Todd Staton

 Various uses for school funding ◦ Teacher Pay ◦ New books and supplies ◦ Funding educational departments

 STEM- Science, Technical, Engineering, and Math ◦ Provides priority and extra funding towards STEM programs and classes ◦ Passed by president Obama to raise test scores in Math and Science areas, along with funding more technical education and engineering classes

 Government funding for schools has steadily been decreasing ◦ Programs like STEM funding have been counteracting the drop in school funding

 Creating a lesson plan  Testing lesson plan to make sure it is practical  Setting up a teaching date at an Elementary school  Finding a mentor to help with making the final lesson plan  Changing site to Clayton High School

 Site-Clayton High School  Gave lectures on how to create better buildings or improve existing ones. Started the lessons by going over the basic parts of any structure and then going in-depth as it was convenient.

 Start of lesson- Thank everyone for taking the time to show up. Start actual lesson by explaining what makes a house a house and how to make each individual piece of the structure stable and efficient.  Talked about how different components worked and proper installation of certain parts of homes such as electrical outlets

 My mentor was Mrs. Drian; the French teacher at Clayton High School.  She helped me create a lesson plan for teaching and provided me with advice on how to handle the lesson and transitions from topic to topic.

 Challenges ◦ Creating a lesson plan ◦ Teaching up to 5 classes (X total) ◦ Finding cheap “building materials” ◦ Getting elementary schools to prioritize scheduling my teaching days  Successes ◦ Spending less than $60 on “building materials” ◦ Organizing the final teaching day AND the back-up teaching plan ◦ Finding a mentor ◦ Gaining the initiative to start funding my product instead of getting money from my parents to buy everything

 I have learned that this project is very time consuming and very tedious to do if you even slightly begin to fall behind.  I have learned that making a lesson plan is a lot harder than I initially thought and that teaching is a giant pain. I also learned that I do not have the patience to be a full time teacher so that is one less career choice for me in the future.

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