Tamara Kumar

Kumar’s innovative teaching idea, “Students Making the Difference,” is focused on using technology to help expand her students’ worldview and become more socially aware. Through the use of text messages and Face Time video conversations, Kumar’s sixth-grade class will interact with refugee students at another school. Her students will learn what it is like to be a refugee, and then use this knowledge to create a service project to help them. Kumar’s students will document everything using pictures and video. As a culminating activity, her sixth-grade students will then create a presentation of what they learned and what they did to help. Kumar’s goal is to meet technology, presentation and social studies standards, while giving her students the opportunity to make a positive impact on the world.