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