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This year, our school theme is "great minds under construction." As a new teacher, I think that one of the biggest investments that I can make in my students' construction, is to have the continuing mindset of a student myself. The resources and materials will make an impact by ensuring that I can continue to learn new high impact teaching strategies, incorporate differentiated instruction, cooperative learning, and foster an all-around classroom culture of learning. I feel that the students would be able to learn in an environment where I can provide more differentiated instruction. It is important to promote literacy across the curriculum, even in the science and math fields. The students will have an in the class library, using sources to pull out data, analyze it, describe it, and understand it, which is what is expected of them on the EOY tests. With the dry-erase equipment, students will be able to work out problems with strategies such as place value charts, area model, standard algorithm, arrays, as well as others using their individual materials. Students could also use the materials in science to think critically and create models of things such as the earth's systems, food webs, draw the cycle of nutrients and water through the xylem and phloem of plant systems and a myriad of other things. The reason I believe it is important for them to be able to have access to these is twofold: 1) studies show that even though students have access to take notes and do activities via technology-pen and paper (or dry-erase) forge a stronger long term connection in the brain, and will help kinesthetic as well as visual learners 2)the nature and number of applications of the simple dry erase setups will save in materials over time

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This year, our school theme is "great minds under construction." As a new teacher, I think that one of the biggest investments that I can make in my students' construction, is to have the continuing mindset of a student myself. The resources and materials will make an impact by ensuring that I can continue to learn new high impact teaching strategies, incorporate differentiated instruction, cooperative learning, and foster an all-around classroom culture of learning. I feel that the students would be able to learn in an environment where I can provide more differentiated instruction. It is important to promote literacy across the curriculum, even in the science and math fields. The students will have an in the class library, using sources to pull out data, analyze it, describe it, and understand it, which is what is expected of them on the EOY tests. With the dry-erase equipment, students will be able to work out problems with strategies such as place value charts, area model, standard algorithm, arrays, as well as others using their individual materials. Students could also use the materials in science to think critically and create models of things such as the earth's systems, food webs, draw the cycle of nutrients and water through the xylem and phloem of plant systems and a myriad of other things. The reason I believe it is important for them to be able to have access to these is twofold: 1) studies show that even though students have access to take notes and do activities via technology-pen and paper (or dry-erase) forge a stronger long term connection in the brain, and will help kinesthetic as well as visual learners 2)the nature and number of applications of the simple dry erase setups will save in materials over time

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