My 9th grade social studies class includes an exciting group of 56 young adults with a wide variety of interests, abilities, and goals. We are part of a career and technical high school program and our students do not have a traditional high school experience. Our students come from all over the county to get a high school and community college experience. Our classroom focuses on collaboration, growth-mindset, acceptance, open-mindedness, and inclusion so that we can gain more insight in historical lessons without fear or judgment.
In this class, we build a classroom community that works together to explore history through an empathetic lens to better understand our shared human story.
I teach in a wing of 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade classrooms. As students’ progress through our classes they venture throughout the college campus taking courses which allows them graduate with a high school diploma, certificates, licenses, and or associate degrees. My classroom is about learning history in a broader context so that we focus on the human experience. The work we do in this classroom is about accepting others and their differences, experiencing history with an opened mind, and the inclusion of all in history.
My Project
We complete many interactive lessons and projects (interactive notebooks, history cubes, budget projects, lapbooks, games, and museums). Project based learning allows students to delve deeper into topics resulting in a more in depth understanding of specific time periods and events in history. To help immerse students into lessons I incorporate many educational videos. Students use Chromebooks to access individualized lessons and listen to videos. Headsets allow students to work within digital lessons on their own pace without disturbing students around them.
All students are equal in my classroom, but all students do not have equal access to supplies.
To balance this access, head sets will given to students without financial means. In addition, students that need color copies to complete projects (history cubes, lapbooks, museum displays, etc.) will have access to a color printer. This access will validate all students work, worth by allowing equal access to materials.
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