2- Introductions

1. Stephanie Laurence: I teach English at Minerva DeLand. 2. I like teaching English to high school students because I feel that effective communication through writing and speaking is an essential life skill for teens and young adults. Teaching is a rewarding job because I feel like we make a tangible difference in students' lives. 3. A barrier that students have for producing content is that many students at this age are self conscious about sharing ideas or speaking in front of peers. Many also struggle with time management in regards to project based learning. 

Hello! My name is Sarah Farrelman. I teach 8th grade English at Martha Brown Middle School. I love teaching, especially making personal connections with my students over the content that I teach. I see as a barrier to students becoming content producers in that some students are not used to applying that skill. They have been accustomed to receiving the content and showing they understand it by completing formative and summative, traditional, assessments. I look forward to seeing how I can help my students become content producers as a way to help keep my students actively engaged in their learning process.

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My name is Matt Rose and I teach 1st grade at JA. Being a primary teacher, I really enjoy seeing, and being part of, student growth. First graders grow so much from the beginning of the year to the end and it is really great seeing these young children grow and show pride in their growth. I think the biggest obstacle to students becoming  content providers at my grade level is finding ways that first graders can become mostly independent in creating content. First graders are usually pretty needy, and adding technology is sometimes difficult for first graders. I have had First graders in the past show understanding of concepts through videos and pictures on Seesaw, so I know it can be done. It just takes a lot of modeling and teaching to get first graders comptent with the technology. 

My name is Kate Lechleider, and I teach 2nd grade at Brooks Hill.  I enjoy spending time with students, helping them learn, and watching them grow. As a 2nd grade teacher, I think students' ease of use with technology could be a barrier. They are very familiar with things like iPads, games, and YouTube, but using technology to create content could be a challenge as it's a different format.  That being said, students pick up new skills and content so quickly that I think this would be more of a learning curve than a barrier.  

Mark Trawitz, Johanna Perrin, 7th & 8th Grade English

What I enjoy most about teaching is the interactions I have with my students and the ideas that they share with me and their peers.

A barrier to students becoming content producers is the reliance on traditional testing.

1. Bonnie LaMonaco BH- 2nd Grade
2. Being able to be creative, learn as I grow,  and try new things all the time. 
3. Currently- student devices stay at home so kids don't have to carry them each day.  This will end on the 28th 

My name is Sara Cordsen. I teach 4th grade at JA. I love teaching because kids make it fun every day.  They always want to learn something.  A barrier to students becoming content producers is that it takes longer.  It can be tough to commit the class time to completing it, even if it is valuable.