Contributors

= **Walden University** **EDUC 6710: Understanding the Impact of Technology on Education, Work, and Society** **Week 3 ~ Application~Group 3** ﻿﻿Contributors﻿:  =

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 * ==My mission is to give my students an experience that inspires them to pursue Chemistry in their future. I do this through an inquiry based teaching style. I create experiences that allow them to form and support their own conclusions. This requires a caring, safe, and respectful environment where I can guide students in building the scientific habits of mind that will serve them well as autonomous learners. ==

**Sheila** - Reading Intervention Teacher/ Instructional Consultation and Assessment Coach, Indiana

 * **My mission is to provide students with a caring, positive, and challenging but non-threatening learning environment; to provide a child-centered classroom that nurtures academic, social, and individual growth; to be a resource and build a partnership with parents; and to accept all children where they are in the learning process while moving them on to become lifelong learners.**

**Sara** - Seventh Grade Science, South Carolina

 * ==My mission is to provide a student centered, respectful, and caring environment which allows students to reach their full potential by holding them to high expectations. I will also promote self-confidence and motivate learners through engaging hands-on lessons. ==

**Michael** - Eighth Grade Social Studies, California

 * ==My mission is to provide a learning environment that encourages love, compassion, safety, and respect. Throughout my career I will ensure that students enter as children and leave in June as young adults. Due to my concern with the development of character and civic responsibility, I will be aware of my students’ self-concepts, culture and family differences; I will ensure that I always care about my students, and share in their successes, challenges, hopes and dreams. With the aid of parents and administration, I will force students to walk alone, and gain the understanding that hard work can be rewarding. I will inspire students, engraving within them a love for school and themselves. I will watch students evolve, and guide them as they begin the journey called life. ==

**Krista** - Second Grade, Oregon

 * ==My mission is to provide a firm foundation of basic knowledge, skills, and learning strategies to guide all of my students into intermediate education. I will demonstrate, teach, and encourage citizenship skills to promote a sense of community and self-worth in my class. So that my students may become life-long learners, I will teach and practice the science of inquiry. I will work collaboratively with my colleagues to share ideas and insights and to ensure that my own teaching never grows stale. In order to boost all students’ motivation, performance, and learning gains, I will use any technology I have available in my classroom. ==

**Heidi** - Seventh Grade Math, Maryland

 * ==My mission is to improve student's self-esteem through fun and engaging lessons. I've learned that in order to have student trust, one must first show that they care enough about the student not only in school but at home. Students that enter into my classroom in August will enter scared and not know what to expect. By December my students will have set goals and class mission statements. My students will know and understand the type of Multiple Intelligent learner that they are and will be able to share how they learn and what it looks like. When June approaches, I will be able to wish my students well as they move onto the eight grade knowing that they can do whatever they set their minds to and that the sky is the limit.==

**Erinn** - Middle School Learning Support, Pennsylvania

 * ==My mission is to ensure that every student has the tools necessary for them to learn. I want my students to grow to be dependent on themselves. I achieve this through technology, role play, games and interactive lessons. I work to inspire students to believe in themselves and reach for goals that they have thought impossible in the past.==

**Erika** - Fifth and Sixth Grade, California
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 * ==My mission is to facilitate a learning community that is safe, positive, nurturing, rigorous, and current in the latest technology for ALL of my students, so that they will be prepared to tackle any challenge and know that they will succeed if they try their very best and persevere. ==

**Andrea** - Seventh Grade World History, Ohio

 * ==My mission is to create a safe, comfortable, and positive learning environment for my students. I want to inspire my students and instill a love of and appreciation for history in them. My hope is that each student will leave my class not only with knowledge of the impact of ancient civilizations on today's world, but also as a better student and with a renewed respect for others and their backgrounds. I believe strongly in designing lessons that appeal to diverse learning styles, and therefore provide as many opportunities for interaction within the classroom as possible. Finally, I understand the importance of technology in factilitating learning and will use technology to help bring history to life in my classroom and engage my students.==