More than a third of students from low鈥慽ncome households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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This is my first year as a first grade teacher. My experience before was as a special education teacher and I couldn't have many things in my room due to behaviors. The things I did bring into the classroom were second-hand materials that the school had loaned me, so I was coming into this new, first grade classroom pretty empty-handed. Thankfully, many generous people donated smaller items so that I could fill up my classroom. The one thing that I had not asked for was a teaching easel. I usually like to have my students come up to help write missing words in the morning message, work on problems we encounter during lessons, or help make anchor charts on my chart paper. I thought that I could make what I had in my room work, but I have found that, with the limited space I have in my classroom, it is much harder to have students come up to engage with the lessons we are doing. My whiteboard is filled with our schedule and calendar time items and my smartboard is a little too high for some of my students to reach.
With this teaching easel, I will have a portable space to write out my morning message at a level my students can engage with, make anchor charts, and engage students using magnetic materials for ELA and math lessons. It will also help to prop up my big books when I need to use them and store extra materials that have been causing clutter at the front of my room. My students love to come up to the front of the class to help solve problems and I know they would love to have an easel where they could be more easily engaged with our lessons.
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This is my first year as a first grade teacher. My experience before was as a special education teacher and I couldn't have many things in my room due to behaviors. The things I did bring into the classroom were second-hand materials that the school had loaned me, so I was coming into this new, first grade classroom pretty empty-handed. Thankfully, many generous people donated smaller items so that I could fill up my classroom. The one thing that I had not asked for was a teaching easel. I usually like to have my students come up to help write missing words in the morning message, work on problems we encounter during lessons, or help make anchor charts on my chart paper. I thought that I could make what I had in my room work, but I have found that, with the limited space I have in my classroom, it is much harder to have students come up to engage with the lessons we are doing. My whiteboard is filled with our schedule and calendar time items and my smartboard is a little too high for some of my students to reach.
With this teaching easel, I will have a portable space to write out my morning message at a level my students can engage with, make anchor charts, and engage students using magnetic materials for ELA and math lessons. It will also help to prop up my big books when I need to use them and store extra materials that have been causing clutter at the front of my room. My students love to come up to the front of the class to help solve problems and I know they would love to have an easel where they could be more easily engaged with our lessons.