As part of teaching Permian High School students how to be educators, Chere Tone is showing them how to make their future classrooms more inviting.
She recently obtained a $315.99 grant from the Education Foundation titled Educational Cricut for our Students.
Tone teaches child guidance and principles of education and training, plus two business classes.
They had a die cut machine that doesn’t have sharp edges anymore, so she asked the Education Foundation for a Cricut machine.
“They get to do bulletin boards and decorate the door,” Tone said.
“We’re hoping that they’re going to be teachers, so they get a feel for what it takes to make a classroom inviting,” she added.
They can create stencils, lettering and download shapes and pictures and cut them out on the different materials that the Cricut machine uses.
“It has multiple purposes that we can use it for,” Tone said. She added that she is a baker on the side and uses stencils. You can use the machine to make stencils that you can airbrush your cookies with.
Tone said she wants to teach her other classes how to use the machine, as well.
Tone is the facilitator for child guidance, a dual credit class through Odessa College, and principles of education.
Students in child guidance get real-world experience at Carver and Lamar early education centers.
For the principles class, students are learning what it is to be a teacher and how to be a teacher. They travel to Ireland Elementary once a week to help the students.
Tone said she would encourage other teachers to apply for the Education Foundation grants.
“If you have a really good idea that’s going to help the students be engaged and learn what it is you want them to know, apply for it,” she added.
