At the start of every new school year, students come back to school and reunite with their old friends. But the new geometry teacher Ms. Balaram had no one to reconnect with. Welcome to the life of a first year teacher.
Ms. Balaram is a first year math teacher at Digital Harbor, and this year she is teaching geometry, Algebra I, and Algebra II.
Ms. Sappe , the math IST, met Ms. Balaram through Teach For America. According to its website, Teach for America is an organization that recruits new teachers to teach in high-need school districts. “Ms. Balaram asks a lot of questions, and she is a hard worker,” said Ms. Sappe.
Roy Bennett is a sophomore in Ms. Balaram’s Algebra class. He said that he feels great about his new geometry teacher. “Ms. Balaram helps the students a lot with their work,” he said. He added, “Ms. Balaram is a cool teacher.”
Before teaching at Digital Harbor, Ms. Balaram was teaching at a school in West Philadelphia called Boys Latin. This is her first year in Baltimore City.
Ms. Balaram loves math. “Math is like life because in math you have everything you need, like in life you have everything, but there are certain steps you have to take to complete the task,” she said. She hopes that her students can feel the same way she feels about math.
She is enjoying her time at Digital Harbor so far. The school she was at before was different from Digital because it was an all boys school, which made for fewer “flirty distractions.” But Ms. Balaram enjoys the opportunity to teach girls, and she said that she admires both schools’ passions to work together for the best interests of the students.
New teachers attend to stay in the building, so get used to seeing Ms. Balaram.
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