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