Educator Preparation

The mission of Clemmer College of Education and Human Development at East Tennessee State University is to support a diverse student experience through research and service on campus and in the community. Through research, scholarship, and partnership with school and human service organizations, the college is committed to promoting human development for global society through engaged citizenship and life-long learning.

Wes Bowery

Students from Volunteer High School's Structural Systems class, taught by Occupational Licensure candidate Wes Bowery, are applying their knowledge of power tools safely and correctly while adhering to OSHA guidelines for safe operation and accident prevention. As part of a hands-on project, they are removing unused lockers to create space for a new classroom.

By taking what they’ve learned in the classroom and putting it into practice, these students are not only developing their technical skills but also providing a valuable service to their school. Each student takes on the role of job supervisor during the removal process, gaining first hand experience in job site responsibilities. Working together, they must follow safety protocols and collaborate effectively to complete the project.

Abigail Woodward

Pictured is Abigail  Woodward 4th grade Clinical Practice Permit Teacher  at Love Chapel Elementary in Unicoi County.
Abby recently taught her 4th graders to decompose fractions as a sum of fractions with the same denominators.  The students used fraction models, number lines, and equations to solve problems.  They also worked in pairs and groups to apply their knowledge of fractional relationships to analyze real world situations.

Nell Carr

Teacher Candidate Nell Carr and Mentor Amy Townsend are co-teaching their 2nd graders how to explain the difference between a fact and an opinion and how to develop an opinion statement. After listening to Ms. Carr read Stella Writes an Opinion, the students sorted fact and opinion statements, used white boards to write opinion statements, and used graphic organizers to support their opinions.

Emily Ashley

I taught the lesson "Comic Conversations" to teach students how they can use dialogue to show how characters respond and react to situations and events. The students have recently started practicing narrative writing, and including dialogue in narratives is something they are asked to do on their assessments. So, I found a short comic that had speech bubbles, but no words. The students were tasked with writing their own dialogue for the comic. Then, students rewrote the comic's story as a narrative and included the dialogue they created. Comic books and graphic novels such as "Dog Man" are very popular with the students. I wanted to take this interest and bring it into their learning, having the students look at the events they can see in the comic, and create relevant dialogue to show how the characters are responding to the events.

Keanna EdwardMentor teacher Dawn Webb and Residency  Candidate Keanna Edwards recently team taught their students  about identifying run-on sentences and how to use correct capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. Mrs. Edwards used the text topic  “Castles in the Middle Ages” to encourage groups to find mistakes. The students worked in large group, small groups, and individually.

Madison TesterMentor teacher, Jamie Milam and Residency Candidate Madison Tester’s 1st grade class recently learned how to organize and show data on a bar graph. Mrs. Milam and Ms. Tester each taught a small group as students rotated through  stations. Here Ms. Tester is working with a group as they discussed options for  graphing their skittles. Ms. Tester also asked advancing questions to help students organize their information.

Annabelle TomilsonResidency Candidate Annabelle Tomilson and Mentor Teacher Jessica Hoffman at North Side Elementary recently taught their kindergarteners a lesson about using the tools a scientist uses and how to make observations using a lab sheet to answer scientific questions. The students created Pumpkin Volcanoes.  Afterwards, Ms. Tomilson awarded all students with a scientist badge.

Clisty TrentClisty Trent, with her mentor teacher Tami Laxon, shared a lesson on loving ourselves and the standards of story elements in their kindergarten classroom at Andrew Jackson Elementary School in Kingsport City.

"She presented with such confidence, was very well spoken, and just all around....WOW. She hit on vocabulary development with cue cards before reading the story, "I Like Myself," and her questioning during the reading of the story was developmentally appropriate while having high expectations for these young learners. They discussed the front cover, back cover, main idea, big vocab words, and made several inferences throughout. After the story, the class made a list of things they liked about themselves, and one statement that rally stuck out was when a little girl said she liked that she (herself) was caring."