Anthony Alves

Review of CSU Fresno Academic Innovation...

First, I am only giving two stars because I had a ...

First, I am only giving two stars because I had a decent undergraduate experience at this university.
My main review is for the Single Subject Credential Program at Fresno State. This program is extremely terrible and will honestly not prepare you to become a teacher and enter a classroom for the first time. If you are lucky enough to secure an internship by the deadline, then you may have an ok experience, but do not go down the student-teaching route. The mentor teacher that I was assigned to was quite inappropriate with his students and wasn't an effective teacher. Also, he taught me absolutely nothing about how to be a teacher and I basically wasted my time everyday for nothing with him. The only thing I gained through that experience with him was his bad teaching habits and how to be a future incompetent teacher. It is unbelievable how he is still a teacher, even though he has been teaching at a variety of schools in only ten years of teaching. The Credential program doesn't pre-screen the teachers they assign to you and will assign you to any teacher that wants a student-teacher.
The main point I am trying to convey here is that if you are looking to become a teacher and earn your credential, then you deserve a better teacher preparation program than the one offered through Fresno State. There are much more affordable options out there and they are much better than this worthless program.
If you are reading this, don't take me word for it or my review at face value, bu talk around to people in the community and those that have gone through this program themselves to prove my point.
Thank you,
Anthony Alves