What are Blocks?

At the IU Indianapolis School of Education, the last four semester of the degree plan revolves around blocks. In Blocks I-III, students are pre-service teachers in intensive classes and field work to help prepare them for the Block IV, Student Teaching.

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At IUI, the focus is Urban Education and ensuring that the next generation of teachers will provide a culturally responsive, engaging, and innovative classroom to help mold the next generation.

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I want to be an educator because I believe it is what I was born to do. My mother is a special education teacher, so school has always been important to me. In middle and high school, I took odd jobs tutoring other people and helping my first, but my first job with a W-2 was as an ice skating instructor through the Parks and Rec department. Three days a week, I taught figure skating to ages 3-18, and I loved getting to be their teacher.; the toddler classes were my favorite.

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Besides my mom, I had two teachers who really pushed me into education. My eighth grade Spanish teacher and my tenth grade Spanish teacher. My eighth grade teacher was a true and needed resource to me as a middle schooler struggling to stay afloat, and my tenth grade teacher said that if I really enjoy teaching figure skating that much, I should give education a shot. These two people started me down the path of looking into teaching middle schoolers, and now we're here.