Here We Go!

The time is here! I will be student teaching in my final semester at Trinity Christian College. I will be doing two placements, the first at Mulandi Primary in Kenya and the second at Hoover Elementary in Calumet City, IL.

This week was full of meetings, portfolio's, and meeting my second placement teacher! I will be doing two weeks at Hoover Elementary before departing for Kenya on January 24th. I am excited as well as a bit nervous for this endeavor, however I am so blessed that this opportunity came up and that it all has worked out.

This week I went to Hoover Elementary on Thursday to meet with the principal, Dr. Mays. She showed me around and introduced me to my cooperating teacher, Mrs. Wiora. She had absolutely no idea that I was coming or that she would be having a student teacher at all! She teaches a fifth grade class of twenty two students.

This is Hoover Elementary School. My classroom is on the second floor, first window to the right of the stop sign. 

On Friday, I went into the classroom and observed/helped out all day. This was actually a lot of fun! I graded some tests and co-taught a little when she was teaching math. I walked around and helped some students with their protractors. She told me a lot about the students and which ones may need extra help and some of their backgrounds. I think that it will definitely be a challenge to teach these students, but they are a loving and a good class. I am thankful that I have been placed with a teacher who is young, but a very good teacher and very willing to help me out!

Since I have only been to school once so far, this will be a brief blog and just an overview of what is coming up. I hope to learn a lot from Mrs. Wiora as well as from my students and other specialists in my school. I am so grateful that everything has worked out so well this far and am looking forward to continuing to grow in my faith and my education at Trinity!