Hofschneider-David has been teaching for six years.
She is teaching language arts to seventh and eighth graders.
She is in charge of assessing the students for Star Reading and Star Math, to find out what their reading and math level is.
She also assists teachers and the department heads and checks lesson plans for language arts.
To motivate her students, she provides activities that will entice them to reach their goals.
“You need to incorporate hands on learning. That’s one great way of motivating the students as well as incorporating group work,” she said.
She presents incentives to her students so that they will be more encouraged to learn and do better in class.
“For example if they read and reach their point goals they receive certificates. And with good behavior we can reward them like a day of watching an educational movie. It is like a movie date, but the movie is linked into a book or a story we are reading,” she said
Reading materials are now based on an accelerated reading program that allows a student to choose his book based on his individual reading level.
“Teachers don’t make the selection anymore. So reading is something the students look forward to because they can express themselves through the literature of their choice and present what they have learned.”
Hofschneider-David incorporates games that support each lesson.
“It really depends on the lesson being learned and we try to add more games to it,” she said.
She believes that reading should be encouraged at home because it is a key element to learning.
“Motivation of reading has to start at home. It is not based within the school. It has to be a partnership between parents and students,” she said.
