Help me give my students new diverse texts and digital resources from TeachersPayTeachers to assist with our virtual learning goals in all core subject areas.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Ingram's classroom raised $218
This project is fully funded
My Students
My fourth grade students attend a very small, rural Pennsylvania school. Many of my students come from low-socioeconomic families and a large percentage of our school qualifies for free or reduced price lunches. However, our teachers embrace this rural advantage and make the effort to break the mold of the traditional classroom setting by connecting our students to their community and utilizing the plethora of resources that our country setting provides us.
A well-planned teacher has such a positive influence the climate of a classroom.
Teachers truly lead by example, so they must practice what they preach and maintain a classroom that runs as smoothly as a well-oiled machine. Such preparedness takes time, effort, and the right supplies, but unfortunately, district responsibilities and school budgets dictated by administrators do not always cater to the true needs of the classroom teacher. I take pride in my classroom, and as expectations have evolved for the health and safety of our students, so have our needs. I am looking for some new additions to my teacher toolbox to refresh my curriculum.
My Project
As we all know, public school budgets are under more strain than ever before. There is such a demand to meet the emotional, behavioral, and academic needs of our students, and the funds to support extracurricular learning just isn't readily available. Now that we are facing a global pandemic, the opportunities for hands-on learning are becoming even more limited. Students are learning from home and virtually engaging on a variety of platforms. To enrich their learning opportunities for the current school year, I am in need of a fresh collection of learning tools to engage my students and better meet their unique needs.
Through TeachersPayTeachers, I'm hoping to gather a digital toolkit of resources that will be more engaging than the traditional paper and pencil or typing tasks that have been used in the past to virtual teach.
TPT has a plethora of digital props and lesson studies that have been designed for use in an online environment, saving me hours of prep work and granting me the gift of time to better engage with my students online. I'm also hoping to refresh my bookshelf with new novels of diverse backgrounds so that all of the kids in my class find something to connect with on a personal level. These lessons and books will celebrate the seasons, honor cultural celebrations, and make learning online feel more festive and inclusive through our quarantine. There is no doubt that we are teaching through unprecedented times. Books and resources such as these have such a profound effect on the mental health of our schools as we navigate through.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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