CHARLESTON, TN (WDEF) – Kaitlyn Foulks is living her dream as a Charleston Elementary School teacher. She may be new to the job, but her enthusiasm and dedication more than make for her lack of experience. Let’s spend some quality time in her 4th grade classroom for this week’s Golden Apple Award.
“Miss Folks is so wonderful. She always comes in with a smile on her face. Despite whatever might be going on in life, she is always here and gives it her 100%,” Allison Bynum, Charleston Elementary School Principal said.
“She always uh has wonderful engaging uh lessons. The kids are always um involved in hands-on activities and she just makes a wonderful learning environment for our students,” Bynum said.
“First, I’m a teacher. Um I’m also a daughter. Um, I love to uh teach kids and just help them to learn and grow,” Kaitlyn Foulks, 4th Grade Science and Social Studies teacher said.
“I’ve always wanted to work with kids. And at first, I thought I was going to be a doctor. And then the more that I started working, my godmother is a teacher and I started watching her teach. And her passion for her students inspired me to become a teacher,” Foulks said.
“She’s nice. Uh she’s the best teacher I ever had and she teaches me a lot of things,” Karter Stokes, Charleston Elementary School 4th grader said.
“I love um on every Friday um she plays a Friday song and um she does like some that are in the olden day old days. And I like to learn them, “Leighanne Snyder, Charleston Elementary School 4th grader said.
“Uh she does steam projects here and uh not really any other classes do that,” Ruby Rabrun, Charleston Elementary School 4th grader said.
“Miss Folks is a really great teacher. She teaches me a lot of new things and I love I love her class. She does a lot of fun things,” Ackson Blackwood, Charleston Elementary School 4th grader said.
“The main thing that I love about being in Miss Foulks’s class is how nice she is and how helpful she is and all the great things that she does for us,” Kaleb Arnold, Charleston Elementary School 4th grader said.
“Getting to form relationships with the kids. I think that’s the best part. Well, I come in every morning and get ready for the day and we get started. I get to see my home room class and then because I’m in fourth grade, um, and we departmentalize, we switch classes. So, I get to see all 65 students every single day. um teach them science, teach them social studies, we learn, we play, we have fun. Um and then we get to go home at the end of the day and come back the next day and spend more time together learning. My hope is that they realize that I care so deeply for them. All that is compassion. I think that’s the most important part because I just want them to come in and realize that they are loved and cared for,” Foulks said.
