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I have been privileged this year to enter my first year of teaching with an amazing group of fifth grade students. My students come from an urban community. Most are first generation immigrants. They are tenacious, fearless, and incredibly intelligent. Unfortunately, I have found that many of them do not see their future in scholarly pursuits. At the young age of 10, my students will tell you they are not certain they possess the intelligence I swear to them they hold. I am passionate about changing students’ self-perception. I know with out any doubt that all my students have the potential to change the world. They have the talent, the skills and the attitude that shape success. I believe it is their own self-efficacy that stands in their way.

In order to build their self-efficacy, my students need to experience the high quality education rooted in 21st century skills and relevant to the real world. They thrive in learning and discussing current events, world affairs, social justice issues and science ideas and theories they encounter in the real world. I must build my education on hands on activities that call students to work together and use knowledge beyond the text. When they are engaged in accomplishing a real world task, when they are asked the questions our politicians, scientists, and leaders grapple with daily, my students rise to the challenge. Their ideas and efforts are astounding.

In order to create a learning community rooted in application and experimentation, I must have the material and opportunities to expose students to the larger world. My passion for this fifth grade groups lies in the latest research on student success. The leaders of education assert the need for students to assume a scholarly identity before they enter middle school. Statistically proven students who enter middle school thinking themselves smart and capable are the children who graduate and attend college. It is the students who enter middle school still thinking themselves not the academic type who are at risk of dropping out later and giving up on school all together.

I will do everything I cam to not allow this to be the fate of any of my amazing students. To do such I must provide them an education that prepares them for 21st century success.

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