Word Sort: Mini Lesson

While taking courses the fall of my junior year, I had to take a wonderful class called Education 302 which highlighted many of the important techniques to teaching reading. I loved the class. Not only was the professor wonderful, but we learned so many things. We got to practice running records, working with wonderful programs, and working hands on with students in a Literacy Lab. This class actually made me question whether I should just finish school as a teacher or go on to be a reading specialist. Maybe one day down the road, I will go back to school to be a reading specialist, but for right now-- teaching it is!

This is a mini lesson that my partner, Amanda, and I worked on with our students. We met with out students forty minutes each week to help them read and teach them some major points of phonemic awareness. Also attached in here is the T-L chart we used to document their progress.

 T-L Chart

Mini Lesson

Teaching Philosophy

Last fall, we had to write about our teaching philosophy. In the future, I'm not sure where I'll teach. I would love to teach in most anywhere, but I want to work some where that I'm allowed to be me. I have a love of sharing joy in learning and I want to show that to children all over. Below, I've posted my teaching philosophy link for your viewing. Although it looks this way now, I'm anxious to see how much it will change over the next two years before graduation.

Teaching Philosophy
Thanks, again!

The Start of Something New!

Hello there!

My name is Kendra Schmitz. I'm currently a Junior at UW-Steven's Point. I'm here studying to get my degree in Elementary and Exceptional Education. I'm extremely passionate about children and the impact we can leave on their hearts by being phenomenal teachers. I decided to start this blog to document different activities, lesson plans, and things for class. We keep a portfolio for school, but there are so many more things I want to document.

Some of my interests include: sewing, reading, dancing, running, exercising, cooking, baking, and writing lesson plans. I love being active in the outdoors. I'm a nanny, barista, and employee at the YMCA. I'm involved in our chapter of WEA. I'm also the Public Relations Coordinator for Kappa Delta Pi.

I hope that this blog will be useful to not only you, but for me to keep updated with ideas for my future classroom use.

Each post will have labels for the following criteria: grade, subject, college course, and type of media.

Enjoy!

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." - Rumi