Lincoln Elementary School 158 South Scott Street * Adrian, Michigan 49221 Phone: $17 / 265-8544 Fae: 517 / 265-8923, ‘Web Site: heep/!TheAdeianMaples.com, 2014-15 School Year To: Whom It May Concern, |.am writing this letter of recommendation for Lauren Bacus. She was my outstanding student teacher in the fall of 2014. | have a class of 28 active kindergarteners with 7 receiving services for special needs. | teach at Lincoln Elementary in Adrian, Michigan, Lauren had done observation hours in my classroom over the past few years as well as volunteering in my classroom to help with whatever I needed. When I met Lauren | knew she would one day make a great teacher. She is warm, caring, kind, enthusiastic and outgoing. While at Lincoln Lauren made wonderful relationships with other staff members as well as the parents of the children in my class. During her student teaching Lauren was very professional and always went above and beyond the expectations. She gave me great ideas and participated in events that were before and after school hours, She is passionate about teaching and nurturing children to learn and become the best they can be in their academics as well as behavior. She has great classroom management! Lincoln is an International Baccalaureate World School (IB), Primary Years Program (PYP). Lauren helped plan out our units of study as well as implement the Leamer Profile Traits {LP} which is a big portion of the curriculum for ail grades especially kindergarten. During her student teaching Lauren exhibited many of the LP traits: open-minded, risk-taker, caring, principled, balanced, thinker, reflective, and a great inquirer! These are the traits she helped our children learn as well as portray. {4m positive that Lauren will make a wonderful teacher. I would love for my own children to have her when she becomes a teacher. She is very well-rounded and is able to learn from her successes as well as mistakes. | am so happy that | was able to help mentor her as she begins her career! Fondly, Dawn Huggins-Ruetz dhuggins@adrian.k12.mi.us 517-375-4427 Si necesita esta informacién traducida, favor de llamar a las oficinas de los Programas Estatales y Federales al 517 / 264-6622