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Tara Flint
Current school and grade (subject): Dickerson Middle
School — sixth grade, math
Other schools/grades/subjects previously taught: None
How many years have you been an educator?7
Tell us a success story about a student you helped. I
received an email from a former student who is now a
junior in high school. He detailed how grateful he was
for my guidance, perseverance and for never giving
up on him. He let me know that is doing well in math
and has the confidence to make mistakes knowing he
can fix them, thanks to me. When I had this student in
class, I would have told a dierent story. He was very
dicult, defiant and oppositional at every turn. One
of the resources I use with my math students is a very
important interactive notebook. Students use this as
a compass to help them and guide them through math
concepts. This student fought me at every turn to
participate in this activity. I would edit his notes for his
interactive notebook, just for him, hoping to make him
feel important and to help him with what he perceived
was a substantial workload. We had an interesting year.
He did become softer toward the interactive notebook
and then finally realized one day how helpful it was for
him to use. After that moment, our relationship became
totally dierent. We had wonderful interactions and
connected. It was such an epiphany for me to see such
a transformation.
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