Tape Down Those Doodles: Provide Creative Supplies for Students
Help me give my students collaborative tables for group work, as well as scissors and tape for creative projects.
$399 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.
My students have strong work ethics, as well as strong ties to their cultures. The Santa Maria community is also strongly family-oriented, and parents work hard in order to provide a good education and bright futures for their children. In the 2017-2018 school year of my middle school, 886 students out of 949 are Hispanic and 34.7% are English Language Learners (ELLs.)885 of the 949 are socio-economically disadvantaged (California Department of Education, 2018).
This year, I have 8th grade Benchmark and Honors English classes with ELL students mixed in.
Although these students will have different skill levels, they have personalities and desires that are very much the same. They support each other and build a strong community in their classroom. They are also resilient and adaptive young people who have inventive minds.
My Project
My students currently have regular desks that are in rows. They are in partnerships, but having tables where they can be in larger groups will foster more collaboration time and give students more interaction with their peers.
Furthermore, students simply love using whiteboards.
It allows for more engagement and helps students who may need to doodle to work through their ideas the space and flexibility to erase if those ideas don't work out. These tables would open up ways to create more engaging projects and assignments, as well as more meaningful student interactions.
The tape and scissors also feed into the engaging projects and heightened student interactions. Students enjoy more creative projects, and they often would rather use tape than glue. Unfortunately, my tape dispensers are either long gone or simply broken. This makes for frustrated students when they ask for tape, but I have nothing to give them except a naked roll. Having the dispensers would help students use tape more effectively.
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