By Robin Brooks,
Graduate Faculty
Our Fall Outreach Team includes: Allison Greene, Ann Braak, Heather Ristow, Melinda Galleher, and Meta Dittmer.
September 17-20, 2007
Moran Elementary School is located near the north entrance to Grand Teton National Park. This year there are only fourteen students attending the school? There are two full time teachers which teach the 1st – 5th grades. Caroline Ryan teaches Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade, while Amanda Pinkerton teaches the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade classes.
Our outreach team had the good fortune of being allowed to observe these teachers in the morning and then teaching in the afternoons during the week of September 17th.
Heather, Ann and Meta worked as a team creating a multi-discipline curriculum on Beavers. They worked in Caroline Ryan’s class. It was fascinating to watch Ms. Ryan juggle all three grades at once. There is such a tremendous difference in maturity levels between the kindergarteners and the second graders. This was the first outreach teaching experience for the graduate students and so it was kind of nice having only a class of six students to work with.
Allison and Melinda taught Insects to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders in Amanda Pinkerton’s class. They caught grasshoppers in the playground and brought in crickets for a research project. They had eight students in their class.
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