I teach in a rural, public elementary school with 400 students, grades PreK-6. Many students choose to participate in sports, Destination Imagination, music, and band. We keep our class sizes small, with 16-20 students in each classroom in grades preK-3. In this way, we can offer as much personal attention to each child’s needs as possible.
My students are sweet and full of potential, but the poverty level is high, with a 50% free and reduced-price lunch population.
Nonetheless, my school tries very hard to afford all students the same opportunities, no matter what social or economic situation may exist in their lives. All students are offered free breakfast, and we have a peer mentoring program run by our high school students that attends to the primary students' social-emotional needs and offers free supper as well.
Personally, I take time to get to know each child in my classroom as a whole person. My goal throughout the year is to understand their academic strengths and weaknesses, as well as their character strengths and weakness. I love being their friend, teacher, and hopefully a role model.
My Project
I like to do most of my teaching in small groups. While I am teaching a group of 6-10 students, I will have the rest of my class fill their time independently. The challenge is getting my students who need to work independently to produce quality work while I am NOT supervising them.
To help motivate students to use their time wisely, I would like to have a comfy spot with a couch and math games involving financial literacy available for them to play and learn while I am working with another math group.
My students are naturally attracted to the topic of coins and money, and games involving this topic, which help them practice these skills, are just what they need.
The students love playing games that have them use math skills in a real-world scenario which sharpens their financial literacy skills and their minds!
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