7th Grade Social Studies Teacher in Winterset, Iowa
It’s emails from teachers and students like this one, from Mr. Jim Heitoff at Winterset Junior High School, that make all of us at CM Headquarters love our jobs!
I’ve taught 7th grade social studies for 16 years now, and during our election debates today I had some of the best discussion and comments from students that I have ever heard. Students were discussing price capping, environmental law, and contract law just to name a few of the big issues they will be facing as we near our hex auction.
Besides the content they were learning how to have a respectful and healthy debate on important issues and they did great.
This was partly because of the awesome resources other CM teachers posted for the debate but also due to your help in encouraging me to start this program. I even had a classroom aide today say to me, “that was incredible” referring to the comments and interest level the students showed in the debate.
~ Mr. Jim Heithoff, Winterset Jr. High School, Sept.11, 2014.
