I’ve even helped with math!
My English 10 students created ‘Morrie Poems,’ about the influential people in their lives.
Taking a dance break with our student!
Room with colored, movable desks
Me and some of my fellow classmates serving food at the North Iowa Food Kitchen.
PJ Day at Forest City Middle School!
Goofing around with my eighth graders, period 3
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!
My focus for conferences was to appear confident, knowledgeable about each student, and give excellent eye contact.
![Our class [teachers] with our little boys! Bronson, age 10 on the left and Blake, age 7 on the right.](https://donnellydailyapple.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/4-30-15.jpg?w=359&h=359&crop=1 "4-30-15")
Our class [teachers] with our little boys! Bronson, age 10 on the left and Blake, age 7 on the right.
Collaborative discussions
Me and my first placement (Mason City High School) cooperating teacher, Deadra Stanton. A wonderful woman and wonderful experience!
Working individually with a student.
Honors 10, period 6!
Working together on projects
Counting animal crackers
Integration of technology and teaching
My 4th hour English 10, a tough crowd to get to smile! 😛
Taking turns mixing
Long Night Against Procrastination at Waldorf College
Enjoying some home-made ice cream
Working one-on-one with a student on his marketing proposal in the Writing Center!
My cooperating teacher and I set up the desks to be in semi-circles. That allowed teachers and parents to be in closer proximity.
Selfie with my 2nd period!
Smiles 🙂 with eighth graders
Small-group reading
Goofing around with my period 6 eighth graders
The tower of canned/boxed food items students created in their Dugout! All donated for the Food bank!
Visual adding
Posing with our Norton textbooks on my last day!
Two of my Kindergartners playing ‘Top It’ before heading to lunch.
Goofing around on my last day!
One-on-one reading
Explaining an assignment to some students who missed class.
Being goofy
Look how big it is! Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.
A little ice-cream treat
Now that the students formed groups of different colors, they had the responsibility of sharing their information with the rest of their group members!
Having a celebration for the two boys our class tutored all semester.
We are so busy reading!
Students had fun with this activity!
Shaving cream letters and numbers!
What is the Old Man and the Sea about?
Working on the writing portions or interactive portions of the project in class.
Hangin’ with the Writing Center Crew
Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.
Teaching poetry as a volunteer in Forest City High School.
Here we defined what friendship meant to us as a preview to our reading in House on Mango Street.
Working one-on-one with a student.
Students talked and gathered quotations
Here’s one student’s Fakebook profile for her wolf.
Kindergartners working on math
Helping make the homemade ice cream
Talking with a group, giving them some feedback and asking questions.
Attaching poems to construction paper for some color.
Here are two students cutting and pasting their poems on poster board to hang in the classroom!
Students were really engaged, almost climbing over one another to write their ideas on the board!
Me and my fellow student teachers at our post-grad dinner!
Daycare babies playing with bubbles
I was able to join in on the discussion and give information, feedback, comments, and pose questions.
Taking turns writing on the board.
Math game
Decorating poems and poster boards!
Hands-on learning
Having desks next to one another rather than across allowed for a more comfortable, approachable environment.
Getting images for their poems; gluing poems to the poster board.
Explaining the assignment and homework.
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.
Discussion groups for TKAM
Balloons from my high schoolers!
Kinesthetic learning
Helping one of the groups brainstorm quotes/examples of the Radley House/Story Progression.
Here’s a student who created a poster.
Working on revising
Silent discussion about friendship.
My Classroom with ‘I Can’ Standards hung in the front. I created this to hold the standards/statements for students to view every day.
Creating a poster with glitter, of course!
Working individually with student tutoring
This student did a Prezi.
Here are the crests, hung and ready on the walls into the library/my classroom.
This was my creative student, who used (and introduced me to) Smore to make a newsletter.
A collaborative, movable classroom for discussion on role of women, Marin and Alicia in House on Mango Street.
Brainstorming some ideas.
Having a good laugh with my honors kids 🙂
My ‘I Can’ board with our latest standards added!
Circle-rug time
