Teaching in a high-needs, Title One school, my students are often faced with challenges outside of the classroom. They are often unable to access technology outside of school hours for various reasons, including both socio-economic status and stressful family situations.
My goal is to do my part in closing the achievement gap within my own district by providing students with opportunities to be fully exposed to and excited about all of their academic content.
I also aim to help them see the relevance to them!
Most of my students qualify for free or reduced price lunch due to their families' socioeconomic status. This means their stresses outside of the classroom are regarding more basic needs. This puts them at a disadvantage in their early lives, to their peers competing for college admissions and eventually, jobs down the road.
I think exposing my students to extra opportunities to focus on academic topics outside of the classroom (or content specific times) will help to even the playing field. Although they can't necessarily find these moments on their own, I hope to provide them within our school community!
They are hardworking, motivated and engaged in any content I present to them!
My Project
Every day in my classroom we do hands on activities and games during our math rotations, in order to give students immediate and real-life examples to practice their new skills in. Often the cards we use for these last only a week or two of rotations. This means we are left with only a few sets of each or have less choices the next week.
If we are able to laminate all of our cards for math work, we can make many more game options available each day as they will last beyond their first week!
This means students can continue working on skills they struggle with for longer, and can easily review when necessary.
Further, we can make heavy duty card stock cards as an activity out of the shapes of our choice, and laminate them to make the learning full circle!
More than half 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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