NARRATOR：

Listen to a conversation between two students.

MALE STUDENT：

How's it going, Mary?

Got your schedule all worked out for this semester?

FEMALE STUDENT：

It's coming together.

Actually, I just heard about my student-teaching assignment.

MALE STUDENT：

Teaching assignment? You're student teaching?

FEMALE STUDENT：

Yeah. You know, I'm majoring in education.

So one of the requirements is to teach for a semester in a classroom . . .

usually at the local school in town ...

we help teach the kids at the school one day a week.

I just got my class assignment.

MALE STUDENT：

Well, that's good.

FEMALE STUDENT：

Yeah,but I've got a scheduling problem . . .

MALE STUDENT：

Uh-oh.

FEMALE STUDENT：

The day I've been assigned to teach at the school in town will be the same day my Chinese history course meets here at the university.

MALE STUDENT：

Hmm. Well, could you wait to take the Chinese history course...

sign up for it another semester or something?

FEMALE STUDENT：

Yeah...but this one's taught by Dr. Zhang.

He's a visiting professor...

he'll only be here one semester...and he's supposed to be amazing.

I'm really interested in the class...since I might be visiting China.

MALE STUDENT：

Is there another option?

FEMALE STUDENT：

Yeah, actually.

The teaching assignment is on a day when I would be working with older kids...

teenagers...

but the school also needs a student teacher to work in a classroom with little kids, like 5 and 6 year olds...

and it's on a different day when I am free, so I could do it.

MALE STUDENT：

So you could change your teaching assignment to a different day?

FEMALE STUDENT：

Yeah...it's just that I really wanna teach older kids.

MALE STUDENT：

Oh.

FEMALE STUDENT：

I'm planning on teaching older kids when I graduate,

so it would be better experience for me, for my career.