I have twenty-five wonderful, energetic, and curious first-grade students. The students in my classroom speak a variety of languages, eight total. My school is 88% free or reduced price lunch, and that percentage is quickly rising. Forty-nine percent of the students at my school identify as Asian, 26% identify as African American, 14% identify as Hispanic, 10% identify as Caucasian, and 1% identify as American Indian.
My classroom is rich with diversity, and we celebrate each student's identity and culture.
My students are always moving. I use alternative seating, center-based learning, and differentiation to target the needs of all of my students.
In my school, the classrooms are co-taught and have a cluster of students who are just learning English or have special needs. I teach in a special education co-taught classroom. I am passionate about teaching to the needs of each of my students. I do not believe in a "cookie cutter" approach and often have each student working on something different at the same time which creates a need for more supplies.
My Project
My students need headphones to listen to books on their iPads. In our classroom we have an iPad for every first grade student. During our reading block the students are able to choose when they want to read with books in their book bin, listen to a book read to them on the iPad, read to someone, or work on word work.
It is important for students to hear what fluent reading sounds like.
Having headphones the students can use when choose to listen to a book on the iPad will allow them to listen to a fluent reader while the other students are reading a book or work on their writing.
Plus, the headphones help drown out the noise of their wonderfully loud teacher!
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