Aric Foster is our guest blogger this week. He is offering another perspective on the student teaching experience–the university-cohort liaison. Never satisfied with his own teaching and ardently passionate about student learning, Aric has been teaching English 11 and AP Literature for 16 years in a …
Sena Kose is currently a pre-service teacher from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She began her student teaching experience in January 2017, and plans to graduate with a certificate to teach English in grades 6-12 in May 2017. This is the final post in a …
Madeline LaLonde is in her fourth year of teaching as a fourth grade teacher in Geneva, Illinois. She taught with me in the Fall of 2012 and graduated in May 2013 with a certificate to teach K-8 from Illinois State University. This is post two …
Over blueberry pancakes and coffee on Saturday morning, my husband, Dan, interrupts my weekly recap of teaching to say, “Have you ever heard of the coaching tree? You are talking about the teaching tree.” I was talking about lesson planning with my student teacher. What …
Two pre-service English teachers talk about their dreams, music, lit classes, and the teachers they are becoming.