Room: NRN 2029

Intern: Katelyn Jones

Mentor Teacher: Molly Davis

Internship Placement: Lawton Chiles Elementary School

Title: Building Relationships with Culturally Relevant and Community Building Activities

Katelyn Jones wondered if there were ways to build academic relationships, especially on a personal level, with her students. She wanted to do this within whole and small groups lessons that were on-going in the classroom, by incorporating culturally relevant and community building activities. She started collecting data over a four-week period in her classroom during a major Social Studies project the students were completing. Katelyn was able to find three claims that focused on her wonderings and her relationships with her students on an academic level and a personal level flourished.

Intern: Sophia Purnell

Mentor Teacher: Michael Poole

Internship Placement: PK Yonge Developmental Research School

Title: Using CLSP/UDL

To Engage 6th Grade ELA Students

Sophia Purnell was experiencing a tension in one of her 6th grade ELA classes related to engagement to course content. She wondered about relationship between the use of CLSP/UDL frameworks and student engagement in middle school ELA lessons. She collected data during a four-week period in student surveys, teacher reflections, discussion maps, and student work samples. Data analysis revealed three claims focused on how she and her students experienced and benefitted from the use of CLSP/UDL frameworks.

Intern: Megan Smoot

Mentor Teacher: Hayley Delapena

Elementary School: Hidden Oak Elementary

Title: The Impact of Forming Meaningful Relationships with Students

Megan Smoot was experiencing a challenge in her fifth-grade classroom related to switching internship placements mid-semester. She wondered how she could form meaningful relationships with the students in her new class. She collected data during a 4-week period through field notes, student interviews, and responding to weekly reflective journal prompts. Data analysis revealed two claims that focused on the impact of forming meaningful student/teacher relationships.