teaching
TagBalancing Teacher and Student
I recently wrote about my first steps as a teacher. I was fresh off having a great class, excited, and feeling like I could take on th..
Student Teaching – Elementary Week 1
I am in the first stretch of my Student Teaching experience at the Elementary level (my art classroom for the student teaching experie..
Elementary Education: Exploring the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
One of our upcoming assignments in Social Studies is to visit a museum with a student and observe how they interact with the space. I ..
Beginning to Teach
When I decided to come to Columbia, I told people that my long-term goal was to be a professor. Columbia’s student teaching program, w..
Elementary Education: Spring Semester Ahoy.
SCIENTISTS FOR TOMORROW
We arrived into our science class to discover that this semester’s observation hours will be completed via ..
Dimensions of Multicultural and Global Awareness
Break ended earlier for some, because J-term began the first week of January! This was when I took the class Dimensions of Multicultur..
Elementary Education: On Integrating the Arts
I spent the last two weeks immersed in a course that focuses on integrating the arts into the classroom. A focus on arts integration w..
Elementary Education: Walsh School Observations
I recently had the opportunity to do some field work in Ms. Ionita’s 5th and 6th grade classroom at Walsh School. Ms. Ionita is an ama..
A First Semester Retrospective
By the time this goes up I will have finished my first semester at Columbia College Chicago. I will be one semester closer to having m..
Special Education in the Art Classroom
Students in the Art Education MAT program at Columbia College Chicago are required to take one class in the field of Special Education..