Explaining the assignment and homework.
I was able to join in on the discussion and give information, feedback, comments, and pose questions.
Having a good laugh with my honors kids 🙂
Small-group reading
Taking turns writing on the board.
Working individually with a student.
I’ve even helped with math!
This student did a Prezi.
Enjoying some home-made ice cream
Attaching poems to construction paper for some color.
Visual adding
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.
Silent discussion about friendship.
Kindergartners working on math
Circle-rug time
Working one-on-one with a student on his marketing proposal in the Writing Center!
Collaborative discussions
Students were really engaged, almost climbing over one another to write their ideas on the board!
Long Night Against Procrastination at Waldorf College
One student asked me to take a picture with her on my last day!
Me and some of my fellow classmates serving food at the North Iowa Food Kitchen.
Math game
Decorating poems and poster boards!
Brainstorming some ideas.
Goofing around with my eighth graders, period 3
Smiles 🙂 with eighth graders
Working together on projects
Integration of technology and teaching
Getting images for their poems; gluing poems to the poster board.
Shaving cream letters and numbers!
Discussion groups for TKAM
Taking a dance break with our student!
We are so busy reading!
My 4th hour English 10, a tough crowd to get to smile! 😛
Students had fun with this activity!
What is the Old Man and the Sea about?
Hands-on learning
Two of my Kindergartners playing ‘Top It’ before heading to lunch.
Here are two students cutting and pasting their poems on poster board to hang in the classroom!
Having a celebration for the two boys our class tutored all semester.
Daycare babies playing with bubbles
Here we defined what friendship meant to us as a preview to our reading in House on Mango Street.
Here are the crests, hung and ready on the walls into the library/my classroom.
Helping make the homemade ice cream
PJ Day at Forest City Middle School!
Working individually with student tutoring
My cooperating teacher and I set up the desks to be in semi-circles. That allowed teachers and parents to be in closer proximity.
Me and my fellow student teachers at our post-grad dinner!
One-on-one reading
My Classroom with ‘I Can’ Standards hung in the front. I created this to hold the standards/statements for students to view every day.
Honors 10, period 6!
Here’s a student who created a poster.
Creating a poster with glitter, of course!
Look how big it is! Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.
Balloons from my high schoolers!
Kinesthetic learning
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
Students talked and gathered quotations
Having desks next to one another rather than across allowed for a more comfortable, approachable environment.
Working one-on-one with a student.
Counting animal crackers
Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.
Talking with a group, giving them some feedback and asking questions.
My English 10 students created ‘Morrie Poems,’ about the influential people in their lives.
Hangin’ with the Writing Center Crew
Helping one of the groups brainstorm quotes/examples of the Radley House/Story Progression.
Me and my first placement (Mason City High School) cooperating teacher, Deadra Stanton. A wonderful woman and wonderful experience!
Selfie with my 2nd period!
This was my creative student, who used (and introduced me to) Smore to make a newsletter.
Posing with our Norton textbooks on my last day!
Goofing around on my last day!
Working on revising
Explaining an assignment to some students who missed class.
A collaborative, movable classroom for discussion on role of women, Marin and Alicia in House on Mango Street.
Room with colored, movable desks
A little ice-cream treat
Teaching poetry as a volunteer in Forest City High School.
![Our class [teachers] with our little boys! Bronson, age 10 on the left and Blake, age 7 on the right.](https://i2.wp.com/donnellydailyapple.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/4-30-15.jpg?w=359&h=359&crop=1&ssl=1 "4-30-15")
Our class [teachers] with our little boys! Bronson, age 10 on the left and Blake, age 7 on the right.
My focus for conferences was to appear confident, knowledgeable about each student, and give excellent eye contact.
Here’s one student’s Fakebook profile for her wolf.
Taking turns mixing
Working on the writing portions or interactive portions of the project in class.
Now that the students formed groups of different colors, they had the responsibility of sharing their information with the rest of their group members!
Being goofy
My ‘I Can’ board with our latest standards added!
Me and some of my fellow classmates serving food at the North Iowa Food Kitchen.
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