You are my "why"!
Welcome students! I am so excited to guide your learning this year. Your brain is a muscle. Just like your leg and arm muscles, it gets stronger the more you use it. Together, we will grow from the "fixed" mindset that keeps our muscles weak to the "growth" mindset that allows us to strengthen our muscles as we make mistakes, fail at our attempts, learn from those mistakes, and incorporate our grit by adopting the "YET" perspective.
My "Why": I teach in hopes of sparking interest. Interest in culture, learning, exploring and acceptance. I want to guide kids towards becoming critical thinkers and active readers. I want to empower our future leaders with the grit to push through the struggles with the realization that it is the process of learning that pushes us towards our next chapter. I want my students to know how it feels to be curious. EVERY student represents the reason I am here.
This year, our 6-8 Gifted ELA/Reading students will focus on at least eight of our Tennessee Essential Learning objectives (informational text and literature) including, but not limited to, summarizing and forming inferences based on text evidence; determining connotative and denotative meanings of unfamiliar and multi-meaning words using context clues/key words, parts of speech, and word roots; composing a variety of written products such as explanatory/informative, narrative, and argumentative, each of which will include a strong thesis statement and at least three pieces of evidence that connect to and support the thesis; and correctly forming and using perspective in their written products.
While I am not as active as most, but I am trying to take more pictures of my "kids" learning and doing great things. I plan to share them on Twitter. https://twitter.com/PamelaMould2
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