SHS Future Educators of America
What is the
Future Educators of America Club? Phi Delta Kappa, an international
organization of educators and administrators, helped to
develop and sponsor a program which establishes FEA clubs
across the country. President: TBA
Vice President: TBA Secretary: TBA Treasurer: TBA Executive Officers: TBA Advisor:
Renée Miller Lapp CLUB ACTIVITIES: FUNDRAISER INFO: OTHER SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES: The
SHS FEA Club provides opportunities for students who are
interested the teaching profession and working with
children. SHS FEA Club members adopt pen pals from a local
school with whom they correspond throughout the year.
Speakers from local agencies, colleges and universities
provide encouragement and mentoring tips for club member's
use in their correspondences with their pen pal. Finding way
to support the faculty of SHS is a club goal, as is to
support children in our community. Club members are
encouraged to become Teaching Mentorship students, a SHS
program in which upperclassmen are placed at feeder schools
to experience the teaching profession and to further their
understanding of both teaching and children. The
TM Program allows 25 seniors and juniors to be placed in a
elementary or middle school in our district to work with a
cooperating teacher for the entire year. Each TM student
travels to their host school every other day for 90 minutes
and acts as an assistant to the regular classroom teacher,
learning the ins and outs of the education field. This
program is for a credit, which requires that the TM student
must produce reflective papers based on their experience and
have an evaluation completed by their cooperating teacher
each grading period.
Our
National Organization
For the past 8 years, FEA club members have adopted‚ a
student from Elkton Middle School and corresponded as pen pals with
them throughout the remainder of the year. The EMS students learn
more about high school as they learn to know the high school
students--our FEA Club members. This has been a popular activity
in the past, and we plan to continue this pen pal tradition with Ms.
Crotteau's 8th graders at EMS. FEA will host the EMS students at
SHS for a day in the spring as we have done in years past. We
look forward to meeting our new friends from EMS this year!
Each
year FEA raises money to award a scholarship to one lucky Blazer who
plans to pursue teaching as a career. At our last club meeting, Mr.
Sents kicked off our FEA Tupperware fundraiser to raise monies for this
year's FEA/Teaching Mentorship scholarship. Each club member is asked
to help by selling two items from the Tupperware fundraiser catalog.
All monies raised go towards the FEA scholarship of $600 for a SHS
future teacher as they pursue their secondary education. If you are
interested in donating towards this scholarship fund, or purchasing
Tupperware, please contact Mrs. Lapp or Mr. Sents at SHS.
Other exciting service opportunities provided for FEA members are
canned food drives for the food bank at Massanutten Presbyterian
Church, a book drive, in March, celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday at the
Read Across America celebration for children at Simon Mall, visiting a
local education department, attending an FEA Leadership conference at
Bridgewater College, and of course, our most entertaining event of all,
the Bowl For Kids Sake fundraiser to benefit the local Big Brothers and
Big Sisters programs.
