Testimonials
“Ms. Michaud I will miss you so much!!!!!! Who ever is in your next class will be so lucky! I don’t want you to go but you [will] be a teacher someday and you will be great at it!!!!!! You are one of the best teachers I will ever have...I will not forget you. I will miss you.” - Fifth Grade Student “Kate is a compassionate, high energy, multitasking professional well suited to the classroom. She is a team player who is highly collaborative and willing to do what she can to meet the various needs of her students. She’s a quick learner, picking up on the subtleties of language and classroom routines from her veteran mentor teachers. She brings her theatrical improv skills to the classroom to engage students with dramatic read alouds, role playing of classroom expectations, and modeling work expectations.” - Flynn Ross, ETEP Program Coordinator “Kate did a nice job of understanding the strategies that the Investigations program teaches and encourages the students to use... it was evident that she prepared by reading the teaching manual and observing me teach previous lessons. She also spent time practicing with the online resources on the Promethean Board… She is youthful and energetic, and the students respond well. She is positive and asks thoughtful follow-up questions.” - Anna Cloutier, Fifth Grade Mentor Teacher at Small School |
“Kate did a good job creating a positive learning environment and managing the learning environment. She built positive relationships with students by greeting them each day, doing a Responsive Classroom Morning Meeting, and playing with them at recess and choice time... Kate worked hard to foster the development of literacy and communication skills by conferring daily with children in reading and writing, encouraging talk and self expression in morning meeting, and using the active engagement strategy Turn and Talk. During her lead teach week, Kate provided different ways for students to show their knowledge, such as through conversation, drawing, writing, or performance.”
- Hannah Gundersdorf, Kindergarten Mentor Teacher at Canal School “Kate is working on the complex understanding of math concepts. She demonstrated well how to find area and perimeter and how to plot the coordinates on a graph.” - Lucretia Bagley, Fifth Grade Supervisor at Small School |