Tag: reflection
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Build Relationships and Make Connections: Advice from a Teacher Intern #summerPD
This post is part of a series on #summerPD. This week, I interviewed one of my favorite bloggers, Kelsey Empfield, about her recent experiences as a teacher intern. After a stellar teaching demonstration, she was offered a position as a middle-school reading teacher. She’ll be starting that first teaching job this fall. Kelsey and Maggie with…
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Go The Extra Mile: Advice from a Teacher Intern
This post is part of a series on #summerPD for pre-service teachers. Maggie Darnell recently completed her student teaching internship and will be teaching seventh-grade English (plus an awesome-sounding enrichment course in Zombie Survival!) in the fall. In this interview, Maggie reflects on her experience and shares some advice for cooperating teachers and pre-service teachers.…
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Reflections on Teaching Children’s Literature
Children’s Lit: The Purpose and the Problem The 200-level Children’s Literature course I teach is required for all Elementary Education majors at my institution. The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with a variety of books they may wish to share with their future students and to invite students to respond to children’s…
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#CEE13 Recap: Conference on English Education, Fort Collins CO
Last week, I attended the Conference on English Education for the first time. It was close to home…. well, close if you consider a 4.5 hour drive close, which I do. And it was a conference devoted exclusively to the thing I’m most passionate about in my work–educating future English educators. I liked: the low-key…
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