Ansonia High Schoolers Teach At Mead, Prendergast

Nineteen Ansonia High School students became teachers for a day last month.

Run through the high school’s Junior Achievement program, the event, part of a program called JA in a Day,” saw the high schoolers take over the nine fourth-grade classrooms at Mead and Prendergast schools.

The students taught a curriculum called Our Region,” which is designed to provide practical information about natural, human, and capital resources found in regions and used by businesses to produce goods and services.

Normally, the curriculum is taught by a volunteer community member over the course of five weeks, but the high school students taught all five lessons in a single day.

Sara Crooks, who teaches business classes at the high school and oversees the Junior Achievement program there, said she had been hoping to arrange the event since she started teaching in Ansonia six years ago.

The event was better than I expected; my students did an amazing job teaching the fourth graders,” Crooks said.

Most of the students who took part are in Crooks’ accounting class, but a few other students volunteered to teach that day.

She said the program went so well, she’s planning a bigger and better” for next year.

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