[NOBE-L] Help with Preparing for Education Capstone

Tue Jul 29 16:20:05 UTC 2025

That makes sense. Regarding setting and enforcing rules and behavior, I’ve been told that misbehavior is usually auditory in some way, but I’ve had a lot of experience with silent misbehaviors that, at least under my watch, have managed to go unnoticed, sometimes indefinitely. Do you rely on other students and their response to the misbehaving student, or do transitions bring it out into the open? On a related note, I substituted for a special ed class, and it was a learning curb for me because some of the students were nonverbal, and everyone else there already had a system and a connection with the students. I’m curious what your experience has been in that regard.

Matthew Robinson

> On Jul 29, 2025, at 10:01 AM, Lynzie Ashley via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> I didn’t really have much influence over the classroom set up, but I did emphasize what my expectations were versus the lead teachers expectations
> Lynzie Ashley
> The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
> Helen Keller
> 
>> On Jul 29, 2025, at 10:54 AM, Matthew Robinson via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Okay. So having five students probably made it easier for you to give them the individual attention as needed. How much influence did you have over how the room was set up at any time during the student teaching experience, or did you focus more on introducing your procedures and expectations?
>> 
>> Matthew Robinson
>> 
>>> On Jul 22, 2025, at 1:21 PM, Lynzie Ashley via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>> It was an elementary self contained room with 5 students.  We had tables in the middle, a carpet in the far left corner and a cozy corner in the far right. We had student cubbies along one wall and the teacher desk was in the front left corner. We also had a back room for supplies.
>>> Lynzie Ashley
>>> The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
>>> Helen Keller
>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 22, 2025, at 12:55 PM, Matthew Robinson via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> That’s great! While you were student teaching and doing your project on classroom management, I’m curious what you did for classroom setup, or how much say you had in the setup of your student teaching classroom. For me, I set up my hypothetical classroom with twenty-nine student desks divided into rows of roughly six students, with enough space that I could walk between rows to a specific desk as needed. If I wasn’t circulating or helping a particular student, I would spend time during whole-group work or “I do” portions in the center of the room in order to better hear everything and everyone in the room. My desk would be in a corner easily accessible to students, near some bookshelves where students could choose books from my classroom library to read.
>>>> 
>>>> Matthew Robinson
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 22, 2025, at 11:41 AM, Lynzie Ashley via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> With my program we did our capstone during student teaching. I’m now a licensed special education teacher.
>>>>> Lynzie Ashley
>>>>> The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
>>>>> Helen Keller
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jul 22, 2025, at 12:31 PM, Matthew Robinson via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Lynzie:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you so much for your willingness to help, and congratulations on finishing your capstone. Will you be student teaching next? What are you going into in the field of education?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Matthew Robinson
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jul 17, 2025, at 1:23 PM, Lynzie Ashley via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Matthew! So happy to hear that you are working on your capstone. I just recently finished my capstone project, solely on classroom management. I would love to help you out in any capacity that I can. Feel free to reach out with questions, and if you want to connect via phone or other means, let me know. Hope to hear from you soon!
>>>>>>> Lynzie Ashley
>>>>>>> The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
>>>>>>> Helen Keller
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 17, 2025, at 2:07 PM, Matthew Robinson via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi everyone:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I hope that it was a great convention for all of you. I just wanted to reach out and introduce myself and what I’m doing and see if anyone could help me. I am Matthew, and I am a student at Southern Utah University. I am preparing for my final year studying English education, with the goal of teaching secondary English language arts, Spanish, and/or English as a second language. My goal was to have graduated earlier this spring and to be student teaching this fall; however, due to difficulties on my end, I will need to retake my education capstone in the spring of next year. To that end, I am seeking out experience in the classroom wherever I can find it. As part of this capstone, I put together a classroom management portfolio detailing my approach to classroom management from multiple angles. I created this with some creativity and research I did into how other blind teachers manage their classrooms. I have found two possible avenues to gaining more meaningful classroom experience in the months leading up to my retaking of the capstone next spring. One of them is a school run by SUU called Success Academy where students may go for middle and high school; upon successful completion they may be admitted into SUU for a reduced cost. Another possibility is working as a substitute teacher throughout the school district. I have been in contact with the director of Success Academy, and while the conversation is in its early stages, he has expressed interest in working with me in some capacity. Along with this, I was wondering if I could connect with any of you to share some of my classroom management portfolio and talk both theoretically and practically about any strengths and areas for improvement I can work on as I work in these two areas. As this portfolio is long and covers many things that are more general to teaching as a whole, I wouldn’t share all of it—some areas of interest include classroom rules, procedures, classroom setup, the first day, dealing with parents, and self-organization.
>>>>>>>> I look forward to hearing your thoughts on these things. Thank you in advance for your willingness to help. If you want to connect with me privately, feel free to send an email to the address from which this email was sent.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Matthew Robinson
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