December 14, 2017 ‘To Whom It May Concer: This letter is a recommendation for Jordon C. Leto, Jordon was a student teaching intern in my Fall 2017 SED 4952/45490 Course. I was his Oakland University Supervisor. I compiled written observations regarding his lesson plans, teaching strategies, and classroom management for each of the five times I observed him teach for at least one class period at his placement teaching History at Romeo High School in the Romeo School District in Michigan. I completed a Midterm Evaluation, wrote a Final Narrative Assessment, and worked with Jordon as his Instructor in the Seminars during, that Pall semester. Jordon has an excellent personal presence inside and outside of the classroom. His interpersonal skills are effective with students and peers. He is friendly, warm, caring, and respectful. He projects himself with ease and confidence, listens to student , and has reasonable expectations for student accomplishments and growth. Jordon communicates with clarity and seeks to build positive relationships with his students, peers, parents, and administration. He exhibits energy and enthusiasm for his profession and pre-plans his student learning activities to allow for reflection and revision by his students and for his own lesson planning. Jordon seeks to use Best, Practice techniques and support from his cooperating teachers and peers. Due to his personal and professional qualities, Jordon is highly regarded by everyone and his students are respectful, attentive, and engaged. Jordon has well organized Lesson Plans that are proficient to advanced. They are aligned with sound conceptual clarity. He uses assessment of past student accomplishments for planning instruction. He starts with anticipatory sets and is creative with several learning activities each class period to engage all students and help keep them on task. His lessons include state and district benchmarks and exit skills with clearly stated objectives. He prepares effective questioning techniques to promote higher order thinking and facilitate leading a whole-class discussion. Where appropriate, Jordon moves around the classroom to assist students individually and in groups keeping them focused and on task. Jordon is innovative in making his learning activities relevant and motivates by reference to real life situations, His verbal explanations are clear and he works at thinking aloud to explain and model content to be effective for student understanding, Jordon utilizes as many resources as there are available to him and integrates technology daily in delivering his instruction to visually enhance student learning, engagement, and making content explicit. Smart board, data, and document cameras are used to project and stream information. Jordon demonstrates continual interest in staying updated on current and emerging technologies to enhance his instructional delivery and engage his students.Jordon displays a strong command of his subject matter. He uses language carefully, highlights core ideas, and works at making his own thinking visible. Whether delivering information on chronology, demography, geography, cultural diversity, social values, governmental or institutional authority, or individuals of importance, Jordon conducts student-centered or teacher- centered whole-class discussions employing appropriate methodology and content. He accesses prior knowledge, motivates, tries to pique curiosity, and use stimulating strategies that employ tasks to elicit individual student's thinking. He clarifies, adjusts, and reteaches where necessary. He encourages students to practice listening, speaking, and interpreting each other's responses. Jordon’s interpersonal skills, personality, professional demeanor, and command of his subject matier contribute to a healthy academic and positive climate very conducive to learning. Classroom management issues are almost nonexistent. A warm atmosphere, banter with students, and smooth transitions engage his students in meaningful activities. He uses multicultural and gender equitable practices with positive feedback to motivate students toward quality work and creativity resulting in no loss of instructional time. Itis my pleasure to highly recommend Jordon C. Leto. He will be highly effective in education or any other occupation he should choose. Jordon and I have formed a great supervisor-student relationship and I now consider him a friend. If you have any further questions, you are welcome to contact me majeske@oakland.edu : (248) 802-8447, or Sincerely, Pr Lhe Daniel L. Majeske M.A Lecturer/Instructor/University Supervisor for STEP and MAT Student Teaching Interns Teacher Development and Educational Studies/Field Office School of Education and Human Services Oakland University Rochester, MI 48309-4401 majeske@oakland.cdu