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Jean L. Smith Looks Back on a Career of Helping Kids Shine
Lifelong educator Jean L. Smith, M.Ed. put her schooling (a master of education from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor of science in elementary education from Edinboro University) to good use. For 44 years, she taught practical, experience-based lessons to countless third graders at Edinboro Elementary School. She most enjoyed implementing the year-long Mini-Society program, which allowed students to build a society from scratch. In the process of naming their new community, designing flags and stamps, signing up for jobs, establishing businesses and campaigning for places in government, the children learned valuable lessons about the money system, politics and consumer issues. She believes that her most vital roles as a teacher were to apply lessons to everyday living and to impart skills and values that would actually be of use later on.
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Location: Edinboro, PA
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Comment by Claire Power Murphy on July 15, 2010 at 1:31pm -
Wondeful video, Jean! Your service as an elementary teacher exceeds mine by a full decade! You have a distinctive way of speaking such that the children would understand you! I too was a "hands-on" teacher. Your projects resemble mine - but more practical. My classes often won at social studies fairs. I recall designing with my students an entire city out of legos which we called "Nutraland".Of course, the city had a newspaper to which the pupils contributed! All of our work was enclosed in a three-sided refrigerator box which we painted and decorated. What fun we had in the days when we were permitted to be so creative.
Know that your influence lasts far beyond your days in the classroom.
Claire Power Murphy, Featured member www.clairepowermurphy.com
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