Explaining an assignment to some students who missed class.
Having a celebration for the two boys our class tutored all semester.
I’ve even helped with math!
Goofing around on my last day!
Look how big it is! Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.
Here’s one student’s Fakebook profile for her wolf.
Hangin’ with the Writing Center Crew
The tower of canned/boxed food items students created in their Dugout! All donated for the Food bank!
Working together on projects
My focus for conferences was to appear confident, knowledgeable about each student, and give excellent eye contact.
Having a good laugh with my honors kids 🙂
Working one-on-one with a student on his marketing proposal in the Writing Center!
Balloons from my high schoolers!
My 4th hour English 10, a tough crowd to get to smile! 😛
Here are two students cutting and pasting their poems on poster board to hang in the classroom!
Here we defined what friendship meant to us as a preview to our reading in House on Mango Street.
Getting images for their poems; gluing poems to the poster board.
This was my creative student, who used (and introduced me to) Smore to make a newsletter.
Taking turns writing on the board.
Creating a poster with glitter, of course!
Working on the writing portions or interactive portions of the project in class.
Daycare babies playing with bubbles
Goofing around with my period 6 eighth graders
Talking with a group, giving them some feedback and asking questions.
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Our class [teachers] with our little boys! Bronson, age 10 on the left and Blake, age 7 on the right.
Me and my fellow student teachers at our post-grad dinner!
Having desks next to one another rather than across allowed for a more comfortable, approachable environment.
Posing with our Norton textbooks on my last day!
Circle-rug time
Now that the students formed groups of different colors, they had the responsibility of sharing their information with the rest of their group members!
Selfie with my 2nd period!
Working one-on-one with a student.
Brainstorming some ideas.
PJ Day at Forest City Middle School!
Taking a dance break with our student!
Students had fun with this activity!
My English 10 students created ‘Morrie Poems,’ about the influential people in their lives.
Visual adding
Hands-on learning
Working individually with a student.
Teaching poetry as a volunteer in Forest City High School.
My ‘I Can’ board with our latest standards added!
Shaving cream letters and numbers!
Honors 10, period 6!
Me and some of my fellow classmates serving food at the North Iowa Food Kitchen.
My cooperating teacher and I set up the desks to be in semi-circles. That allowed teachers and parents to be in closer proximity.
Working individually with student tutoring
A collaborative, movable classroom for discussion on role of women, Marin and Alicia in House on Mango Street.
Integration of technology and teaching
Kinesthetic learning
Kindergartners working on math
Counting animal crackers
Me and some of my fellow classmates serving food at the North Iowa Food Kitchen.
One student asked me to take a picture with her on my last day!
Discussion groups for TKAM
Collaborative discussions
Here are the crests, hung and ready on the walls into the library/my classroom.
Decorating poems and poster boards!
A little ice-cream treat
What is the Old Man and the Sea about?
This student did a Prezi.
My Classroom with ‘I Can’ Standards hung in the front. I created this to hold the standards/statements for students to view every day.
Taking turns mixing
Silent discussion about friendship.
Math game
Small-group reading
Helping make the homemade ice cream
Long Night Against Procrastination at Waldorf College
Enjoying some home-made ice cream
Attaching poems to construction paper for some color.
Explaining the assignment and homework.
Goofing around with my eighth graders, period 3
Students talked and gathered quotations
Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.
Students were really engaged, almost climbing over one another to write their ideas on the board!
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.
Room with colored, movable desks
We are so busy reading!
Smiles 🙂 with eighth graders
Being goofy
Helping one of the groups brainstorm quotes/examples of the Radley House/Story Progression.
Working on revising
Here’s a student who created a poster.
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.
Me and my first placement (Mason City High School) cooperating teacher, Deadra Stanton. A wonderful woman and wonderful experience!
One-on-one reading
