Student Teaching at Lincoln

Wow, here we are at the final semester of my second bachelor's program!  I am so excited to be student teaching (again).  Not only because it is a great placement: Lincoln Elementary!  But also because student teaching really is a great program.  Student teaching allows senior education majors, who have had at least 50 hours of field experience in local schools working with a variety of students and classrooms to have two, uninterrupted, 8-week-long, full-immersion-with-the-natives, opportunity-to-teach-with-a-safety-net, learning experiences.  The "safety-net" is the established classroom teacher and her or his classroom.  That gives near-graduates the opportunity to really dive in and actually use the teaching ideas they have been collecting in their ed classes.  To me, it is a chance to teach with a highly-skilled and knowledgeable peer instructor, and to have this resources at my side every day.  What an opportunity!  

Founding Fathers working together (Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress)

I will be using this blog as I continue this semester student teaching at Lincoln.  This blog will be used to save teaching resources as well as a place to post pictures of student work.  I love seeing before-during-after pictures - sometimes the process of creation is so amazing!  You can look forward to seeing these!  I hope new readers check out my bio on the side panel, and stay tuned for interesting posts on teaching ideas and experiences as I finish my degree!