Digital Wish - Profile: Maggie Marsh


Ms. Maggie Marsh

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Otter River Elementary School
*Class Information:*
Students per Class: 41
Class Description:
Located in a rural Virginia town where meeting needs of modern technology (especially for those curious, 4th grade minds!) is difficult, we’re often in competition with other teachers fending for ourselves and what limited resources we can manage to buy (from our own pockets) and use in our school. It's even impossible to be given a new stapler after our only one was broken...thanks to donations, our class has a new one!
Position:
Teacher
Needs:
1.Our solution is to get a Sympodium to continue learning in the 21st Century FOR the 21st Century. We would no longer need to compete for such a small resource, finally meet State Standards and integrate technology in the classroom! 2. ANY Technological tools - anything to stimulates minds! My class is lower-socio economic status children who live on farmland in rural Virginia. They have a deprivation of technology and the exposure they need to survive in the present and future of technology.
My Philosophy:
Technology is not the future, it is NOW and in order for students to become successful, working adults, exposure to such tools/technologiesis critical!
*Personal Information:*
Why Do I Teach?:
I love passing on knowledge to children, and most of all helping them learn to love learning.
Percent of Students are:
Average: 75 %
High-achiever: 20 %
Special Needs: 5 %
Percent of Students are:
White/Caucasian : 85 %
African American: 15 %
Average number of students in class:: 20 students
Number of students I teach:: 41 students