My name is Caitlin Froehlich and I will be your child’s teacher this year. This will be my fifth year of teaching and my second year at Parsley Elementary. I was born and raised in Erie, PA and moved to Wilmington, NC in 2006. Before moving to Wilmington to “teach at the beach”, I received my BA in psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder; Go Buffs! In addition to my BA, I received my teaching certificate in elementary education. I have taught at Eaton Elementary School, Johnson Elementary School, and Ogden Elementary School in third, second, fourth, and fifth grade, before coming to Parsley Elementary School last year.
Currently, I am in UNCW’s graduate program working on a Master’s degree in Language and Literacy. I truly believe that teachers are life long learners. I love to spend my spare time with my family in Pennsylvania and California. I enjoy relaxing on the beach with a good book and my passion in life is to travel around the world. My most recent trip was to Osaka, Japan this summer with UNCW for tow weeks of studying the culture and the school environment. What a great learning experience! I can’t wait to see where my next adventure will take me.
Philosophy and Teaching Approaches
The philosophy of the classroom is aligned with Parsley’s school-wide philosophy and expectations. The teaching approach is student centered and the learning engagements planned are meaningful and designed to meet each student’s academic learning level. Core subjects may be integrated at times throughout the school day and year. Character education is reinforced through literature, cooperative learning groups, Second Step, and weekly classroom meetings.
The lesson plans include the curriculum from the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and are designed with researched based strategies from Robert Marzano’s book, Classroom Instruction That Works. Strategies like similarities and differences as well as non-linguistic representations promote higher order thinking. The cooperative learning structures, the foundation for group and pair work, are based on the work of Dr. Spencer Kagan.