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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