TCA Students on the Road

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Eloisa Garcia in News, Uncategorized

Eloisa Garcia

Chronicle Reporter

 

TCA students have a great advantage ahead of them this year. All freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors will be able to have a great learning experience through field trips throughout the course of the year.

This year’s field trips are full of hands- on activities and two career field trips for students who are interested in becoming teachers. The Lull Special Education Center (a center that handles severely disabled handicapped students), is one of the places that would be provided for students who are interesting in a teaching career. Before going to the the center, students would first have to create a lesson to later on teach at the center.

TCA also provides students interested in science and enjoy hands- on experiments to have the opportunity to visit the Sepulveda Wildlife Basin, where they will be taught an experiment which will later be taught by them.

“TCA is is a completely inclusive small learning committee,” agreed Kelly Bender, lead teacher of TCA. “The purpose of these field trips and experiences is to help our students see that they can make a difference in their own lives and in the world around them, which goes along the TCA motto: ‘creating a more humane society through lifelong teaching and advocacy.’”

Transportation and field trips are available to TCA students thanks to the support of Linked Learning and Hollywood High School, who have been supporting TCA since past years.

As students keep advancing into the next grade level, they are a step closer to college. For this purpose, Hollywood High provides TCA students with a learning experience at colleges.

Sophomores this year will be visiting Cal State Northridge and Pierce college to inform themselves more about college and start preparing for it. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors get one field trip per year, which only applies to field trips to colleges.

For this reason, each grade level will visit two colleges in one day- one community college and one four- year college. These field trips will help students understand how to transfer from a community college to a four year university.