"I work with my students to:

Make connections using literature to support their opinions and interpretations

Use strategies for reading fiction, nonfiction, poetry and vocabulary in context

Use appropriate grammar and usage in speaking and writing

Analyze and evaluate information researched in library

Use steps of the writing process in writer's workshop."

"Citation of sources, primary and secondary sources, reading comprehension"

"Realize that the Internet is not the only source."

"They need main idea practice."

"I want my students to be able to ask questions and to independently link ideas and concepts."

"We need to work on sentence structure (like knowing complete sentences from fragments)."

"They always struggle with reading comprehension on my tests."

"Students tend to score low on making inferences and making connections."

"Key questions I want my 8th graders to be able to answer:

1) How do you approximate a line of best fit for a given scatter plot?  How can you use the line to make predictions?

2) How can you use verbal, tabular, graphic, and algebraic representations of a function to solve word problems?

"Problem-solving, measurement and geometry."

"I really like Cool Math Algebra. A site license would be great. www.coolmath.com "

"Students should walk away from my class with a knowledge of algebraic concepts (integers, equations).

"They tend to always score low on Geometry."

"Relationships and patterns"

"Slope and intercept"

"Reading comprehension with math word problems"

"I find myself lecturing and not really having enough resources to make creative concept-based lesson plans for Math & Science."

"Students need to understand real life applications in math class."

"The lowest EOG scores, I am told, deal with measurement. We do not have access to anything other than the EOG score itself."

"Students need easy experiments on hydrosphere, electricity."

"The scientific method"

"We need equipment to do these experiments."

"Critical thought"

"Abstract thinking"

"Ability to use analysis"

"I find myself lecturing and not really having enough resources to make creative concept-based lesson plans for Math & Science."

"Evaluate data related to population growth."

"Practices that impact our natural resources"

"Earth's geologic history"

"Technologies that monitor Earth from space"

"Motion and forces-gravity, inertia, simple machines, etc."

"Students score low on measurement."

"They always have difficulty understanding density."

"They need to have an understanding of how science topics interrelate."

"Students need to leave our courses with lasting knowledge and to be able to apply that knowledge in everyday situations. "

"Abstract ideas really give students the most difficulty."

"Students consistently score low in the application of skills."

"Eighth-grade teachers want students to remember the important role that our state has played in the history of the United States."

"Upon completion of my eighth grade history class, I would like for my students to have a general working knowledge of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of those who have lived before us and shaped our world into what it is today."

"It is important for my students to see that the individual decisions people have made, even after committee debate, have had a deep and lasting impression on our society."

"Finally, I would like for my students to remember the people who made a difference in the history of our community, state, nation, and world.  Insufficient focus is put on the individuals, and without them we have no issues, no solutions, and no history."

"I want my students to be responsible, productive and caring citizens of North Carolina, the United States and the world. I feel that it is important that students learn about role models that have had an impact on history and to realize that ordinary people can make a difference."

"Use plenty of maps, charts and graphs."

"Make it relevant to the lives of today's adolescents; provide correlations between yesterday and today."

"They like fun Web sites for North Carolina's history."

"Understand how states govern"

"Flexibility, adaptability, transference of skills to new and different areas/tasks..."

"Web sites should be research-related using technology tools."

"Knowing where they live!"

"Understand how laws are made"

"Teachers would enjoy sending students to fun Web sites on North Carolina's History."

"Did you know students can join the North Carolina Tar Heel Junior Historian Association? It has loads of benefits for students, teachers or any adult who becomes an advisor. Go to http://ncmuseumofhistory.org or call the program coordinator at 919-715-0200, extension 319.