My students need notebooks, pencils, highlighters, and erasers. These will be used every single day throughout the year to take notes on each unit that I teach.
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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.
My Students
In my 7 years of teaching middle school, I've found that 7th grade is an incredible important time for students. 7th grade is in that very "fun" area between being a little kid and being a teenager. Students in this age group are usually trying to figure out what kind of teenager they want to be while dealing with the fact that they are still immature goofballs that still watch Spongebob. They're pretty great.
I've also unfortunately found that 7th grade is often the time that students that were doing fine in elementary school start slipping.
I believe that in order to help students keep up their enthusiasm for learning, it is very important to have a structured learning environment, with varied projects catered to different learning styles. In order to make sure all students can participate, I try to provide everything they may need in any situation.
My Project
Middle school is the time when students learn how to study, and often the first time they are expected to do work independently at home. I find that teaching students to take proper notes, showing them how to annotate those notes, and then how to use them to study is the best way to set them up for high school, and ultimately college.
I use student notebooks to allow students to scan the chapter at the beginning of a unit, for timeline activities, geography activities, warm ups, Cornell Notes and classroom projects.
Normally I could order notebooks directly through my school, but since I am at a new school this year I was not able to order supplies for myself at the end of the previous school year.
I have also added pencils, erasers and highlighters to aid my students in their note taking. Annotation is a very important skill and teaching students Cornell Notes (where pages are folded in half, students highlight important portions of notes and add their own comments and questions on the opposite side) is a good way to get students to consider, analyze and understand their notes as opposed to just transcribing what's written on the board.
Nearly all 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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