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Explaining the assignment and homework.

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

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

Having a good laugh with my honors kids 🙂

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

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

Students had fun with this activity!

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

We are so busy reading!

Balloons from my high schoolers!

Hands-on learning

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

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

Teaching poetry as a volunteer in Forest City High School.

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

PJ Day at Forest City Middle School!

Goofing around with my eighth graders, period 3

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

Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.

Collaborative discussions

Room with colored, movable desks

Hangin’ with the Writing Center Crew

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

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

Taking a dance break with our student!

Circle-rug time

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

Here’s a student who created a poster.

Honors 10, period 6!

Taking turns mixing

Goofing around on my last day!

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

Daycare babies playing with bubbles

Working individually with student tutoring

One-on-one reading

This student did a Prezi.

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

Silent discussion about friendship.

What is the Old Man and the Sea about?

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.

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

Explaining an assignment to some students who missed class.

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

Posing with our Norton textbooks on my last day!

Working one-on-one with a student.

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

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

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

Selfie with my 2nd period!

Counting animal crackers

Shaving cream letters and numbers!

Long Night Against Procrastination at Waldorf College

Being goofy

Kinesthetic learning

I’ve even helped with math!

Taking turns writing on the board.

Kindergartners working on math

Small-group reading

Decorating poems and poster boards!

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

Smiles 🙂 with eighth graders

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

Math game

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

Visual adding

Helping make the homemade ice cream

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

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

Brainstorming some ideas.

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

A little ice-cream treat

Working individually with a student.

Enjoying some home-made ice cream

Attaching poems to construction paper for some color.

Discussion groups for TKAM

Working together on projects

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

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

Integration of technology and teaching

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.

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

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

Working on revising

Creating a poster with glitter, of course!

Students talked and gathered quotations