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Student Shared Listening Center, $72.00, 0.00% raised
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Single Unit Why I need this:
This would be a true Godsend for my urban first graders. I literally have about 100 book on CD, with sets of books for students to follow along in, but I do not have a listening center. It has always been such a shame to have all those listening center books and nothing to utilize them.
Quantity: 1 Price: $72.00
The Student Shared Listening Center is ideal for situations requiring portable equipment with quality sound.
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 Holly Banning has added and Student Shared Listening Center to their wishlist Aug 18, 2010
Ms. Holly Banning
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Summer Hill-Ruffin Rd Elem Sch
Class Information:
Room Number: 14
Students per Class: 18
Class Description:
The population of my urban school is richly multi-cultural, with an approximate demographic of 65% African American, 30% Hispanic, and 5% Other Ethnicities. Over the past few years, the percentage of English Language Learners in our school has been steadily increasing. It is estimated that our incoming first grade class this year will be 49% Hispanic. With that projected increase will come the needs specific to Limited English Proficient students. As teachers in this environment, we must be prepared to meet that challenge. Although our school is culturally diverse, it is practically economically homogeneous. According to the most recent figures available from our district website, 93% of the students receive free or reduced-price lunches. As a result, we not only meet, but far exceed the eligibility standards of a Title I school. The great majority of our students come from families that live at or below the poverty line.
Position:
first grade teacher
Needs:
Our school is nearly 100 years old. We need nearly everything. Our school has been on and off the "chopping block" for a new school for several years now. I believe that because of this "iffy" status, little is funneled in our direction. Because of the dire economic situation that most of the families are in these days, that teachers such as myself, buy many of the most basic supplies out of our own pockets in order to keep our classrooms afloat.
My Philosophy:
I believe that each child deserves a quality education, regardless of his or her race, religion, background or circumstance. This means I will go to whatever length necessary, within my power, to ensure that happens.
Personal Information:
About Me:
I am an elementary teacher with 15 fulltime years of experience. I have taught in every setting possible from the mountains of Appalachia, to affluent suburbs, to smalltown working class, to my current passion -- a multicultural, socioeconomicallychallenged urban school.
College and Degrees:
Clarion University, BS in Elementary Education WaldenUniversity, MS in Elementary Literacy (April '11) Yale Univeristy, 2 time National Fellow in the Yale National Initiative to improve urban education.
Activities:
Graduate School Writing Reading Learningevery day
Favorite Books:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Blink, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Water for Elephants, and anything by Wm. Faulkner or Sherwood Anderson
Favorite Quotes:
"If you don't learn something new every day, you are not doing your job." -- my mother
Interests:
History, writing, travel, law, medicine, dogs, art, books, poetry, botany...
Employment History:
Webster County Board of Education, Webster Springs, WV Altoona Area School District, Altoona, PA Martin County Schools, Stuart, FL Nicholas County Board of Education, Summersville, WV Richmond Public Schools, Richmond, VA
Percent of Students are:
     White/Caucasian : 4 %
     Hispanic: 30 %
     African American: 65 %
     Asian: 1 %
Free/Reduced Lunch Program Enrollment:: 93 %
ESL Enrollment:: 30 %
Average number of students in class:: 20 students
Number of students I teach:: 18 students