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