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 scholl and human service organizations, the college is committed to promoting human development for global society through engaged citizenship and life-long learning.
News & Updates
Graduation and Certification Meeting
- Thursday, March 6th from 3:30-4:30
- During this meeting you will receive information about the process of obtaining your teaching license.
edTPA Writing Camp and Boot Camp
- Dates scheduled by Program of Study
- Please refer to the PowerPoint from the Residency II meeting and/or your program of study for your specific dates.
- Candidates are excused from their placements for these sessions.
Residency II Switch Date, March 3rd
- Candidates will move to their second placement mentor teacher on March 3rd.
- This may differ for music students, KAT candidates, RITE candidates, oe other candidates with special circumstances.
ETSU Office of Educator Preparation Career Fair
- April 7th, 1:00-4:00pm
- Candidates are excused half-day from their placement if they are attending this event.
Last Day of Residency II
- May 2nd, 2025
- Candidates are required to make up all absences during Residency II after this date.
Spotlighting Residency Candidates
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 tacher Tami Laxon, shared a lesson on loving ourselves and the standards of story elements in their kindergarten classroom at andre 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 readig 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."