to East Jones Elementary to surprise this month's Golden Apple award winner and while surprising this third grade math teacher we got a few surprises of our own the school has more than one outstanding educator and we found out teaching runs in the Winner's family when we went to surprise Golden Apple award winner Sarah sual surprise we had no idea we would get a few surprises in return congratulations Sarah somr on behalf of WDAM and Tec you are our Golden Apple award winner all the kids you gu
ys want to clap for her somal got to hear the kind words shared about her and the nomination instead of having the kids sit and do pencil paperwork all day she gets them out of their seats they play games or do Interactive Learning to learn the math skills so what makes you take a different approach growing up I just I always like being my seat and being very Hands-On and I feel like I learned better doing that so I try to do the same thing for them while we were talking to the winner we were to
ld her mom is a second grade teacher at the school and was standing right in the room watching I always knew that this is where she needed to be um she's always just been a mentor to children and just a great role model herself mom wasn't the only family in the room our Golden Apple award winner teaches her little brother your sister's your teacher I know now when your sister is your teacher and you get in trouble with your teacher what's what happens what's the punishment you you usually I have
to like stand on the fence from Recess or staying from re uh activity and the the punishment ends here at school or do you get a little bit at home too sometimes at home too after the Family Affair we found out som's nominator is also East Jones Elementary teacher of the year she says she is in awe of som's way of teaching and wisdom Beyond her years especially since this is sr's first year teaching Sarah is so different from all the other teachers that I've worked with or I'm around she's very
Hands-On she inspires the kids they look forward to coming to her class because she just does things differently and they learn their scores are out the roof the winner gave us a glimpse of her style of teaching but we were doing uh fraction the other day and so we would play basketball and like they would shoot so the denominator was four and how many ever they made that was the numerator supervising principle Sylvia Busby says somr was an outstanding student right here at East Jones Elementar
y when Busby learned somr applied to teach here Busby said she snatched her right up and I said hands down she will definitely be here with roots that run deep at this school and family by her side Som says she has great people to look up to but most of all her students make teaching worth it and if you would like to nominate an excellent educator at your school go to wdam.com goldenapple
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