Name: Kylie Corneliusen
Location: Franklin Elementary, USD 475 Junction City, KS
Class/content area taught: Fourth grade
What are you most excited about with your new career? We are currently in person five days a week. I am so grateful to be with my students every day! I have grown so much as an educator these past couple of months due to being a first-year teacher, as well as being the only fourth-grade in-person teacher at my school. I am grateful to have had to persevere to figure out my curriculum and classroom management. It has made me become a better educator!
In addition to being a first-year teacher, I coach high school volleyball at Manhattan High School. I knew it would be a challenge to be coaching and starting my first year as a teacher but I stayed organized and on top of things and was able to balance both!! Anything is possible! I am very passionate about coaching so I knew I could not give it up going into my 1st year teaching!!
Suggestions/encouragement for new teachers: My advice to College of Education students is always ask your colleagues questions, don’t be afraid to try something new with your students because even if it doesn’t work it will teach them to be flexible and to ask teachers in your school what they do for classroom management and always, always follow through with your classroom management!
Check out her fourth-graders cheering on the Cats in the video below:
