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