Elementary Education
CategoryTranscribing Memories
I realized today that while I’ve shared a lot about the process of student teaching, I haven’t spoken a lot about my actual experience..
A Lesson on Ruby Bridges
I wrote and taught my first official lesson plan of student teaching last week. I kind of love it, and I thought I’d share it on the b..
Keeping Up with my Schedule…
I am in the middle of the second week of student teaching, and I am probably more tired by the end of the day than I have ever been in..
Paseo Boricua: Puerto Rican Promenade
This past weekend, some of my cohort mates and I attended the 40th Anniversary Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School Educat..
Neighborhood Observations
Our final assignment from our Dimensions of Multicultural/Global Awareness class reads as follows:
“Chicago and its collar suburbs ..
Redefining Success
I thought I’d share a second reflection from my multicultural class, as it has been absorbing a lot of my brain space the past couple ..
Exploring Our Own Biases
“I want to illustrate that when we erase students’ unique struggles with broad generalizations, when we are blinded by visions of a ho..
Looking Forward
Whenever I have even a small amount of downtime, I inevitably start forward thinking. Usually when this happens, the future seems very..
Winter Break is Here!
We recently finished classes. I can’t quite believe that I’m 3/4 of the way through graduate school. This break couldn’t have come at ..
Getting to Know Your Cohort
For the past 15 weeks, my cohort has taken our Methods of Math course with the first-year cohort. At first, I wasn’t sure how it was g..