Ellowyn Moore (8th Grade JAMS Student): Teachers shape the way I look at the world and how I think that you should
treat people and the teachers of the JAMS program are so sweet and so
compassionate and so very intelligent and they're really good at what they do and that helped me a lot.
Jana Dean (JAMS Teacher): I love teaching in JAMS because I get to teach both
math and science and the kids can learn math and science in a way where it's
related to one another so for example right now they're studying negative
numbers positive and negative numbers on either side of zero on a number line and
on a coordinate grid and at the same time they're learning about protons and
neutrons which have positive and negative charge and so that's the same
big idea that is expressed both mathematically and scientifically and so they can make connections between math and science.
Kees Dolmans (Former JAMS Student): my favorite teacher is probably my eighth grade teacher Mrs.Wade and she really sparked my interest
in science and math and it really helped like continue further into high school
Jessica Wade (8th Grade JAMS Teacher): This is a great mix because I get to teach high school content to middle
school students and so we get to have a lot of fun because they're still young
and school is still cool but we also get to do really interesting and intricate experiments.
Amber Zieske (7th Grade JAMS Teacher): So a lot of students come to Jefferson just for the JAMS program
it's important to know that they're also a Jefferson middle school student
we work closely as a JAMS team with the rest of our grade-level teachers to make sure
that we're really trying to integrate and meet their needs across all levels.
thing that makes James unique is just the wide variety of where people came
from so and jams want to introduce to it and there's lots of you different
viewpoints everybody has like there's so many interesting in different ways that
people present how they think and it's just refreshing and it just brings a new
light to how you're able to proceed about the things as well
that's great well I am really loving this year is how comfortable my students
are with making mistakes and then revisiting those mistakes and trying to
figure out what happened and I'm really excited right now with how they are
making connections between the flow of electrons which have negative charge and
they flow towards protons which have a positive charge and their understanding
of positive and negative numbers it's pretty it's pretty amazing in the eighth
grade of the jams program students are taking algebra which they can a pre
students can take algebra any of the Middle's tool but jams is the only
program that offers them physical science and physical science is a great
application of the algebraic math that they are learning so they get to the
experience of taking physical science and algebra at the same time and so
again they're getting that reinforcement of the concepts I think other one the
best moments in James was mrs. Wade and most of the teachers were really like
always open they like helps someone after school so if I need to help out
I'll just go in and ask for an answer to a question I had or get any help for
anything it's just a really nice thing to be able to do especially because
they're always there and always available I thought I wasn't going to be
smart enough I thought I wouldn't be good enough I thought it was first and
just humble halfway through but it made me strong as a person and it helped me
know that there are other people like me who struggle but do well and try really
hard to do what they want to do when students are in jams they find that
they're never done they're never done with a worksheet or done with a problem
because there's always a challenge and those challenge build off of what
they're already learning so it's not extra busy work it's really a challenge
that takes their learning further and so I have sixth graders who are deeply
engaged in a sixth grade math and science curriculum who are learning
ideas way beyond their grade level because the structure of the program
allows and me time to take their thinking
further just do it it's a great program it's really fun teachers are awesome and
it just helps people to better their education
