Outcome

Abstract

Once through with student teaching, diverse teacher candidates find it quite easy to join the profession. Schroth and Helfer explain how school districts hired these individuals, and indeed sought access to them even before the student teaching experience was completed. Because of the continuum of services offered by the REACH program, diverse teacher candidates see themselves as having a calling to assist and mentor children. Because of supports and structures, the REACH fellows were very strong teachers, even if they had been weak students when entering the program. This transformation resulted in jobs upon graduation, and filled their desire to make a difference, belong to something greater than themselves, and to have formed a learning community that assists them and others.

All the members of society have a direct interest in the manners of each of its individuals, because each one is a radiating point, the center of the circle which he fills with pleasure or annoyance, not only for those who voluntarily enter it, but for those, who, in the promiscuous movements of society, are caught within its circumference—Horace Mann, 1840