Standard Ten: Partnerships
The teacher fosters relationships with school colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community to support students' learning and well being.
Dr. Seuss Week: Door Decorating
At Wilson Elementary, we participated in Dr. Suess Week. A fun week for students filled with activities, assemblies, and the well known Dr. Suess Bowl. This year we had a door decorating competition among all the classrooms, which was so much fun to see all the different Dr. Suess stories come to life through such artistic and creative teachers and students. This year, I volunteered to help decorate all the fifth grade classrooms to help relieve those teachers of any more activities to put on their plate. I love to be creative and so I thought this would be a fun way to get to know the teachers' favorite books and then use that to create their doors. This gave me a chance to build relationships with my fellow colleagues and to show them that I am a team player. Plus, the next morning when all the doors had been finished being decorated, our students couldn't have been more enthused with it being Dr. Suess Week!
Advice For A Future (Super) Teacher From Students
At the end of my first semester of student teacher at Lakevue Elementary, I received this wonderful and beyond cute book from my 3rd graders. During that time with my students we built a wonderful connection between all of us. So, in this book they wrote me advice on what a teacher should always do and what a teacher should never do and then a note to me. The notes were very sweet notes, wishing me good luck, thank you for helping them out with whatever they needed and wishing that I would stay. I was able to see each of them grow over this time and also see the relationships between the students and I grow so much. It was a very hard day to say goodbye to them but this book will always serve as a memory of building strong and heartfelt relationships with my first group of students, who I truly loved.
Pay it Forward Day! Random Acts of Kindness
Pay it Forward Day was a concept that I wanted to teach to my class. I wanted them to understand that it is always nice to do something for someone and not expect anything back. So on Pay it Forward Day, we created pictures, art projects, cards, gifts, and other ideas that we could give to others in our school to show that they are great. We didn't put our names on any of the things we made but Random Acts of Kindness, Pass it along. My students absolutely loved doing this with in our community and felt so great about it. I told them that it doesn't just have to happen in our school but anywhere in our community and that it can be something as small as giving someone a smile or telling them to have a good day. Students had to do 6 Random Acts of Kindness for the week!