CHESTERFIELD SCHOOL

Chesterfield School District

535 Old Chesterfield Road, PO Box 205 Chesterfield, New Hampshire Telephone !03"3!3"#30$ %ax !03"3!3"#40!

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May 7, 2012 To Whom It May Concern: This is a letter of support for Andrea MacMurray. Andrea as a special education !raduate student teacher at Chesterfield "chool for the #etter part of ei!ht and a half months. $urin! her time at our school, Andrea demonstrated a thou!htful, or!ani%ed approach to e&erythin! she did. "he has a !reat intuiti&e understandin! of learnin! disa#led students and the o#stacles they ha&e to o&ercome. "he also !ained a !ood understandin! of the third and fourth !rade curriculum and appropriate assessment tools. Most important, Andrea demonstrated !reat rapport ith students and teachers. "tudents en'oyed learnin! from her and achie&in! for her. Andrea really (no s students. Whene&er e sat do n as a team to discuss ho students ere doin! and any possi#le concerns, Andrea as al ays &ery insi!htful. If a student did not understand somethin!, she as usually a#le to offer possi#le e)planations for it and as often ri!ht on. In addition, she ould often come up ith solutions to remediate the pro#lem and !et the student #ac( on trac(. In re!ards to the curriculum and assessment, Andrea de&eloped a !ood understandin! of the curriculum and ho to as( the ri!ht *uestion to assess a particular s(ill. "he as also open to different methods of instruction and as particularly !ood at accessin! information on the computer. +"he has tau!ht this old teacher a thin! or t o in re!ards to computer #ased instruction,- In addition, she as e)cellent at reflectin! after lessons and learnin! from her mista(es if thin!s did not !o entirely the ay they ere planned. .er lessons !ot #etter and #etter as time ent on. As far as rapport, all students and teacher ere sad to see her lea&e our school. Andrea as &ery carin! to ards all students, yet e)pected them to do their #est and as illin! to stay after them if they ere not !i&in! all that they could. Teachers also found her easy to tal( to and colla#orate ith. Andrea as a pleasure to or( ith and learn from. I (no education if !i&en the chance. she ill do !reat thin!s in

"incerely, /a rence 0llrich "pecial 1ducation Teacher