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Being goofy

Taking turns mixing

Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.

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

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

Goofing around on my last day!

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

PJ Day at Forest City Middle School!

Collaborative discussions

This student did a Prezi.

Math game

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

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

Creating a poster with glitter, of course!

Goofing around with my eighth graders, period 3

Working individually with a student.

Brainstorming some ideas.

Long Night Against Procrastination at Waldorf College

Students talked and gathered quotations

Working one-on-one with a student.

Enjoying some home-made ice cream

Attaching poems to construction paper for some color.

Working individually with student tutoring

Integration of technology and teaching

Shaving cream letters and numbers!

Explaining an assignment to some students who missed class.

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

Having a good laugh with my honors kids 🙂

Selfie with my 2nd period!

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

Circle-rug time

Taking a dance break with our student!

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

Helping make the homemade ice cream

Smiles 🙂 with eighth graders

Balloons from my high schoolers!

Counting animal crackers

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.

Here’s a student who created a poster.

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

Students had fun with this activity!

Posing with our Norton textbooks on my last day!

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

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

Room with colored, movable desks

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

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

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

Hangin’ with the Writing Center Crew

Goofing around with my period 6 eighth graders

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

One-on-one reading

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

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

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

What is the Old Man and the Sea about?

Kindergartners working on math

Taking turns writing on the board.

Teaching poetry as a volunteer in Forest City High School.

Hands-on learning

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

Small-group reading

Discussion groups for TKAM

Decorating poems and poster boards!

Silent discussion about friendship.

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

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

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

Working together on projects

I’ve even helped with math!

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

Working on revising

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.

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

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

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

Visual adding

We are so busy reading!

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

A little ice-cream treat

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.

Honors 10, period 6!

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

Daycare babies playing with bubbles