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~Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever~
I am the proud mother of three STM graduates and I am extremely fortunate to live my faith and teach my passions on a daily basis. My primary goal in teaching is to help students realize who God wants them to be and to live as the best version of themselves.
I am enjoying my fifteenth year teaching at STM. Our Social Studies classes are full of adventure and activities about our world. We study Geography (6), World History (7), and Early American History (8).
Education: BA from Wittenberg University, History, and Political Science. Additional coursework: University of Cincinnati and Xavier University, Education and Methods. Member: NCSS (National Council for Social Studies), NTSA (National Science Teachers Association). Completed: DuFour PLC workshop, Xavier University, Google Apps for Education Training, SOITA Google Apps Admin Certification, Netdemics. WCET Digital Citizenship EducationTraining 2015 ISTE (International Society of Technology Education),2016 NSTA, National Conference. 2018 NSTA, 2018 ISTE.
These latest pics show our 6th and 7th graders at Camp Joy and our 8th grade enjoying a trip downtown Cincinnati to visit the Freedom Center. We aren't just having fun on Field Trips! Another picture shows 8th graders going 'old school' and learning the parts of a newspaper!
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A to Z Report Guidelines
A to Z Report guidelines! Please ask questions and email me. If the project is proving too difficult, please scale it down. Email me! Can't wait to see what you come up with!
What do we like to do? Free Rice! We encourage you to do the same! With each vocabulary, math, art, or foreign language question we answer, rice/food is purchased for the World Food Programme. Please join us: www.freerice.com. We call it a win, win, win activity!
Using iPads to figure out cuneiform, civilization's first writing. A perfect pair!
Underground Railroad Class Quilt: 8th grade
Happy New Year! As you can see, we had a lot of fun in 2014! It is easy to remember the highlights! I am so thankful for our children, our community, our parish and all of our blessings! I would like to thank STM families for their generosity to our fundraisers, as well as to me, during Christmas.
The light has come. Let it live in us daily and may we pass it on to others!
2015, thanking God for another year together!
Welcome Back to School!
"We go out of history, into history....," Robert Penn Warren
Welcome! Another school year begins and with it the chance to reinvent ourselves! We can be whatever type of student and teacher we choose to be, how exciting is that? What an exciting time of year with so much going on!
This year in Social Studies all students can expect to learn more about the world around them, past and present. The sixth grade will focus on the beginnings of history, and ancient cultures like Egypt, Greece and Rome. The seventh grade will complete their study of Rome, and venture to Africa, Asia, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Grade 8 will journey deeper into American History, the Constitution and current events which will better prepare them for their upcoming trip to Washington DC!
And I am most grateful that these studies give us an opportunity to examine our Catholic identity. Together we will examine choices others have made and how those have affected the world around us.
We will also be fully utilizing our new Chromebooks and Google Apps for Education accounts as we go 1:1 in the Junior High. We will strive to achieve the best balance between what technology can offer us as an academic tool and a classical education.
Thank you for the opportunity to work with your students! I am beyond blessed. Please always contact me at anytime for more information!
Amy Dugan
