Educators conference. One of our 32019 teacher fellows is middle School TeacherMaureen Mcguirl of jamestown rhode island. 2019 Maureen Mcguirl of jamestown rhode island, tell us a little bit about your school. Are schools on island for one, he pretty much have k8 and they are excited when we have make 25 percent of our population because of the war college. New people, to meet and brain information to our classroom so basically, the island started out as a farm for sheep, and then state that weight really until we got out of the bridge again and thats when our population kind of exploded from about 2500 people to about 5000 yearround. To teach school five through eight in your system. Seven and eight. What are some of the courses you teach. In seventh grade, i teach western civilization station focusing on the historical method and how to gather information and take notes and examine it and then presented according to the audience of the type of venue that you are using. This coming of a common theme with the teacher fellowship in the conference with cspan the gathering of information for study. Tell us a little bit about what you have learned here. How often cspan offers so many materials, often at a level of seven and eighth grade. Document based questions. One of the challenges is to allow students to access primary documents. The real question of cspan has been a great way to get my students to have access because it is very visual, to the time. We can also utilize a lot of the clips that we can make and so students can kind of gather information in an authentic way but still be able to access it and understand it. With current political or issues in history are your kids most interested in aside from the things you are covering in your class. Classics is a big issue, they saw a documentary on chasing quarrel, they were really disturbed by what was happening in our oceans. This year my students worked on banning plastic in the lunchroom. They met with all of the different stakeholders and were successful in getting that change. With the exception of knives because of the policy of safety. If you can bring your kids from jamestown to washington and teach them a class in one location that you have been to, where would it be and will be the class be about. The Supreme Court, it is the most lesserknown as to what it does and how it functions. They tend to think the law is passed by Congress Given to the president and then handed over to Supreme Court to see if its constitutional. There are other picture is like a child they see on law and order. To kind of get and bestow the type of jurisdiction news as well as the process of which the justices go through the case, what they are really deciding if they are guilty or innocent for the most part. But rather look at the constitution the deed process. You are in washington as the Big Decisions are coming down from the Supreme Court as it is happening too. Absolutely. I like tinker and bell because it captivates my students and it shows their rights and the idea of freedom of expression is a big one. Vaping is another big issue. Because they are really disturbed by how it wasnt being dealt with and how the industry was allowed to regulate itself so they werent doing a lot of letters about that. I was watching quite a few this week of the Committee Hearings on that and i am looking forward to bringing clips of that to see what the next step is to write to their congressman or senator. Or even their local school board and how they would deal with the problem. You teach seventh and eighth grade. Mostly civics and taking topics of historical events to shape the constitution and i also do historical day with them. There sort of nascent understanding of the Supreme Court. What other misconceptions about washington or the process of the federal government do you think you can further clarify after your experience here. I think one of the things that is interesting is about the process how to bring together key people of different backgrounds and different opinions and how that process goes through in terms of testimony. I was really i look forward to utilizing that in the classroom. You have been here as a summer conference before and this year as a teacher fellow, what prompted you to apply for it . I realize that my first time being here was cspan that i just got to see what was offered and what i could be utilizing with my students. I think that was the biggest thing and even being here amongst i could use so much more so it was really a pleasure to be offered the opportunity to do research and be supported by the educational staff. They were wonderful. It is say oh, i cant find this but they can help me with that. Issues and classics and vaping. One of the political issues that they come to you and say we dont understand this or whats going on with my did he say this or why are they doing this. Sometimes it is how people talk to people. They are kind of shocked at how sometimes people speak to each other. We live on an island so being civil is really important because we are with each other for a long time. Sometimes they have a lot of questions about that. Its kind of an interesting thing to kind of navigate and ask them kind of questions back as to what they think might prompt that. You mentioned also that a lot of your kids are children of military parents. If that were college being the there. Do you have discussions about the role of the military in terms of our people in afghanistan. I let them lead the conversation as to what they feel would be against appropriate and comfortable for the students because i never know what students are bringing especially since post 911, i dont know which families are touched by that and so i kind of want to let them guide the distance kitchen and let them facilitate that. If they need a little more support. They usually bring in a lot of pride that their parents are the country and we also try to make sure that they as children of military who didnt choose to join the military but do have the lifestyles impacted that they feel honored as well. We do take time to say thank you for your service because they do give up a lot of opportune time to stay in one place. Break me from wrong. You mentioned before that you went to school at the school why you are teaching. I did, i did replace my predecessor. Its been a pleasure to go back to my community because i think its great to be and live on my island which is unusual because a lot of room for teachers. I am proud to have that community connection. Im glad to have you here in washington. Your schedule has been busy. What are some things are interesting things have you gone in the city why you been in the Nations Capital question mark. I have loved walking everywhere and running everywhere. Particularly in the neighborhood behind the library of congress has been a marvelous history itself. Ive never been there so other than to the very thin part. Ive been enjoying such a diversity and of all of the different neighborhoods and purposely got out to go check those out b avenue street on to potomac park and go to running along there is just been very exciting. I got into the library of congress and i went to the exhibit of women to vote in a been there once before and i got my library card. [laughter] you can go back and use it now. Absolutely. Any citizen can get their library card there. Just go down to the basement, absolutely. Marlene mcgraw, thank you so much and for being here this summer. Thank you. For more information about cspan Education Resources including lesson plans, and our teacher fellowship program, go to cspan. Org bathroom. Classroom. Its a lens into the kind of the way that montana is changing. 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