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Me and my first placement (Mason City High School) cooperating teacher, Deadra Stanton. A wonderful woman and wonderful experience!

Small-group reading

Explaining the assignment and homework.

Working on the writing portions or interactive portions of the project in class.

Having desks next to one another rather than across allowed for a more comfortable, approachable environment.

Students had fun with this activity!

This was my creative student, who used (and introduced me to) Smore to make a newsletter.

Kinesthetic learning

Balloons from my high schoolers!

PJ Day at Forest City Middle School!

Students talked and gathered quotations

At first the activity was a little awkward. Students got up and weren’t sure what to do, as I hadn’t given them a clear set of directions.

Honors 10, period 6!

Talking with a group, giving them some feedback and asking questions.

One-on-one reading

Decorating poems and poster boards!

Here we defined what friendship meant to us as a preview to our reading in House on Mango Street.

Integration of technology and teaching

Look how big it is! Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.

The tower of canned/boxed food items students created in their Dugout! All donated for the Food bank!

Taking turns writing on the board.

Long Night Against Procrastination at Waldorf College

I’ve even helped with math!

Room with colored, movable desks

Working together on projects

Working one-on-one with a student.

Enjoying some home-made ice cream

Me and my fellow student teachers at our post-grad dinner!

Hangin’ with the Writing Center Crew

I was able to join in on the discussion and give information, feedback, comments, and pose questions.

Our class [teachers] with our little boys! Bronson, age 10 on the left and Blake, age 7 on the right.

Taking turns mixing

Smiles 🙂 with eighth graders

Counting animal crackers

My focus for conferences was to appear confident, knowledgeable about each student, and give excellent eye contact.

My Classroom with ‘I Can’ Standards hung in the front. I created this to hold the standards/statements for students to view every day.

Goofing around with my eighth graders, period 3

Silent discussion about friendship.

What is the Old Man and the Sea about?

Discussion groups for TKAM

Having a celebration for the two boys our class tutored all semester.

Here’s one student’s Fakebook profile for her wolf.

Teaching poetry as a volunteer in Forest City High School.

This student did a Prezi.

Collaborative discussions

Me and some of my fellow classmates serving food at the North Iowa Food Kitchen.

Visual adding

Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.

Goofing around on my last day!

A little ice-cream treat

Attaching poems to construction paper for some color.

Working individually with a student.

My cooperating teacher and I set up the desks to be in semi-circles. That allowed teachers and parents to be in closer proximity.

Posing with our Norton textbooks on my last day!

My 4th hour English 10, a tough crowd to get to smile! 😛

My ‘I Can’ board with our latest standards added!

A collaborative, movable classroom for discussion on role of women, Marin and Alicia in House on Mango Street.

Creating a poster with glitter, of course!

Selfie with my 2nd period!

Circle-rug time

Kindergartners working on math

Two of my Kindergartners playing ‘Top It’ before heading to lunch.

Hands-on learning

Me and some of my fellow classmates serving food at the North Iowa Food Kitchen.

Getting images for their poems; gluing poems to the poster board.

Helping make the homemade ice cream

Goofing around with my period 6 eighth graders

Daycare babies playing with bubbles

Here are the crests, hung and ready on the walls into the library/my classroom.

Taking a dance break with our student!

Working one-on-one with a student on his marketing proposal in the Writing Center!

One student asked me to take a picture with her on my last day!

Here are two students cutting and pasting their poems on poster board to hang in the classroom!

My English 10 students created ‘Morrie Poems,’ about the influential people in their lives.

We are so busy reading!

Here’s a student who created a poster.

Having a good laugh with my honors kids 🙂

Brainstorming some ideas.

Helping one of the groups brainstorm quotes/examples of the Radley House/Story Progression.

Students were really engaged, almost climbing over one another to write their ideas on the board!

Math game

Shaving cream letters and numbers!

Now that the students formed groups of different colors, they had the responsibility of sharing their information with the rest of their group members!

Being goofy

Explaining an assignment to some students who missed class.

Working on revising

Working individually with student tutoring