The College of Education
 

Sign up for the Chicago Urban Bus Trip

All teacher education majors have an opportunity to learn about urban education from first-hand experience. You will spend between 5-6 hours in one Chicago Public School to experience education in an urban setting. It could help you decide if you want to eventually teach in an urban setting. It will help you learn more of what it is like to work with children from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds. If you have little experience up to this point, it is an important opportunity for you to broaden your experience. We are not always picking the top schools because the purpose of the trip is to see urban education as it is not always what we hope it would be.

Who: All education majors on a first-come basis

When: Friday, October 21, 2011, 6:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m

Where: Look for the Peoria Charter Bus Line outside DeGarmo Hall

Trip details

  • The cost is $23.
  • Meet in the DeGarmo parking lot at 6:00 a.m. Look for the Peoria Charter Bus Line outside DeGarmo Hall.
  • Bring a non-perishable sack lunch and eat with the students in their cafeteria. You will get a tour of the school and spend a day in one classroom with one teacher and grade. 
  • Dress professionally (no jeans, T-shirts, or sweatshirts).
  • We will return between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. to the same location.

Earn clinical hours

Receive five clinical hours that will be applied to your diversity hours that are needed for graduation. They will not be in place of, but in addition to your required clinical hours.

Reserve your place today!

The buses will fill up quickly so you must sign up quickly. Once the buses are full, we will no longer accept other students. If you sign up for the trip and then decide not to go on the trip, there will be no refund of your money. In accepting you on the trip we are turning others away and we still have to pay for the bus whether the seat is taken or not.

  1. Registration is closed; the bus is full.
  2. Go to DeGarmo 222 and take a trip voucher from the envelope on the office door.
  3. Go to Student Accounts on Dry Grove Street (across Main Street, behind CTLT Center for Learning and Teaching which is next to Jimmy John's) with your filled out voucher and pay for the trip.
  4. Bring your paid voucher back to DeGarmo 232 ASAP and put it in the paid voucher box in the main C&I office. You must do this in order to confirm your seat on the bus.
  5. Arrive at Peoria Charter Bus Line outside DeGarmo Hall at 6:00 a.m. on Friday, October 21. You will then find out the school you have been assigned.

 

If you have any other questions regarding the trip, contact Marilyn Moore.