With many new students coming in from Puerto Rico due to hurricane Maria, my students need extra support. Students at this school are hard working learners. They may come from homes that are struggling. 73% of them receive free or reduced-price lunch, but that doesn’t stop them from wanting an education. The students are multiracial, including 40% white, 31% Hispanic, 23% Black, 3% Asian, and 3% combination of races. This creates an environment of acceptance and tolerance for all. My challenge is to level the playing field so that students with fewer opportunities are able to compete academically with those who have more opportunities.
Creating learning experiences for these students is the best part of my job; the joy on their faces as they are discovering something new and integrating knowledge into their “personal toolkits” is priceless.
In my learning environment, I endeavor to set them up to win in an environment that is inviting and comfortable. Sometimes that means school supplies, mending clothing, a band-aid, or a kind word. I believe this will not only help the students focus, but will also produce a higher level of work from the student. Teaching these young learners is a privilege.
My Project
I work with pre-K through six grade in the media center. With these new virtual reality mazes, my students will be engaged in the media center. Students will be able to design their own reality adventure with the maze seedling technology.
The mazes give students exciting new ways to play with technology.
This wooden board game is stylish and durable and versatile to turn into virtual reality with the help of iPads. Students can create the maze by design. They have stickers to design the wooden maze and it has removable walls to change the design of the maze. Students can move the maze around and create different walls and add other stickers to create new images. Students will be learning hands-on as they tilt the maze around to create their virtual maze.
More than half of 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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