{"id":3717,"date":"2017-11-20T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trta.org\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2017-11-20T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:55:11","slug":"trtf-making-a-difference-sarah-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trta.org\/es\/trtf-making-a-difference-sarah-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"TRTF Making a Difference: Sarah Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Wilson\u2019s favorite moments as a teacher come when a student succeeds in an unexpected way. She refers to these as the \u201clittle accomplishments,\u201d and she sees them every day. Wilson is a teacher at Georgetown\u2019s Jack Frost Elementary. She works with pre-kindergarten students who have disabilities, and she\u2019s been helping special education students for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Among the new skills the students learn while working with Wilson is how to move their bodies. Specifically, the students learn how to use their gross motor muscles like their arms and legs.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson uses a wide variety of games and toys to teach the students. However, many of these toys can be expensive, and moving them from one place to another can be cumbersome.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EbTSQcHHUWU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, we were doing our gross motor stations as a whole group in the cafeteria,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cBut with construction at our school and just different schedules this year, we aren\u2019t able to go all to the cafeteria. So, we wanted a way to transport, originally, all of our things to the cafeteria easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trtf.org\/\">The Texas Retired Teachers Foundation<\/a> (TRTF) was able to assist Wilson in her pursuit of simplifying this process. Wilson obtained a $500 Classroom Assistance Grant from TRTF, which she used to purchase a gross motor cart as well as bouncy-balls, a ring toss set, a hop-scotch game and a Velcro ball catching game.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson has seen the children fall in love with the new toys, and sees the toys as an opportunity to improve the children\u2019s long-term prospects in education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGross motor games are just fun,\u201d she said. \u201cResearch has shown that gross motor abilities are very strongly linked to academic abilities later in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilson believes people should donate to issues that are most important for them, and for her, that is early childhood education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like the earlier we can get these kids working on their skills and building them up, the more successful in their lives they are going to be,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Donate to help more teachers like Sarah Wilson through <a href=\"https:\/\/trtf.org\/initiatives\/classroom-assistance-grants\/\">TRTF\u2019s Classroom Assistance Grants program<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.justgiving.com\/?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly9kb25hdGUtYXBpLmp1c3RnaXZpbmcuY29tL2FwaS9kb25hdGlvbnMvODRhNjQ3YmE3ZDg5NDJhODg4MGZhYzAzNzJjNDQyMzM=\">Donate here today<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Gracias<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Thank you for donating to TRTF! Your contributions truly help change lives!<\/p>\n<p>Aseg\u00farate de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TexasRetiredTeachers\/\">Danos like en facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trta\">S\u00edganos en Twitter<\/a> y <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheTRTATV\">suscr\u00edbete a nuestro canal de youtube<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Wilson\u2019s favorite moments as a teacher come when a student succeeds in an unexpected way. She refers to these as the \u201clittle accomplishments,\u201d and she sees them every day. Wilson is a teacher at Georgetown\u2019s Jack Frost Elementary. 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