she called “huge.”
Many of the college’s students work and go to school full-time.
There also a number of “change of career people” at the college, said Price, running the gamut from professionals who have run labs to stockbrokers.
“We have all kinds of people,” she said.
One of those people now teaches in the Hudson City School District.
Robin Smith, a Second grade teacher at John L. Edwards Elementary, is a former graduate assistant for Price. She attended the Wednesday night event at Hudson High School.
“You’re very lucky to have her,” Price said of Smith.
Smith said that St. Rose was a well rounded program with small class sizes and accessible teachers.
She student taught in Hudson and eventually came to teach here permanently.
To reach reporter Andrew Amelinckx call 518-828-1616, ext. 2267 or e-mail aamelinckx@registerstar.com
Patricia Price, the chair of the Education department at the College of St. Rose in Albany, has been a principal, an elementary science teacher and a K through 12 science director. She was also with the NYS Education Department 6 1/2 years.
“I can bring all perspectives to the table,” she said of her job at the “biggest department at St. Rose.”
The Clifton Park resident has been with the College of St. Rose for 11 years.
Bob Conte, a retired HCSD teacher, asked about what preparations teachers received at the college in regard to student behavior as well as dealing with parents.
“They look like deer in headlights,” he said of many young teachers when they first arrive in the district.
Price said there was a course in classroom management, but that much of the knowledge comes from “practical experience” teachers get in classrooms.
Price seems to approach teaching with a hands-on methodology.
“I try to teach them to become critical thinkers,” she said.
This, in turn, is passed down to the students they teach.
Price focuses on three areas with St. Rose students — teach, reflect, refine.
“We have high standards,” she said. “Tell them they can get there and they will.”
During her time with the NYS Education Department she wrote a $1 million grant for an “in-school” science training that included a video and written materials that demonstrated her approach to teaching.
The video was shot in New York’s East Harlem with a third grade class that was learning about electricity.
In the video one can see the methodology Price uses on the college level being utilized with the young students, with an emphasis on observation and communication, between both teacher and pupil as well as between students.
Peter Meyer, a HCSD board member who heads up the task force, asked Price afterwards what the “take away” was for them in regard to curriculum.
She said energizing the teachers was key.
“Teachers first have to make it real for themselves,” she responded “so they are able to translate it to the students.”
According to Price, St. Rose graduates 600 graduate and undergraduate students in education a year.
The education department encompasses a number of education areas, she said, including educational psychology, childhood education and communications sciences and disorders, which she called a “very rigorous program.”
Another area is special education, which she called “huge.”
Many of the college’s students work and go to school full-time.
There also a number of “change of career people” at the college, said Price, running the gamut from professionals who have run labs to stockbrokers.
“We have all kinds of people,” she said.
One of those people now teaches in the Hudson City School District.
Robin Smith, a Second grade teacher at John L. Edwards Elementary, is a former graduate assistant for Price. She attended the Wednesday night event at Hudson High School.
“You’re very lucky to have her,” Price said of Smith.
Smith said that St. Rose was a well rounded program with small class sizes and accessible teachers.
She student taught in Hudson and eventually came to teach here permanently.
To reach reporter Andrew Amelinckx call 518-828-1616, ext. 2267 or e-mail aamelinckx@registerstar.com
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