Jacksonville State University - Mimosa Yearbook (Jacksonville, AL)

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T LC Builds Experience At JSU, T LC means more than tender, loving care.” The Tea-ching Learning center gives preservice teachers an oportunity to build experience, gives school-age children free tutoring to enhance their academic skills and promotes goodwill between JSU and the community. The Alabama State Department of Education requires all education majors to complete ten practicum hours for each three-credit-hour education course. Because of this, each preservice teacher attains a degree of practical experience before Ns or her internship semester. The T LC allows education students to tutor children in grades 1-12. According to Dr. line. many of the pre-service teachers at first resent the extra time required by the practicum. They also suffer anxiety as to how to make the best use of the allotted time. They write lesson plans for each session, and if the track they decide to take doesn't work, they begin again. There is also the child's lack of motivation to deal with. How to inspire the child and how to involve him are ever-present problems. This is real-life work frustration and it makes the experience valuable By the time the tutoring sessions are over, the pre-service teacher obtains a real sense of achievement and confidence. The community values tNs service. Many parents bring their children from as far away as Talladega and Heflin twice weekly to be tutored. Both tutors and pupils learn to use the rnicro-cornputer and many other teaching learning tods. This year, the T LC contacted over 21 agencies in search of funding. JSU stepped in and is giving a needed helping hand. —Janette Chambers— Lori Richardson, a senior from Rome, Georgia, uses the System 80 computer system in the T LC to help tutor her student. Teachers Rachel Yarbrough and Kath-rine Kirby help two second graders with their math skills by playing sparky bingo.

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teaching learning CENTER 4 Beverly Anderson, o sophomore from Rome, Georgia, uses a computer to help a young student learn mathematics skills. 28 CAMPUS LIFE

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HAUNTED FOREST Watch out —Beware! The return of fall not only brings back the work of classes and studying, but also the fun of parties and free time. It is a time of seeing friends one has not seen for a while, and also of creating new fun times with new friends to be remembered with pleasure. One of the times we can look back upon with fond memories is Halloween. Remember those good times? Going trick-or-treat-ing dressed up as a favorite comic book character or a ghost or witch was really something we looked Jacksonville's own version of the chain-saw maniac could be found hiding in the Haunted Forest at Halloween time. Even Jack the Ripper and his victims were hidden away in the forest waiting to shock many of the visitors who came by.