Mr. Tang was selected by students for sporting his math pride on his head. They were surprised and impressed when he came to class with the pi symbol cut into his hair to encourage students to get more excited about math.
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Students selected Ms. Mao for the creativity trophy for her use of "songs and folktales to explain Chinese words, making the language more impressionable." Students appreciate how effective the story-telling is for making the learning memorable and hence retainable.
Ms. Drew was honored with the creativity trophy this month by 13 students! Students were impressed by her use of Design Based Learning (using student-made sculptures to connect to concepts in Literature), performance activities (acting out plays), student choice in project assignments, and collaborative projects that reenforce student learning. Here is a quote from one of the nominating students: "Every day in her class is a surprise. From acting out plays to connecting century-old texts to real life scenarios, being in Mrs. Drew's class is always a fun experience. She also is a friend and therapist to all. Sometimes I feel that she cares more about me than my parents do." Congratulations Ms. Drew!
Ms. Leyda has won the Creativity Trophy for the third year in a row. With 24 students nominating Ms. Leyda over only three months, Ms. Leyda was appreciated for a range of creative teaching strategies, but none more so than the use of Play-doh. Play-doh has been used to model skin layers, visualize different parts of bones and muscle tissues, and most recently in a stop-motion animation project demonstrating osmosis and diffusion in the cell membrane. Students are celebrating Ms. Leyda because she is "always makes us figure out answers on our own," making learning more memorable and more rewarding.
Fourteen students this month nominated Mr. Baraclough for the creativity trophy. Students are impressed by the activities designed to make statistic concepts understandable and relatable. Some of the activities mentioned involved potatoes, dice, clay, propellers, pennies, and more. Lily Situ says, "in AP Stats, he makes us collect data and analyze them and then explains the concept through the data rather than simply giving us an equation. This makes it more interesting and fun because we get to do something other than take notes and actually get to see the idea being applied to real life data." Congratulations to Mr. Baraclough for the creative approach to teaching Statistics.
Ms. Straker is honored with the Creativity Trophy for her use of Design Based Learning. She uses hands-on sculptural projects to create conceptual bridges to the English Language Arts curriculum. Students used recyclable materials to sculpt the main character from the novel they were reading.
Ms. Lew was nominated by students for her creative instructional strategies including using creative visuals, puppet show, homework in comic format, creating songs to help with memorization, and turning lessons into games to make the learning more memorable.
Students nominated Mr. Salcedo to recognize his memorable physical comedy, demonstrating how molecules move by doing cartwheels around the classroom.
Ms. Gonzalez is awarded the creativity trophy for her work organizing GABFEST with the sophomore class council. The winter dance was transformed into a night filled with games, food, activities, photos, as well as dancing. To pump up the school and advertise the night, Ms. Gonzalez sang an original rap over the loud speaker during morning announcements.
Students nominated Mr. Merica for his humor classroom atmosphere, his use of students as props when explaining concepts, and his ability to balance classroom objects on his face.
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