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Helene Schlesinger Clip 4: Teaching Career

Collection: This recording is part of the Helene and Stanley Schlesinger Oral History and is available in digital audio.
Date: Time Period: 1920-2001; 2011-02-16; Interview recorded: February 16, 2011 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 and Hindenburg software. Dimension: Total running time: 0:01:46
Creator: Helene and Stanley Schlesinger interviewed by Tess Hartman Identifier: aql:16140 schlesinger_helene_clip4

Description: Helene Schlesinger describes going back to graduate school at Queens College in 1966, and then began her teaching career in 1971. She taught reading, and then taught 5th and 6th grade. Then she taught Special Education for 10 years. She got her second masters degree in Special Education at Adelphi. When Special Ed classes where going to be eliminated, her principal asked her to stay, and she taught 3rd grade for the rest of her career.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:16086

Creator : Helene and Stanley Schlesinger interviewed by Tess Hartman

Date : Time Period: 1920-2001; 2011-02-16; Interview recorded: February 16, 2011

Summary/Description : Helene Schlesinger describes going back to graduate school at Queens College in 1966, and then began her teaching career in 1971. She taught reading, and then taught 5th and 6th grade. Then she taught Special Education for 10 years. She got her second masters degree in Special Education at Adelphi. When Special Ed classes where going to be eliminated, her principal asked her to stay, and she taught 3rd grade for the rest of her career.

Subject : Teachers; Universities and colleges; Education; Special education; Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact qc.archives@qc.cuny.edu for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Queens College Flushing (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 and Hindenburg software.; Total running time: 0:01:46

Identifier : aql:16140 schlesinger_helene_clip4

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Teachers; Universities and colleges; Education; Special education; Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

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This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact qc.archives@qc.cuny.edu for research and reproduction requests.


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