Mr. B was nominated by students for his use of the hopscotch app, as well as real-world objects to model statistical concepts.
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Students nominated Mr. Del Palacio for making learning engaging through music, video, and humor. Students created videos to make practicing and applying their language skills engaging. Del Palacio created and sang Spanish-language rap songs.
Students nominated Ms. Leyda for her use of creative materials to model science concepts; including bananas to represent people, chalk, play dough, and using yoga to help concretize anatomy terminology.
Students nominated Mr. Facher for his engaging classroom, singing and acting out literature to make it come to life.
Ms. Ho gets students to retain their math skills through activities that apply previously learned math concepts. Students have created board games, a paper tower from a single piece of paper, and played math games. Students report they appreciate the relevant ways Ms. Ho applies the math concepts to their daily lives. Students are excited to learn in Ms. Ho's active, engaging classroom.
Ms. Leyda creates interactive learning experiences to engage students in Human Anatomy & Physiology and Biology concepts. In Biology, fake murder cases help students apply their knowledge of DNA. As a way to memorize parts of the body, students in Human Anatomy & Physiology used yoga to connect their own bodies with the anatomic structures being discussed.
Many people know that Chinese characters are pictographs, but, surprisingly, they only make up around 5% of all Chinese characters. Phonetic-semantic components, on the other hand, make up almost 80% of all characters. Funny that most material online and in textbooks tend to focus on the former and not the latter. Indeed, most textbooks Ms. Mao has seen give at most a few lines defining what phonetic-semantic compounds are. In recent years, Ms. Mao has been focusing on teaching Phonetic-semantic components concepts to her students, which have elicited huge learning results. Students no longer memorize characters randomly. Instead, they try to figure out the semantic and phonetic components of the characters. While learning these Chinese characters, students are also leaning so much Chinese history and culture at the same time. They also feel pronounce Chinese character are not that difficult any more.
The students who nominated Ms. Mao were impressed by her creative storytelling, relating Chinese characters to ancient China and their root meanings. Congratulations Ms. Mao on your creative approach to teaching Mandarin. Mr. Barraclough uses common objects, such as potatoes, to make statistical concepts like type 1 and type 2 errors more relatable. Several students recognized his visual approach to mathematic concepts as creative, fun, and useful.
The creativity trophy is awarded to Mr. Monteleone for his creative use of storytelling to make health concepts more relatable. Congratulations to Mr. Monteleone!
Jessica Lew is awarded the Creativity Trophy for her Gabweek Activity involving an escape room type adventure, encouraging students to collaborate to find the solution. Congratulations to Ms. Lew!
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