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Class Autobiographies

"This tip is something I saw done for a fellow student teacher. The host teacher put together a class autobiographical notebook to give to the student teacher on her first day. The notebook contained a picture of the teacher and a letter welcoming the student teacher to her classroom and describing a little about herself. The teacher had all of the students do the same. These items helped the student teacher quickly put faces and names together. Her first day was a little easier since she felt like she already knew something about each of the students and their teacher before she started."
Submitted by: Claudia Pitchford w9ebk@email-removed , an education student at the University of Illinois and the Illinois Education Association Student Program Public Relations Coordinator in Springfield, Illinois. This tip was published in the NEA's Weekly "Works4Me" Email list.