WPLN News Archive; Wright First Year Teacher (Adrienne) 4 10 01; News Archive 3/9/01-4/11/01

i am i am one of many surviving as a year if you know i carried a mountainous the unitarian faith may last august issue that i'm living a beautiful and handsome faces with that jet engine the gilmore speaker it's due respect their teacher described the class as it struck me thank you gilmore has control over classic command of her subject and confidence in herself qualities education experts say most first year teachers lack gilmore is that the typical first year teacher because she wants to ride with five years experience teaching at a small catholic school in alabama and with a masters degree she's more prepared than most of her peers and mentors say it's more than that

though assistant principal into one snuff i've seen some individuals who had been in the profession came fifteen twenty years who really don't even have the command the lesson delivery and in the way they interact with students to keep them interested in what's going on so i think that's one of the primary things i think he has really working not only for her but for our students who come in contact with her the netter school board and the national education association assign all new teachers and mentors persistent drought the first year freddie stewart worked at five new teachers including go more she so impressed with gilmore classroom management she calls are an ideal first year teacher i have twelve teachers right middle school and to show you some real comparison we just without names tell you that within that science to how definitive is i have a couple of teachers who have taught before and for one reason or another are returning either returning to teach a returning to metro

we're having real problems they they are having problems because at the time that they taught the students were different one person told me i can't believe it when i asked the student to do something he or she does not do it so they came with preconceived ideas that has to act as mature until she met those tunes where they were and she adjusted and she made them adjust and they work together it helps the gilmore has previous teaching experience it might also help their grandmother was a teacher her mother was a teacher's assistant at her father's a baptist minister gilmore however says she never never intended to be a teacher i always like to go last when i finished undergrad offend him i thought that i succumbed down a substitute at her school was kind of a long term type thing and once i got into the classroom i fell along with that gilmore has such a good time with their students that she's even promised to wrap an entire lesson before schools out but says their first priority is to make sure her

kids know they're there to learn in a while i try and do lesson in the air live so they can understand and of course they are laughing through a big day on tuesday and they get the points i tried to stand for the m train know this can be fine that you know we can laugh about this so we can have a good time but we're not wasting time he doesn't like town disturbances two dozen i distrust that's when they chill was dare you was my new conduct joint is in this go more sport period class skiing how plants use his phone because he's always ready to help she always did to ut understanding we don't understand economic hub for help and she said is it getting along the more plans to teach is the ultimate question it's not that she's not committed to education for the future she has her eye on a super intimate our board of education position i would love to be what most people out there making

decisions having been in the classroom and dealing with the issues from their perspective with the teachers with educator and the child really at heart it's called <unk> met her mentor freddie stewart we never hear woman's superintendent knispel and we certainly have not had an african american superintendent so that she aspires in spite of those odds is wonderful but i just as something that is wait till she would kind of person she is for national public radio he has been