THE MAXFIELD TIMES
New addition to the Maxfield family
Ms. Gottschalk explains to a fourth grade students how she became a teacher. | Photo by Molly Korzenowski
By Juri and K’vyona
New teacher at Maxfield Elementary starts her first teaching job.
B
rooke Gottschalk
But Ms. Gottschalk wasn’t
stood in her class-
originally looking into being
room decorated with
a teacher. She first went into
colorful tissue paper and a
nursing but then realized it
rainbow carpet. A student sat
wasn’t for her. It wasn’t until
next to her working on Graph
her family urged her to look
Tape, a tool to help with
into teaching that she finally
rounding. Ms. Gottschalk
took an elementary education
leaned in to help with the
class. She soon made it her
math, and the student was
major, and after getting her
able to continue with the
teaching license in May of
work.
2019, she applied to 200 different schools for work.
“Working with students and getting them to work
“I thought I was too stubborn
independently is the goal,”
to be a teacher,” Ms.
Ms. Gottschalk said. “I love
Gottschalk said.
when they have an ah-ha moment.”
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