Educator Preparation

2023-2024 Supervisor Award: 
Angela Livingston

Angela Livingston was nominated by faculty members in the Department of Educational Foundations and Special Education and numerous residency candidates.

"Angela Livingston distinguishes herself as a model mentor of teacher candidates through her devotion to ensuring their success as future teachers. She accomplishes this through establishing rapport with her students adopting a coach-like mindset of holding each to high standards and offering excellent coaching and support throughout their experiences in the field. Angela is a team-oriented professional who cares deeply about the quality and integrity of the program and is dedicated to a student-centered model of instructional support and professional development. She is an asset to our department and to our college and we want to acknowledge her for her outstanding contributions."

2023-2024 Mentor Teachers of the Year

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Mentor Teacher: Jamie Mains

School Name: Southside Elemenary

District: Johnson City Schools

Department of Early Childhood Education

Mentor Teacher: Amy Nida

School Name: Kennedy Elementary

District: Kingsport City Schools

Department of Physical Education

Mentor Teacher: Gabe Bilicki-Roy

School Name: Cherokee Elementary

District: Johnson City Schools

Department of Special Education

Mentor Teacher: Hayley Parker

School Name: Indian Trail Middle School

District: Johnson City Schools

K-12 Education

Mentor Teacher: Hunter Graybeal

School Name: Science Hill High School

District: Johnson City Schools

Bluff City Elementary School

Kayla's shoutout from her mentor teacher, Lori Rosenbaum:

"My teacher candidate is Kayla Rupe. We are teaching 1st grade at Bluff City Elementary School. We are studying measurement in centimeters and Kayla developed an excellent lesson in measurement while tying in a big motivator for my students… the Super Bowl! They measured items with cubes and cube sticks, then made a headband to divide them into teams- the KC Chiefs and the SF 49ers. She then played a game with them to see which team won! It was a wonderful lesson and the students absolutely loved it!"

Fairmont Elementary School

Lakyn's shoutout from Fairmont:

"Ms. White's student teacher, Ms.Lakyn, has taught about producers and consumers all week. Earlier this week, she taught about assembly lines. They worked together to produce bags of trail mix then they got to eat their product for snack. Today her students got to make a commercial for the business idea they created yesterday."

Towne Acres Elementary School

1st grade teacher, Erin Ward and teacher candidate, Kylie Reaves teamed up to help their 1st graders learn about teen numbers. This picture shows students using dry erase sheets to practice using ten frames to show how many tens and ones are in the teen numbers.

Woodland Elementary School

Mentor and ETSU Alumni, Ashley Carlson and Residency Candidate, Ashton Browning incorporate co-teaching in their kindergarten classroom at Woodland Elementary. Ms. Carlson and Ashley used a variety of teaching strategies to teaching the concept of comparing numbers. Strategies included an interactive board activity, motivational song, a fall themed short story, and a fall themed PowerPoint. Their students enjoyed learning about comparing numbers.

Andrew Johnson Elementary School

Brinnan Wilson, ECED KAT Candidate at Johnson Elementary with mentor Heather Dockery, planned and implemented a unit on how we use our five senses to learn about the world around us. Infusing language and literacy skills in each learning experience, Brinnan's Kindergarteners created a class book titled, "What Do You Hear?" 

This was such a popular addition to the classroom library that one student spent the weekend creating his own book, "Beach Day" to bring back to school to share with his classmates. Way to go Miss Wilson for inspiring young authors!