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Learning To Teach: Helping Pre-Service Teachers

I am blessed to live in a small community just outside of a university town.  With this comes the opportunity to have pre-service teachers in my classroom.  While learning to teach, they are also my students.  I have had the opportunity to work with early field students just beginning their educational work, students in their “block” classes beginning to teach […]

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Student Teaching Diaries: Through the Teacher’s Eyes

Teaching is the greatest job on the earth.  It is not the most respected or highest paying and it does not bring you power, wealth or fame, but it is the toughest job that has the most impact on our future.  Each year teachers enter the classrooms and meet students with stories.  We make a connection. […]

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Student Teaching Diaries: Bringing the World Into Your Classroom

Today there are many ways to expand your classroom walls.  Field trips, virtual trips, Skype conversations, and traveling trunks can all provide your students with experiences and expertise that help their learning.  As an educator you need to be able to match your objectives with resources near you.  Inviting visitors into the classroom is another […]

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Student Teaching Diaries: Is This For a Grade?

When students enter preschool and kindergarten they are excited by learning.  They explore and engage in activities for the sake of what is happening.  Teachers set up experiences and lessons that develop skills and provide learning for students.  As students progress through elementary school, however, they begin to see the association of work for “a […]

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Student Teacher Diaries: Building Each Other Up

There is always a point in the year when the students have become comfortable with each other and I know.  Patience runs out, words develop edges and group work becomes unbearable.  I have an activity I pull out each year to help students build each other up and look at each other with grace and […]