My students are seeking adults who see value in their skills and their desires to contribute to the community. Naturally, being of high school age, they also recognize, although not always verbalized, their need for outside guidance and help. They’re seeking champions, be it parents, teachers, or the community, to help them in their pursuit of academic success—always confident that this will open doors to realizing their dreams.
One of the most rewarding aspects of teaching high school is the opportunity to witness the students' academic and personal growth.
With an eye on their goals, my students work hard and, upon reflection, learn that it is doing the “small” things with consistency and regularity that add up to be the big things—the success, achievement, recognition, etcetera. Unfortunately, all too many of my students find themselves in circumstances not of their making and all too often these impact their learning. In these occasions and when school resources are drained, the students are most in need of our help.
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My Project
Technology is great… when it works. Computers and the internet are complicated and when they aren’t working the classrooms become unnecessarily complicated and learning suffers.
Real world success means doing the basics and doing them well.
Student learning is all about learning and mastering the basics. Microsoft’s own research demonstrates that long-term learning is most effectively accomplished through writing—note their Surface sales literature.
• Having access to a classroom printer-copier will provide me the opportunity to provide the students with skills practice that is more effective using paper and pencil and is otherwise unavailable when computers and the internet aren’t cooperating.
• Teachers Pay Teachers has a number of creative map and vocabulary practice activities bundles that would help the students learn and retain much of the content necessary to United States History.
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