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My English 10 students created ‘Morrie Poems,’ about the influential people in their lives.

Counting animal crackers

Working on revising

Here we defined what friendship meant to us as a preview to our reading in House on Mango Street.

Here’s a student who created a poster.

Helping make the homemade ice cream

Taking turns writing on the board.

Me and my first placement (Mason City High School) cooperating teacher, Deadra Stanton. A wonderful woman and wonderful experience!

Working one-on-one with a student.

Long Night Against Procrastination at Waldorf College

A little ice-cream treat

One student asked me to take a picture with her on my last day!

Smiles 🙂 with eighth graders

Here’s one student’s Fakebook profile for her wolf.

Talking with a group, giving them some feedback and asking questions.

Taking turns mixing

Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.

Explaining an assignment to some students who missed class.

Discussion groups for TKAM

Integration of technology and teaching

Visual adding

Attaching poems to construction paper for some color.

Silent discussion about friendship.

Math game

PJ Day at Forest City Middle School!

A collaborative, movable classroom for discussion on role of women, Marin and Alicia in House on Mango Street.

My ‘I Can’ board with our latest standards added!

Having desks next to one another rather than across allowed for a more comfortable, approachable environment.

Kindergartners working on math

My focus for conferences was to appear confident, knowledgeable about each student, and give excellent eye contact.

Helping one of the groups brainstorm quotes/examples of the Radley House/Story Progression.

Me and my fellow student teachers at our post-grad dinner!

Having a celebration for the two boys our class tutored all semester.

Students were really engaged, almost climbing over one another to write their ideas on the board!

Goofing around with my eighth graders, period 3

Balloons from my high schoolers!

Working on the writing portions or interactive portions of the project in class.

Hangin’ with the Writing Center Crew

Our class [teachers] with our little boys! Bronson, age 10 on the left and Blake, age 7 on the right.

Look how big it is! Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.

What is the Old Man and the Sea about?

I’ve even helped with math!

Room with colored, movable desks

Working individually with a student.

Students talked and gathered quotations

Explaining the assignment and homework.

My 4th hour English 10, a tough crowd to get to smile! 😛

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 🙂

Goofing around with my period 6 eighth graders

Two of my Kindergartners playing ‘Top It’ before heading to lunch.

The tower of canned/boxed food items students created in their Dugout! All donated for the Food bank!

Circle-rug time

Kinesthetic learning

Honors 10, period 6!

Selfie with my 2nd period!

Here are the crests, hung and ready on the walls into the library/my classroom.

Working individually with student tutoring

Teaching poetry as a volunteer in Forest City High School.

One-on-one reading

Brainstorming some ideas.

Working together on projects

Here are two students cutting and pasting their poems on poster board to hang in the classroom!

Posing with our Norton textbooks on my last day!

My cooperating teacher and I set up the desks to be in semi-circles. That allowed teachers and parents to be in closer proximity.

Shaving cream letters and numbers!

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.

Me and some of my fellow classmates serving food at the North Iowa Food Kitchen.

Now that the students formed groups of different colors, they had the responsibility of sharing their information with the rest of their group members!

Taking a dance break with our student!

Hands-on learning

Students had fun with this activity!

Decorating poems and poster boards!

We are so busy reading!

Small-group reading

Enjoying some home-made ice cream

This student did a Prezi.

Collaborative discussions

Creating a poster with glitter, of course!

Goofing around on my last day!

Being goofy

Getting images for their poems; gluing poems to the poster board.

I was able to join in on the discussion and give information, feedback, comments, and pose questions.

This was my creative student, who used (and introduced me to) Smore to make a newsletter.

Working one-on-one with a student on his marketing proposal in the Writing Center!

Daycare babies playing with bubbles

Me and some of my fellow classmates serving food at the North Iowa Food Kitchen.