Educator Preparation

The mission of Clemmer College of Education and Human Development at East Tennessee State University is to support a diverse student experience through research and service on campus and in the community. Through research, scholarship, and partnership with scholl and human service organizations, the college is committed to promoting human development for global society through engaged citizenship and life-long learning.

Keanna EdwardMentor teacher Dawn Webb and Residency  Candidate Keanna Edwards recently team taught their students  about identifying run-on sentences and how to use correct capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. Mrs. Edwards used the text topic  “Castles in the Middle Ages” to encourage groups to find mistakes. The students worked in large group, small groups, and individually.

Madison TesterMentor teacher, Jamie Milam and Residency Candidate Madison Tester’s 1st grade class recently learned how to organize and show data on a bar graph. Mrs. Milam and Ms. Tester each taught a small group as students rotated through  stations. Here Ms. Tester is working with a group as they discussed options for  graphing their skittles. Ms. Tester also asked advancing questions to help students organize their information.

Annabelle TomilsonResidency Candidate Annabelle Tomilson and Mentor Teacher Jessica Hoffman at North Side Elementary recently taught their kindergarteners a lesson about using the tools a scientist uses and how to make observations using a lab sheet to answer scientific questions. The students created Pumpkin Volcanoes.  Afterwards, Ms. Tomilson awarded all students with a scientist badge.

Clisty TrentClisty Trent, with her mentor tacher Tami Laxon, shared a lesson on loving ourselves and the standards of story elements in their kindergarten classroom at andre Jackson Elementary School in Kingsport City.

"She presented with such confidence, was very well spoken, and just all around....WOW. She hit on vocabulary development with cue cards before readig the story, "I Like Myself," and her questioning during the reading of the story was developmentally appropriate while having high expectations for these young learners. They discussed the front cover, back cover, main idea, big vocab words, and made several inferences throughout. After the story, the class made a list of things they liked about themselves, and one statement that rally stuck out was when a little girl said she liked that she (herself) was caring."