My students need basics supplies and organizational tools like dry erase markers boards as well as colored pencils and markers to diversify learning and become more engaged.
$439 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
"I can!" is a phrase you hear often in our world language department classes. It is important for all students, especially our seventh and eighth graders in a low-income/high poverty area to feel successful and know that they can do something. Watching students realize that they can do more than what they thought is what we love to see happening in our classrooms.
Our students are diverse, resilient, eager learners who want to make a difference in the world.
Ninety-plus percent of students qualify for free/reduced lunch and eight-plus percent have 2nd -5th grade reading levels as they enter 7th grade and continue into 8th grade. We know they can elevate their thinking and learning because we see their potential, and we try to help them achieve new academic heights. They simply need some encouragement and direction for how to do this.
My Project
These materials are necessary for student organization! Seventh and Eighth grade students are notoriously unorganized. The binders that the students receive at the beginning of the year are trashed before winter break. But, we have personally seen in our classrooms that if we have specific folders, sets of markers, crayons, and colored pencils, etc. at each table or on a counter top for students to grab each day as we work through units, then students lose fewer materials and the entire room stays more organized all while students access and use the materials each day.
We use the expo markers and lapboards for a variety of engaging activities which motivate and increase student writing performance.
Students love using the colored pencils and markers to work on class activities and decorate projects focusing on language acquisition and culture. Many students do not have basic materials such as colored pencils at home, so it is an extra treat for them to have these materials available.
Another example of how we use these materials - as part of the beginning of class routine reviewing previous learning, our students track and assess their learning with a blank stoplight and coloring it in with markers. Students self-assess whether they feel they are green (understand and are comfortable with the concept), yellow (think they want/need more practice with the concept), or red (do not understand the concept much), and mark the supplied paper with the appropriately-felt color. The students' papers, the markers, crayons, and/or colored pencils with which to complete the review of learning and fill in the stoplight with a green, yellow, or red are organized together in magazine file holders or crates.
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