

Blog #9: Responding to Students
This past week my teacher for my Emergent Literacy course came to observe me teach an hour-long reading lesson. We had met earlier in the...


Blog #8: 15 Minutes A Day
At my internship school, we are given just fifteen minutes a day for social studies time. If this seems like an incredibly short amount...


Blog #7: Classroom Community
A classroom seeming like a community, like a family, is one of the most important things that we can provide to our students. Near the...


Blog #6: i-Ready
Every day in my internship classroom we take the students to the computer lab to spend 30 minutes on i-Ready. i-Ready is a website that...


Blog #5: Transitions
It seems to me that we spend just as much time during the school day on transitions as we do on actual learning. Whether it’s taking the...


Blog #4: Arranging a Classroom
The way a classroom is set up has an effect on many other aspects of the classroom like movement and behavior. The above picture is my...


Blog #3: Knowing Your Students
Recently in my classroom management course our instructor did a read-aloud of the book by Jeff Gray and Heather Thomas (2005). This books...


Blog Post #2: Morning Meeting
This past week in my seminar class for my internship it was my turn to lead the Morning Meeting. The Morning Meeting consists of four...


Blog Post #1: Classroom Rules
Recently in my classroom management course my classmates and I broke out into groups based on the grade level we are working with and...