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.
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Working in Baltimore City I have seen the challenges my students face on a day-to-day basis. Some of those challenges I have no control over. I cannot change the fact that some of my students are commuting over an hour to school every day. I have no control over who influences them before the hours 8:15 or after 3:00 in the afternoon. However, I do have the ability to create a positive learning-focused environment during the seven hours of the day that I spend with my students.
This will be my third year working in a school, which houses predominately low-income and urban students. Most of my kids are between the ages of fourteen and sixteen. At that age, a young adult should have adequate typing and technology skills. However, due to the insufficient access to technology my student’s simply are not able to navigate computers and other devices. They are more likely to type a paper on their phones.
This year I want to give my students the platform to flourish in my English classroom. They will use their tablets to aid in their instruction. Not only can they use them as an aid to research projects but they will also be required to respond to their critical reading assignments in a blog format. Having been self-published myself, I will have a mini-unit on publishing. Students will create their own chapters of a novel. These tablets are necessary to the innovative and wireless classroom that I am attempting to create.
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Working in Baltimore City I have seen the challenges my students face on a day-to-day basis. Some of those challenges I have no control over. I cannot change the fact that some of my students are commuting over an hour to school every day. I have no control over who influences them before the hours 8:15 or after 3:00 in the afternoon. However, I do have the ability to create a positive learning-focused environment during the seven hours of the day that I spend with my students.
This will be my third year working in a school, which houses predominately low-income and urban students. Most of my kids are between the ages of fourteen and sixteen. At that age, a young adult should have adequate typing and technology skills. However, due to the insufficient access to technology my student’s simply are not able to navigate computers and other devices. They are more likely to type a paper on their phones.
This year I want to give my students the platform to flourish in my English classroom. They will use their tablets to aid in their instruction. Not only can they use them as an aid to research projects but they will also be required to respond to their critical reading assignments in a blog format. Having been self-published myself, I will have a mini-unit on publishing. Students will create their own chapters of a novel. These tablets are necessary to the innovative and wireless classroom that I am attempting to create.