Caroline Bechtold

Learned the importance of using engagement strategies throughout lessons through the use of my professional learning plan! Think-pair-shares, collaborative learning, and incorporating student interests are all great ways to keep students engaged!

Yesterday was STEAM DAY at Samford! We had such a great time creating and doing fun activities with the students to help them learn more about space!!

Excited to learn about Dyslexia today!

PLC 6 dinner at Taco Mama!! So grateful to have this group of ladies by my side this year! They are going to be such amazing teachers 🍎 💡

Today, we learned about using predicting/hypothesizing and visualizing/graphic representations to teach for deeper meaning! Thank you, PLC 2!

This semester, @HallieGMullen and I are creating a unit together on Earth's Systems! I love having the opportunity to work and learn collaboratively!

Today, we are learning from Dr. Adams from PARCA about using educational data as teachers!

Currently missing my students from my Younger Toddler class this past summer!! Very excited to teach again this summer in K3!

This morning, we are learning about gifted education from a former professor at Samford!

PLC 6- Without acknowledging differences and diversity, neither students nor teachers can be successful in the classroom.

My PLC broke out of our escape room activity with Alabama Archives!

Thank you Alabama Archives for coming to speak to my class! I was able to learn so much about using archives while teaching history!

I had such a great time at the Kappa Delta Pi spring meeting! We installed our new executive committee and honored our graduating members!

So grateful to have attended the Urban Education Seminar at Samford! I was able to learn so much about teaching in an urban school 🍎

I got a new lunch box to test out at clinicals and for teaching this summer in preschool!

My clinical at Trace Crossings is now complete! I will never forget the experiences I’ve had here and the relationships that have grown. I’ve learned and grown so much since I started at Trace in the fall. This day was very bittersweet!!

My last day at my urban clinical placement was Friday! I was able to learn so much about urban ed, teaching, and classroom management!! It was such a wonderful clinical experience and I am so grateful for the opportunity!

In my Teaching of Reading II class, we learned about instructional teaching with syllables and she provided us with great resources!