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All About Miss Malloy ==== My name is Miss Malloy. I am a senior at Illinois State University where I am majoring in Elementary Education. I have four middle school endorsements in Reading, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies. I grew up here on the southside of Chicago so I am familiar with the close knit community of Mt. Greenwood. I have always wanted to be a teacher and love seeing the impact that a teacher can make on students. As a teacher, I am still learning. Each day, I learn from each of my students. ====

==== For this spring semester, I will be student teaching here in your 6th grade classroom. I am thrilled to be a student teacher here at Mt. Greenwood Elementary School. We will use this wiki to help explore Latin America. We will be paying close attention to Ecuador. This wiki will help guide you through the necessary information needed to succeed through our unit. ====

Feel free to look around and explore Ecuador! Make sure you are familiar with the information on here so you are ready for our adventure!

Contact Me

If you ever need to contact me, please do not hesitate. You can reach me by e-mail at kamallo@ilstu.edu or phone at 773-555-4545. Also, please feel welcomed in our classroom. If you ever need to meet with me personally, I am in the classroom before and after-school.

 My Educational Philosophy

Disposition and ability to collaborate ethically and effectively with others is the first virtue that I plan on developing. This virtue is important because as a teacher, I will constantly be collaborating with other teachers, parents, students, and administration. No one individual is the same, which means that collaborating with others of different races is going to be evident as a teacher. As a member of Epsilon Sigma Alpha, a service sorority of two hundred and seventy-five women, I want to collaborate with more members of my sorority and obtain my goal to become more knowledgeable about each member of the sorority. Also, I want to become more involved in- group activities with the Student Education Association. I am a member but I hope to hold a position on the executive board so that I can work with other future teachers who are undergoing the same preparations for teaching. An additional virtue that I plan to expand my understanding of is sensitivity toward the varieties of individual and cultural diversity. Throughout my life, I have not been exposed to a number of different cultures. Both my elementary school and high school were mainly comprised of Caucasian students. As a future teacher, I am aware that I will need to become more understanding of different individuals diversity. Diversity is an important factor and is evident in all classrooms. In order to develop this virtue, I plan on joining UNITE. UNITE is an organization that focuses on urban education and diversity. After graduating from college, I plan on teaching in an urban area and I think this organization would help me become more aware of my surroundings. Also, I want to observe in a variety of schools for my clinical hours because then I will be able to observe children of many cultures and diversities. The last virtue that I plan to develop through my teacher education is contagious intellectual enthusiasm and courage enough to be creative. After I complete an assignment, I have a tendency to doubt myself because I fear that it is not creative enough. In order to get over this feeling of doubt, I plan to subscribe to a magazine that includes creative lesson plan ideas. I anticipate on taking these ideas from the magazines and combining them with my own ideas in order to make an artistic lesson. I would love to attend an educational conference about using creativity in the classroom. I feel that by attending the conference, it would improve my intellectual enthusiasm but at the same act as a confidence builder. In order to be an effective teacher, I plan on developing both intellectual and moral virtues. Disposition and ability to collaborate ethically and effectively with others, sensitivity toward the varieties of individual and cultural diversity, and contagious intellectual enthusiasm and courage enough to be creative are the three main virtues that I will focus on during my education. By overcoming these virtues, I hope to become a successful teacher in the future.

Homework (This calendar will be updated each day.) __Reading: __ Reading Chapter 3 Test on December 12th Students should be reading silently on their own 20 minutes every night.

__Language Arts: __ Students will begin working on their letter to their pen pal in Ecuador. Students should be working on their handwriting at home.

__ Social Studies __ Introduce Latin America Unit on December 14th Ecuador Map due on December 16th After break, the students will learn more and be assigned a project. I will wait to explain this project since the children will forget over break!

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__ Important Reminders: __ Holiday Party is on December 15th at 2:00 p.m until 3:00 p.m. We currently have 23 students in our room. Mrs. Mitchell has volunteered to be the party planner along with Mrs. Smith and Mr. Martin who volunteered to coordinate games for the class to partcipate in. Mrs. Moore will provide a snack for the class. The children are very excited for the party. We will not be doing a gift exchange but instead ask the children to donate a hat or mittens which will be distributed to a local church.

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Winter Break is from December 16th until January 2nd. <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Classes will resume on January 3rd.

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Student Portfolios
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Page Created by Kathleen Malloy © kamallo@ilstu.edu

Created: November 28, 2011 Last Modified: December 11, 2011