BY ALISON ALOWONLE, ANTHONY JOHNSON, AND JAMIE REESE, eSchool News
My homeroom is 4th- and 5th-graders: 21 gifted students, a mix of boys and girls. It’s nice because the 5th-graders are really the mentors, and next year the 4th-graders get to take on that role. It’s a lot of project-based learning in here. For instance, for chemistry we’ll work on teaching them the properties of atoms and bonds and we’ll go through the whole chemistry unit, but then it’s peppered throughout with different labs they can do. With intense students like mine, connecting to the family is super important. I send periodic emails to individual parents to let them know how things are going. I also send everyone a very detailed weekly newsletter about what it looks like to be a child in this room for a week.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/05/26/award-winning-teacher/
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