Salyna Bentley

Georgia Teachers Initiative Grant Winner

Ms. Bentley will create a makerspace for her seventh grade English Language Arts classroom with the intent of disrupting and transforming the typical ELA classroom by using projects such as stop-motion animation, fabric collages, small-scale costume design, and many other art and technical media activities to allow students to demonstrate their acquired knowledge. TGI funds will be used to purchase items to create a classroom makerspace including low- and high-tech items.

The role of innovation in my classroom is to nurture creativity and creative expression, challenge students to use a design process and computational thinking, and to assess students in ways that address standards but do not align with the norm of paper-pencil assessments.

- Salyna Bentley

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