Jen Sethasang
Jen Sethasang is a fourth grade teacher at Lockwood Elementary, a public school in East Oakland, California. I spent the day with her and her 4th grade class and left feeling that she is the kind of teacher that you remember when thinking back to your childhood. It had been years since I had been in a grade school classroom, but it quickly became apparent to me how much of an impact teachers can have on kids that age. In many cases, grade school teachers spend more time with kids than their parents do.
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One of the vocab words for the class was sorrowfully.
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This is Jen's desk.
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This is the class homework board.
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Another vocab word. Each week students are asked to make posters depicting each of the vocab words.
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In social studies the class is currently studying survival.
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While I was in the class, this was the Math warm-up exercise given to students. TaJae got 100% and did it in 2 min 10 sec.
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The school day does not end at the final bell, in fact Jen spends an hour or two prepping for the next day's class once school is out.
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The view from the front of the room.
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Each night Jen writes a new note for her students to read upon arrival the next morning.
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Here is the note that Ms. S wrote for the class to read the next morning.