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

Working one-on-one with a student.

Hangin’ with the Writing Center Crew

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

Taking a dance break with our student!

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

I’ve even helped with math!

Integration of technology and teaching

Working together on projects

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

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

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

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

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

Room with colored, movable desks

Circle-rug time

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

Here’s a student who created a poster.

Goofing around with my period 6 eighth graders

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

Math game

Working on revising

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

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

This student did a Prezi.

Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.

Long Night Against Procrastination at Waldorf College

Shaving cream letters and numbers!

Goofing around with my eighth graders, period 3

Visual adding

Enjoying some home-made ice cream

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

A little ice-cream treat

Working individually with a student.

Balloons from my high schoolers!

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

We are so busy reading!

Daycare babies playing with bubbles

Small-group reading

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

Discussion groups for TKAM

PJ Day at Forest City Middle School!

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

Students talked and gathered quotations

Creating a poster with glitter, of course!

Collaborative discussions

Having a good laugh with my honors kids 🙂

Kindergartners working on math

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

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

Posing with our Norton textbooks on my last day!

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

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

Students had fun with this activity!

One-on-one reading

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

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

Hands-on learning

Counting animal crackers

Kinesthetic learning

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

Explaining the assignment and homework.

Honors 10, period 6!

What is the Old Man and the Sea about?

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

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

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

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

Attaching poems to construction paper for some color.

Decorating poems and poster boards!

Working individually with student tutoring

Helping make the homemade ice cream

Brainstorming some ideas.

Smiles 🙂 with eighth graders

Goofing around on my last day!

Taking turns writing on the board.

Being goofy

Teaching poetry as a volunteer in Forest City High School.

Explaining an assignment to some students who missed class.

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

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

Selfie with my 2nd period!

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.

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

Silent discussion about friendship.

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

Taking turns mixing