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Ms. Shameem Rakha
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Franklin Middle School
Hometown:
Champaign, Illinois
Class Information:
Room Number: Oz
Students per Class: 138
Class Description:
I teach 6 courses a day--2 each of 6th, 7th and 8th grade Honors Reading. I have the best job in the world--working with exquisitely curious students. We are a very diverse population in terms of race, class, and ability, but we all share one thing in common--our love of learning! We use technology every day to learn such things as creative thinking, vocabulary from Latin and Greek roots, analogies, and critical reading skills. We are becoming literate of our world!
Position:
Honors reading teacher
Needs:
Flip Video Cameras! I would love tde so they can create their own knowledge.
My Philosophy:
I believe in a democratic learning environment where each student is respected and is pushed to think critically about everything. My key phrase, which posted on my ceiling is, "always ask why". I believe in my students and want each one of them to learn as much as they possibly can in their time with me.
Personal Information:
College and Degrees:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign BSCurriculum and Instruction MEd Special Education workingon my PhD in Educational Policy Studies
Activities:
cooking, running, and billiards
Favorite Books:
The Phantom Tollbooth In Cold Blood Crime and Punishment
Favorite Quotes:
You must be the change you want to see in the world--Gandhi Farbetter it is, to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, for they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat--T. Roosevelt
Why Do I Teach?:
There is nothing on this planet that is more worthy of my time than the future of our world. I love my job!