Lately, we have been considering the following question: what does Apangea Learning SmartHelp really do in the classroom? And, I don’t mean this in a tactical sense, but in more of a philosophical sense. As is so often the case, the answer came from one of our customers, Barbara Shoap, a teacher at George Washington High School in Philadelphia.
“Some of us remain committed to give disadvantaged students some much-needed skills and some direction. It’s an uphill battle and it’s burn-out. There are always some kids who resist change or refuse help. But Apangea Learning PLUS my support kept them attending, engaged, and progressing, commensurate with the effort that they made to apply themselves within the program. I think that is a realistic definition of success. I was able to be more available to their individual needs, and my relationship to them was both teacher and facilitator. Apangea Learning made my day better every day.”
That simple, yet powerful paragraph provided us with the answer we were looking for: Apangea Learning lets the teachers teach. And, the more we thought about it, the more we realized that the reasons that people become teachers is for those special moments when they are able to interact with a student and help that child learn. But, in these days of crowded classrooms, diverse student populations, and high stakes exams, we ask our teachers to do more and more with less and less. Our job as businesspeople, as parents, as citizens of society as a whole is to help the teachers do what we want them to do and what they want to do: teach. And, that’s why we say: LET THE TEACHERS TEACH!
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