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…
If I could change just one thing about the elementary education and secondary English education majors I teach, it would be this: they would all love to read and write. I believe a love of reading and writing is a prerequisite to creating a classroom where children and teenagers become avid, engaged readers and writers.…
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After expressing my fears of June, July, and August, I have decided that I can waste away the summer months fretting over the commencement of school or I can do something about it. Deciding to grab my pen and write out my fears, I realized my fears were simply of the…
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.…
This post is part of a series on #SummerPD for pre-service teachers. Check out 4 Reasons Why Pre-Service Teachers Need #SummerPD. 1. Make a reading plan. I’m a devoted reader in part because I always have a plan for what to read next. If you aren’t sure how to find books you want to read, join GoodReads,…
This is the inaugural post for a series on Summer PD for Pre-service Teachers. In this weekly series, I’ll be tackling topics like: PLNs for Pre-Service Teachers Must-Reads for Pre-Service Teachers How to Prepare for Student Teaching How to Develop a Literate Life–and Why You Need One Before You Get in the Classroom I’ll interview…
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