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Our classroom is not your average classroom setting due to the different exceptionalities and needs that each child has in my classroom. Therefore, I strive to teach each student in my room individually throughout the day. It's truly differentiated instruction and so beneficial to my kids. This can be a challenge when all of them need my attention for multiple tasks and lessons. We have no time to spare so having a laminator in the classroom will allow to us to keep the focus of academics on my students and allow one of my assistants to focus on laminating the many projects we do! My students work so hard and this is just one more thing to help show off their hard work and effort!

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Our classroom is not your average classroom setting due to the different exceptionalities and needs that each child has in my classroom. Therefore, I strive to teach each student in my room individually throughout the day. It's truly differentiated instruction and so beneficial to my kids. This can be a challenge when all of them need my attention for multiple tasks and lessons. We have no time to spare so having a laminator in the classroom will allow to us to keep the focus of academics on my students and allow one of my assistants to focus on laminating the many projects we do! My students work so hard and this is just one more thing to help show off their hard work and effort!

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