New Teacher in Inner City - A Printer is Essential!
Help me give my students a printer so I can maximize instructional efficiency! After 20-years working in various educational capacities, I hope to make an impact teaching inner city youth. Starting from scratch is tough, so THANK YOU!
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Project
Hello! I am a new teacher starting from scratch. I will be working with 9th grade SLIFE (students with limited or interrupted formal education) in the inner city of New Jersey. Having just completed my teaching credential, I was proactive in seeking this teaching opportunity. I left my job at an elite boarding school (admissions) because I seek to make a greater impact on youth...I will be teaching 75 students. In preparing for the school year, I was given a small budget for supplies: pencils, pens, an electric pencil sharpener, composition notebooks, loose leaf paper, and dry erase markers. This was as far as my allotted budget could stretch. This is why my priority/#1 request through DonorsChoose is for a reliable printer. From my experience as a student-teacher at two schools in the same District in which I will be working, there is rarely a working printer/copier to say nothing of a sufficient printer paper and toner supply. In teaching SLIFE students, I know I will be teaching many important skills from interpersonal communication, literacy, mathematics, technology...and it will be essential to differentiate instruction using various modes (not just using school issued chrome books / google classroom). Of course, I will need to print out traditional worksheets as I will be drilling important, basic math and language skills (coupled with handling manipulatives, of course!). Further, as I teach literacy my students will need to see/handle words and images in print (I am not a fan of reading exclusively electronically, nor does this work for developing readers and those with limited formal education). They need the chance to mark up a passage with questions, circling words they do not know (critical reading skills I will foster!). I also need a printer to produce and showcase my students' original work.
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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