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Taking turns mixing

I’ve even helped with math!

Circle-rug time

Working individually with student tutoring

Math game

Selfie with my 2nd period!

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!

Long Night Against Procrastination at Waldorf College

Small-group reading

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

What is the Old Man and the Sea about?

Brainstorming some ideas.

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

Students talked and gathered quotations

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

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

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

Goofing around with my eighth graders, period 3

Discussion groups for TKAM

Honors 10, period 6!

Explaining the assignment and homework.

Shaving cream letters and numbers!

Teaching poetry as a volunteer in Forest City High School.

Explaining an assignment to some students who missed class.

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

Students had fun with this activity!

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

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

One-on-one reading

Creating a poster with glitter, of course!

Kinesthetic learning

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

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

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

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

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

Having a good laugh with my honors kids 🙂

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

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

Collaborative discussions

Working together on projects

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

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

Room with colored, movable desks

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

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.

Goofing around with my period 6 eighth graders

Taking turns writing on the board.

Balloons from my high schoolers!

Posing with our Norton textbooks on my last day!

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

Daycare babies playing with bubbles

Being goofy

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

Kindergartners working on math

Attaching poems to construction paper for some color.

Helping make the homemade ice cream

This student did a Prezi.

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

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

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

Here’s a student who created a poster.

Enjoying some home-made ice cream

Hands-on learning

A little ice-cream treat

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

We are so busy reading!

Silent discussion about friendship.

Working on revising

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

Smiles 🙂 with eighth graders

Working one-on-one with a student.

Integration of technology and teaching

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

PJ Day at Forest City Middle School!

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

Decorating poems and poster boards!

Taking a dance break with our student!

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

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

Goofing around on my last day!

Counting animal crackers

Visual adding

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

Working individually with a student.

Hangin’ with the Writing Center Crew