Room: NRN 2025

Intern: Elyona Nabor

Mentor Teacher: Kristen Dean

Internship Placement: Talbot Elementary

Title: Student Reflections in a Fourth-Grade ELA Class

Elyona Nabor was experiencing tensions in her fourth-grade ELA class related to student behavior and engagement. She wondered how the introduction of student reflections would impact student behavior and engagement. She collected data during a three-week period through student surveys, teacher checklists, and teacher reflections. Data analysis revealed three claims focused on how students reacted to reflections and the impact of these reflections on the class.

Intern: Bailey Owens

Mentor Teacher: Melissa Baker

Internship Placement: Archer Elementary School

Title: Social Emotional Journaling and Emotional Self-regulation

Bailey Owens noticed an overwhelming increase of outward emotional expression in the beginnings of her internship in a second-grade classroom. She wondered if social emotional journaling consistently, every day, could work to increase students' self-awareness of their emotions, thus bettering their ability to self-regulate. She implemented this activity during a four-week period collecting data in the form of field observations, student samples, and a student feedback survey. Data analysis revealed three claims focused on students’ abilities to recognize their emotions and how they were able to regulate their emotions.

Intern: Savannah Lents

Mentor Teacher: Christina Thomas

Internship Placement: Archer Elementary School

Title: Interactive Notebooks in A Third-Grade Magnet Classroom

Savannah Lents was curious about the use of notebooks as a teaching tool for her third-grade students. She wondered how student engagement, creativity, and organization could be impacted by the use of interactive notebooks in the classroom. She collected data over a period of four weeks by taking photographs, recording videos of in-class instruction using notebooks, and conducting a student survey. Data analysis demonstrated three claims about how student's unique needs as learners shaped their experiences using interactive notebooks.