St. Mark's Catholic School: Peoria, IL

Fall 2014

 

Twice a week, I went into a fourth grade classroom for a few hours a day and assisted the teacher with grading, teaching group lessons, read-alouds, prep work, bulletin boards, and working one-on-one with an ELL student. This experience was immeasurable and taught me a lot about the day-to-day experience of classroom life.

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Head Start Pre-School: Winona, MN

Fall 2015

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Once a week, my classmates and I got to work one-on-one with preschool students doing read-alouds and a corresponding craft activity. This was my first opportunity to plan and prep lessons and gave me experiences to practice behavior management.

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Rollingstone Elementary School: Rollingstone, MN

Fall 2016

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Once a week, my group alternated teaching whole-class lessons in a first grade classroom and providing assistance to the students. Together we created six hour-long health and science lessons to teach the students. This taught me a lot about teamwork and was the first time I taught a whole class.

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Washington-Kosciusko Elementary School: Winona, MN

Fall and Spring 2016

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Once a week, I prepared and taught an hour long lesson to a group of 1-5 students that included screening assessments, phonics and fluency work, as well as reading and writing practice. This was my introduction to lesson planning and has taught me a lot about time management.

 

Cochrane-Fountain City School: Fountain City, WI

Fall 2016

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My team members and I created a half-hour fifth grade lesson about agriculture in Wisconsin which was one of the "centers" available for students to learn from.

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Jefferson Elementary STEM School: Winona, MN

Spring 2016

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Once a week, I prepared and taught an hour-long math lesson to a small group of fourth grade students covering the topics of multiplication, division, algebra, and fractions. This experience taught about the importance of flexibility and modifications in lesson planning, because often times the students struggled with or breezed through content unexpectedly and I had to change what I planned on the spot.

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St. Charles Elementary School: St. Charles, MN

Fall 2017-Spring 2018

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I spent three months student teaching in St. Charles, MN, in a third grade classroom to fulfill the student teaching requirement for my elementary education degree. I started off by teaching the students social studies two days a week, and gradually started teaching reading and spelling every day, then taking over the entire afternoons, and finally taking charge of the entire day. I learned a lot here about lesson preparation, instruction, and assessment, behavior management, transitions, differentiation, and collaboration with other staff.

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After graduating, I substitute-taught in various settings throughout the elementary school, including as an elementary teacher, ESL teacher, Title I teacher, and library staff.

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Winona Middle School: Winona, MN

Fall 2017-Spring 2018

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The last month of my fall semester was spent student teaching with a 6th grade Social Studies and Reading teacher. I observed, participated in, and taught a section of reading, two sections of social studies, and two section of honors social studies.  

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After graduating, I substitute-taught both as a reading tutor for grades 5-8, as well as in various middle school classrooms as needed.