AUBURN - Teacher Stephanie Roach had no idea what the Cayuga-Onondaga Teacher Center offered until a year and a half ago when she was looking for books to bring back to her classroom.
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At the Cayuga-Onondaga Teacher Center's open house on Wednesday, Genesee Elementary School second-grade teacher Seth Kennedy shows his student teacher, Kristen Hultz, a button maker and other supplies available to teachers.
At the Cayuga-Onondaga Teacher Center's open house on Wednesday, Genesee Elementary School second-grade teacher Seth Kennedy shows his student teacher, Kristen Hultz, a button maker and other supplies available to teachers.
“I didn't realize the teacher center had books you can take out and the laminating machine,” the 32-year-old teacher at the Cayuga-Onondaga Board of Cooperative Educational Services said.
Roach, a building ambassador to the teacher center, attended the center's third annual open house Wednesday for teachers and their mentors as a way to introduce new teachers - teachers new to teaching as well as teachers new to the area - with the myriad resources the teacher center offers.
The teacher center provides professional development, literature on education and related topics, courses on topics relevant to education, computer and technology training, arts and crafts machines to create posters and classroom visual aids, among other resources.
The Cayuga-Onondaga Teacher Center services teachers in the Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES, its nine component schools as well as area private and parochial schools. There are more than 120 centers statewide.
Center Director Victoria Shepardson said the first three years of a teacher's career is typically the most intense, and the center tries to ease that by giving teachers easy access to resources that will help them inside the classroom and professionally.
“(The open house) is just to let new teachers know there is a teacher center in their area and they are entitled to use it and its resources,” she said.
Sarah Ross and Becky Adam are new teachers in the Jordan-Elbridge Central School District, and came to the center for the first time Wednesday to see what it offers.
Ross, who teaches second grade, said what piqued her interest the most was the center's collection of die-cuts she could use to decorate her classroom.
“I use them all the time at school,” she said. She said she intends to come back during the school year and use them for her classroom.
Adam, a new kindergarten teacher, said she was astonished at the center's collection of books.
“It's nice to know that you can come in and get some books and use the resources,” she said.
Roach said that's what makes the teacher center unique.
“I've never worked at a place that had something like the teacher center, so it's amazing,” Roach said. “I think the teachers in the area are very lucky to have a resource like this.”
Roach, a building ambassador to the teacher center, attended the center's third annual open house Wednesday for teachers and their mentors as a way to introduce new teachers - teachers new to teaching as well as teachers new to the area - with the myriad resources the teacher center offers.
The teacher center provides professional development, literature on education and related topics, courses on topics relevant to education, computer and technology training, arts and crafts machines to create posters and classroom visual aids, among other resources.
The Cayuga-Onondaga Teacher Center services teachers in the Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES, its nine component schools as well as area private and parochial schools. There are more than 120 centers statewide.
Center Director Victoria Shepardson said the first three years of a teacher's career is typically the most intense, and the center tries to ease that by giving teachers easy access to resources that will help them inside the classroom and professionally.
“(The open house) is just to let new teachers know there is a teacher center in their area and they are entitled to use it and its resources,” she said.
Sarah Ross and Becky Adam are new teachers in the Jordan-Elbridge Central School District, and came to the center for the first time Wednesday to see what it offers.
Ross, who teaches second grade, said what piqued her interest the most was the center's collection of die-cuts she could use to decorate her classroom.
“I use them all the time at school,” she said. She said she intends to come back during the school year and use them for her classroom.
Adam, a new kindergarten teacher, said she was astonished at the center's collection of books.
“It's nice to know that you can come in and get some books and use the resources,” she said.
Roach said that's what makes the teacher center unique.
“I've never worked at a place that had something like the teacher center, so it's amazing,” Roach said. “I think the teachers in the area are very lucky to have a resource like this.”
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