First-year teacher putting noses to grindstone
By Amy F. Reiter
Sunday April 6, 2008
Heather Coit
First-year teacher Angela Simpson works with a small group of her first-graders, including, from left, Zachary Pellizzaro, Amethyst Thompson and Racine Webb, during class March 31 at Yankee Ridge Elementary School in Urbana. Simpson has begun to introduce more difficult concepts and lessons as she prepares her charges for the second grade.
Editor's note: This is the third in an occasional series about Angela Simpson, a first-year teacher, and her first-grade class at Yankee Ridge Elementary School in Urbana. The first story profiled Simpson's first day of school; the second checked in after the end of the first quarter. Now, heading into the last quarter, Simpson is busy getting her students ready for the shift to second grade.
It's 8:07 a.m. Monday, and the hallway of Yankee Ridge Elementary is packed with students waiting for school to start. Angela Simpson watches them, making sure the kids behave, making sure no one gets too loud.
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