Greetings!
We hope your year is off to a wonderful start. Classroom Champions assigns a different theme, aligned with our mission, each month. Athletes talk about the topic in their video, and teachers create lesson plans to integrate the topic and their athlete's message for their students. Weightlifter Natalie Burgener is a natural on camera. This month, we bring you the perfect storm of how athletes, teachers and students came together to learn and share ideas for how to set goals. Enjoy! Thanks for your support, Leigh Mesler Parise, PhD Founder and Education Director |
Monthly Theme: Goal Setting
Natalie described her own Olympic journey with a goal-setting pyramid. She then put the concept into context for how it applies to students, for example, getting good grades. Inspired by the video, some teachers, like Steve Hodgson (4th grade, Oak Terrance Elemtary) had students make their own goal setting pyramids. Melisa wants to earn an A+ in math, and has laid out steps for herself for how to achieve that goal.
We loved seeing these students from JJ Finley Elementary School create their own video about their goal setting pyramids. Using technology to learn is a core compontent of Classroom Champions.
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Read Eric's Blog
"You should see the excitement on the faces of the students in my class when I say, "Hey guys! We have a new video from Natalie!" The students are very attentive and hang on every word Natalie is saying because they know that the message she is offering is aimed directly at them."
- Eric Gaydos, 5th Grade, Uniontown, PA
Click here to read the rest of Eric's blog post.
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Guest Athletes:
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Some remarkable athletes graciously take their time to record messages just for our students. Jackie Joyner-Kersee talked about goal setting.
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Youth Olympic Games: Winter 2012 Innsbruck The first ever Winter Youth Olympic Games took place in Innsbruck, Austria this month, and Classroom Champions was there! We partnered with the International Committee for Fair Play (CIFP) and leveraged their presence at the games to arrange a live Web chat with Steve Mesler and student athletes. We also asked CIFP volunteers to interview students there about what fair play means to them. These videos are being used in the classrooms to support January's theme, which is Fair Play. |
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In the News
USA Daily. (United States Olympic Committee, page 3, January 15, 2012)
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Our Mission
To connect students in high-need schools with top performing athletes in order to motivate them to recognize their potential, set goals and dream big, while educating them in the practical use of communications technology.
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