Deafblind High School Teacher Making a Difference in
Many Ways
Jim Franklin, Special Education Teacher at Elm Street Elementary,
Rome, Georgia and Creator of Slide-A-Round Math Manipulatives,
Slide-A-Round@comcast.net
Dana Tarter, Special Education Teacher at Model High School in
Rome, Georgia, tarter8101@comcast.net
Dana Tarter, a high school life skills teacher at Model High School in
Rome, Georgia, continues to put her philosophy of education into action by
going to work every day with the belief that all students can learn. Teachers
often share various reasons with parents, colleagues, and administrators as
to why they chose their profession. Dana, for example, believes that it is a
privilege to be a teacher and stresses the importance of setting daily goals to
help her students move in a positive direction in life by focusing on important
rigorous academic standards. Additionally, Dana focuses on incorporating
valuable life skills in her
lessons that cannot be taught from "old school"
textbooks and are not included in the Common Core State Standards.
At age 18, Dana continued her education and became an interpreter for
a high school student that was deaf. To better serve the student and become
a more effective teacher, she earned a Master's in Education degree. For
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