Kristen Von Holten

Review of the three Donors Choose Applications

Review

  • March 21, 2020 at 11:38 AM
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Link 1) The first link is a teacher asking money for flexible seating in her kindergarten classroom. She did a great job of explaining how the different seats will be used in the classroom by talking about how it promotes a calm, inviting, and creative environment. If I were to do this I would have talked about some of the research of how flexible seating helps children learn and have autonomy in the classroom to give the project a more legitimate feel rather than it just promoting creativity. 

Link 2) The second link is for organizational bins for a teachers second grade classroom. I really enjoyed how she went into detail about the need of her students and the importance of teaching organization as a skill and how it can help them learn. I wish she would have gone into greater detail about how she would specifically help teach the kids to keep things organized because I know from experience just throwing things into a bin doesn't make things any more organized. 

Link 3) The third link is for a stem lab in a school that services kindergarten-fifth grade. I really like how the teacher went into detail about how supporting a stem lab supports all kinds of students and learning. I really loved this idea of making the room into an escape room because that brings so much excitement into the room. The only thing I wish she went into detail about was what stem lessons she would be teaching with the locks that she was requesting. I noticed she had all different types of locks, but I she would explain how things would differ from the younger to the older students.