Entering into the world of becoming a teacher before I was afraid that I was not going to be enough to become a teacher. I was afraid that I did not have what it takes. I have always been good with kids and they seemed to like me just as…

I interviewed my past math teacher who taught precalculus and calculus at my high school. I was very interested in his journey to becoming a teacher because it was unlike any that I have ever heard. It was very impactful hearing to learn the challenges especially because some I did…

In this Wisconsin school project my group had three counties: Manitowoc, Southern Door, and Kewaunee. We did research on all of the schools within the districts of these counties. We looked for multiple areas of data from numbers of teachers/staff in the district to how much government financial aid each…

This project has made me place myself in a teacher’s shoes in a way where I had to read a book and dig deeper than the text in order to analyze it. Then from there, facilitating many lessons with discussion questions that got the class thinking. Although our “students” did…

The First Kindergarten The first kindergarten formed in America in 1856 in Watertown, WI. It was created by a woman by the name of Margarethe Meyer Schurz. Her and her husband had moved over from London where they met, and he worked in politics while she did housekeeping. Yet, she…

Children all start at different levels and learn at different paces, all in a preferred way. This means as a teacher that it is important to meet each child at the level of learning that they are at and be patient with them as they advance. Some students will like…